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Please don't give Microsoft ideas for the next Windows UI. 
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Cybercriminals are starting to target Microsoft's VSCode Marketplace, uploading three malicious Visual Studio extensions that Windows developers downloaded 46,600 times. Basically if you're looking to beautify VSCode, be wary.
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They should be hung by the balls. 
M.D.V. 
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Microsoft or the criminals?
I'd start with Microsoft. This issue of Microsoft tools circumventing any sort of security has always been the height of MS' problems. Since they don't have to pay for the damage, they don't care.
Remember when you could not get a virus by reading an email? Then MS enabled html by default, because "we decided our users wanted a more interactive experience".
Then we can get into all of the macro programming in office that was implemented with no security considerations at all. etc.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: Microsoft or the criminals?
both?
charlieg wrote: Stupid is as stupid does.
Forrest gump?
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Both. And technically, Forrest Gump's mother said that 
But seriously, with as much stuff as MS has to fix because of internal errors and self-induced security flaws, you would think they would have learned by now. A long time ago, someone mentioned to me that maybe MS left holes in the OS to encourage people to use their AV software.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: A long time ago, someone mentioned to me that maybe MS left holes in the OS to encourage people to use their AV software.
Back then I would even believe it.
Nowadays I think Occam's razor fits better. Don't look for malicious practices when you can just find idiocy, incompetent management, bad programing structure and laziness.
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A new study led by Stanford Medicine researchers is the first to reveal how magnetic stimulation treats severe depression: by correcting the abnormal flow of brain signals. Those with the most severe depression — and the most misdirected brain signals — were the most likely to benefit from the treatment.
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Whattayaknow, Star Trek and Dr. Who were right! You just have to reverse the polarity.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Could they treat ignorance the same way? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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But, my friends tell me they like me because of my misdirected brain signals 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Data recovery specialist Secure Data Recovery (opens in new tab) has shared the results of a recovery project that attempted to find out how many files could be recovered from a large number of hard drives (rather than solid state drives or memory cards) To the person who bought my HD filled with 240p anime in RM format, Irresponsible Captain Tylor is worth the watch.
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This is why all our company hard drives are encrypted before deployment. Laptops and tablets do get lost and stolen and workstation hard drives "die". Don't have to worry about data loss this way and our cyber-insurer really likes this.
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And this is why I dban my drives from time to time before reinstalling an image, and I make a couple of holes before tossing them.
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And this is why I always take a sledgehammer to old drives and chunk them.
Years ago, the state of Georgia here in the US upgraded their Revenue office computers with new equipment. They then sold the old machines with all of the citizen tax data to a used equipment dealer.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Very clever... 
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The sledge or the state?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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From the business point of view... the dealer.
From the sarcastic point of view... it is obvious, isn't it?
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If you are dissatisfied with Windows 11 or macOS, and intrigued by Linux, deepin, a distro from China, could be a great choice to switch to. It's one of the most beautiful operating systems around, and sports a well-designed user interface. What about my Windows programs that don't run on Linux?
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Sean Ewington wrote: Linux, deepin, a distro from China, could be a great choice to switch to
As if I didn't have already enough with Google, Meta and Co sniffing around online, to just add the next one in the offline part... no thanks.
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You lost me at: a distro from China Hard pass.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Italy on Monday earmarked 30 million euros ($33 million) to improve the skills of unemployed people as well as those workers whose jobs could be most at risk from the advance of automation and artificial intelligence. But what happens if AI replaces the job I'm training for, while I'm training for it?
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If we are sonner or later going to bow under our robot overlords... why could we not start replacing politicians and lawyers?
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Nelek wrote: why could we not start replacing politicians and lawyers?
But can politicians or lawyers be retrained to do anything useful?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I am not sure about it... maybe swaping brains with some animals?
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