In other news today...
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TFA:
The ship returned to Cape Canaveral, Fla., five days later.
Well, of course they wouldn't let passengers leave the ship
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In local (to me) news...
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
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@TimeBandit Won't happen. Medicine is full of arrogant assholes (a.k.a. senior doctors) and the pharma companies are utterly paranoid about someone else finding out what they're really working on (well, at least prior to the patent being issued).
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Medicine is full of arrogant assholes (a.k.a. senior doctors)
The not yet senior ones are just assholes
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Won't happen. Medicine is full of arrogant assholes (a.k.a. senior doctors) and the pharma companies are utterly paranoid about someone else finding out what they're really working on (well, at least prior to the patent being issued).
Not to mention rampant tech illiteracy among medical staff, which doesn't play too well with well known ease of use OS brings.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
Not to mention rampant tech illiteracy among medical staff, which doesn't play too well with well known ease of use OS brings.
Obviously, you didn't read the article
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Not to mention rampant tech illiteracy among medical staff, which doesn't play too well with well known ease of use OS brings.
Obviously, you didn't read the article
That's a surprise?
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Google's Bridge and Arizona Oceanfront Property Marketing team is at it again
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@hungrier their infographic is amusing.
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They made a typo in the infographics. I fixed it.
Now with further corrections!
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Fake edit: Slightly 'd
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
In local (to me) news...
If I told you he can still draw better than me, you might think I was exaggerating.
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Because all of the request data is exposed to the extension [using current Web Request API], it makes it very easy for a malicious developer to abuse that access to a userâs credentials, accounts, or personal information. Since January 2018, 42% of malicious extensions use the Web Request API.
I feel like they are trying to bait readers into confusing "42% of malicious extensions use the Web Request API" with "42% of Web Request API uses are malicious extensions".
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Another Chrome based browser may be coming to Linux
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
well known ease of use OS brings.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
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If I told you he can still draw better than me, you might think I was exaggerating.
Can he spel beter, tho?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Another Chrome based browser may be coming to Linux
Linux gets
IE. YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP CONFIRMED.
Filed under: also Half-Life 3
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
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Turns out the kid just received a "thanks for taking part" award, because then there's this:
"Staff quickly investigated and established that the gentleman in question was a professional who had a pre-arranged meeting in school.
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"Fortunately it turned out to be a false alarm but it makes me really proud that Ryan would speak up about it and that his description helped identify the person he spoke to.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Wow, what a terrible splice job. Even I could do better.
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Arch bishop leads mass for 30 priests in hard hat in the Notre Dame de Paris.
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@PleegWat I know that reading is a to posting, but you got in the previous post...
Also, I couldn't help but look up if the archbishop was wearing the helmet the wrong way around. In another picture it looked to be OK except that it was sitting rather high on his head.
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(I have a CSS rule for
.post-header { position: sticky; top: 83px; }
if you're wondering about that. Also I'm not sure how I managed to capture the WebMCam window on top; maybe I started two instances.)
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@Zecc I thought that was just me!
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@Zecc
Your video is too big to even play.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I thought that was just me!
Have you tried making your window 3px wider?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
What the fuck? The embed is going fucking retarded and changing the size every render.
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@Carnage oh no! You brought it back! Why would you do that?!?! You monster...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I thought that was just me!
Have you tried making your window 3px wider?
I couldn't make my window wider, but I did try to make it narrower, and there's is a threshold under which it stops being crazy.
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@Carnage The funny thing is that the jittering largely stops as soon as the embed leaves the page but the titles next to the usernames still jitter up and down. (edit: the other embeds do that as well, but only everything below that shit)
Also, to make it go away:
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DoctorJones said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
That comes off as a bit of an ass move.
Absolutely, it's not as if he wasn't going to get kudos for discovering it.
Now people are going to have to risk using a half baked security patch that didn't pass testing, or risk waiting until the next update window when Microsoft will be able to get something more production ready out of the door.
No winners in this situation.
You can pretty much bet that this guy would be the first to whine about fixed date goals when delivering software to production. "What do you mean, I've got a week to deliver this feature? We need to order a new version of the IDE and you know that accounting delays such things by a month!"
Ormandy? You'd lose that bet. The guy has simply had it with Microsoft. He has been finding vulnerabilities in their shit for more than a decade and waited up to seven months for them to fix it. They tend to be extremely condescending even when it's they who fucked up the code.
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Poor Helmut.
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@PJH
Helmut's Helmet?
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@LaoC I still posit that a fixed 90 day limit is an idiotic thing to do. Because a fixed time limit for everything regardless of underlying complexity is idiotic and is regularly complained about on this very board.
It would be better to do some basic research into the probable complexity of the issue and then negotiate a reasonable time limit based on that. Which would be the responsible thing to do.
I don't give a flying fuck if you're "fed up". Either be patient or don't get into this game.
I'm fed up with the attitude of my pupils sometimes too. Doesn't give me the right to take it out on them (which in this case would also involve the rest of the class).
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@LaoC I still posit that a fixed 90 day limit is an idiotic thing to do. Because a fixed time limit for everything regardless of underlying complexity is idiotic and is regularly complained about on this very board.
It would be better to do some basic research into the probably complexity of the issue and then negotiate a reasonable time limit based on that. Which would be the responsible thing to do.
The bug concerns a crypto library that is well below 80kLOC. I think some basic research would likely come to the conclusion that this should be reasonably fixable in a month, so three is quite generous. Of course "negotiating a reasonable time limit" is what he tried before and that was when MS simply refused to commit to any kind of time limit and left the bug unfixed for more than half a year.
I don't give a flying fuck if you're "fed up". Either be patient or don't get into this game.
I'm fed up with the attitude of my pupils sometimes too. Doesn't give me the right to take it out on them (which in this case would also involve the rest of the class).
So you're saying MS should be held to the same standard as a bunch of barely-teenagers and that's an argument for telling a guy who is arguably one of the most gifted reverse engineers in the world to either turn to gardening or work for the NSA instead so he doesn't have to show more patience than he has?
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
The bug concerns a crypto library that is well below 80kLOC. I think some basic research would likely come to the conclusion that this should be reasonably fixable in a month, so three is quite generous.
Yes, because the number of code lines is the only metric to gauge complexity. Especially when talking about a crypto library.
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Homes on one of Britainâs most polluted streets outside London may be demolished and the owners paid compensation to move elsewhere under a council effort to hit air quality targets.
If the plan is approved it would become the first time homes were demolished to meet air pollution targets.
Buying and demolishing the 20 homes and three businesses on the road in Crumlin, south Wales, would cost about ÂŁ4.5 million, according to estimates by Caerphilly county borough council.
It is considering demolition as the fastest way to meet a legal requirement to limit nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution exposure, from diesel vehicles, to an annual average of 40 micrograms per cubic metre of air.
The NO2 level at Woodside Terrace on the A472, which carries about 20,000 cars and 2,000 lorries a day, was 70 micrograms in 2017. Residents complain that their homes are covered in thick black dust.
The council initially proposed a âdo minimumâ option, which would have relied on educational campaigns and drivers switching to less polluting vehicles and made the road compliant with legal limit by 2025.
However, the Welsh government warned that this could breach the requirement to meet the limit âin the shortest possible timeâ. It agreed to help the council fund the cost of homeowners buying homes elsewhere, meaning they would receive more than the market rate for properties devalued by the high pollution. The demolition option would achieve compliance with air quality limits by 2023, two years earlier than the other option.