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Facebook didn't even appear to court to defend itself.
Is this some form of silent warning, and if FB continues to violate the regulation they will be shut down in Russia? It's unclear from the article, but it highlights LinkedIn being blocked entirely in 2016.
Weird question: Could Microsoft sue Amazon here for infringing on the DocumentDB name? I mean Microsoft's DocumentDB was among the first to even have such a MongoDB layer also) and that was like 3 years ago.
Given that current Amazon leaders actually came from Microsoft's data platform group this leaves a bit of a bad taste behind.
I'm not working for either company.
I had the same observation (although I'd reconsider your wording, that's not very polite). It doesn't seem like a good choice in naming - especially because many of the Data Platform folks at Amazon (like their VP) came from Microsoft's data platform group.
Microsoft was first with a MongoDB layer, like some 3 years ago I think. Nothing novel here from Amazon.
Oh, no!
Yeah, most bothering to me are flights were there are some weird seat poles on the seat in front that prevent regular backpacks from fitting in the seat in front - I have had this a few times, it's very annoying having to put the backpack with computer and stuff in the overhead bin.
still doesn't change what happened in the youtube video - just to be clear
You can still get phished, and have your password be stolen. It just doesn't allow you to login in to the FIDO protected resource. Other endpoints might still work if they dont' require FIDO or you reuse the password.
The WebUSB angle is interesting - hadn't thought about that. I remember hearing about this during a Chaos Communication Congress talk last December. It only required one wrong click from a Chrome user to authorize exposure.
Not sure what you mean... PowerShell Console is one of the most modern and advanced consoles there is and it's from Microsoft (compared to old non object oriented and pipelined stuff like cmd here in the article) - but it's still good to see that they haven't forgotten about the good old cmd.exe :)
Not sure if this is very useful overall, but it could be a nice as "game" for teens so that they have semi-secret conversations in public that others can't follow.
Would be good to also highlight the other finders of some of these issues, but this view shows that Google Project Zero is a well executed PR machine taking away the focus of other security researchers. The title of this thread is similarly misleading.
Exactly what I thought. Project Zero allows Google to segway away from their Android ecosystem mess they left beyind and (even relatively benign findings at times - there was a Defense in Depth issue in Windows recently I remember that got an article) get a lot of media attention, and other researches are ignored. Shows that Google's PR works really well. I first noticed that during Meltdown/Spectre where most of the heavy lifting was done by university students somewhere in Europe, but they nowhere got as much attention as Google. Sad.
Yeah, I agree the way Wall Street approaches this seemed rather defensive. They are trying to appear on top of things, while in reality still are not sure how to tackle bitcoin long term.
Discussion are commonly emotional, rather then rational - it's freedom, it's getting rid of banks, it's a scam, it's a secret project by the NSA, etc... and it's also politically charged topic, and everyone has an opinion, because a lot of people own crypto currency/mine or at least know someone who has. Its rare to see so many people interested in a given topic.
There are great resources, although the are commonly rather vertical, then horizontal by topic. E.g. there is a lot of great technical information out around Bitcoin, how it works, wiki pages that discuss the code and algorithms in details - really useful stuff, e.g: https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide
Its rare though to find a more "cross-disciple" assessment/analysis of crypto currencies (political, economic impcat, society changes,...). If anyone has good resources, please share.
Something like this could be a way to get finally rid of advertisements, and help finance free services in a novel new way if the CPU isn't over committed. I thought the same around crypto mining... Many people might prefer the resource providing/computation option compared to ads.
Most likely way an APT compromises your service is via an infrastructure attack - e.g. having your service hacked via a phishing attack and then the APT pivots through the environment until they find the mighty AWS accounts. Server-less doesn't change that.
Well, with BTC you don't need a bank at all.
>2) It's been a LONG time since we can transfer money really fast at a really low cost
Transferring money from many places in the world is not cheap or easy (think of third world countries) - but even in more developed countries it can take quite long and have heavy fees. Crypto enables people to be their own bank.
Might depend on your social circle, some groups might use it more then others. I have seen them being used much more frequently (and way beyond ransomware scenarios). For instance Bitcoin debit cards (e.g Ten X) are quite common and for those that got in the market early, it's a cheap way of buying anything. In some countries it's not even a taxable event to spend it. Still not perfect in the sense of having to use Visa, and down the road transactions will be much more direct when more merchants will start directly accepting crypto currencies.
>a solution in search of a problem
Its their to enable - that's what technology is for.
This is neat - remember using QuickBasic back in the day. Fun times.
I really wish Visual Basic would be open sourced from Microsoft, so the community would revive it. I still have fond memories programming with VB and the productivity it allowed - it had it's issues (oh, man...) but also made programming accessible.
Here is more info about the QDK (seems to be from December 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7b4J2INq9c
Agreed with mandatory daily standups. Nothing that prevents you from skipping or doing it differently. I always found Kanban to be the more "do whatever works" approach, that might work better for teams that know each other very well.
Normalization of Deviance - this is a not uncommon problem with organization that grow as big and are successful. I'm curious on ideas on how a company as big as Apple and it's somewhat unfocused relation with the developer community can fix this? Maybe their CEO needs to call out to Developers.
SQL Server has Always Encrypted - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt163865.aspx