Microsoft overtaking Google with Bing? What world do you live in? Instead of googling people in this world, do you Bing them?

Maybe each processor represents more than one neuron? After all, modern L2 cache is getting pretty big these days.

After all, music is only things which True Scotsmen make. Anything else is, I don't know, cow dung.

There are a lot of libraries. Some of them are simple, and some aren't. Most developers probably don't know which library would be easiest to drop in. So, it's easiest for them to just use the md5() function or something like that. Especially because library developers usually have no sense of when their library is simple or when it's complex.

I can't tell you how many times I've just implemented something for which a library already existed. And it probably took longer than using the library would have, but I feel like I gained a better understanding of the procedures in question.

I once had a webcomic I drew with my mouse. It was pretty bad.

Usually if you cancel out of it, then cancel again, you can get to the article anyway. I just discovered that yesterday.

And every time they're caught, the app will be pulled, uninstalled from people's handsets, and if the people want to continue malicious activity, they will need to pay another dev fee to make a new account and continue putting malware on the store. Malware authors typically operate on small margins from what I have read (no convenient sources, please if you have one post it), so the break-even point might be high enough that they can't make money on it.

It reminds me of an anti-spam solution proposed years and years ago: Make a new email system in which it costs a penny to send an email. This is low enough that normal users don't care, but high enough that spammers' conversion rates of 1/12,000,000 (from Wikipedia) aren't enough to let them keep spamming for V14GR4.

Wow, your sig really applies to this post.

I agree a bit, but I also think that the combination of your signature and your post is kind of funny.

Attackers broke an old form of security which has been relatively trivially patched. This is actually good for Microsoft, because (ideally) now they will review all of their old authorized keys and determine which would be easier to generate. So it's not like Microsoft included their Private Key in plaintext in some code somewhere, or anything like that.

This so much. I went from ColdFusion development to PeopleSoft, and I find myself missing such nice things from ColdFusion.

This is almost exactly what the Wikipedia article linked in TFA said. Just, y'know, FYI.

A lot of people are having trouble with this article because Google is having to do very Political things in this case.

Google engineers know for damn sure why the connections are being reset. But if they say that explicitly, the Chinese government will rambunctiously cuddle them. Google has already had troubles in the past with the Chinese government. So, what google has done here is said, "Oh no, there's something out of our control. If you do this search then your connection will be reset."

Note the usage of the passive voice there. Google is saying and pretending to believe one thing, while doing another. It's necessary, but unfortunate.

I heard it was going to be called "The Phantom" before this announcement.