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“This is what makes the whole COM system really really stupid. It's like they don't want you to be able to work with it. They want to make it hard for you to access and share data, because code that were to do something wreckless like call fopen is code that could run on anyone's operating system, not just theirs.”

Well doh !

Bill Gates 1987: “OS/2 is the platform for the nineties”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmiwiUeEn4k

> Why not use your favorite text editor?

I want something that's available fron the desktop with a hotkey. Multiple text files stored in different directies confuses me :[

> Haven't tried it on Ubuntu though.

Thanks, will give it a try ..

> I'm on the bank's side of the lawsuit based on what I read in this article

Did you read this bit:

‘The second exclusion in the C&E rider negates coverage for “loss involving automated mechanical devices which, on behalf of the Insured, disburse Money, accept deposits, cash checks, drafts or similar Written instruments or make credit card loans . . ..”‘’

And never lose the opportunity to blame 'Russian' hackers.

“Foregenix .. determined the hacking tools and activity appeared to come from Russian-based Internet addresses .. according to the bank Verizon’s forensics experts concluded that the tools and servers used by the hackers were of Russian origin”

They're clever enough to hack a bank but not clever enough to disguise their IP address.

"The British Government's 'Novichok' Drama"

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/03/governments-decree-trut...

Filing fake tax returns online and thinking an AirCard keeps him anonymous and un-locatable hardly makes him a 'hacker' now does it.

"the solid rocket boosters ignited and somewhere in the right booster, a 0.280-inch-wide O-ring failed due to the cold."

The 'solid rocket boosters' being constructed in segments because they had to be transported by rail from Utah. They had to be constructed in that state as part of the deal to get the politicians to vote in the finances.

@walshemj: "But would they actually work from a known location id assume that US offensive operations are not done directly from Langley"

You forget this story is aimed at people who mostly get their news from Faux Television ..

This feeds into the Russia plotted to sabotage Hillarys campaign and promote Trump narrative. Which is most probably a concoction dreamed up by the deep-state as part of a conspiracy to depose a sitting president. The state security apparatus engaged in a palace coup against a sitting president.

“The counterbalance to giving you this huge trusting environment is if anyone steps out of line, they’ll squash you like a bug.”

And water is wet :]

Neocon Cyber BS :|

> I was at a dinner recently where a grandmother was discussing her granddaughter .. She's beautiful, smart, and a sociopath ..

My diagnosis: The granddaughter is being subjected to emotional abuse by one or more of her 'care givers' and acting out in this manner as she lacks the emotional maturity and verbal skills to express herself.

Bad science, in a random sample, testing showed no correlation between brain activity and psychopathic behavior.

@mesozoic: 'It appears his "criticism" was name calling and attempts to shut down rational discussion. Sounds like grounds for dismissal to me'

What are your sources for the above? Meanwhile we can read the original memo and make up our own minds:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

> if you'd like to engage with the specifics of the story ..

The main stream media arrogantly assumed The Presidency would be a shoe-in for Clinton. Trump was good-for-ratings but no-one seriously expected him to actually win. This Russians-influenced-the-election narrative is a ruse thought up by the media to excuse their failure to present the correct candidate to the American electorate.

What would be interesting to know is just who is leaking against both 'Hillary' and Trump and what their motives are. I suspect the leaks are coming from factions in the Washington establishment and elements of the state security apparatus. The Golden Shower dossier being a prime example, also provided by a foreign intelligence organization. Incidentally, the same people who provided evidence of Saddam Hussein's non-existent weapons of mass destruction. This Russian hackers story and similar, part of a conspiracy to get Trump deposed, nothing short of a palace coup prosecuted against an elected President.

"Hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference with the American elections."

I call total balony on this. Attempting to give it some credence by accrediting the source to AIVD. How sad to see Risks Digest reduced to repeating neocon waffle.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/30/54#subj1

@blattimwind: "Windows' file open/save dialogues are so far ahead of everything else that the competition seems like unusable garbage to me. I'm glad KDE/Qt chose to emulate these very closely on Linux"

I hadn't realized that KDE was copied from Windows 95. I'm surprised no one here has mentioned NeXTSTEP. Here's a demo by Steve Jobs from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk

> Years ago .. the young founder reached out to a friend of mine who had also started a company

What was the name of the C.E.O, the name of the company and the nature of the product?

Neocon fake news ..

Sandboxing, OSR, RCE, CFG, ACG, LPAC, WDAG all designed to protect the underlying Operating System from the browser.