* Posts by Grinning Bandicoot

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Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff

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Re: Papering over the cracks

Why not? It worked for a long while with another big Washington state corporation. Maybe we will soon watch them crying into overpriced coffee at Starbucks.

Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems

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Re: Easy solution

Paper is flammable. In one historical balloting the ballot boxes strangely caught fire while being transported. It was funny that it happened to be from an area that was strongly against the incumbents. Its easier just to remove the person from the registry and substitute your own voter which indicates the flaw in election boycott.

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

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Re: Huh?

In the 1920s the US Army had War Plan Red. A study of the invasion of the British Isles. An emergency is when an event happens and the reaction must be prompt, decisive, and correct. On this basis in retrospect Chamberlain was correct at Munich in buying time and the US Army figured its invasion of the Isles all wrong. Disaster planning is supposed to cover as many possibilities without regard to probability but then we would not have this Friday forum if done. So the Germans conversation could be nothing more than a late night in a strange hotel room musing.

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Re: Paranoia Is Mandatory In 2024!!

Your comment about listens precludes the observation that the 'bully boys' are on the rise without any regard to ideology. The nazis as the most preeminent and best known built a cult and systematically applied the symbolism to attract those without a strong (or maybe even a weak) internal code. It was structured in such way that once infected made a new lackey willing to go one step further. Today's lost ones see the symbols and the 'apparent' purpose that these symbols provide and goose step down the line. The Czar though not seeing the symbols, however, sees ethnic protection (Sudetenland for comparison with the Dombass). Yet if following past Russian performance the react rather than being low keyed would have been that of tank, APC and assault troops. This has the same historic background as the Cosacks sent to put down any state threat. That 'bully boys' are on the rise look we can how Hamas was slowly being shoved into the closet by varied Middle East countries or the rise of an Israeli party that wanted its own private militia so the present abattoir. Modi in India is basically playing the extremes. Again 'Bully Boyism' is on a growth curve because there a some without internal strength that need something to provide needed cojunes and as a consequence are unable to listen.

Biden asks Coast Guard to create an infosec port in a stormy sea of cyber threats

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YES - it is an election year

It sound like a big thing but USCG USC 14 and 19 has provided these powers prior to WW2 and in the late 40s 0r early 50s they were strengthened. Throw in USC 33 and 46 you can be told where not to anchor, when not to sail and who to remove from the crew. But since money is not fore coming it will be in the queue with all the other tasks that have been shoveled out to them.

China's Volt Typhoon spies broke into emergency network of 'large' US city

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Ladder logic is very easy to trouble shoot . A few jumpers, a pad of paper, and some writing implement being all hardware

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Re: No White Hats Anywhere?

Two believers route step for all to whatever destination chosen by the leader. The Scots and the Welsh taught the English the value of one making ones own destiny. It was the English and the Japanese that took the US from "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail" to the enthusiastic reading, viewing and writing of communications as taught to those Anglophiles of the Northeast US. But if such practices are so new what was that bit about the spear and the letter in Commentarii de Bello Gallico or why was Caleb with Rahab.

Feds dismantle Russian GRU botnet built on 1,000-plus home, small biz routers

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This enquiring mind had the same question. Where is everbody? Have the Trifids come and it did not show here because...

Ukraine claims Russian military is using Starlink

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Re: Pickups from the battlefield ?

Goes back a lot further to the Tannenburg Forest in 1914. Well it seems that the present Czar wishes to emulate Nicky. Now to what degree will history repeat?

One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic

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Re: Oops!

p10ssw0r13

p2^3+2^1ssw0r2^4-2^1

Halt or I'll shoot

Indian PM's advisors suggest AI might lead to 'mass schizophrenia'

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Re: Digression...

I had a lot of fun building outrageous conspiracy theories about Covid but the one that bothers me at times has to do with the International Cooperative Games held in Wuhan just prior to the outbreak, The US team reported that they were feeling ill during the competition and attributed their falling short of their prior times. The US military gives sticks every oversea movement so the wicked thought was what if the various immunizations from around the world mixed in a low probability event. My best conspiracy theory had the Gnomes of Geneva as the causative agent. Such fun when stuck in traffic!

Congress told how Chinese goons plan to incite 'societal chaos' in the US

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Since the Hearst-Pulitzer news wars of the 1880s ALL media has used to the crisis de jour to keep the BIG MONEY flowing into the tiny pockets of these elitist ol' money.

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Re: Saves billions of dollars for the Chinese

Sheeple want convenience and ease of use. If you doubt this go into ancient history, read the tears about the computer doing what is was instructed to do exactly not what was meant by the user. MS/DOS had the virtue of forcing thinking; hence it quick replacement.

Security is some variety of an inverse function of easy use. If the barns double barred and padlocked too, one is not going horse riding on a whim

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Re: American public is way ahead of them

That is exactly why you want to joust in the other guys yard.

EFF adds Street Surveillance Hub so Americans can check who's checking on them

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GIGO The equipment is low bid and often installed and forgotten leaving a spiders' webs or maybe a slight splash of bird droppings to distort the image. So then it is up to the interpreter of the images to make a determination of what is and what is not shown. This sounds like a verrry borrring task which means it is kicked down to the bottom of the heap meaning the newbie. So then it becomes a matter of money - who has enough to out last the opponent. That a ticket received one time when I was three hours from the supposed incident turned into one of these farces.

I see somewhere in the near future that these systems will be used to follow the policing authorities with these of a felonious nature practicing their arts where the police are not found. Also a grand way to blacken someones rep, fake plates going to the local place of ill repute. Just think what has been done in the past and looking to future elections I see a lot of FUN.

Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing

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Re: Two Things

Jake you are a man after my true heart - a CYNIC.

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Re: Biggest problem.

Grazing mostly now with some dry farming so consumption likely will be greater per acre. If, however, a tightly designed cogeneration and water rehabilitation were built the increase water demand might be meet by importing Vacaville's waste water. However then health codes need be modified. However the unions will start a turf war.....

The 'however' is why this ideal will remain just a figment of over usage of Boonesfarm and Annie Green Springs.

NOTE: to those not of the area nor of the time Boonesfarm and Annie Spring were the name of cheap tipple nominally called wine.

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Re: Biggest problem.

They can bring back the Sacramento Northern. It right of way into Woodland still exists and a portion toward Fairfield exists but it is smoke. There has never been a successful Utopian city; people being people.

Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet

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Re: Alternative uses

Also missed were all the articles by Jerry Pournelle. They seemed to everywhere back in the 70s and 80s.

WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager

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Re: Proficiency

It looks like you're late for your parents wedding.

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RE: it is

We could start using again 'tis' and clean up a 'whole of lotta grammar carping'. I also think that "thorn" should be returned to the alphabet so those idiot 'ye olde' signs could be cleaned up.

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Re: WASP

Not according to Erich Frank Russel. He might have derived the idea of Wasp from the group that he was rumored to worked with in WW2

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten

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This is nothing new. Back last century I needed a unit fast so based on my past experience with HP test gear I went out and bought HP. When time came to upgrade the hard drive found you had to fork over to them a bribe because of a little BIOS trickery. Bought a pre-merger Compacq laptop that failed under warranty and had to pay again to get it out of hock (post merger). I have in the past ranted about Hell's Products so I am not sure whether to feel pity or to say 'I til' you so.

Same channel, same program just a different time.Recently I was reminded of Harrison's Bill, the Galactic Hero and his method of trash disposal: wouldn't HP offices make a nice recipient?

Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors

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Re: We Are All Bozos, er, Gig Workers on this Bus

Under your definition I read 95 percent of MDs in the good ol' USA that are straight-jacked by Medicare rules and regulations are government employees.

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Re: RE: doesn't make someone an employee

If you are told a start and stop time is the first thing to consider in being an employee but if you agree to finish a job by a given date for a given amount then you look like a contractor. Where it gets tricky is when unrelated regulation (noise, dust,parking or such things) or the ordinary operating hours determine your work schedule. Taxifornia made the determination that track exercise boys were employees of the trainers because the of long continuing relationship, the assignment of the mount, and that the trainer had to be present.

What is not considered is the person employable in the labor market or through some debility find a barrier to employment. Will these rules prevent someone between normal employment or short of cash an opportunity to Not sleep in a tent or under a bridge. This in many ways sounds like an attempt to boost the NLRB and its union activities. I know for myself that if I need a helper for some home project it won't be done unless I can afford the costs before I start. Maybe too much Ann Rynd in me?

Infosec experts divided over 23andMe's 'victim-blaming' stance on data breach

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In this SOCIAL MEDIA age where sharing of one's activities or life style is the norm. Why wouldn't the expectation be that DNA code be no different when sharing of who had what type of sex is passed around. Security training is NOT a social thing. Bare your soul, bare your DNA.

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23andme correction 23and us

My passwords for mid level privacy if collected could reveal the algorithm which I use to generate these passwords. For my deep secrets I airwall BUT when Intuit demands that you pay their fee and to regain access to your data does not the question become moot? To unlock MY data one must connect to Intuit after payment and allow them to allow me access. To me this indicates that the "Quicken" series of bookkeeping has within its code has a door whether its a little hatch or a barn door - its still a door without a welcome mat. So if this gang can get in who knows what follows.

I had several possible attacks when I used one popular fitness which stopped after I quit being fit. The proliferation of devices having Bluetooth, whether wanted or not, is another weak point and I sometimes wonder if the reprogramming of the radio in the vehicle has been done that way. Viewing the spectrum through the shared WiFi and Bluetooth band in my locale it is a wonder that there is communication. But with the observed background I am sure there is at least one nefarious listener.

As far as the gene people none are forced to participate and as has noted some interesting things are found. With me its the pattern on the mDNA traced from Syria to clusters east of the Urals and to the Finger Lakes area of North America. Must have been very good or very bad maybe very good at bad. It also indicated that some holier than thou types had a definite ethical change.

The problems that I've had with the 23andMe MFA has been the time required for the response against the time of receiving the code. If a response is required in 10 minutes and the code is received hours later then no need for the life time service to be done. Uncooperative fleecee. Yah the creature being clipped!

How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip

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Re: Integration

Yes co-generation should be an obvious answer to economic use of waste heat. If one uses the waste heat as part of a hot water heating system through a heat exchanger, it might be possible to locate into urban areas and sell the process heat. Single pass systems where the maximum extraction of useful energy is not practiced is on the way out. There will be problems as things evolve but the big ones will not be in the engineering.

Cloud engineer wreaks havoc on bank network after getting fired

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Re: Amazing!

If common sense were so common, why then is it so highly esteemed!

Attributed to A. Lincoln

BOFH: Monitor mount moans end in Beancounter beatdown

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I want one too

Back in the days when CRTs ruled the roost and flat screens were avante garde our shop felt the need for a "group instruction" system. After going through varied authorized suppliers we found a nice flat screen, purchased and mounted it. Soon the word was out about our nice "group instruction" system. The complaints came first slowly but probably on a log curve grew. Now the system was purchased and installed under budgeted authority and well below limits; BUT! So a spread sheet was created and the original shopping was repeated except on the clock. More time was spent on the justification then had been spent on the "group instruction output device". Soon a weekly visit from management for a while. Then the word flowed down from above and all appeared well. And it was funny but a lot of CRTs suddenly started appearing in salvage

Google ends partnership to build four San Francisco GoogleBurbs

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Re: Googleville sounded interesting

Not missing much in San Andreas but up the hill California Caverns can provide some 'ohs and ahs' visually while getting a good physical work out to preparing for a Shenandoah Valley wine tasting. If enough stops maybe you'll see San Andreas

Hacktivist attacks erupt in Middle East following Hamas assault on Israel

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Curious cynic

It has aroused my curiosity about the timing of this flare-up of a war that started in 1930. The Israeli government was beginning to make a detente with the Saudis while Jordan and Egypt had settled into a watchful peace. In Israel one growing party rejected any thought of any agreement with anyone including the Israeli government while demanding the right to maintain a private militia (reports dis not cover the shirt color) and the Hamas loosing local support because their promises made 13 year ago when picked as authority for the area now of a cause that unites people behind their seemingly opposing views. Is this a putsch by two group seeking more power? Any answers or is this cynic seeing chimeras?

Now for something different

It was a mere two weeks ago i believe that the IRC announced rules about legitimate cyber targets. It appears that the League of Nations rules fared better; those rules lasted to 1935. There exists an adage abut Sam Colt and equality. It appears that this means of communication now makes the keyboard more dangerous and of longer lasting effect. What is and has been said here echoes other outlets (!) and might be partial proof that cyber guerilla will worsen until it is destroyed.

Scripted shortcut caused double-click disaster of sysadmin's own making

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Re: It is mandatory to have a Oh No Oh Second experience

But I have yet to understand why it is in my mind and not going tom the hand pushing the 'enter'. Do you have a answer for citation?

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Re: The Sorceror's Apprentice

One lawyer from Disney in the audience.

Red Cross lays down hacktivism law as Ukraine war rages on

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It looked like blooming flowers

Also not considered is the civilian acting as a guerilla (in the mind of the hacker) where in physical war just a token of military organization moves the civilian into the Geneva Conventions. Maybe the Letters of Marquis will return. Since Ivan the Third a culture of smiling friendly handshaking with one hand while the other holds the knife waiting the plunging moment has existed in Russia. Uncle Joe feed that culture and his ideological son V has celebrated the old Soviet state. Since it only takes one to make a war the IRC must be smoking some very strong stuff to have issued what it did!

There exists another state actor that has and is playing fast and loose with the international rules of conduct. Their historical ethos suggests strongly that this too is non-operatrive. The idea of war is to establish your will upon your foe in the most economical manner consistent with your goals and if non targeted damage happens - so what!

City council Oracle megaproject got a code red – and they went live anyway

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What learning curve?

Same song, same blues on ITS ONLY A MINOR TWEAK.

And this to Megalodon.

Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?

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On the other hand -Re: Big Brother plc

These same corporations cross ancient linguistic, ethnic, and religious lines which changes the balance of rivalries. This for better or more probably worse allows a different type of progressiveism than the past. If it weren't for some greedy SOBs risking their funds and lives organizing and participating in the Moscow Company and upsetting the state church I probably would not be here questioning a part of your core beliefs.

As to the British East India Company and the British West India Company the government of the UK derived funds that allowed such organized sports as the the American Revolt, the Boer Trek and of course the taking of the India subcontinent from the French. Seeing as to how internecine has returned to the area maybe your right it should have been left to the French.

California passes bill to set up one-stop data deletion shop

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Re: Registration probably required

There exists a concept called 'agency capture' where the regulated become the regulators-. Based on the problem that I've had with ATT and the the response from the state's Public Utility Commission it is easier to believe that it exists to give friends of the incumbent regime a fancy title and a staff to do whatever than it is to believe service to the citizens. So why should this group be any different?

Google throws California $93M to make location tracking lawsuit disappear

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Anti Trust the lie goes on

One thing is that happened is a lot of non government sponsored basic research has stopped. The anti-trust people appear to act only after alternatives appear: i.e.,AlCoA, American film vertical intigration, After the split of ATT and subsequent mergers what is left is the same faces with different makeup but no research unless its marketing and MBA in lieu of technocrat. The real tie breaking came with the fiber optic network. The landline voice is a vanishing animal, Copper is being replaced by Silica and business shifts to data intensive practices.

No friend of Google but when lookup has been replaced by google as a verb then it must be a very useful thing. Remember Yahoo; we chose Google over it because its revenue source was less intrusive. Google in its IPO was open about how and where it was planning to get revenue. On that note must not be too good in the collection because I reside 40 miles and speak a different language than than targeted ads indicate.

Since I'm on the soap box I thought about torture of one thousand cuts and then about 50 states. Each state's AG gets the money needed for the AG's special projects, nothing is overt so a return trip is possible and best of all cheap ads for the next election.

QUESTION: Which is preferred an accounting type with administrative skills or an engineering/technician type with administrative skills

Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia

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Re: "If Ukraine wants to fight a war with Russia"

With your background I curious if the lands taken from the Mennonites by Stalin and given to his chosen ones, if so it might add to Vlad's panic to recover Stalin's true believers. After reading about Saint Helga or Olga which came from Ukrainian sources the war is becoming a holy battle against the good and the forces of V.

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Re: "If Ukraine wants to fight a war with Russia"

You forgot Kiska and Attu not to mention Oahu. Also the second happy times (Donitz) off the Atlantic coast. No troops had landed in the mainland but then the only foreign troops in the British Islands Canadian, US arrived and settled in with it being said of the US personal 'over fed, over paid and over here. This it sounds like the invasion was from the west. Of course the width of the water between the continent, the British Isle and the Americas made a difference from occupation, bombing, and spies.

I haven't forgot the Channel Islands just omitted them.

Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster

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Its Economic Corporate vs Politcal Corporate Mamagement

With a private enterprise the success is judged on its ROI. With a political body it judged upon its management being returned to office without any reference to the very long term. Political bodies are also liable for capture by a dream, goal, or a wish to make things right (!). If the polity disagrees in theory out they are gone and no harm done. The actuality is the moment the capture happens the new process starts and if cancelled the following day its funny but some long term debt is on the books; whereas, the private corporation goes off on some different track come the next reporting quarter, a management change.

There problem is the something for nothing ideology. The masses want energy ever available but a rates below the capitalized costs. Smooth highways but why must you work at some other time. Swift clean trains that stop where wanted always all for mere kopeck or two. All these a political is rationally responds BUT political rationality is not economic rationality.

University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu

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Re: Mascots

Anteaters, Banana Slugs, Poets, Sage Hens How can one not get just a little confused? A guy in Grecian styled armor on a white horse does not lead out the football (American) at the school with the Spartan nickname but at one of rivals. AH college life where the major cares was getting the project done and exams.

Budget satellite drag sail shows space junk how to gracefully exit orbit

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Waste Not

To date the big cost is in getting the device into orbit. After all the yammering about a nuclear plant's diluted waste water discharge where, O where, is all the outrage and oratory about heavy metal vapors and forever elements (!) being dumped into the atmosphere for the children to breath. Just compare the ratio of stupid to ignorant since the start of "The Satellite Age'.

Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests

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Re: This is actually a devious plan .....

americans are tasty and good to eat? I thoght it was only missionaries that matched that category.

Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster

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POOP poop a doo

When people and other biota stop pooping, then shall there be no more poop to be discharged.

There aint no freebies sayeth Thermodynamics

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

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Re: Not holding my breath

What no contrarian down voting a rational observation. HALLELJAH

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Re: Not holding my breath

London as well as any city founded in the days of the HRE if not before were of necessity 15 minute cities. If a shop, the proprietor lived adjacent to his shop. Max Weber showed the size of a city was limited by the travel time needed to leave and return with the days supply of wood fuel. When coal became available that limitation was removed but shop keepers were limited by license or charter requirements. Then along came that massive urban renewal era known as WW2.

The thought that the human condition could be improved by separating the filth. the coarseness, and the odors of the factory or mill from the home now had an opportunity to be tested. Well the test just opened the door to a new set of misery.. You just cannot get something for nothing!

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Revenue Neutral

Revenue Neutral sounds much better! This fee is just to cover the costs associated to this new public safety measure. Unspoken is that these costs include the new offices and furniture to house the staff, the additional cleaning and HR staff and most importantly the wage/benefit package of the new manager.

LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity

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Re: MS created the original standards doc ?

What format was it submitted to the EU?

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