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The browser wars are starting to heat up again as both Google and Microsoft promote their software at the expense of their competitors. Good news for those who missed the browser wars the first time
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I don't use browsers (or derivatives) from either google or microsoft, so colour me Swiss, and send me all your money -- I'll keep it in an account so secret that even you will never know you've got it.
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ISPs say that a law requiring users to opt-in to having their location and financial data sold is a 'burdensome restriction' on their 'protected speech.' "Has commerce hitherto done anything more than change the objects of war?"
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I can't wait to see them try that argument in Europe.
First amendment? First amendment of what, you say?
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Data is not speech, and companies aren't humans; so no, wouldn't apply even if you tried real hard.
Protection of saying what you want is absolutely not the same as the right to sell data. Imagine the other way around; employees should be able to share any insider-trading numbers based on free speech.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The corporations are arguing that they have a 1st amendment right to sell collected data from its users without restrictions or notifications.
Are you arguing that the companies DO have the right to sell your collected data or that they DO but its not via the 1st amendment as they are claiming?
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YSLGuru wrote: Are you arguing that the companies DO have the right to sell your collected data or that they DO but its not via the 1st amendment as they are claiming?
Since it is data, and not an opinion, it is not protected by freedom of speech. If it were up to me, then that data would be as free as any data in the company, or banned from collecting.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Corporations are claiming this 1st amendment right only because the SCOTUS ruled that they are special types of person. That is what should scare the hell out of all of us. This theft and abuse of our data is a problem but its not as big as the fact that they are claiming rights that were established for individuals and not for corporations. Individuals make up a corporation and so the corporation itself does not need to be recognized as a person of any kind and yet it is.
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YSLGuru wrote: Individuals make up a corporation and so the corporation itself does not need to be recognized as a person of any kind and yet it is.
I confess I would enjoy seeing entire corporations sent to prison, but that's the (devious and nasty) reason for the decision -- now, it is possible to blame a corporation for the crimes of the individuals within it, and the individuals get off scot-free.
It also gives corporations more rights to attack whistle-blowers, because a corporation can now sue individuals for slander and libel.
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The software testing staff can be the proverbial canary in the development coal mine. They see indications of success or failure well before anyone else. I don't know, but I've been told, test your software or you might fold
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Bolton said: I will find trouble wherever I look and whenever I look.
Looks like I've found a kindred spirit!
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5 signs of project success or failure ... Numbered 1 to 6!
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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Microsoft’s recent organizational change combining the Windows and Surface groups will have a big impact on the quality, reliability, and innovation of PCs – and should result in higher customer satisfaction. While it puts PC OEMs at some risk, those that can pivot should see a stronger market and less segment drama. For those that can’t, the outcome will be dire. Someone better tell the product team
I was going to go with "eh?", but I've heard that recently.
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Quote: Windows 10X is a version of Windows targeted at twin-screen mobile products...
This level of innovation isn’t possible if you add complexity by decoupling hardware and software.
This isn't a 'level of innovation.' It is a completely different product/paradigm than Windows 10, designed almost exclusively for media consumption and emails as far as I can tell from this video. If that Fisher-Price interface is pushed into regular Windows, it will severely hinder doing real work (unless I am missing something). Reading between the lines, it sounds like the next iteration of regular Windows will be Win 8.0 revisited. Save me, Jebus!
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Bang on.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: combining the Windows and Surface groups will have a big impact on the quality, reliability, and innovation of PCs – and should result in higher customer satisfaction.
yeah, right...  
Kent Sharkey wrote: While it puts PC OEMs at some risk,
The dumbest thing they could do, play against the ones that are giving them the big $$
Kent Sharkey wrote: For those that can’t, the outcome will be dire Linux.
FTFY
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I think the government should step in and force Microsoft to split into two companies, one that makes an OS for people who need to get work real work done, the other for the rest of the population whose sole purpose for a complex OS is to scroll through social media apps and presses the "like" button.
(Basically a rehash of what David O'Neil said above, haha)
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Marc Clifton wrote: the other for the rest of the population whose sole purpose for a complex OS is to scroll through social media apps and presses the "like" button.
For them! 
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever read.
Then I was successful!
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Larry Tesler, who passed away on Monday, might not be a household name like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, but his contributions to making computers and mobile devices easier to use are the highlight of a long career influencing modern computing. He's gone to a better clipboard
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[Joke] As long as it has nothing to do with "board clippy" is fine [/Joke]
Now seriously... Many people that did a huge difference are not that known and probably will never be, but still deserve big respect.
![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) Kudos and R.I.P.
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Say it like it is.
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