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Granddaughters' rules: There are no rules, at least from one moment to the next.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Medical images and health data belonging to millions of Americans, including X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans, are sitting unprotected on the Internet and available to anyone with basic computer expertise. Turn your head and cough.
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Oh goodie
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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We know it’s important to have a way to effectively show the skills you spend time cultivating. Because the best way to demonstrate skill is with an online multiple-choice exam
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Astronomers have almost certainly detected a second interstellar comet zooming through our Solar System So many visitors, and we forgot to bake a cake
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Kent Sharkey wrote: we forgot to bake a cake
A simple cookie should do: "SolarSystemVisitorId=2" 
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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The free tier, available to anyone for an unlimited amount of time, is aimed at the next generation of developers and enterprises that have yet to make the move to the cloud. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"
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He argues that it just creates more companies that behave badly. "'Cause breaking up is hard to do"
The reason why I posted this one, rather than the Bloomberg article itself is that Bloomberg (like a large and growing number of news sites) limits you to a few articles a month.
Also: sorry to those of a certain age for the Neil Sedaka earworm.
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Desktop Windows has had so many problems, desperate measures may be needed. You're crazy
Teeeecccccchnically possible, maybe. But could you imagine how long it would take to stabilize that? (not to mention getting all the Win API to work)
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More likely to see a hybridized system where both the linux and windows kernels live side-by-side.
Just like we see a WOW64 layer we'll see a WOL (windows-on-linux) and/or a LOW (linux-on-windows) layer.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Then we could all WOL-LOW around in our machines?
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LOL 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You mean Windows 10 doesn't support POSIX?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Um, I think it does.
not sure that's the same as taking a linux binary and running it --as is-- on windows.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Quote: Desktop Windows has had so many problems
What the hell is he talking about? The problems with Windows have little to do with the NT Kernel, which is kick ass and magnitudes better than the Linux kernel.
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Ding, ding, ding!
I still say that they main problem for the Windows devs is that there are just way too many flaky (and changing under them) drivers to support (OK, in the case of the Intel/Broadcom network cards not so much). Kernel is pretty solid, and getting better with the whole MinWin development.
TTFN - Kent
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So for Windows 11, they should put a Linux Desktop around the NT Kernel!
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This guy is a complete Linux fan-numpty. The Windows kernel is pretty much rock solid and is the bit that doesn't need replacing with a bunch of flaky Linux kernel-of-the-week implementations.
What needs changing is the culture of trying to look as pretty as the iCrap stuff, running on a phone, while skipping over the needs of real desktop users. I'm sure the next version of the Windows graphic shell will have an interface for people who wear boxing gloves... oh, hang on - it already does. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: What needs changing is the culture of...
forgetting about QA and letting the end users be the beta testers (or even the alpha) could get a nice improvement too.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Forogar wrote: that doesn't need replacing with a bunch of flaky Linux kernel-of-the-week implementations.
Ummmm, the Linux kernel is updated every couple of years. It's the 1,001 Linux distributions, dozens of UIs, and half a dozen package updaters that are the primary problems with Linux.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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To quote the 13-year old daughter of a friend of mine, "Whatever!". 
So succinct!
Actually, you are correct. In both O/S the problem doesn't really lie in the kernel itself.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Today at CppCon 2019, we (the MSVC team) announced that we’re releasing our implementation of the C++ Standard Library (also known as the STL) as open source. They do have standards, you know
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I thought it already WAS open-source...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I think this is just, "OK, we dumped it on GitHub".
TTFN - Kent
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Pretty sure they had the source publicly accessible, but without an OSS compatible license or any mechanism to submit changes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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