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Looks almost like a Java framework 
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Probably "inspired" by one.
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TTFN - Kent
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Windows Phone users have returned to square one with the 'updated' YouTube app today “You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.”
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More than two million people in China are employed by the government to monitor web activity, state media say, providing a rare glimpse into how the state tries to control the internet. Well, that's one way to keep employment numbers up.
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Security expert calls it a success -- enough bugs to fill one or two IE updates -- even though the dollar amount was about the same as Google's for the last iteration of Chrome "This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive."
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The newly formed Alliance for Affordable Internet will attempt to drive down Internet prices throughout the developing world. And a chicken in every pot.
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If you've run a publicly visible server with open SSH access and looked through your auth logs once in a while, you'll have noted a large number of seemingly random login attempts. Unless you restrict SSH access to a list of specific source IP addresses, anyone on the Internet can attempt to log into the box, and large numbers of individuals running scripts will do just that. For the most part, smart security will reduce this threat to nothing more than a nuisance, but it's still relatively interesting to see what's going on with those attempts. "The shields can't take much more of this, Captain."
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But sometimes the simplest JavaScript features are sitting right under our noses and we just haven’t had a lot of exposure to them. I’m talking about native, more-or-less cross-browser features that have been in the language for some time. Why load a library when a line is all you need?
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Scratch for Arduino (S4A) is a modified version of Scratch, ready to interact with Arduino boards. It was developed in 2010 by the Citilab Smalltalk Team and it has been used since by many people in a lot of differents projects around the world. Scratch your hardware itch
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British telecommunications regulator Ofcom has revealed that 20 organizations will participate in a major trial of UK white space over the next six months. "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission."
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Today, BlackBerry got some rare positive recognition. Thomson Reuters recognized the smartphone pioneer as one of the world's top 100 most innovative organizations of 2013. And by 'innovative', they mean 'doomed'
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And in other news Reuters is recognized as one of the Top 1 most tech-clueless organizations of 2013.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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The goal of Mozilla Appmaker is to empower everyone to make mobile apps, regardless of their digital skillset. Apps made by apps that allow anyone to build apps should be used by no one
But who knows, it might be different than every other "no skills required" app builder.
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Oak, an open source project is an attempt to leverage the dynamic capabilities inherent within C# and gain the productivity benefits of a system such as Ruby on Rails, but keep it all in a language (C#) that offers static type checking and verification. It's Monday. Time to learn a new language.
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Wasn't Java initially called Oak?
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It was, and that was a little confusing (to me) when I first heard of this language. Seems like it's just a case of recycling though (or perhaps like all the languages named D) as this is a variant of C#.
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TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Finally, as part of its rapid, interactive style, Oak wants to be able to flash messages at you from the continuous compilation system in the background, so Oak wants Growl for Windows, a notification system that will pop little messages to you onto the desktop (such as MSN Messenger used to) when events happen—such as a successful or unsuccessful build in the background.
If this means what I think it means they lost me here. Any attempt to compile something mid-code edit is going to barf; and while I'm fine with red squiggles or marks on an overview bar from something like resharper because they're trivial to ignore if this is going to vomit popup type notices to tell me that **Incomplete sentence error** the half typ**Incomplete word error**ed line of code **Incomplete sentence error** I'm working on **Incomplete sentence error** doesn't compile there'll be **Incomplete sentence error** laptop shaped dents in the wall/ceiling in**Incomplete sentence error** short order. **Sentence complete**
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Microsoft is recycling inactive email accounts for its Outlook, Hotmail and Live services, potentially exposing users to previous owners' private information, according to a new report posted by Dutch website Webwereld. Oh great, now someone else will get my BillG@hotmail.com
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OT: There's a member named hotmail???
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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I don't see what all the fuss is about.
In what way is recycling an email address any different to recycling a domain name. Register a previously used domain name, set up a catch all email, bingo, no idea what you might receive...
All those cyber squatting emails that die will be available for use by folks who actually have a need for them.
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Sure, but you have to admit that a domain recycle is far less common than two people wanting the same email address?
I'm pretty sure it's already happened with an old yahoo.com address I had. I know in the past I had received emails for someone else that obviously thought they had that account. Now, I'm sure they do, and may get whatever mail I had going to my yahoo account (I think it was my "just sign up" account, but it's been a while).
DaveAuld wrote: All those cyber squatting emails that die will be available for use by folks who actually have a need for them.
Yup, this is definitely the good side to it.
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TTFN - Kent
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Quote: All those cyber squatting emails that die will be available for use by folks who actually have a need for them
I have the same problem with a domain name. I own a large software consulting company (well, not that large... fairly small actually... Ok, it's just me, alright?.) but the name of the .com domain I want for it was being used by someone else - actually they hadn't updated their unfinished webpage in two years and it expired. Great! So now I can get it...but, no, someone had "parked" it and wanted a large amount of money if anyone wanted to transfer it. This situation lasted for nearly 90 days while I waited for no-one else to buy it off them and for it to become available once more (it's an unusual name ending in "soft" which happened to have a different meaning in a foreign language). At around 89 days the original user refreshed it somehow and unexpired it so now it is in use - although the website backing it has completely gone away so it is a "dead name". I cannot use it, they are not using it but are occupying it (at least until it expires again next year). What do I do? I don't want to change the name of my company as I have been using it for years and it is on all my software and utilities, etc. The other domain names ending in ".org", ".biz", etc. are all available but I wanted the ".com" one.  wah!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hmmm. Will adding them to the list of accounts gmail polls for messages automatically suffice as a keep alive; or do I need to log into the website itself every once in a while to maintain my bugout accounts (for if Google manages to elephant me with enough privacy abuses to justify the pain of switching services).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Microsoft Corp. is talking to HTC Corp. about adding its Windows operating system to HTC’s Android-based smartphones at little or no cost, people with knowledge of the matter said, evidence of the software maker’s struggle to gain ground in the mobile market. Please, please, please, with sugar on top?
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