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And the Crash-Test Dummies drive on!
And you think SkyNET will be a problem?
Just wait until RoadNET comes online (and pray yer darnedest it's not based on .NET!  )
modified 23-Jun-14 17:17pm.
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Haha true, but Road .NET would be a clever name
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No need... I already play frogger when I drive. 
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Microsoft has launched a new feedback site aimed at developers. "Missing Platform APIs" can be used by developers to make suggestions about desktop Windows APIs that are not yet available in the Store. This is an important new channel of communications which will undoubtedly be widely welcomed. Oh, this should be good. Who's making the popcorn?
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Does this site connected to the same deaf Microsoft that every other developer channel was before?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
modified 23-Jun-14 15:01pm.
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Quote: not yet available in the Store
Is not consistent with...
Quote: will undoubtedly be widely welcomed
New APIs for the store are pointless as the Store is to be dropped [come the revolution].
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: New APIs for the store are pointless as the Store is to be dropped
I hope you're right, I posted a suggestion to allow using XAML/WinRT in desktop apps (native). I doubt very much they will listen.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yeah I never got that, surely a version of WPF for WinRT would have made the whole thing much more appealing
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What, you mean have two Microsoft technologies actually work together rather than inventing a new additional one? Oh look, a flock of pigs flying by...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Rob Grainger wrote: I doubt very much they will listen.
Don't be so sure. *cough*
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I hope you're right.
Native development for Windows often feels like you're missing most of the goodness.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That *cough* was deliberate. Let's just leave it on that.
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The decline of OS X Snow Leopard has accelerated in the last three months, perhaps because users have realized that Apple has stopped patching the 2009 operating system for the Mac. Compare and contrast with reaction to the end of support of XP (after 12 years)
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REVISED: A "complaint" from a family member (which I've heard more than a dozen times. I'm the resident support help complaint department just because I "know" computers ...
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The reason for this is that OS X 10.7 introduced "sandboxing" wherein only apps coming from the Mac App store would be available. If the app didn't adhere to sandboxing policies, it would not be granted access to key OS toolbox calls, I/O functions, etc., all in the name of "better security". 
That's a bunch of BOVINE FECAL MATTER!!
That "better security" directly translates into "better FINANCIAL security" for Apple to charge developers to 'serve up' their app from the Mac App Store.
OS X 10.8 and OS X 10.9 increased the constraints of the "sandboxing" security features.
The apps I use, dating all the way back to 2000 when OS X 10.0 came out, don't work in OS X 10.7 or later due to sandboxing "security".
What this means for me is, I need to spend nearly $3,300 to upgrade all my apps, printer/scanner hardware, and a new Mac should I move to 10.7 or later, yet ...
THEY ALL WORK JUST FINE AS THEY ARE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! 
modified 23-Jun-14 17:14pm.
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So you've been paying the Apple tax for fourteen years and didn't see this coming?
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Not me. Just complaining on behalf of a family member. Revised my post accordingly.
 I'll be certain to pass along your question/response, though!!
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Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the private preview of Microsoft Interflow, a security and threat information exchange platform for analysts and researchers working in cybersecurity. Interflow uses industry specifications to create an automated, machine-readable feed of threat and security information that can be shared across industries and groups in near real-time. The goal of the platform is to help security professionals respond more quickly to threats. It will also help reduce cost of defense by automating processes that are currently performed manually. From the people that brought your slammer, and ILOVEYOU
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With OneDrive, we want to give you one place for all of your stuff: your photos, videos, documents and other files. Of course, to do this, we need to make sure you actually have enough storage space for everything, particularly given that the amount of content everyone has is growing by leaps and bounds. Double the space, double the fun (and without a name change for over 40 days!)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and without a name change for over 40 days!
Now, let's not get crazy. 4 days without a name change should be enough for anybody.
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That's really cool. I'm going to have to seriously think about how I use this kind of service with 1T available.
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Stripped down package means there will be three independent versions of OpenSSL. Because participating in one of the other two versions would have been hard?
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Google's goal is very different from what the other two are doing. OpenSSL is still all fingers in the ears "LALALALALALALALALAICANTHEARYOULALALALALALALALALALALALA". LibreSSL is committed to maintaining binary compatibility with the existing base of applications that currently use OpenSSL, although they've got Build a New Sane API as a bullet on their long term wish list. Google meanwhile has put creating a simplified API for their own use at the top of their priority list. Meanwhile Google and OpenBSD are cooperating to make sure they can share patches with each other. Google's relicensed[^] its patches so that they're compatible with LibreSSL, and Theo from OpenBSD says[^] that Google's reduced public API (and since openSSL has no private methods/functions and testing with OpenBSD's ports build cluster shows a huge amount of stuff that should be private is used at least once by a 3rd party there's a lot of scope to reduce it) may serve as a good place to create a new stable public API from once the decrapification is 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 would like its customers to consider Bing as a service that competes head-to-head with Google. And if you live inside the US, that's a true statement but for those who live elsewhere, it has been a second-class service since its inception - but a new job posting states that is about to change. I'm sure that's what's been keeping people from using it.
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I misread 'suck' as 'work' for a second
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Two months ago, security experts and web users panicked when a Google engineer discovered a major bug — known as Heartbleed — that put over a million web servers at risk. The bug doesn't make the news much anymore, but that doesn't mean the problem's solved. Security researcher Robert David Graham has found that at least 309,197 servers are still vulnerable to the exploit. I know you're all *really* busy, but this is kinda important
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