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"We wanted to put on board some part of humanity. We couldn't shrink ray people down, so Travis and I brainstormed and thought that the next best thing would be to allow people to become digital astronauts. We wanted to pave the way for interstellar missions where we could send the essence of humanity to the stars – 'Emissaries of the Earth', if you will. We wanted to pave the way for that." Space travel via thumb drive?
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Sending tweets into space? In physical form? Yes, people are narcistic enough to pay for it, but what is the value of polluting space with tweets?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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A new study from BYU, in collaboration with Google Chrome engineers, finds the status quo of warning messages appearing haphazardly—while people are typing, watching a video, uploading files, etc.—results in up to 90 percent of users disregarding them. It gets in the way of the cat videos!
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9 out of 10 times those popups ARE the security threats! 
No, I'm not installing your software because my computer may be at risk. Doing so will make sure it's at risk.
On a side note, I had to look it up: thread, tread, threat or treat.
You better tread carefully, like walking on a thread, or the grammar nazi's will treat you on a threat!
Good thing I don't have to pronounce that on the interwebs 
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Sander Rossel wrote: You better tread carefully, like walking on a thread, or the grammar nNazi's will treat you on with a threat!
The irony. 
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My grammar may be bad, at least I'm not a Nazi
Why is Nazi spelled with a capital anyway? Like they're so awesome they need a capital
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Being a proper noun has nothing to do with awesomeness.
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Now you're calling them proper too?
Well, I guess I shouldn't expect anything more from (grammar) Nazi's... 
Seriously though, I never knew about proper nouns in English.
I know Germany capitalizes nouns. But then again, they capitalize everything when they talk 
And I could've sworn you're treating someone ON something (treat your love on candy/flowers), rather than WITH (unless you're waiting for them at the door, but that's another meaning of the same word, just to make it more complex ).
Then again, I'm Dutch, so what do I know about the English (proper noun!) language
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Sander Rossel wrote: Now you're calling them proper too?
Well, I guess I shouldn't expect anything more from (grammar) Nazi's...
Sander Rossel wrote: And I could've sworn you're treating someone ON something
No. 'With' is the correct word to use.
Sander Rossel wrote: ...rather than WITH (unless you're waiting for them at the door, but that's another meaning of the same word
They aren't two words with the same meaning.
You stand ON a floor.
You point AT the door.
You play WITH your friends.
If my full GN came out, I'd rewrite 'aren't' to be less slangy, but I'm lazy!
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Now hackers know when they ought to place their "security warnings" in order to get their malware installed...
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Get a secuity warning and you have no real idea what it is about or if you can even trust the message. No good option.
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The product, 16 years in the making, provides a solution as the cost of fiber optics in the data center grows. Ride the light!
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A federal appeals court says the maker of an online spying tool can be sued on accusations of wiretapping. "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
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and it places liability on the producers of spyware tools.
That makes no sense. The liability should be on the consumer of the tool.
If I take my wire cutters and splice in to my neighbor's analog phone line (ok, maybe that would have worked 10 years ago), do you sue the company that makes the wire cutters???
Marc
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If I sent someone a letter and others read it without my permission or the permission of the receiver, they are liable. How should it be different for e-mail or IM's?
If a product is created for the explicit purpose of intercepting private communication, how can they plead ignorance?
If someone creates a product to break into secured safes, they are as liable as the people that bought it...
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Intel wants to get developers more interested in its drones. At the company’s annual Developer Forum, it announced the Aero ready-to-fly drone that specifically targets developers. "Fly my pretties, fly"
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... and now I'm picturing hoards of drones chasing after developers.
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Trying to read their code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that specifically targets developers.
That has some nasty connotations for my health and well being, not to mention my house, two cats, and girlfriend. 
Marc
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The visible universe just shrunk by 320 million light-years in all directions, updating a famous calculation that physicists first made 13 years ago. It actually ends just past the moon
Everything else is just lights drawn on the inside of Ymir's skull.
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Don't tell me - are all the stars are painted on the inside of a giant sphere surrounding the Earth?
The return of the geocentric model.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft looks to be building a Visual Studio-like tool suite for machine learning called Open Mind Studio. "Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open."
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Overall, the Electronic Frontier foundation finds that the free Windows 10 Upgrade violated the two key areas of user choice and user privacy. I'm glad they're on the case: no one else has been saying anything about Win10
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I'm especially happy about how rapid and timely their response was. 
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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