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Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on portions of networks operated by AT&T and other Internet service providers, a practice that might otherwise be illegal under federal wiretapping laws. The secret legal authorization from the Justice Department originally applied to a cybersecurity pilot project in which the military monitored defense contractors' Internet links. Since then, however, the program has been expanded by President Obama to cover all critical infrastructure sectors including energy, healthcare, and finance starting June 12. All your browsing are belong to us.
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Feel your privacy slowly slipping away?
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Now you know why I do not like Obama. On most issues he is a tea party republican. At least if he was an old school republican... (are they extinct?)
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LMFAO! Not even close!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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That's your opinion, but I find Obama to be conservative. His administration was not quick to get out what has turned out to be disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq, he effectively invaded Libya that effectively just reversed who was the repressed culture, his administration continues to emphasis war on marijuana despite it being legalized in several states, he did not overturn his administration on the day after pill for teens, he supported bailing out the banks just like Bush (he effectively supports big business. His health care bill is mostly good for the insurance companies and hospitals, not the people. He also does not seem to be supporting the Hispanics in the immigration issues. Outside of his policies on discrimination, he is a conservative through and through. You give me an example outside of this where his policies have been liberal. This is just another example of his conservative side. I like the fiscal conservatives, but this tea party, or reactionary group I cannot stand, and I cannot stand Obama.
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Well this is really a conversation for the soapbox.
The problem is all the things you listed are not conservative ideals. While RINOS (Republican In Name Only) support those things, they're not truly conservative ideals. Except perhaps the supporting and being tied to big business part. The funny thing is the "Tea Party", as I understand it, is against most of the things you've enumerated.
Obama certainly is not conservative on the spending side of things, nor on many of the programs he pushes for. Most conservatives were very angry with Bush (and Congress) for the bailouts and subsidies he instigated. Same with Obama. Why, because they're not conservative, but rather liberal & socialistic.
While, I get what you're saying, most of Obama's policies are really liberal policies, including the bailouts, subsidies and Obamacare. I agree with you that it's gonna benefit insurance co's, etc (not sure about hospitals), certainly not doctors and patients.
We have a bastardization of politics here in the US. Grr.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I think Facebook was actually created by the FBI and the CIA so that they could watch what the entire world is doing!
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We’ve just received an invite from Microsoft to an event on May 21st where it will show off the next version of its Xbox console and media box. The next version of the company’s media play has been expected for a while, especially as Sony unveiled most of its PlayStation 4 at an event a few weeks ago. The next Xbox, which is code-named Durango, has been heavily rumored to include a large focus on entertainment and television content as well as games. A new, far more sensitive Kinect sensor has also been rumored for the event. That's really all anyone knows about it. Who's ready to play?
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Not much information. Would have liked to have seen more.
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A handful of myths have become common defenses of the W3C’s plan for “Encrypted Media Extensions” (EME), a Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) scheme for HTML5, the next version of the markup language upon which the Web is built. These arguments obscure the threat this poses to a free and open web and why we must send a strong and clear message to the W3C and its member organizations, that DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users and undermines the W3C’s self-stated mission.... The W3C exists to bring the vision of an undivided ‘One Web’ to its full potential, and DRM is antithetical to that goal. 3 myths about DRM in HTML debunked.
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What's the future of crowdfunding? "I definitely think crowdfunding is going to be part of gaming going forward. I really like what it's doing," said Roberts. "There's this whole idea that one thing is the dominant platform. It used to be console's in, and then console's over and it's Facebook, now Facebook's over and it's mobile, now mobile is passé and it's tablet and free-to-play. I think as the industry gets bigger and it diversifies, there's room for many different things." Crowdfunding, shorter development cycles and more targeted audiences are changing the game scene.
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are steadily increasing in size and speed, creating new problems for enterprise defenses, according to a study published today. Arbor Networks' first quarter ATLAS report, which measures the size and speed of DDoS attacks, says the average size of a DDoS attack continues to grow at about 20 percent a year. The average attack during Q1 was about 1.77 Gbps, up from about 1.48 Gbps in 2012. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
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I've been getting a LOT of Blog Comment Spam lately, just in the at two weeks. I run all my comments through the Akismet Service, and I pay for it. However, this particular flavor of spam has been making it through consistently. It has a pattern, through, and I'd been trying to figure it out when this LARGE comment showed up. Apparently while they were messing about trying to spam me, they posted their entire source template. I'm embedding it below as a Gist... Do you have anything without any spam?
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There’s a lot of good content on IntelliTrace and we’ve grabbed a few links here to have in one place. If you’ve got some time and want to get to know more about IntelliTrace in Visual Studio these are great places to go. More great debugging tools and training from the Visual Studio team.
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Code Digger generates interesting values that show different behaviors of your .NET code. The result is a table showing for which inputs your code produces which outputs.... Under the hood, Code Digger uses the Pex engine and Microsoft Research’s Z3 constraint solver to systematically analyze all branches in the code, trying to generate a test suite that achieves high code coverage. Dig into your code and find the bugs.
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Limited to portable libraries and static methods. As a result its basically useless for 99% of real world code.
I'm especically annoyed that the second limit isn't mentioned anywhere in their writeup; had I known I wouldn't've wasted 90 minutes to first hack and slash a library to compile as portable (what's left would've needed to be wrapped by a second lib to actually be usable in my apps  ) and then to figure out why it was running and not producing any results in the table.
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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It did sound too good to be true!
Wout
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Yeah. I had such high hopes. Opencover can tell me I'm not covering every branch in a method but not which branches aren't covered all ways; when I don't have time to rip legacy code apart to make it easier to figure out where the gaps are (most of the time) this sounded like it would extremely helpful.
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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Initial followup. The people who wrote the extension do intend to expand it to all assembly types not just portable ones. They also said something should be happening with non-static methods; my followup on what that something is hasn't left moderation yet...
I'll update again when I have an answer.
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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In a recent post... I suggested that developers can and ought do a better job of testing their own code.... There was some interesting pushback in the comments. Some took it to mean that we should get rid of all the testers. Whoa whoa whoa there! Slow down folks. I can see how some might come to that conclusion. I did mention that my colleague Drew wants to destroy the role of QA. But it’s not because we want to just watch it burn. Rather, we’re interested in something better rising from the ashes. It’s not that there’s no need for testers in a software shop. It’s that what we need is a better idea of what a tester is. What do you look for in a good tester?
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When you release your Web API, it’s carved into stone. It’s a scary commitment to never make an incompatible change. If you fail, you’ll have irate customers yelling in your inbox, followed by your boss, and then your boss’s boss. You have to support this API. Forever. Unless you version it, right? ... Before you struggle with how to version your API, I want you to know how to design your API to avoid future incompatibilities. It is possible to design your API in a manner that reduces its fragility and increases its resilience to change. The key is to design your API around its intent. The intent-driven design has advantages over the programmer-driven design.
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About a month ago, I passed my one year mark at GitHub. Here's ten things I've learned... We gotta play it one day at a time.
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When I joined Microsoft in early 1994 I discovered what I then considered a somewhat odd way of driving product development. I would sit in Bill’s reviews of product plans and many would have as a key goal of the release “Win Reviews”.... Recall that we are talking (effectively) pre-Internet. The dominant force in communicating information about computer hardware and software were a handful of print magazines. As the PC era reached its pre-Internet peak these publications had grown to the size of small (and sometimes not so small) phone books. And they were filled with reviews of new products and comparisons of competing products. Trying to decide between Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and Lotus Ami Pro? Or Windows vs. OS/2?Articles in these magazines were going to weigh heavily in your decision process. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it.
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