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Yeah, if you turn it on. This was in the Insider News aa couple of days ago: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4742935/Speech-recognition-hack-turns-Google-Chrome-into-a.aspx[^]
You have to actually give a website permission to listen, and then it isn't shut down properly.
My solution: unplug the microphone. Works fine... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I don't read Insider News often and I honestly didn't see it. I got the link from Facebook.
Unplugging the microphone may not be an option on all devices. On a laptop, you can disable the microphone, but on tablets and smartphone, I don't think there is an option.
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There is an "emergency" microphone reset, but it requires special tools:
Basic tool[^]
Precision tool[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yep, it's lovely how they fuq it up directly, but disable NPAPI (without a replacement) just because is old. I wonder why they don't obsolete Win32 altogether. Or at least LoadLibrary.
Nuclear launch detected
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Looking for a home that comes with a sweet ride? Check out the video and pictures offering this house for sale in Sherwood, Ore. It comes complete with rideable scale railroad boasting a trainyard, both diesel and coal-fired engines, a tunnel and a railroad trestle. The video will make your day.[^] (Article, with embedded video, lots of pictures)
If I had $3.5 Million dollars to spare, I'd buy!
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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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Must buy Lotto Ticket!
Become the coolest Grandpa EVER!
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An elderly couple had just learned how to send text messages on their cell phones. The wife was a romantic type and the husband was more of a no-nonsense guy. One afternoon the wife went out to meet a friend for coffee. She decided to send her husband a romantic text message and she wrote:
If you are sleeping, send me your dreams.
If you are laughing, send me your smile.
If you are eating, send me a bite.
If you are drinking, send me a sip.
If you are crying, send me your tears.
I love you.
The husband texted back to her: "I'm on the toilet. Please advise!
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Now that's just taking the piss...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thanks for a good laugh Mike 
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Glad you enjoyed it Espen.
It gave me a good chuckle when I read it and thought it would be a good share.
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Simplify (x & ~y) > (~x & y)
I quite liked how it just works out, and it's a nice little puzzle assuming you haven't seen it before, not so hard that it'll cost you your weekend, but good enough to tease your brain for a couple of minutes.
The comparison can be taken as signed or unsigned.
ps: I actually needed this thing today, but the other way around. I had to compute what this thing simplifies to, but only had x & ~y and ~x & y available.
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This[^] Becomes This[^]
Assuming the x and y are Chromosomes
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Yes. Full points awarded.
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Let x = 10, y = 20
Then
~y = -21
~x = -11
(x & ~y) = 10 & -21
(~x & y) = -11 & 20
Then perform bitwise operation  , Refer - Bit wise operations in C#[^]
Thanks,
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Ok, but that's not a simplification.
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True. Unfortunately you are shifting every bit of my brain nerves 
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You could try picking values for x and y until you see a pattern..
Do you want a hint?
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You should have specified the field here. Mathematical ~ means a bit different. Where's the not impressed icon?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Since it doesn't make sense if interpreted that way, it's not really ambiguous.
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Yes, it does not make any sense when looked that way. It also may not make any sense in a rare programming language that treats ~ as declaration symbol and & as = symbol. It would be a really stupid language BTW.
Like you guys say, just my 2 cents.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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It could be simplified to x > y
How this works:
Let's take two random numbers for x and y:
x = 37 = 00100101
y = 203 = 11001011
The values for ~x and ~y:
~x = 11011010
~y = 00110100
And the values for (x & ~y) and (~x & y)
x & ~y = 00100101 & 00110100 = 00100100 = 36
~x & y = 11011010 & 11001011 = 11001010 = 202
In this case, x and y are both substracted with 1. That's not always the case, but if you try this with other numbers, you'll see that x and y are always substracted with the same number.
modified 24-Jan-14 13:56pm.
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Take a +5.
Out of curiosity, how did you do it? Or did you already know?
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harold aptroot wrote: how did you do it?
I updated my message to add some explanation.
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