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Rockstar, a consortium that bought Nortel's warchest of patents during its bankruptcy acution, has launched a series a patent lawsuits against several mobile device manufacturers, including Samsung, HTC, and Google, the latter which Rockstar outbid for Nortel's patents. "How will we stop an army of the dead at our castle walls?"
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Bill Gates is once again speaking out against the internet-first approach many tech leaders have taken to philanthropy. "As a priority? It’s a joke," Gates tells the Financial Times, when asked about how Mark Zuckerberg's plan to bring the whole world online compared to malaria research. Knock, knock. Who's there? Internet access before malaria. No, it must be a different joke.
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So for profit corporations have different goals than philanthropic non profit organisations?
Oh Bill you are so wise! 
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Why not both? Why does everyone have to do the same thing?
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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Among the deluge of Visual Studio 2013 releases in October, we shipped the 2013 release of Team Explorer Everywhere – updating the experience for team members working in Eclipse and/or on non-Windows environments. Team Explorer Everywhere includes an Eclipse plug-in, a cross-platform command line client, and a Java SDK for building custom tools that access TFS. Check in ALL the things!
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Unlike other NoSQL data stores, Accumulo provides role-based access to data Use the same database they use to store information about you!
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Would you like to build rich, browser-based applications that make direct calls to AWS services without the need for any server-side code? Eliminate the middleman
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Google, Red Hat, Oracle and other technology companies are contributing dozens of computer engineers and programmers to help the Obama administration fix the U.S. health-insurance exchange website. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
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A leaner, meaner version of Android wants to bring Google's integrated search-and-control to the masses. "There's nothing to be afraid of. They were right. It's painless. It's good. Come. Sleep. Matthew."
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I get it. There seems to be something silly about asking everyone — from the homeless to really young kids — to learn to code. There are deeper things that need to be fixed in the “system” too. Preaching to the choir here, but it's nice to see the "cool kids" push coding
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Like a super strain of bacteria, the rootkit plaguing Dragos Ruiu is omnipotent. A scary story for your Halloween IT party
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A scary story for your Halloween IT party
Fiction.
arstechnica wrote: Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed.
Good build-up of tension, now on to the spoiler on how it does this to strike fear in the heart of the reader;
arstechnica wrote: <layer>has the ability to use high-frequency transmissions passed between computer speakers and microphones to bridge airgaps.
Yeah, and that other PC is continously sampling the sound-data to see if there's a "transmission". And regardless of the OS, the PC flawlessly decodes the isolated noise into executable code.
arstechnica wrote: <layer>"Nothing of what he describes is science fiction taken individually, but we have not seen it in the wild ever."
"Still, we need funding to hunt for that Yeti."
arstechnica wrote: <layer>It would not let us disable some things. Things kept getting fixed automatically as soon as we tried to break them. It was weird."
Sure, it was aware of your actions. 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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So long, Gmail, it was nice knowing you. After nearly a decade, I've finally moved my personal email away from Google's service. If you're considering doing the same, here's a step-by-step guide to help you set things up the right way. "There must be 50 ways to leave your lover"
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A new experiment buried deep underground has proven itself to be the most sensitive dark-matter detector ever built. But the first results from the high-tech instrument have turned up empty in its search for elusive dark matter, scientists announced today (Oct. 30). Maybe turn the light on?
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Much ado about nothing...
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We released the first drop of our Visual Studio tools for Git about a year ago as a plugin for VS 2012. Our ultimate goal was to release them as part of VS 2013 RTM (and we did). At the same time, we wanted to iterate quickly on VS 2012 because we could get a lot more feedback and because there’s always an adoption curve for a new VS release and supporting 2012 allows us to deliver for more customers. And people staying with 2012 git some lovin' as well
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The FAA is officially allowing the use of some electronics during takeoff and landing, not just while in the air. In a statement, the agency said it was immediately providing guidance to airlines that would let them integrate the new rules. Airlines will need to submit a plan to manage electronics use, including outlines for new flight attendant training, for the FAA's approval. And that approval could come quickly: Delta says it has already completed testing and submitted a plan. Pending the FAA's decision, it could be in place as early as tomorrow. Put happy face in upright and locked position
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The following link has a benchmark test with some interesting results.
http://attractivechaos.github.io/plb/[^]
there still are other things to considering when choosing a programming language, but still this kind of test helps when performance has some significance.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Octokit is a family of client libraries for the GitHub API. Today we're releasing the third member of the Octokit family, Octokit.net, the GitHub API toolkit for .NET developers. Now you can use your code to git your code to git
Yeah, pretty lame. It's late in my day now.
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Security research firms frequently test browsers to see how good they are at protecting users from malware and phishing attacks. The results show you how secure (or otherwise) the latest versions are, but don't give you any real indication of how well they might perform in the future. Protecting users from themselves
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What about a proper URL to the page where you originally found it, like other people do it in this forum?
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It’s well-established at this point that the U.S. National Security Agency obtains data about people from their Internet service providers through its secret court systems. But the NSA also has a backdoor to Google and Yahoo data centers, according to the Washington Post, which has fresh documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden. At this point, I'm waiting for the announcement of NSA monitoring the World of Warcraft data centers
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Amazon introduced a new program today called AmazonSmile, which will automatically donate 0.5% of your purchases to the charity you select. It costs you (and the charitable organizations) nothing, and it's just like shopping on Amazon normally, but you get to do a world of good. Get stuff, and help others (win, win)
Seems to only be on the US Amazon site for now, hopefully more later
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