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I have uninstalled it myself.
I even had a web page that said it neded it but when I dismissed the notification the app worked anyway as expected.
Go figure.
Java runtime. used to be one of the things that you "Had" to install when you set up a new system. But for the most part people don't need it anymore.
Unless you are doing something the specifically requires it. Like android development on windows.
Or that Line of Buisness application that has not been updated for years.
It needs to be changed anyway 
Like the older Windows XP html/script programs that used to run the help and support on it.
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When Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz ran the company’s engineering team — in those heady days when Facebook was still taking over the world — he oversaw about 180 employees. You might see that as a glamorous position of power, but Moskovitz will tell you it was a serious pain. Each day, he spent hours just dealing with email. His inbox was jammed with an endless collection of mailing-list missives that didn’t always mean something to him, but each carried the implied expectation that he would take notice and keep up. Someone had better inform my inbox
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I sincerely hope not. The last thing I want to do is have that bunch of arsewipes Biebers taking over my personal correspondence and raping it for marketing opportunities.
In an ideal world email would dominate and send Farsebook back to slime pond it came from.
Yeah, as you see, I give two fingers to FB. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Dustin has his head so far up his own arse he can't think straight. See here[^]
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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Microsoft Research is pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence to a whole new level. Imagine a smart elevator that can figure out what floor a person wants to go to, based on their history and other factors. Think of the time saved, now that you don't have to push that button!
OK, they can probably leverage the AI to do something else, but this isn't as flashy as a driverless car.
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So I could build up a history of selecting a series of floors to visit before my final destination? 
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We have smart elevators in our building. They know exactly when someone will request an elevator and using an extremely complex algorithm device a floor visiting route that ensures either
a) the fewest passengers will be picked up with the most number of floor changes, or
b) the timing is such that the number of passengers waiting to get on when the elevator actually arrives is N+1, where N = elevator capacity.
I hates them.
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Now you could add the joy of a BSOPTS (Blue Screen of Plummeting 10 Stories), or a Windows Update midway to work.
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"I see that you wish to visit the tenth floor. Have you considered the seventh floor? They have a very nice receptionist on the seventh floor." -- Clippy
Oh, that's too close to a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporter":
Lift : May I ask you if you've considered all the possibilities that down might offer you?
I really think that the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation will be formed from Microsoft. Go stick your head in a pig.
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Shouldn't you install a bike ramp? 
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If i see such elevator i will have one more reason to use the stairs. Either way i am not big fan of elevators.
Do you imagine it. You enter in the m$ elevator with no buttons (even the panic button) and when it stats moving and you reach the middle of 2 floors ... blue screen of death. It will be just epic
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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User feedback will force them to add the Start button back 
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I hope they didn't remove the buttons...
On second thought, that should be fun - closed inside a no-buttons elevator operated with the common collection of MS bugs! A whole day fun for free!!!
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I wonder if the excuse of beeing stuck all day long in the m$ elevator will be valid for missing going to work for a day/week
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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My doctor's building is only two floors. When I enter the elevator, I wish it would realize that I want to go to the other floor. But, alas, it is not smart enough.
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Don't worry after the M$ software for the elevators become real you will be able to go your doctor's third floor and even further.
With M$ and the new elevator software you will be able to reach the clouds
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Actually, it thinks "Who on earth takes the elevator for only one floor ? Take the stairs, you lazy donkey!"
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Smart cars can turn off passenger airbags based on weight. Elevators can do the same if programmed to.
I'm also originally from the village of donkeys.
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Of all the static technology that could've been turned "smart," elevators would not have been in my top 500 devices. Good to see Microsoft Research is putting in quality work over there in Redmond.
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Nor would have smartphones. Well, as many tools, they can only be as smart as the people using them.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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If an elevator doesn't know what floor you're going, then nobody does. This is already reality today; the only thing an AI can do now is to make it worse.
Why not have the elevator control integrated on your calendar where you put in your appointments and then you can check in your device when you get in the building and it would automatically call an elevator and then it would announce your name if you reach the correct floor. You can make that happen without scary psychic AI things.
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Trust in anything connected to the internet risks being eroded as overall IT security vulnerabilities reached their highest level in 14 years, Cisco warned today, pointing to a global shortage of more than 1m security professionals. Hire 1 million hackers: mission accomplished
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I'm curious who's spending the money to employ 1m security professionals...
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No one is. That's why there's a shortage.
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Once in control, they can silently push new ad-filled "updates" to those users. New maxim: If there is a way, marketing will.
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