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Amid a stack of security updates for Internet Explorer on Tuesday, Microsoft also made a couple announcements that should get your notice. Wouldn't that be all Silverlight?
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Quote: Apple has made an unusual blunder ahead of its Thursday press event; the company has accidentally revealed both of its new iPads: the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3
Apple accidentally reveals iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3
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That's a genius way to reduce live streaming difficulties!
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MacSpudster wrote: Apple accidentally reveals iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3
There is no "accidental". This was clearly timed to coincide with Google's announcements regarding the Nexus devices and Lollipop. Apple loves this kind of "ooh, look what I discovered got accidentally posted" press coverage.
Marc
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A Chinese team of physicists have trained a quantum computer to recognize handwritten characters, the first demonstration of “quantum artificial intelligence” I for one welcome our new carbon-13-iodotrifluroethylene overlords
Another story about 6 and 9. The cosmos is trying to tell us something.
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Good for Schrödinger's-Grumpy-Cat videos
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You know, whenever they use the phrases "quantum computing" and "vats" together, I can't help but think of a certain creature created in 1818 by Mary Shelley.
Marc
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YouTube has become a daily habit for millions all over the world, but it looks like there has been some malicious activity on the website -- which may have affected more than 100,000 users over a 30 day period. No worries: no one ever goes to that site
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ComputerWorld.com said: ...users viewing the ads were bounced through two servers in the Netherlands before landing on the malicious server, which is located in the U.S
Oh, redirected through ads shown on YouTube.
Who clicks on ads?
I'm safe, because I'm a curmudgeon. Advertisement. Bah!
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Quote: no one ever goes to that site
Peoples just go to see "Cat" videos 
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The winds of change are pushing the Microsoft ecosystem further into the cloud -- don't let your career get blown off course. "There's a cold wind blowing every cloud my way"
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"I feel a hot wind on my shoulder, and the touch of a world that is older."
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Meanwhile, alot of hot air is billowing out of Apple's buildings, among other Apple sources...
Apple accidentally reveals iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3
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Google has just announced every major mobile product we were expecting from it this year: the Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Android 5.0 "Lollipop." There's also something we weren't expecting —an Asus-made set-top-box called the "Nexus Player." Something for the suckers
(Don't be sharpening your pitchforks: it's a lollipop joke, not a comment on Android fans.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Don't be sharpening your pitchforks: it's a lollipop joke, not a comment on Android fans.
69, a lollipop and a player? Is Google trying to sell us something?
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Dayum! Did not notice that  (where's YOUR head at?)
TTFN - Kent
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They're the two most important numbers in mathematics. And I know math. 
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Oracle is requiring database administrators to upgrade their certifications if the ones they hold are for older versions of its platform. Oracle trying to squeeze more money out of their customers? When did that start?
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Same thing done by Microsoft, people have to get a new "updated" certificate by Microsoft after every 2 years. When my friends and family members gave a test for products, 5 years ago, there was no such thing. A certificate was always valid. But now, they had to revalidate it after 2 years.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Not sure it's the same - I've still got my MCSD for Visual Studio 6, and other random certs going back to Windows NT 4. This implies "recert or say bye bye to anything".
TTFN - Kent
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You surely would have a certification for your field and the Microsoft product. But Microsoft is encouraging its users and customers to get the new certificate. I read it on their website, when I was about to apply for the exam.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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If you're still using NT4 or VS6, you're certifiably something alright. 
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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But details as to what the breakthrough is are missing. "If everything goes well, the design could 'be developed and deployed in as little as ten years.'" Yeah. I've never heard that before either.
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I thought all fusion was - by definition - compact, but then I suppose I am as thick as two short Planck's.[^]
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The smallest natural fusion reactors[^] weigh in at ~1.5e29 kilograms and have a 55,000km radius.
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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