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Want to learn how to become a better searcher? Take Google's free online course for power searching! I'll just put this here so that I can find it again
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Need to tell the sales department about this.
One person came to me the other day asking how to get different Excel documents of different screens.
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You may need to print the video off for that person. 
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Nice one!
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Beginning in September, the site is banning the sale of "advice, spells, curses, hexing, conjuring, magic, prayers, blessing services, magic potions, [and] healing sessions," according to a policy update. By the pricking of my thumbs, to Craigslist we go to find new victims
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If I knew this I could have used my spare time to go sell pieces of left over road kill to people.
Yesterday I saw a fresh road killed bird on my way to go drop off my laundry. My question: How fast must one be driving in the city to road kill a bird?
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Not sure, but I do know that hitting a pheasant at 70mph and a badger at 80mph is more than enough.
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Unfortunatley, unlike hexs, etc, you have to pay shipping. Sucks, doesn't it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the site is banning the sale of "advice, spells, curses, hexing, conjuring,
magic, prayers, blessing services, magic potions, [and] healing sessions,"
Heck - how am I going to make my code compile now  ?
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Heck - how am I going to make my code compile now ?
You'll just have to code in Octal. It's only digits 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F that are hexes. And as an added advantage, you can now have funkshuns as well as functions as spelling is not permitted.
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Seriously: how is this any different than the sale of virtual goods in World of Warcraft?
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Think the memory card in your camera is high-capacity? It's got nothing on DNA. With data accumulating at a faster rate now than any other point in human history, scientists and engineers are looking to genetic code as a form of next-generation digital information storage. It might have to compete with that stuff in your keyboard
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I thought DNA was Microsoft's latest buzzword - Distributed Network Architecture...
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I think that was a few buzzwords back.
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IDC's report card says Oracle's stewardship has been good for the popular development platform "Baseball, been berry, berry good to me."
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If Oracle lets Java go, and it fails, then they are stuck with jumping onto the Microsoft bandwagon, and that is the last thing Oracle wants. Do not think C++ is a viable option for business applications.
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There are languages other than Java, C# and C++ out there and some of them are fine for business applications. Take Ruby or Python for instance.
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Of course that probably would mean that Oracle would have to invest in support since there is no single major company that is the focus for the software. C++ does have pretty significant support, but it is not really very good for business since the framework is not that good for business apps. That is why Java was created, because C++ had issues, and it still does. If C++ had been adequate, Java and C# would have never succeeded.
Oracle would just as well stick with unsupported Java. In fact there are a lot more languged than you stated: there if Fortran, Cobol, PL1, ... Probably the best option would be Ada since the US government is the main supporter.
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Judge Lucy Koh has been going increasingly terse with both Apple and Samsung as the trial continues, and she just let Apple have it after receiving a 75-page briefing. The document covered 22 potential rebuttal witnesses the company might want to call after Samsung finishes presenting its case. With the jury out of the courtroom, Koh laid into Apple, asking why it would present such a lengthy document "when unless you're smoking crack you know these witnesses aren't going to be called!" I'm sure with Apple prices, they can afford better stuff
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The US manufacturers of computers, phones, etc. have done a really sorry job of competing with apple, but these Korean companies like Samsung and LG have really shown that they can create compact elegant designs.
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I think you might be right. This might be a case of "Stomp them before they get too big."
The weirder part is that Samsung is one of one of Apple's bigger suppliers[^].
Big companies are so strange and dysfunctional. There used to be a group at Microsoft called "Technical Diplomats". Their job was to interact with companies that part of Microsoft was trying to put out of business while other parts of Microsoft depended on them.
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Today, talking about doing a big design up-front (BDUF) sounds a bit ridiculous, right? Who would do that? That's not craftsmanship, is it? It was the best of software development, it was the worst of software development
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Just so you know, C# is better than whatever language you use.
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And on the eighth day, G-d created Anders Hejlsberg.
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I use C# - is it better than that?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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I worked on TDD. That is how the military does all thier designs, and it creates horrible weapon systems. The Abrams tank was a gas guzzler that had a horrible impact on tank battalions since they had to not only have new specialists to work only on the tank engines, but also more fuel trucks. There was a movie on how bad the Bradley was. Now look at the new F-35 (should change the name of the Lockheed to Junkers {original company was absorbed into Messerschmitt}). The one of the most significant problems with TDD is that there is no feedback loop. The government will tell you that if you do not meet the specification you are not meeting the contract. Costs just keep going up to try to meet requirements that should be dumped. The American planes and tanks of WWII were not built this way. Almost every truely successful project was agile. Software is no different.
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On the Abrams: I was once told that when they fired the big gun that they often had a full power outage and the onboard computers got restarted. Is that true?
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Another interesting thing is that the Leopard, which was being considered as the next American tank had a smoothbore 120mm gun. I believe the new development was partially justified because it stayed with the old 105, but the first upgrade had the german 120. I also heard that the Leopard option was discarded because it was considered too wide. It took a while to figure out where the justification came from: There was some obscure requirement for the size limit, something like transport on a particular ship. Both tanks are really too wide for a lot of transport. Also the highly regarded turbine engine still is costing the US taxpayer and the Army: http://www.g2mil.com/abramsdiesel.htm[^]
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A fundraiser is underway to save scientist Nikola Tesla's old laboratory, named Wardenclyffe, and to turn the site into a museum. The fundraising is spearheaded by Matthew Inman, creator of the webcomic site The Oatmeal. The property has been embattled for years between its owner, the Agfa Corporation, and the nonprofit organization that wants to save it and enter it in the National Register of Historic Places. ...because he's the greatest geek who ever lived (Tesla, that is)
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Certainly Tesla has aquired a lot more respect in recent years, respect he should have had a long time ago, except Edison was a better politian.
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Rob Pike, now a Distinguished Engineer at Google, worked at Bell Labs as a member of the Unix Team and co-created Plan 9 and Inferno. He was central to the creation of the Go and Limbo programming languages. Rob shares an experience at Bell Labs that changed his approach to debugging. Think twice, debug once
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Shouldn't this be in the Soapbox? 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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True, but in the Soapbox it is news that can go in potentially "interesting" ways 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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What ever happened to 'What happens in Sweden stays in Sweden?'
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Thats vegas... but they have people here, who will take your picture and put it up on craigslist doing bad things.
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Perhaps because it's not breaking Software or IT news.
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They should get a helicopter with a rope hanging outside the window. Have Assange dress up with an anonymous mask and black cape, it would make for a great escape.
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That's a nice thought, but:
Article states: But even with his asylum granted now, UK police can stop the vehicle or helicopter he would be travelling in to get him out of the country.
I'm thinking they should sneak in a rocket that can have a human as cargo, then have Assange parachute when he's over Ecuador. 
Actually, they'd probably gun that rocket down pretty fast.
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How about they dig up the building and move the whole building
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On Wednesday, a court of appeals ruled that because we all know cell phones have GPS transponders that can broadcast our locations at any time, we have no reasonable expectation of privacy when we carry them. This means that law enforcement can legally trace the location of your cell phone on public roads -- no warrant required. [ITworld]
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This is total BS.
It is obviously a breach of your privacy. Why can I say this?
If it is not a breach of privacy then would this information be OK to always be public (not by choice)?
For example, is it OK if Facebook checks you into all your locations with out you doing so, or for your posts on g+ to always tag the location with out you requesting it to do so?
I think not, as I for one never do this unless I know for certain my securities are protected. What I mean by this is I do not post my location if my home is not fully protected. To me it seems foolish that people do.
Granted the case here is different. The data was used to track a drug smuggler. But from what I have learned in my lifetime over privacy issues is what the breach was used for is irrelevant. They could have caught an attempted terrorist. Still a breach.
The reason being is who draws the line? The 4th ammendment protects us by saying there is no line. Your securities (that being your data as well) are only searchable if a judge so orders it and the executive branch deems it necessary for some criminal pursuit.
Otherwise we will see misuse, even if the usage is limited to law enforcement. Often law enforcement can have political issues or entanglement (the Police Commissioner is a political figure). Such data can be used against potential political advisories. Such information can be used against the active political figures to enable law enforcement to gather personally data that can be used to manipulate people.
Granted there are many other (non political) cases as well. I point out the political ramifications, for our law makers should be concerned with them, as in the end it gives the police force an upper hand over other divisions of the government (and civilian populace).
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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That is the best way to articulate this argument, that if it's not something that would be expected to be public knowledge, then the cops should need a warrant to get it. Period. If they had reason to suspect a drug smuggler, they should have enough to get a warrant.
It really pisses me off.
Look at me still talking when there's science to do
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
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