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This is the problem with the winio data slurping.
Professionals and people who know how to use computers switch off and block the data slurping, so the bulk of the metrics and "feedback" (I use that word reservedly, because the information is stolen from users, not provided by them) they're getting is from people who don't use computers in a professional capacity.
So do windows users want effective, non-distracting, efficient user interfaces, or do they want useless garbage like this?
I'd bet the numbers extracted from the data slurping say they want this useless garbage.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What if the community of extension authors banded together to add powerful features to Visual Studio that made it easier to create extensions? Extensions all the way down
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.NET Core 3.0 is the next major version of the .NET Core platform. This article walks through the history of .NET Core and demonstrates how it has grown from basic support for Web and data workloads in version 1 to being able to run Web, desktop, machine learning, containers, IoT and more in version 3.0. Try it before the announce 4.0 and this is deprecated
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Microsoft has launched a new $25,000 malware challenge for data scientists on the Google-owned Kaggle crowdsourcing site to develop an algorithm that can predict what types of Windows PCs are most likely to be soon infected with malware. Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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Obviously they will come up with "Any Windows before the current version of Windows 10 will be riddled with malware." What other answer would you expect?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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"Dutch users"
Pr0n.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Any PC my wife uses.
I'll take a check.
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hint: look at download habits.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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It's got to be just a publicity stunt, where they'll never have to pay the prize.
You could certainly feed infection data into a backprop or an NN, but the idea that the model of the machine makes a f@rt's worth of difference is beyond ridiculous.
The only thing that it might be possible to determine is what kind of person prefers which kind of device, and then that information can be integrated with shopping and location data, etc.
... So it turns out to be a personal-data slurp, after all.
No surprises, there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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nobody is asking for this feature..which when let loose will delete all your files cause your Windows PCs will malware..imagine having to deploy this in a office...hell Microsoft can even release a proper build these days...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Microsoft has issued an emergency update that fixes a critical Internet Explorer vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting on the Internet. Looks like Microsoft can't release Windows Sandbox soon enough.
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Internot Exploited/Dredge were the focus of some of MS's earliest sandboxing work. Anything evil attacking the OS from them already knows how to pwn an MS sandbox.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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I'm just waiting for the "One IE Security Update to Beat them All"Windows Update said: Installing KB98751235 Internet Explorer Uninstaller.....
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We seem to be on the cusp of a revolution in storage. Various technologies have been demonstrated that have speed approaching that of current RAM chips but can hold on to the memory when the power shuts off—all without the long-term degradation that flash experiences. It is probably killing my old graduate advisor that other researchers are getting there before her.
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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
(It's all in the timing)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Many users of Logitech's Harmony Hub smart home hub and remote were recently met with a nasty surprise. The device's latest firmware update, version 4.15.206, reportedly cuts off local access for Harmony Hubs. And this is why I have no interest in smart home devices. Unreliable, insecure, and short-lived.
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arstechnica wrote: Logitech issued another statement today with instructions on how to enable private local API controls. The company created a new XMPP beta program
That's great! It's wonderful news!
My dear old gran will be so happy!
I'll sign her up for a five-year IT course, to give her a chance of having a **cking clue about the technical hoops she has to jump through to turn her TV on!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It’s not often you can put nuclear weapons, terrorism and climate change on the same list as quantum computing, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, but the U.S. government believes all pose an “emerging threat” to its national security. I've been sayin' it. I've been sayin' it for ten years. Ain't I been sayin' it, Miguel? Yeah, I've been sayin' it.
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Why doesn't the list include "Access to twitter" and "Lack of common sense"?
They're obviously a clear and present danger to world safety.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"AI poses an emerging threat to national security."
"How"
"Because state actors can develop AI."
"But, what will they do with it?"
"Develop it."
Sigh
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Grab, Southeast Asia’s top ride-hailing company, has hit a roadblock in its efforts to improve its mapping and routing service after running into trouble with OpenStreetMap, the world’s largest collaborative mapping community, through a series of blundering edits in Thailand. Every company has a story about how things went wrong. Here is Grab's.
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Outsourcing.
I really don't think there's a need for any more words than that.
(Except that I wonder how many Grab drivers have been mentioned in the #MeToo campaign -- talk about advertising your intentions!)
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Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. OK who wants to make my Mom a personal website so I don't have to?
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Hmmm...and aggregating site using iframes for all your friends homepages...something like that...I wonder. Hmmm...
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I'm increasingly convinced that we should replace the entire internet with books.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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