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It saddens me that the US is no longer the leader in space.  Sorry for the SB'ish comment.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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As long as someone is advancing things, I don't care who it is.
Mind you, China doesn't have an illegal-immigrant problem, because it's already got a wall. It's great!
This is non-political, because IDGAF -- I've got enough problems as an Englishman living and working in the European mainland, without worrying about the internal problems of other countries.
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This month, there is one foldable phone in the wings that is capturing special attention because it can transform into a smartwatch. Hurrah for inventing a bigger, uglier, heavier watch?
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Golly.
"Who gives a f***" just doesn't say enough.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: "Who gives a f***" just doesn't say enough.
Maybe not about the watch, but the technology is amazing and will have many useful implementations. That's the part of the story I choose to care about.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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One good thing about it is the "grass v. mighty oak" thing, where a phone might not break when you bend or drop it; but the "phone becomes a watch" thing is a non-starter (although flat computing device turning into an armband that still accepts user input is not an unattractive idea).
It will make phone manufacturers and insurers unhappy, though, because they like the fragile methodology.
Phones with "super-cool" all-glass shells are just begging people to insure them and/or break them.
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congratulations you've invented...gumby
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Researchers at IBM have recently devised a new technique to virtually patch security vulnerabilities before they are found. Is it called 'debugging'?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it called 'debugging'?
Exactly my first thought.
All they need is a good, morale-building motto, like "Don't F*** Up!"
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Huh, so developing a technique to catch vulnerabilities before they're released never made it past the advisory board? I supposed you can't sell as many products that way. Here's the software and the software that monitors the software, and a monitor that monitors the monitor software....
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UK-based comparison site Compare the Market has done some interesting research looking at the costs and speeds of broadband around the world. So prepare to be made jealous, or smug, depending on where you live. +1 on the 'jealous' list
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Don't get too down.
It's betanews, so it's clickbait bollocks.
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Quote: To put these speeds into some perspective downloading an hour of Netflix would take just 16 seconds is Singapore, 28 seconds in the US and 54 seconds in the UK, while
Wouldn't it take an hour to download an hour of Netflix  ?
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Well, they do let you download shows so you can watch them offline. That's what I was assuming they meant. Either that, or the people in Singapore are really, really efficient at binge-watching.
TTFN - Kent
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Haha.
But seriously, I just realised that the stats miss one glaring problem, which is data caps. I am not sure where these stack up with bandwidth across various countries. But things like Youtube monitor bandwidth and scale quality to some degree. This has hit me multiple times on phone where I might have amazing lte coverage, but I do not want the 1080 resolution on my phone eating up my limited data plan.
consider someone at home, they used to using less then 200gb per month. then they go from 5mb to 50mb, yeah wow. but same data cap.
They not realise but youtube sees the change and ups 720 or 480 to the now 1080 they user it thinks wants. 10 days in, no more internet, what happened?!?
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Oh, some countries have even higher upload speeds than download speeds.
What's that useful for beyond 1984?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Benchmarks showed that most ad blockers don't make network requests much slower. What about the ad-blocker-blockers?
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We were caught red-handed! want to do the best for everyone!
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Microsoft is staffing up an internal Inner Source initiative to bring open-source principles, methodologies and tools for use by development teams inside the company. Then everyone can fork Windows
I was going to go with "Wasn't that the movie with Martin Short?", but even I didn't get that one.
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Quote: We're gonna drink this one to Ozzie. A good man who tried to save my ass by injecting me into yours.
Never underestimate how many old movie references we can "get". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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zdnet wrote: There's an InnerSource Commons Community with more than 70 members.
Holy Cr@p!
We need to start paying attention to such a huge community!zdnet also wrote: Inner Source tools and methods can be used to develop open and/or closed-source projects and products.
So it's like, what, a development team, yeah?
It's such an original idea that I almost farted.
zdnet just wouldn't shut up! Microsoft's 1ES (One Engineering System) group
So that's, like, what, a team that make apps that can be used across the whole universe of ms products, yeah?
Some people might describe that as "A pile of dung by any other name"
I'd tend to agree with them.
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I’ve been analyzing survey data from IT end users for over 15 years, and responses received from business managers and even CIOs are often drastically different than what actual practitioners say. It's only fair - I have no clue what the CxOs do all day either
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tl;dr: managers don't have a clue.
Stunningly novel news.
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Facebook could face major privacy lawsuit from FTC if it doesn't agree to fine. Like!
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I was going to say something... but I realized, that would be soapbox material...
so I join you in the "Like!" 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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