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Apparently our NSA buddies have a bit of a spam problem. Think about it. If they're grabbing every bit of email metadata they can get their hands on, what are they really getting? "But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game"
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That's a whole lot of viagra adds... 
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Likely not. For their purpose, weeding out spam is very easy - spam is a one-way communication.
Spam is sent from hacked email accounts, (almost) every spam mail I receive was sent from a different account. And I never reply to it. When they try to build up the communication network, such spam mails can consequently be identified easily. Far easier for the NSA who have all of them than for us who receive only one copy each time.
When you want to trick the NSA with the spam, just send some totally unrelated emails to the senders and other addresses you found in cc somewhen later on. And also do that from a different account than the one receiving the original message...
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If you use Open Source software, then giving vocal support really makes a difference to that Open Source Project as well as the open source community as a whole. We make it really easy for you to say what projects you use in your applications. Share the love
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Found it great...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Ruby is a dying language. Business is over its dalliance with Ruby. No major startup is lauding their use of Ruby and existing businesses are migrating away or simply writing new applications in a different language. Ruby is dead. Long live the Ruby.
Or:
That sound you hear? That's a bubble popping.
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The next major operating system incarnations will be available as ISOs and as virtual machines. Yes, this is a prediction on my part but it's a very good one. And he's virtually correct
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I already have 8 out of 10 servers virtual. So be able to by it as ready-made VM image will save a lot of time.
It's already exist for Linux distros - http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/[^]
And Microsoft offered images for Visual Studio 2012, Internet Explorer and Windows 8 testing...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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All fun and games until a overly gifted 14 year old kid who has a rough time through puberty creates the zombie apocalypse.
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 ...... It might be a possibility
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Junior's Home RNA Kit[^] will be the end of us all.
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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No, he's an NYT Best Selling SF author[^] shilling his latest book[^]; which has an unidentified nutjob release a zombie plague on the world.
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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Uncle...
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Indications of desperation at Samsung, chaos at HTC, and reduced focus at Google suggest Android faces rough sailing. When you're #1, there's only one way to go
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We work in the most transformative profession of our day. Despite the deep dysfunction in most organizations, we have no business being disgruntled. "Happy, happy. Joy, joy"
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When Google and NASA announced plans to boot up an honest-to-goodness quantum computer at NASA’s Ames Research Center, it seemed like the beginning of something very big. This is why we can't have nice things
Yes, I should have done a "it may - or may not - be operating", but I just couldn't bring myself to it.
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A new nonprofit called Code.org wants to bring computer science into schools. Its first initiative will be a worldwide “Hour of Code” during the second week of December, with materials provided that include coding tutorials from Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Now you can learn the secret of programming on airplanes
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In a move that's about as useful as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, BlackBerry has issued an open letter to customers and partners designed to quell their fears. Despite a recent spate of well-publicized ill fortune, the company claims that its loyal customers "can continue to count on Blackberry." As in: continue to count down until we're no more
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This post announces a standalone release of the .NET portable class library reference assemblies that can be used on any operating system. It was written by Rich Lander, a Program Manager on the .NET Team. "It's everywhere you want to be."
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The problem is that it's not anywhere close to everything I want it to be. About 6-12mo ago I ran into an interesting looking static analysis tool from MS Research that only supported PCLs and spent about half a day trying to hack the main compute library of one of my solutions to get a portable version of it. After that half day of work I concluded I'd probably need 2 or 3 more days of wrestling with dependencies to get a chopped down portable version and probably at least a full week to then write a wrapper to add back all the misc functions I'd cut out that my app needed to use it.
I'm not saying PCLs are a bad idea; and if designed from the start that way the reduced number of dependencies at a the low level would mostly be a good thing, needing an abstraction/wrapping layer around our logging library (IIRC nLog in that app) being the main exception, but actually getting existing code refactored in portable form isn't likely to be a trivial undertaking.
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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The backdoor could be used to modify a router's settings -- a dangerous vulnerability Joel - you got lotsa 'splaining to do
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Pssst...
Leslie was faster[^]
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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Dang, missed that. I'll give David credit on that one.
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TTFN - Kent
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