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Since the dawn of time (before software, there was only darkness), there has been one constant: businesses want to build software cheaper and faster. I thought that was carbs?
Or was it salt? Gluten? (We need gluten-free software!)
Of course, Lisa is killing me. Oh, sorry, she's only tearing me apart. Apologies, Lisa.
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YouTube was recently caught displaying ads that covertly leach off visitors' CPUs and electricity to generate digital currency on behalf of anonymous attackers, it was widely reported. The cats are betraying me?
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Does "Do no evil" mean something different than what it actually says?
modified 30-Jan-18 0:09am.
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It depends on what they really mean when they say "no". 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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For anyone wondering why I as a software developer block the hell out of my browsing experience; stuff like this is why.
If one of the two largest internet companies can't prevent its ad networks from being abused as malware distribution networks (and fArseBook is intrinsically spyware before running any 3rd party code) I have total faith that sooner or later whatever lesser site you're trying to fund on ads will also be trying to infect my system with a virus.
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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Starting a firm specializing in website advertising curation is looking better all the time. What better way to serve adds then from the source.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Hats… and now flamethrowers. Elon Musk’s Boring Company has so far been more of a ‘lifestyle’ brand (and a weird one at that) than a company that, you know, digs massive tunnels through the earth as a going concern. But it’s making bank. "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
is he maybe a descendant of Neron?
M.D.V. 
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Yawn, its cheaper to buy a turkey fryer. Does the same thing. Pretty sure there won't be any negative repercussions for all the well intentioned and responsible citizens that purchased these based on the myriad of uses for a flamethrower. Take it deer hunting, you can cut out the middleman by killing and cooking your game with one trigger pull. Craving bacon or steak and driving by a farm? Instant meal.
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Finally, a succesfull product from Musk.
So, nothing but a cheap and simple overhyped military contractor like the thousand others? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Microsoft has been forced to issue a second out-of-band security update this month, to deal with the issues around Intel’s Spectre firmware updates. Coming soon: an emergency patch to fix this emergency patch
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ATM manufacturers are warning that criminals are hacking into their devices using a method called “jackpotting”that has recently spread to the U.S. according to Reuters. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: has recently spread to the U.S.
Quote: first noticed ... rife in Europe and Asia but ... avoided ... the U.S. until now
The reason is simple: Quote: dispense cash
With so much cash in your pockets, what can you do in the U.S. where you are expected to pay by credit card everywhere?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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"U.S. soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging - Chicago Tribune:" [^]
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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What I suspect will happen is a DOD wide ban on them.
The Twitter feed of the guy who discovered this showed that some locations, eg the Pentagon had banned them as seen by a stream of them going into the parking lots but nothing inside the building. Probably not explicitly, but as part of a general ban on personally owned electronics inside a secure facility.
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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Billionaire investor George Soros launched a scathing attack on tech giants at the Davos summit on Thursday, calling them monopolies that could be manipulated by authoritarians to subvert democracy. "Who?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Billionaire investor George Soros Mr. Obvious launched a scathing attack on tech giants at the Davos summit on Thursday, calling them monopolies that could be manipulated by authoritarians to subvert democracy.
FTFY
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Earth to Soros; wealthy people with too much fingers in obscure NGO's are equally dangerous to Democracy.
It became time that those days were numbered too, and that those organisations are castrated of all influence.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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His hypocrisy is even greater than his wealth.
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Different experiences lead to radically different interpretations for what "fast" means, what "safe" means, what "secure" means, and on and on and on. Wrong!
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I wrote a post recently describing how I distributed malicious code that gathers credit card numbers and passwords from thousands of sites in a way that’s quite difficult to detect. Assuming you want to stop him, of course
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The Follower Factory: [^]Quote: All these accounts belong to customers of an obscure American company named Devumi that has collected millions of dollars in a shadowy global marketplace for social media fraud. Devumi sells Twitter followers and retweets to celebrities, businesses and anyone who wants to appear more popular or exert influence online. Drawing on an estimated stock of at least 3.5 million automated accounts, each sold many times over, the company has provided customers with more than 200 million Twitter followers, a New York Times investigation found.
I have always had the best friends money can buy.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I was wondering how Donald got so many followers...
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A fool and his money are easily parted - well deserved
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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