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The Perseid meteor shower is the most widely observed and dependable annual meteor display of the year, and its peak this week has all the earmarks of being an excellent example of celestial fireworks, weather permitting. "Shooting stars never stop, even when they reach the top"
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Damn website - all the advert videos play just fine, but the actual content videos steadfastly refuse to do so.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Cisco announced that it been working on a next-generation open source video codec, called Thor, that should sidestep all patent issues that current codecs such as the HEVC have presently. You mean like Ogg, VP9, Daala, XVid...? Great unique idea!
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You know...
one to rule them all ... and in the darkness bind them
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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To help improve IoT security, the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has released its Internet of Things Trust Framework. Before someone hacks your fridge (again. Why else would it have ordered all that cheese?)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Before someone hacks your fridge (again. Why else would it have ordered all that cheese beer?)
FTFY 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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That I know why it's in there
TTFN - Kent
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LastPass, one of the more popular password management solutions next to 1Password, is making its smartphone apps free to use. For those who don't like remembering to type KD*02!<pw%
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I've used Lastpass for the last year or two. Works great across all my platforms.
Apparently the cross platform stuff is still $12/year - worth it.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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You are aware they got hacked last year? (LastPass Hacked - Lifehacker[^].
Do you really think its wise to rely on a service like this?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: You are aware they got hacked last year?
Yes.
Name me one single tech company or retailer that hasn't been hacked... yet.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Me.
But, I'm nobody.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The difference, I don't use most tech companies to store the passwords to all my other accounts.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Meh... I know many people use the same password on all their accounts so a hack at one is essentially a hack on all of them.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Don't ever put all your eggs in one basket.
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Since they got hacked, I have less than zero trust for LastPass, they couldn't pay me to install it on my phone.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Many IT pros with skills in Cobol and mainframes will be aging out of the workplace in the near future. How can CIOs address the inevitable skills shortage? Because: COBOL
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That won't be a problem until Y10K. 
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The Universe will end before COBOL does, so IF the Universe hits Y10K it WILL be a problem
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: That won't be a problem until Y10K.
Did they checked leap and non leap century years ?
2100, 2200, 2300, 2400 ...
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Of course they did. They rock.
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To be fair, what technology would you use to replace a COBOL mainframe app that has been running for 40 years? How sure could you be that technology would still be supported in 20 years, let alone 40.
It's a bit sad that we have no better option for languages with longterm support.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I've made a lot of money maintaining legacy code. I love legacy code, nothing is your fault, and the customer is always grateful when you manage to add one more feature.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'm pretty sure I've been reading this article yearly since I started paying attention to the tech press in the late 90's.
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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Visual F# Power Tools 2.0.0 feature support for F# 4.0 constructs Now with even more F, and even #
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