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Uh, could we slow the roll on this OS update situation. I just got Win8. Sheesh! 
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Beginning next year, if you buy a cell phone in California that gets lost or stolen, you’ll have a built-in ability to remotely deactivate the phone under a new “kill switch” feature being mandated by California law—but the feature will make it easier for police and others to disable the phone as well, raising concerns among civil liberties groups about possible abuse. “It’s great for the consumer, but it invites a lot of mischief”
Sure, you're probably not in California, but as goes the Valley, oft goes everywhere else.
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The Indian call centre scam that warns users that their computers are infected is one of the longest running and most annoying Internet rackets. TechCentral’s Regardt van der Berg took one of the scammers for a ride. In case you're wondering how the scam works
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Not as good as Troy Hunt's series of videos on the same topic:
http://www.troyhunt.com/search/label/Scam[^]
"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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Except the author didn't scam them; he figured out how they gain trust, and disconnected before files were deleted. Where's the scamming the scammers part of the story?
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You're looking for the wrong skills, hiring the wrong people, and actively screwing yourself and your company. Ignore the click-bait title, there are a few good ideas here
Although, it's amazing any company ever succeeded without his wisdom
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I profoundly disagree with "Big companies can accommodate poor communicators" - if you have a "rockstar" who isn't a communicator, invest in making them a better communicator. If you don't do this then other employees will see that this person is accorded high status and that they don't communicate well and will emulate this harmful behaviour.
What big companies can accommodate is raw beginners - and if you are smart enough to turn your uncommunicative rockstars into their mentors you have it all sorted.
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Oh, yes please. I have lived in companies that suffered under a rockstar a-hole. It is a nasty virus that spreads, and makes live horrid for everyone.
TTFN - Kent
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In fact "big company IT" has a number of problems, of which this is just one. I'd write a blog article but it would degenerate into a rant 
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Vendors and analysts would have us believe that the Internet of Things is imminent. But, in fact, it will be years before the obstacles it faces can be surmounted. What a coincidence: I just overheard my light bulbs discussing this with my fridge
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Although it sounds entirely like something dreamed up in a smoke-filled dorm room, whether the entire universe is hologram is a very serious question—a question that gets at the heart of a fundamental problem in physics. A new experiment starting up at Fermilab just might hold the answer. You just blew my mind, man
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"Of course it's happening in your head, Harry. But does that make it any less real?" -- Dumbledore
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We are, yes. A 100% authentic in every testable way but still not real reality.
Is there an experiment to prove that life is not, in fact, an extended episode of "Mr Benn[^]"?
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Web services are increasingly closed even as the software used to build them is increasingly open. Will developers be able to make a difference? "If you're not paying for It; you're the product"
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My boss wants me to develop "store" apps for Microsoft, I told him I thought that Microsoft was soon going to close down outside development of its code base and bring everyone under the umbrella of its own company therefore making all other windows developers that don't like Microsoft obsolete. I'd be working for two bosses, Microsoft and my boss. bully...
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A new analysis of Reddit comments shows which language’s developers seem to be the happiest - and which are the most foul-mouthed. "Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do"
Yes, it's sort of a repost, but I'm desperate today.
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Microsoft’s Internet browser and media player are being targeted in a Chinese antitrust probe, raising the prospect of China revisiting the software bundling issue at the heart of past antitrust complaints against the firm in the West. "So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999"
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Microsoft is still busy readying its upcoming technology preview of Windows 9, but details continue to emerge about the company's plans for the future of Windows. WinBeta reports that Windows 9 will include interactive Live Tiles and a notification center. Because the Sidebar was everyone's favourite Vista feature
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Did anyone ask them to? I know I didn't.
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Yeah, had to download the desktop gadget thing from a 3rd party...what a bunch of schitzo dum dums.
I was upset when they got rid of the blinking network lights in the system tray as well...it was a first clue that something was wrong when you were doing nothing and had network activity.
...I have the Network Meter sidebar gadget now...
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They're revamping the desktop? Again?
How many times now? I've lost count.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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One of the most important tools in critical thinking about numbers is to grant yourself permission to generate wrong answers to mathematical problems you encounter. Deliberately wrong answers! Thanks to your new friend, Fermi
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"Very" and "Enough" will often work when "42" doesn't.
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Interviewee "I shall solve this problem using iteration. Is the answer 1?"
Google : "No"
Interviewee "I shall solve this problem using iteration. Is the answer 1+1?"
Google: "No"
Interviewee "I shall solve this problem using iteration. Is the answer 1+1+1?"
Google: "No"
Interviewee: "I am out of stack space. How will I solve this problem?"
Google: "Search me?"
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I find that a surprising amount of programmers I've worked with, don't know how to use a systematic approach for debugging. Dicsuss
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