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Land mines and poisonous gas agree with you, sadly.
And cluster bombs, and probably a few dozen other weapons the world has tried to ban.
TTFN - Kent
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...and I have a full clip of exploding bullets (in case of burglars).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Microsoft said Tuesday that the offer for free Office is being extended anywhere Office is available: from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, or dozens of countries around the world. As before, the school must license Office in order for its students to be eligible. School of hard knocks not included (I checked)
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One of the top requests from developers (reiterated at //BUILD last year) has been tools for inspecting the XAML at runtime. With Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 we’re pleased to introduce the new UI debugging tools for XAML. Not that you'd ever need to debug your XAML
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That's pretty freaking cool to be fair!
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You can thank me now for this. I raised the original User Voice request for this many, many years ago, back when it used to be WPF vNext (this is true, you can look this up - my original request is still online).
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FireEye's Mandiant M-Trends report says impersonation and social engineering are now key tactics used by cybercriminals targeting corporations. Greetings blessed friend and/or coworker. Click link for to get millions!
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Devotees talk about what's good (ease of use, IoT potential) and not so good (design issues, performance) about the language. No one expects this programming language
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Quote: Absence from mobile computing and browsers. "Python is present on many server and desktop platforms, but it is weak in mobile computing; very few smartphone applications are developed with Python," says Carbonnelle. "It is also rarely seen on the client side of a Web application."
***rarely***
 
*Picks jaw up off floor*
So has some lunatic either:
0) Wrote a browser using python instead of javascript?
1) Wrote a python interpreter in javascript and then used it to run python scripts instead of javascript?
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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That's up slightly from a combined total of 95.6 percent at the end of the fourth quarter of 2013. OK, Windows Phone. You have them right where you want them.
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Umm, no, they don't control anything.
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Microsoft is preparing to bring third-party apps to its Microsoft Band wearable platform. The company revealed today that it’s launching a Developer Preview SDK for the wrist-worn device, allowing third-party app makers to start to create apps for it, beyond the select partners, including MapMyFitness, that it already works with. Yay, a new toy!
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I’m excited to announce the release of the new OneDrive API, which allows developers to integrate OneDrive into their apps to store and manage user data across all major platforms, including Windows, the web, iOS, and Android. "One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small" (and OneDrive... no I won't go there)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small"
Who the elephant is Alice? 
"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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Google has launched a service called YouTube Kids, a new version of the internet’s leading destination for video aimed squarely at children. All cat videos, all the time?
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A step in the right direction, but my 11 year old is unimpressed.
They need to realise that an 11 year old has grown out of this stuff, but there is still plenty of stuff I wouldn't want them seeing, and that a filter on obscenities in comments may be a good idea.
(Note, it isn't just Google need to learn this lesson).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A first step would be convincing the US "Opposite of Progress" that regulating 2 and 12 year olds identically online is elephanting retarded... (As is regulating 13 and 113 year olds the same...)
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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"family friendly" is a euphemism for "place where advertisers can shamelessly target children".
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Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6.0 is the latest and greatest revision which Microsoft has implemented as much feedback from developers as possible. You know the drill: time to trade your old bugs in for new bugs
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I've been exploring previous CTPs and am so far impressed, particularly for .NET/WPF.
(Less so with C++, where MS are still languishing at the tail end of C++ 11/14 adoption).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Why do they *always* say "customer feedback the primary focus?"
Marc
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It's like elevator and walk signal buttons. Gotta keep the illusion (that people have control) in place 
TTFN - Kent
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Privacy advocates have long tried to educate consumers on the perils of giving apps access to GPS data, but a group of Stanford researchers has developed a method to infer a device's location from a seemingly much more innocuous source — battery charge information. So... all you need is access to the phone, and you can tell me where it goes?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: all you need is access to the phone
With an installed app, say, Whatsapp. Battery and power usage metrics are not protected.
Also, it's fairly limited. The power usage signature would have to be matched against already known signatures (that the app "knows" in its database) in order for it to determine your location. And it's only about 90% accurate (so far).
It's not like a gps signal or like the google scanned personal WIFI routers.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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An HP report highlights how the bulk of exploits in 2014 revolved around vulnerabilities that were discovered before 2013. "So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999."
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