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The open source community vilified Oracle for its alleged mismanagement of MySQL, but the facts suggest that might be a bum rap. "Whatever you think is supposed to happen, I’m telling you, the exact reverse opposite of that is gonna happen, okay?"
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I’m pleased to announce that everyone in the Visual Studio organization is using Roslyn in their daily work now. In fact, the daily builds of VS are now compiled using Roslyn, all as part of a process that we refer to in the biz as “dogfooding.” Roslyn continues it's march to taking over
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A federal judge ruled Monday that NSA data gathering on all U.S. telephone calls appears to violate the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable searches, calling it "almost Orwellian technology."
Suck it, Big Brother.
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Let's hope that sticks.
It has to, on any honest investigation.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is crowdsourcing its software testing with a series of online games aimed at seeking out bugs and vulnerabilities. "A game! Well, you may thought it was a game, but it was also a test."
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Sounds like Ender's Game.
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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...or The Last Starfighter!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Indeed, I'd forgotten about that one! 
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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I can hear Centauri’s voice in those words and something about buying a trombone.
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There is some irony in the fact that Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic, has written a book about getting ahead in life. The characters in his daily strip aren’t exactly success stories. If you fail to plan, you plan to get ahead (or something)
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If you do not plan, you cannot fail.
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I so want that on a bumpersticker. Or something that fits on Gantt charts.
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TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft is preparing to ship its Windows Phone 8.1 update with two significant changes: a notification center and a Siri-like personal assistant. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans have revealed to The Verge that the company is currently beta testing copies of Windows Phone 8.1 internally, with plans to fully detail its features at the Build Developer Conference in April, 2014. "Your architecture isn't much different from the Autumn's..."
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Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise chief -- and alleged internal candidate for the Microsoft CEO job -- Satya Nadella reflects on lessons learned from current CEO Steve Ballmer. Something about developers?
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The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has the technical capacity to crack the most commonly-used cellphone encryption technology, and in doing so it can decode and access the content of calls and text messages, according to a Washington Post report published Friday. "Can you hear me now?"
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Great.
Back in pre-89 Romania, the NSA Romanian equivalent (Securitatea) was listening phones on a regular basis (hey, I was also questioned and threatened when I was 17 because I wrote to Radio Free Europe, imagine that). My cousin's dad had some political responsibilities, so almost every time I was talking to him we heard breaths, voices and the assortment. I guess the listener had asthma or something. Until he heard one day "F***, close the goddamn phone coz' I don't know who's getting the booze and you're breathing in phone". That was the dangerous stuff they was listening to (plus girls, Metallica, Led Zeppelin etc).
Let's make a list of possible signatures to attach to text message for NSA. I'd start the list with
"md5('suckit nsa boy')"
"__asm { jmp decrypt_this_azzholio; int 3; }"
"my name iz jimmy i am a terrorist at least so my mum sez after she enters in bathroom after me"
"This text message many F-words. If you are not the recipient of the message, f*** you too."
(What a great idea for a phone app nonetheless: randomized NSA cursing text signatures. Swipe the phone and we'll crush the mind of the decryptor guy, only for USD 4.99).
Nuclear launch detected
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Reddit reader "SirSyhn" was walking inside the well known UK retailer Harrods over the weekend and spotted a 24-karat gold plated version of the Xbox One on display. The impressive looking gadget has an equally impressive price; Harrods is asking £6,000, or about $9,774, for the gold game console. For those with more cents than sense
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Precious jewel-bedazzled controller or bust.
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Almost 10k - must be thick plating then 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Version 4.0, due Thursday, features HTML5/WebSocket, REST, and Java 8 capabilities. Isn't this the wrong time of the year for this to be released?
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Quote: Isn't this the wrong time of the year for this to be released?
No.
From Australia.
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Ah, brilliant. Yes, I missed that part. OK, they can now release.
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TTFN - Kent
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"Smarty Ring" pairs to any iOS or Android smartphone with Bluetooth 4.0. It still can't make you invisible though
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Hmmm... I lost my wedding band more than a year ago; maybe I finally found a replacement...
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Quote: It can work as a tracker for your phone, too—if your smartphone is more than 30 feet away from the ring, Smarty Ring will trigger an alarm.
Oh, my wife so needs one of these. She seems to leave her phones in a store about once a year. If it also had a "locator compass" pointing in the direction of the phone, she wouldn't have to call it every time it's hiding under a cover, pillow, magazine...
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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