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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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Perusal of job listings shows EAs need to be advocates for business-IT communication. "The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary."
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Makes obvious prediction -- since it's calling the shots -- that ending support for XP will mean 'more systems will get compromised'. "Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats, living together! Mass hysteria!"
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The FIDO Alliance envisions a system where users can interact with an online service without surrendering personal details. You can pry p@ssw0rd out of my cold dead fingers!
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More generally, these books tell amazing stories of human ingenuity. It is this ingenuity that helps explain why the world keeps getting better, and why at the end of each year I look forward to the next one with hope and optimism. Read like Bill, be like Bill (you have to get your own billions, though)
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"amazing stories of human ingenuity"
Yep, that sounds like Threshold alright.
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We’re proud to announce that Qt 5.2 is now available. With the release of Qt 5.1 in July, we showcased the Qt for Android and iOS ports and laid down the beginning of some heavy improvements we have now done on Qt’s graphics capabilities. In the last 6 months, we’ve worked very hard to finalize this release and especially these ports. Now with even more cutieness
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Less than a month after Google released the Dart 1.0 SDK and announced the language was stable and mature enough for wide Web use, Ecma International is establishing a technical committee to publish a standard specification for the language. "All the other kids are doing it" (thank you, Christopher Shields)
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Leslie Neilsen[^] already has a standard for it!
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Oculus VR raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners and Formation|8 to help launch the consumer version of its Rift virtual reality headset.
I tried out the VR goggles at New York Comic Con. They were absolutely bonkers.
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Christopher Shields wrote: They were absolutely bonkers.
Good bonkers or bad bonkers?
/ravi
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As in amazeballs bonkers. The immersive, panoramic feel was unreal. The game they demoed wasn't even high-def, just a sample of an old pixelated racing game. I can only imagine what modern graphics would look like.
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Yowza. 
/ravi
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usd 75 million... Facebook got usd500k for its initial funding[^], second stage is usd 12.7 million. Third is about usd30 million.
A developer gets paid usd 100k in silicon valley, which is less than half Fund Managers and traders throwing quantitative darts. So, what 75 million gets is, a team of 30 developers working their arse off for two years, deliver something the world never seen before... okie, that doesn't sounds like a lot of money all of a sudden.
Guys, developers, we really need to get a little more "Business Oriented" collectively. We aren't really getting paid.
dev
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