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I simply assume that anything I do online is monitored by someone, unless it is over an HTTPS connection, or via a VPN. I therefore follow the rule "If seeing this in your local paper would embarrass you - don't do it online."
I couldn't care less if Google, Amazon, or whoever send me ads based on my browsing, or some such; I simply ignore them. I couldn't care less if YouTube monitors my selection of videos in order to offer me similar selections. For that matter, anyone who wishes to read my emails (including any political discussions) would probably die of boredom.
The only cases where I absolutely insist on privacy are (a) financial transactions and (b) medical transactions.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The only cases where I absolutely insist on privacy are (a) financial transactions and (b) medical transactions.
On line medical transactions? You mean like downloading a liver transplant or getting a MRI in the comfort of your armchair (by way of X-ray enabled mouse)?
Sin tack
the any key okay
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No. I mean like getting the results of tests (x-ray, blood, etc.) online.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Even if you connect to a web site using HTTPS, some MITHM will know exactly which web site you connected to.
There is "monitoring" that is very difficult to avoid if you buy stuff from web shops, such as Amazon: They try to analyze your interests, attitudes and opinions, so they can give you offer that maximizes their profits. I frequently buy DVD movies from Amazon, and was surprised when they suddenly started suggesting to me a whole bunch of gay movies, some of them very obviously on the erotic site. Now I have nothing against gay people, and I happen to live in a culture that fully accepts homosexuality, but I have never been attracted to my own sex in that sense. So I was puzzled: Where did Amazon get the idea that I am gay?
It took a couple months before I found the explanation. I had bought a pile of DVDs, and didn't play them all the first week. One was laying around for quite a while before I watched it: An Italian "art" movie from the 1960s, black-and-white, a mythological story with gods and demigods. Anyone with some insight into classical mythology in art will know that you'll stand with one foot into the "clothing optional" landscape. In several scenes, of the demigods did not exactly wear a suit and tie  . There were no trace of erotics in the movie at all, simply this fact that a demigod did not wear clothes. That was enough for Amazon to assume that I am gay.
I was more amused than bothered by this. But if I had been living in another culture, one condemning all sorts of non-standard preferences, it certainly could have caused med trouble. Say, friends or neighbours visiting me, and seeing my PC screen when I log in to Amazon, seeing me appear as a frequent buyer of gay movies. That could be rather bad for my reputation, to say the least.
Authorities have become very eager to use "big data" to decide who they are going to "keep an eye on". Like all big data processing, this is almost by definition an automated process - which may come to some surprisingly wrong conclusions. Several investigations have been based on which terms the suspect has specified to search engines on the net; they have identified "patterns" that never existed in that user's mind. After the bombing of the Norwegian Government headquarters and susequent shooting of 79 youth, done by a right-wing Norwegian terrorist in 2011, police dug up no less than ten thousand individual pieces of evidence that was handed over to the court. The guy was said not to be known to the police before his act of terror; the ten thousand pieces of evidence was dug up in hindsight. So they could do the same with every one of us, just to prove that we are enemies of the nation. Or enemies of Good Morals. Or...
This fellow was not a very active Internet user, and six years ago we were far less dependent on the Internet (and a major fraction of the evidence was from before Internet was commonly used at all). Today, with our heavy Internet dependency, they could probably dig up fifty thousand pieces of evidence, combining a search for 'diesel oil' in 2014 with a search for 'nitrate based fertilizer' in 2017, concluding that this person is planning to make a bomb of the same kind as the 2011 bomber.
I try to reduce the amount of electronic traces I leave behind me. I certainly cannot avoid it completely, but I see the disadvantages of both being suspeced of being a terrorist and (in some cultures) of being a gay.
Yes, I am paranoid...
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I've only read the first 3 chapters, but so far I really like this book:
Async in C# 5.0: Unleash the Power of Async[^]
I like the way the author eases into how Async really works. Shows an app that does everything on UI thread and then converts.
It's helping me with my UWA (Universal Windows App) work I'm doing. Helps make more sense of why everything ends up becoming an Async call.
I see there are some harsh criticisms about it on amazon, but like I said it has helped me a lot so far. It has solidified some things for me.
Other Resources?
Has anyone else read it? Anyone else have other good resources for learning Async?
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Sergey T. to the rescue again: [^].
cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I just grab calc.exe from the older versions of Windows. No need to deal with some dubious third-party MSI installer.
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Thanks for the link. It worked fine. BTW: It installs the executable as calc1.exe in your windows\system32 folder, because your Windows 10 calculator is installed in the same folder as calc.exe.
If you compare the icons for the two versions side by side, you can clearly see how MS uglifies later apps to meet their bland guidelines for productivity apps.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Or just type your calculation into Google and let them calculate it for you - save your processing power for something useful (minefield?)
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Chemotherapy... Mastectomy... Violent... Spread... Mortality...
(and we married 12 years ago, today)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Sh*t.
I'm hoping it's not that bad: the survival rate is pretty good these days if it's caught early enough.
My sincere best wishes to you both.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Cancer is a @#$%. I hope you both come through this OK.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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איריס אביגייל בת יהודית
ותבוא עליך הברכה...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I sincerely hope ... assuming your message is about your wife having, or facing, cancer ... that the best happens for you both, with you both.
When I had cancer, the essay by Stephen J. Gould, "The Median is not the Message," was very helpful to me [^] in making sense of the prognosis: the survival rates, etc. The essay has helped many people strengthen their positive, most rational, ways of thinking ... that's as important for the family members as it is for the person with cancer.
Gould wrote the article after he had cancer, and he survived that cancer, and lived another twenty years.
take care, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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That's my immediate problem... Everyone crying now...
She is crying because it eases her fear. The kids are crying because she is crying. I'm crying because everyone else doing so...
I just looking the way to get back to the most normal life (family, friends, work) we can and put the cancer to the side and let the doctors do their best...
(fortunately we can pay for private doctors too if that what is the best)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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My better half is starting radiation therapy next week, after surgery for breast cancer. Fortunately it was caught very early, so chemo is not necessary. This was something of a shock, as I always assumed I would be the first to go.
Anyway, I understand your pain and her fear. I know it is easy to say, but try to keep your spirits up. I will be rooting for the both of you!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Good luck to all of you 
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Good Luck!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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F***. Words cannot do much, but I still hope for the best for your wife and your family.
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That sucks. Hope for the best.
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) to you and the Mrs.
F cancer
Man, your day took a nosedive, as you were previously posting Garfield 6 hours earlier.
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Now it obvious that 6 hours is just a bit more than eternity...
However I would do extreme effort to keep on enjoying Garfield and other silly things... I think it's only helps...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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My mother is a breast cancer survivor. As OG said, caught early enough, survival rates are really quite good.
Also, my mother has been overweight for 30 years, and a smoker for longer, so chances are your better half is in way better health.
Best wishes to you and yours.
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