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Kent Sharkey wrote: And in related news, the CEO of Oracle was seen sailing his 88m yacht to his island (Lanai, most of it anyway)
A 5 for this. 
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Scott argues that while the OMG has been successful in marketing UML, it's been less successful in producing something people find useful. It was certainly a success for publishers of books on the subject
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Not to mention scholars who studied Ada Lovelace's ability to write programs despite not having a computer to run them on. 
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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There is another obscure way of tracking users without using cookies or even Javascript. It has already been used by numerous websites but few people know of it. This page explains how it works and how to protect yourself. Feed your browser with some Etags instead of cookies! Anyone still thinking that telling a website "Do not track" is really going to have an effect?
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Wow,
These is the kind of info that lies between the  and the 
thx
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Haven't seen it yet myself, so it was at least news to me
Veni, vidi, caecus
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After identifying an attack, businesses now have several options to protect themselves according to the capabilities of their attacker. Bihani told ZDNet that depending on the business' risk appetite, they could scale up their response to an attacker's actions accordingly.
If you know you are being hacked, is it still hacking?
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If you watch someone break into your home is it still burglary?
I'd say yes. You knowing about it doesn't change a thing.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates held back tears today as he discussed the significance of his company's search for its next CEO. Gates didn't have any major updates on Microsoft's efforts to replace Steve Ballmer, but he did acknowledge the company is interviewing external and internal candidates. "It’s a complex role to fill," said Gates, before noting that Ballmer's successor will need to be comfortable running a company like Microsoft. The choices were that bad?
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Perhaps they need to bring back the people that Ballmer forced out of Microsoft. He seemed quite a nasty snake to work for. Then again, perhaps he did them a favour. Perhaps a stuffed toy that looks like Jobs would be a worthy successor.
Whatever they do, the successor will inherit a poisoned chalice. The toxic decisions Ballmer made will linger a good while after his departure.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Tears of joy?
I'd rather be phishing!
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A large group of tech inventors and entrepreneurs, including Twitter cofounder Evan Williams, Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and Qualcomm Former Principle Engineer Ranganathan Krishnan, are asking Congress to stop patent trolls and reform the patent system, which they call "broken." Of course, not for *our* patents
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Google hopes to entice programmers to its Glass Developer Kit with offline access and demos, from real-time word translation to exercise tracking. And by "Throws open", they mean, "Gave a preview to a few dozen people"
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Yeah. Do I need to connect to Google+ before I can see? Or to tap developer key, or something. I bet there is a javavm on them. No thanks.
Nuclear launch detected
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Java, I'd say almost definitely. Isn't just about all Android dev in Java?
The G- account? I wouldn't doubt it. Probably also takes a bit of blood on parchment as well.
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TTFN - Kent
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Developers were standing so close to the doors they needed new glasses... 
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How can we go about delivering modern services on old school technology? "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
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t's not just science fiction. Microsoft is working to make calendar, e-mail and other 'super' apps smarter by embedding entity information directly into them. And I have here a virtual backhand for anyone using Bingified around me
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Yeah, it's called microcontent and we've all been doing it for 15 years or more.
Thanks though. Good effort.
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Right. I've seen already such works on Skype, when they demolished an entire API and replace them with URIs (wtf).
Now what? Do I need to do a search for hydralisk damage from inside Starcraft 2? Perhaps they can suggest me to make also roaches and zerglings because they are good friends of hydralisks? Or perhaps a nice commercial for cheaper evolution chambers - "just with Conglom-O evo chamber you hydra shines".
And with Bing nonetheless.
When these guys will understand that there are trains that once they left the station, they will *never* coming back. Make the goddamn search work in Outlook first. Get rid of the indexing service that is never indexing anything than virtual memory and page faults (since F3 in windows 7, at least, NEVER finds anything except control panel items). Make an usable search in IE's bookmarks (maybe they did, I don't know ).
*Then* come and expose an IBingSearchableItemProperty interface & friends. And I'd be happy to implement this. But not by downloading a 2 MB JS monstrosity which is 10 times larger than ATL.
Nuclear launch detected
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Cristian Amarie wrote: Make the goddamn search work in Outlook first. Get rid of the indexing service that is never indexing anything than virtual memory and page faults (since F3 in windows 7, at least, NEVER finds anything except control panel items). Make an usable search in IE's bookmarks
You're my new hero  Even if it is a bit 'Don Quixote' of a wish for them to fix desktop search.
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TTFN - Kent
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Hey, I can dream. If they don't have the manpower (and source code) to do it, who can? We should rely on (defunct) Xobni to find emails in Outlook, or Total Commander (one man band) for Alt-F7?
Nuclear launch detected
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Upvoted for the SC reference alone.
Hang on, we're in for some chop.
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