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Wondering whether Windows 10 Home, Pro, Enterprise or Education will have all the bells and whistles you want and need? Here's Microsoft's feature comparison chart detailing how each edition stacks up. "Get your program here! Can't tell one from the other without a program!"
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How fundamental are the fundamentals when you can do completely without?
There's really nothing on those lists that would make me consider updating my Windows 7 machine to Windows 10 
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The Future of Life Institute has awarded the money to 37 research teams that will be tasked with researching a range of topics related to the oncoming advancements of artificial intelligence, or AI, the organization announced on Wednesday. The funds come partly from the $10 million investment famed tech entrepreneur Elon Musk provided the group in January to determine the risks associated with AI.
Come with me if you want to live
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Oh, that blurb is brilliant, sir. Totally stolen for tomorrow's newsletter. 
TTFN - Kent
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Haha, nothing beats the Terminator!
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With the launch of Windows 10, anyone who walks into your house and gets your Wi-Fi password for their PC could potentially let all their friends onto your network, thanks to a new feature that has ignited controversy online. "It's a feature, not a flaw"
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Use MAC/IP filtering to hold the creeps at bay 
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Mac filtering is as trivial to defeat as the latched screen door on the front of your home. As a security feature it's even worse; because no one thinks that the screen door will keep attackers out. The MAC address is transmitted in the clear even on encrypted networks; any attacking program will capture and begin spoofing it with the first packet they sniff.
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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Okay, that's a point. But what about the device name, for example, "Florian-PC", is it transmitted in the clear as well? Because the software of my router only accepts the MAC if the name of the device matches the one stored with the filter.
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Nope. That's transmitted in the clear[^] too.
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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OK, I see. Hey, thanks for providing the info!
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Windows honcho Terry Myerson just provided details about the Windows 10 rollout. Here's the translation of his 'Softie speak. Patches? Oh, we won't need any patches.
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Woody Leonhard wrote:
"Volume licensing customers will be able to download Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education on Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) starting on August 1."
Which gives Microsoft a month to iron out the big problems with the release, using consumers as cannon fodder -- as expected.
Strange calendar he's using there - how is there a month between 29th July and 1st August? 
"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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As part of this new commitment to clarity, Redmond has released WorldWide Telescope to the Open Source community, with the code now available via GitHub. There you go: now you can update it with 'corrections' (and aliens!)
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Can programming code ever be considered a beautiful endeavour? I think that I shall never see, a B-Tree as beautiful as a tree
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"Beauty may be only skin deep, but ugliness goes clear to the core."
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Indeed, see my post on Tetris as a C++ metaprogram below 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Which only goes to prove that just because you can do a thing it doesn't follow that you should or must do a thing.
But it does highlight the capabilities of metaprogramming. 
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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A version of Tetris implemented using C++ template metaprogramming that runs as fricking compile-time.
This is just wrong on so many levels (and speeds up slightly after each).
Super Template Tetris[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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kill it before it lays eggs
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"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing it does not necessarily follow that we must do that thing."
- Federation President, at the peace conference (ST6 - The Undiscovered Country)
Marc
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 Why?!?!!?
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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Because they can, I guess. 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I like it
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What fun!
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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