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“There is no such thing as a free lunch” has been the mantra of those cynical about the true cost of ‘free’ Windows 10. TANSTAAFL (but you can get a free continental breakfast with each night's stay)
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Ah right. I was trying to remember why I had told myself to never use Forbes again. Thanks for the reminder.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: This isn’t about it being ‘better’ ..., it’s about respecting choice.
Can someone send it to Nadella?
(He does not reads emails from low-level users like me...)
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 current home system won't run Windows 10 (due to a hardware issue) and I've put software on my youngest daughter's system to block the Windows 10 updates. I'm not a huge Windows 10 fan--I prefer Windows 8.1--and I do think Microsoft Marketing and Sales have half lost their minds, but I also think there are compelling technical reasons to push Windows 10.
Microsoft learned a tough lesson with XP in that it's really expensive to maintain old operating systems and there are some things you just can't fix. They also learned the perils of having Vista->7->8.0->8.1->10 so quickly. Stable drivers being a big issue.
I further suspect that Intel is up to something with Kaby Lake and then Cannonlake.
Finally, the future direction is toward more portable, lower power devices. You simply can't get there with Windows 7.
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There is simply no possibility that Asteroid 2013 TX68 will get close enough to hit Earth when it flies by on March 5th. What it may do, though, is come close enough to be visible. Incoming!
Or: Maybe Luxembourgers (Luxembourgians? Luxies?) will head over to mine it
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We've been hearing about a lot of drama going on at $2 billion startup GitHub, the hugely important and popular site used by millions of computer programmers where 10 or more executives have departed in recent months. git rebase company --strategy=renormalize
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Kent Sharkey wrote: git rebase company --strategy=renormalize
I tried it but it didn't work in my local Git (bash).
fatal: Needed a single revision
invalid upstream company
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It was a trick - rebase never works 
TTFN - Kent
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Its once famous remote-employee culture has been rolled back.
git checkout branch=dark_ages 
Marc
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Shocking Git error message of the day: "You are working from a detached head."
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Microsoft has recently purchased Android and iOS keyboard developer SwiftKey for $250 million (€225 million) in one of the largest acquisitions the company has completed in the mobile business. Hopefully the bike had a nice bell and a basket up front
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Well now, wouldn't it be nice if the other two founders shared some of their new-found wealth with the third, granted idiot-founder-who-gave-up-his-shares.
Marc
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Why?
According to the article he left two months after the company was founded, well before the company had any saleable assets. The other two founders persevered, took the risks, and are now richly rewarded.
Given the state of the company at the time he left, I'd say that his shares were overvalued...
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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Dridex malware exploit distributes antivirus installer—hack suspected | Ars Technica[^]
Quote: It sounds like a scene from an absurdist play or a companion to the old tale of dogs and cats living together in harmony, but it has now been confirmed. Servers distributing the notorious Dridex banking trojan were instead circulating clean copies of the freely available Avira antivirus program.
Avira researchers still don't know how the mixup happened, but their chief theory is that a whitehat hacker compromised some of the Dridex distribution channels and replaced the normal malicious executables with a digitally signed Avira installer. As a result, when targets opened attachments contained in spam e-mails sent by Dridex servers, the would-be marks were instead prompted to run a program designed to protect computers from the very likes of the Dridex threat.
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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It's like curing snake-bitten (no pun!) people using venom itself. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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News like that makes me feel that not everything is lost yet.
We can still have hope in mankind.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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An improperly maintained database on the website of the Iowa Republican party appears to have leaked voting records for two million Iowans, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. Transparency in government strikes again
Or: There are two million people in Iowa?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or: There are two million people in Iowa?
Or: They're smart enough to vote?
Marc
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Well, smart enough not to vote (excessively) for Trump anyway 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Well, smart enough not to vote (excessively) for Trump anyway
I guess I'll concede that there may be some intelligent life on this planet.
Marc
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Germany just took fusion power one big, important step forward. Where do I plug my iPad in for charging?
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Welcome to Visa Developer. This is the beginning of your journey to reinvent commerce. I am confident this will become one of your favorite resources to build, collaborate, create and help shape the way the world shops and pays. This might just light a few happy fires at Paypal
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Twelve years ago Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with a simple dream: to have everyone spending as much time as possible clicking around on his website. How did we waste all that time before Facebook?
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