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France and U.S. technology giants including Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Monday urged world governments and companies to sign up to a new initiative to regulate the internet and fight threats such as cyber attacks, online censorship and hate speech. "For me, the greater the odds, the greater the shal-ahnje. And as always, I accept the shal-ahnje."
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"fight threats such as ... online censorship and hate speech"
Unless you have hate speech, you don't have free speech. (Of course, their concern isn't speech any reasonable human would consider hateful, but that with which they merely disagree.)
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Reuter: a new initiative to (a) regulate the internet and fight threats such as (b) cyber attacks, (c) online censorship and (d) hate speech.
a = c
d = c
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As a government agency aimed at scientific exploration, NASA regularly open sources its software and technical apps for the world to enjoy. After all, their goal is to do science for the benefit of all humanity! This week, they’ve open sourced Open MCT, a web-based mission control framework. For all you rocket surgeons
*Rockets sold separately
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Over the years, we’ve learned that sharing the evolution of Visual Studio, with you – our users – early and often helps us to deliver the best possible experience for our community. Oh, a new icon. FINALLY!
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We have 14000 "active problems", but never fear, we're doing something NOBODY asked for; a new icon and colors. (The last was absurd--"More than half of you use the blue theme," so we're changing it. Sounds like the "lets have colorless icon" monkeys are back.)
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Sadly, you have just given a perfect description of the 21st-century microsoft.
Quote from MS: By adopting the Fluent Design System approach to depth, lighting, and materials, we’ve visually enhanced the icon so that it’s much more visible against a variety of backgrounds
Translation:
"While we newbies were @#%$ing around, trying to avoid looking at bug tickets that we don't understand, we found something that was actually taught in our moron-level, useless university course, so we spent all our time and effort on pissing about with that, and then we used the skills we learned in the university's bullsh1tting communications course to tell everyone what a great job we'd done!"
And the rest of the article is pretty much the same.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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MS faffing about with the UI again. I hope they don't change too much. It will just piss people off.
The "big bang" change from VS 2010 to 2012 was heavily lambasted. I was one of the lambasters!
But then from VS 2013 onwards, after some tweaks, I now think it's ace and VS 2010 sucks. 
Kevin
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Yeah I know the details of the icon change are about as exciting as waiting for a UWP release mode build to complete (10-100x slower than debug for some godforsaken reason), but they do need a new icon for each major release so people running 2 versions at once can tell them apart easily. And because it's so unexciting this blog post is the icon makers career highlight for the last 2 years. 
Beyond that, they actually are listening to feedback. I went to the comments intending to rant about how stripping the titlebar - and with it what solution is open - makes a mess of having multiple .slns open at once; but they'd already responded as having realized it needed changed from all the other people who beat me with their rage.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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 must be a easy job at Visual Studio Team...sip coffee all day and watch cat videos... polish some icons...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions. Because if I'm going to waste *my* day, I'll waste *yours* as well.
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Damn!
A number of years ago, there was an origami site that used Shockwave Flash (before it was bought out by @rseholes @dobe), which showed that Flash is the absolute pinnacle of technology for demonstrations of paper-folding.
I can't find the site, now. Must be gone. 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dutifully shared with colleagues to ensure a productive day all around 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The personal information of American charity donors, political party supporters, and online shoppers, has continued to quietly leak onto the internet as a result of poor website security practices, new research shows. Today in news of the obvious
(And European companies, Asian companies...)
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GPS is vital to modern navigation, but it's extremely fragile. Never mind coverage -- if a satellite fails or there's a jamming attack, it quickly becomes useless It just points to the nearest cat (that's already in a box)
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Because accelerometers aren't at all fragile.
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Back then, scientists realized that when you trap a cloud of atoms in a vacuum with lasers, it can be cooled to just above absolute zero If you place atoms into a vacuum, wouldn't it no longer be a vacuum?
The group will test a prototype of the device, which is about the size of shoebox, on land in a stripped-down form in September of 2015. If those trials are successful, we could eventually see the technology used in future vehicles, planes and even smartphones. Let me guess.... it works so long as you don't flood the area with helium
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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that device cannot fit into my phone
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The mobile app uses features like VPN support to push your mobile traffic towards the 1.1.1.1 DNS servers and improve speeds. "And the one's that mother gives you don't do anything at all"
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The bullshit is getting pretty deep today.
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Fixvember aims to encourage developers to contribute to open-source projects and improve their DevOps skills by focusing on building automation, adding better testing and fixing bugs. Let the code rot the rest of the year
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Quote: ... In exchange, Amazon will remove any non-authorized third-party sellers selling Apple products from the platform.
Sellers found out about the change Friday morning in a letter from Amazon, obtained by CNN Business. They have until January 4, 2019 to sell their existing products before Amazon removes all of their listings. Amazon recommended they contact Apple if they'd like to become an authorized reseller and continue selling products on its site.
"It's just [an] assault on 3rd party resellers," said the owner of AceBeach, who asked not to be identified. "They just want it so people like me will have to go throu?gh Apple directly."
Why fix overpriced hardware when you can fix prices ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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What the article doesn't say is that in order to list and sell Apple or Samsung devices, you need to sell at least $100,000 in consumer electronics (non-wireless) or $2.5million in wireless devices over the last 90 days in order to gain/maintain the ability to list Apple/Samsung products. Oh, and all of that has to be from a national wireless carrier with at least $5billion in annual sales.
This is a serious problem for the computer and phone refurb and recycling business.
So, how do you, as a new guy to the party, build yourself up to that sales point WITHOUT the Amazon marketplace? In the US, Amazon is the largest marketplace, with eBay a rather distant second. Amazon is the 3rd largest in the world behind the two biggest marketplaces, both in China.
Talk about an antitrust case...
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: you need to sell at least $100,000 in consumer electronics (non-wireless) or $2.5million in wireless devices over the last 90 days
So that's like 1 new iPhone? 
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This is nothing more than a quid pro quo. Apple's products have become so expensive that previous gen hardware cut into its revenue. I mean, seriously, $1400 for a 128GB phone? For that kind of money.... well, kid safe. I have a minimac on my desk (I had this idea I could learn to develop on Apple). Oh wait, it's a Mac-mini. blush. Anyway, it's the last model that had ram sticks in it that you could upgrade without a soldering iron. Apple has done this FOREVER, but this smells very anti-trusty.
Now, Amazon is rapidly approaching robber baron level crap. I've been involved in a business selling on Amazon. The fees are ridiculous, and I honestly have no idea how 3rd parties are staying in business. When Amazon started competing in some areas with their 3rd party vendors, the writing was on the wall. After taxes, we were busting our asses to break even. Don't even get me started on creating your own website, that's just cocaine from the 90s. We started a web site, advertised, paid good $$ to google to get to the top of searches etc (don't get me started on google), and it's useless. People shop search on amazon, completely sidestepping google. We would put coupons - 50% off if you order from the web site. Crickets. Amazon has turned just about everything into a commodity, and people are willing to pay extra for the alleged 2 day delivery.
Apologies for ranting
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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