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GOOGLE HAS BEEN forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China after members of the company’s privacy team raised internal complaints that it had been kept secret from them, The Intercept has learned.
The internal rift over the system has had massive ramifications, effectively ending work on the censored search engine, known as Dragonfly, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
This is infinitely more satisfying than how I expected the story to end.
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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Dan Neely wrote: This is infinitely more satisfying than how I expected the story to end.
It ain't over till it's over -- the Chinese government doesn't want porn on the Internet, and will keep going until it blocks it completely (i.e. forever, because blocking something completely on the Interwebs is really tricky).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Instead of relying on Windows Insiders, employees, and willing participants in testing updates, Microsoft has decided it is acceptable for regular users to receive patches before they are known to be stable if they opt to click the "check for updates" button on their own. I mean, that's one way to test updates.
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"Hello, son"
"Hi, ma ... guess what ... Microsoft invited ME to be a tester !"
"Wonderful, son ! Are you going to quit McDonald's ?"
"Naw, I can keep my job."
"Son, why didn't you e-mail about this ?"
"E-mail don't work, Ma."
In terms of getting better (wilder, less predictable, insane fumbles by clueless newbies) testing for MS: this makes sense ... caveat: if errors require reporting by these same mere mortals, rather than is an automatic upload of data, then reports/feedback are likely to be as whacko as the errors.
In terms of "other," this probably sucks.
«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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home users need to sue msft for such practice for wasting their time n money instead of msfts for capital gains
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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The Grand Rapids Public School district took a big step into the future back in the 1980s when it used money from an energy bond to purchase a Commodore Amiga computer. "But how do they fix software glitches?" I'm glad you asked.
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They hired the "Three Amigo's" 
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1980's; a windowed multitasking UI in 4096 colors when the PC had 8 colors and was still single-tasking.
I still see the AmigaDOS as the only competition Microsoft has. Shoutout to Denise, Paula and Fat Agnus!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Shoutout to Denise, Paula and Fat Agnus!
Very cool!
I had no idea what Denise Paula and Angus were but I highlighted and searched DuckDuckGo and it took me to the wikipedia entry[^]
That's the way to name stuff. Fat Angus, The Copper (co-processor), etc.
No wonder computers aren't what they used to be...no good names for anything. Kaby Lake does nothing for me. SnapDragon, eh, it's ok. 
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I'm proud to know that shout-out reference without looking it up! Does it make me feel old.......yes!
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How was it...
never change a running system?  
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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Everybody’s talking about ambient computing. And there is so much to talk about. But with all this chatter comes confusion. People disagree on what ambient computing is, how it works and what it’s for. So let’s bring clarity to this muddled and confused concept. "Computing that happens in the background without the active participation of the user."
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Great, I already loved Ambient music 
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Quote: In 20 years, the idea of picking up a device or sitting down at a computer to actively use it will seem quaintly antiquated. All computing will be ambient — all around us all the time, whispering in our ear, augmenting the real world through our prescription eyeglasses and car windshields, perceiving our emotions and desires and taking action in the background to help us reach our business goals and live a better life.
To get your head where the author;s head was when he wrote this:
Take 2 well-worn paperback copies of "1984" by Orwell. Rip off the front and back covers. Shred the covers. Puree the shredded covers with cinnamon and black-goat's milk. Drink.
«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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Python is an important piece of Microsoft’s future in the cloud, being one of the essential languages for services and teams to support, as well as the most popular choice for the rapidly growing field of data science and analytics both inside and outside of the company. But Python hasn’t always had such a prestigious position around Microsoft. The rise of Python. Someone else would make an inappropriate joke in here, but I shan't.
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For the 5th year in a row, "123456" is most used password, with "password" coming in at second place. I feel like this article is trying to shame me personally.
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Im trying my best to keep my team in the top spot.
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"Senator, we run ads." That's what Mark Zuckerberg told Senator Orrin Hatch earlier this year during his congressional testimony when asked to describe Facebook's business model. Then let's call Facebook a ... personal data whore.
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Should we invite Google and create a bordell?
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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By Friday afternoon the head of the SIPC had told reporters that SIPC would not insure the accounts, and had reported Robinhood to the Securities and Exchange Commission. And by Friday evening Robinhood Checking & Savings was no more. Well that was fast.
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CenturyLink briefly disabled the Internet connections of customers in Utah last week and allowed them back online only after they acknowledged an offer to purchase filtering software. Put down the ad, just, take my money and go. Don't hurt my internet.
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Because. Or not. Don't care any more.
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I have only one thing to say to the litigators:
Oh, for **ck's sake, grow up!
And that's from someone who's not by any stretch of the imagination an apple fan.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: ...grow up!
The Litigators have responded...
Litigators: We will...after we have everyone's money $$$,$$$,$$$,$$$!!!
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i hope the public win vs apple so that the indeed stop "seeks to prevent Apple from continuing this practice" of deception and also of
"The iPhone X Product is advertised as having 2436×1125 pixels, but in fact does not use true pixels with red, green, and blue subpixels in each pixel," the complaint states. "Instead, the Product has only false screen pixels, with just two subpixels per false pixel."
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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