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Microsoft’s rise to the top position as a software company was truly fantastical and so has been its litany of failures. "We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership."
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Wow.
I'd never have expected that.
I thought it was all just bad luck.
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Ya we did not see this at all...
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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Subdomain currently in the possession of a German security researcher, preventing any abuse. No one used that feature anyway?
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Böck said: Once we cancel the subdomain a bad actor could register it and abuse it for malicious attacks
But going from bad to bad is not a net loss, so ms management doesn't give a toss.
How about a quick show of hands for who disabled live tiles immediately after they saw them?
[raises hand]
(We can safely assume that everyone else disabled them later.)
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Instantly!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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In a step toward its goal of building out a data science development stack for web browsers, Mozilla today detailed Pyodide, an experimental Python project that’s designed to perform computation without the need for a remote kernel ... it's better than JavaScript?
I was also going to go with, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.", but I decided to throw it a bone.
Yeah, not really "adding Python to browsers", just a "fiddle" tool.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ... it's better than JavaScript?
That's certainly a low challenge to meet. I'm not sure how they could make it easier on themselves except perhaps comparing to vbscript instead. 
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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[Sound of bitcoin-mining hackers rubbing their hands]
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An IoT message from a group of computer scientists from Princeton University and University of California, Berkeley: "Our smart devices are watching us. It's time for us to watch them." "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Sadly Mac-only at the moment, but they might get better.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Mac-only at the moment
Damnit to buggery!
I don't have a mac, and I don't have any IoT devices!
WTF am I supposed to do now?!?
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Get a life.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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
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No, clearly he has a life. Weren't you paying attention to what he said? No Macs, no IdiOT devices!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Good points. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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
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Forogar wrote: no IdiOT devices!
I must confess, however, that I've been sorely tempted by some of Griff's weekly IoT recommendations.
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Enjoy your freedom to move about the cabin without being monitored.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Quote: "Up to 50 smart devices can be tracked on the network where IoT Inspector is running. Anyone with more than 50 devices is asked to contact the researchers to ask for an increase to that limit."
There are people with over 50 devices? 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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If you include smart kitchen appliances, smart light bulbs, smart doors, smart windows, smart garden watering, etc., I can see how you'd pass the limit. You'd have to be a serious IoT-head, though.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yeah just going all in on smart lightbulbs in a large home or even a medium sized one with a bunch of multi-bulb fixtures could do it.
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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The companies say they will dismiss all pending litigation worldwide. How about we skip this, and both go mess with Intel?
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interesting coverage here: [^]
«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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The entire source code for a huge array of Infocom text adventures and interactive stories is now available on Github, thanks to historian and archivist Jason Scott. "You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
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I'm happy that someone has taken the time to create and maintain such a repository, but I don't think I'll be visiting it anytime soon.
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The Bosque programming language is designed for writing code that is simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines. [NOT IMPLEMENTED YET]
Looks pretty C-ish, but more simple.
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I will be damned for this for sure, but, I have raised the following issue on the GIT site:Quote: Clearly, great progress has been made towards inscrutability, but there are still areas where increased semantic obtuseness can be attained. The use of even a few standard operators ... from the C/C++/C# canon ... like the assignment operator, can be made much more difficult to use.
How about: <= makevar ::string:: => ~some string~
The use of Greek letters from APL could also be considered.
«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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