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Then you must have clicked the OK button, rather than "More Information", when first shown this huge pop-up:techxplore popped up: This site uses cookies to assist with navigation, analyse your use of our services, and provide content from third parties. By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Clicking "More information" takes you to a several-fold-long Science X page, at the bottom of which is a link:scien sex said: You can read details about our GDPR compliance and the kinds of data we collect on our GDPR page[^]
The "GDPR page" claims to give you the ability to:
• Block third-party slurping.
• Demand that any stored personal information be deleted.
The links on the GDPR page all lead to this page[^], which does not provide the possibility to do anything even remotely like:
• Blocking third-party slurping.
• Demanding that any stored personal information be deleted.
All it does is allow you to delete an account that you don't want to create in the first place.
The third-party slurping continues throughout, and the only personal details that they delete are the account details.
Given how trustworthy these people obviously are, it was probably not a good idea to click the "OK" button.
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What PII do you think/believe/know they're slurping?
#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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I neither know nor care.
I can't view their pages, because of their attempt to avoid scrutiny, so I can't see what third parties/slurping/whatever are involved.
If it turns out, as you imply, that they (and their third-party "partners") are not slurping anything, then I don't want to view their pages either -- because only incredibly stupid people would go to such lengths to make themselves look slimy and dishonest, and I'm not interested in reading what's written by incredibly stupid people.
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Ok, thanks for letting me know how you really feel!  
#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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In addition, the new AI-based solution was also able to tell the difference between clickbait headlines that were generated by machines—or bots—and ones written by people You won't believe what happens next!
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That's a really bad title.It should read: The Terminator is Real, and Hunting Clickbaiters!
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Does code quality matter in open source? New research suggests that we value other things. "You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
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OK, so I got down to the end of the article, expecting to see some kind of conclusion, but there wasn't one.
So why did he bother to write it?
On topic, however, WTE has technical debt got to do with code quality?
If an application has the most perfect, creative, and beautifully designed code, that doesn't mean that there isn't still "stuff to do", and "stuff to do differently, now that we've thought about it some more".
But that's the other problem with the article: it doesn't start by defining what it means by "code quality", so leaves the reader hanging, and then it later more-or-less "undefines" code quality, and uses that "undefinition" as an excuse to reach no conclusions.
I think the guy should spend a bit more time on "article quality", before picking fault with other people's work.
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While some Dark Mode experiences can be neon or overly bright, people felt that Outlook mobile kept the kind of relaxed feeling you might want in a dimly lit living room or bedroom. I guess this is what you do after you've fixed all the bugs
Or at least replaced all the icons
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From what I've seen, pretty much the only people who want dark themes are developers and a proportion of gamers (quite possibly the same proportion of gamers who are developers).
Way to meet the needs of your target demographic, ms!
Just give us back the tools to make everything the colours we want, eh?
And title bars! Put the damned things back!
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Does that mean they had to create a new dark version of every icon in Office.
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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Clever tricks work around major hurdles, but it's not a route to high performance. "It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."
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Decades ago, long before the likes of Java or Python were used widely, banks spotted gaps in the market and stepped in with their own programming languages devised to suit their particular needs. It's not called, 'JobSecurity'
Posted as it was news to me, and for this line: "Investment banks are nothing if not innovative."
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The Australian who claims to have invented Bitcoin a decade ago has been asked to surrender more than $4 billion of the digital currency to his ex-partner. 'Oh, *bitcoin*. No, I invented *botcoin*. It's for paying robots.'
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Apple ends contracts for hundreds of workers hired to listen to Siri | Technology | The Guardian[^]A disgruntled ex-worker said: Discussions around ethics in this job was a constant between workers, but we don’t know how to bring it up
I thought we had collectively learned that being told to do wrong by your boss was not an excuse for doing wrong.
I was obviously mistaken -- so, with the extreme-right-wing nationalist resurgence in the West, we can all get work writing software for more modern gas chambers with a clear conscience.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: writing software for more modern gas chambers with a clear conscience
No we can't!
Privacy concerns are clearly not an issue (and neither is the killing, I guess), but think of all the CO2 pollution 
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Sander Rossel wrote: think of all the CO2 pollution
Haven't you heard? The CO2 stuff is all fake news[^].
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Sander Rossel wrote: but think of all the CO2 pollution
That's modern Europe for you. You may masticate, defecate, micturate, fornicate, and liquidate (people) in public, but Bob help you if you smoke... or fart.
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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For years, Microsoft has profited from its FAT file system patents. Now the company is making it explicit that it's freeing its remaining exFAT patents for Open Invention Network members. So we can all get FAT
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to get FAT I prefer pizza, bacon and similars... Microsoft patents and all other things related to lawyers produce me indigestions 
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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Dutch authority refers Windows 10 to privacy watchdog in Ireland, where Microsoft is headquartered in Europe. If you think you're GDPR-compliant, you're not GDPR-compliant
With apologies to the late Dr. Feynman
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/technology/personaltech/joys-late-tech-adopter.html[^]
I'm the same with games. The last time I bought a game that was less than two years old was for the Sega Megadrive (Leftpond: Genesis).
In my somewhat lengthy experience, "latest" has all too often been shown to mean "as buggy as an ant farm" -- and yes, this includes you, microsoft.
Walls Weven works!
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Early adoption can have more serious consequences:
Boeing 737 MAX
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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So I just got into programming, do you recommend COBOL or FORTRAN? 
Speaking of which, I need a new phone and I'll probably go for the Galaxy S8, two models back, and one up from my current.
I bought the S7 when the S8 was out, which has probably been the most up to date I've ever been 
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Assembly's better. You don't have to memorise so many keywords and function names.
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