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Don't squeeze the Charmin, but do check out the company's three new futuristic concepts at CES: the RollBot, SmellSense, and V.I.Pee designed to make a smart home even better. Finally! The future is now
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I'm holding out for the three seashells (as long as they come with an instruction manual).
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A connected paper-roll is what we so desperately needed, indeed. I can't wait to have statistics on length used by day/week/month/year. A robotic voice saying 'Eew' at each usage would be a plus.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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I suddenly lost my appetite. I wonder why? 
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Just unplug the smell sensor and you should be fine 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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To protect its hosts, Airbnb is now using an AI-powered tool to scan the internet for clues that a guest might not be a reliable customer. Anthony Perkins will be so disappointed
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Are we talking about the web-site that demands a copy of your passport before it allows you to use it?
Here's a tip: Avoid airbnb like the plague. They will likely be at the core of one of the biggest scandals ever to hit the Interwebs.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: demands a copy of your passport
I haven't used airbnb but I have used vrbo and they don't require a passport. And on airbnb's site, https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1170/what-are-the-requirements-to-book-on-airbnb[^], it does not say that they require a passport so I don't think that is true.
But if I am going to have people staying in my home, the more verification on who they are the better, I say.
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ZurdoDev wrote: it does not say that they require a passport so I don't think that is true
Try to rent a place through them.
If you don't give them a copy of your passport, they cancel the booking (and take a month to return your money).
ZurdoDev wrote: But if I am going to have people staying in my home, the more verification on who they are the better, I say.
As a landlord, you are entitled to see the renter's passport, and I would happily show you mine, if I rented from you.
If you told me that you wanted to store a copy of my passport in a database, however, I would refuse to let you.
As a web-site, not a landlord (check the court cases where they have demanded that they are not landlords, to avoid paying taxes and meeting regulations), they have no right to even ask to see my passport, let alone store it in a database.
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I think "It's hip to be square" being on my playlists and fava beans and a nice Chianti on my online shopping list should get me through the checks.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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So they want to use your behaviour on the internet to automatically determine your access to services such as finding accommodation? They should talk to China, I hear they already have this cracked.
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Opinion: Copying APIs is essential to competition in the software industry. Apparently the gander is also sauced
time for a nap. I didn't understand that blurb after I wrote it.
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The article says: An API is essentially a language for instructing a computer on what to do.
Golly! I've learned something new, today!
Amazon's claim is, of course, utter bollocks.
Coping API class names, etc, so that people can use familiar commands to do similar things on different platforms, does not in any way infringe any copyright.
What it does do is make it easier for people to transfer their skills from one platform to another, and that is only in everyone else's interests, not amazon's.
[edit] I named the wrong megalithic, egomaniacal corporation [/edit]
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modified 6-Jan-20 8:03am.
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You are right of course. Given that Oracle is suing Google for doing with the Java "API" the same as Oracle has done with Amazon's "API", Oracle's suit comes across as a bit disingenuous and hypocritical.
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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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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Oracle's suit comes across as a bit disingenuous and hypocritical.
And is also why I got the megalithic, egomaniacal corporation names mixed up.
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Several major Microsoft products will reach their end of support during 2020, with Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 (including 2008R2), and multiple Windows 10 versions including 1803 and 1903 being some of the most important ones. "My only friend, the end"
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That’s the new result of the paper: What exactly is possible if you have a Dyson sphere and you want to use it to drive a jet to push a star around? The mileage isn't great, but they see you coming
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Step 1: Take a Dyson Sphere.
...
If the guy wants to be a sci-fi writer, he should stop calling himself a Physicist (and that's not to mention that if you want to make an engine from a Dyson Sphere, all you have to do is cut a hole in it, so he's not even any good at sci-fi).
A paper on something so ridiculous should not be considered for tenure, as it will encourage others to publish equally ridiculous papers.
And the guy who did the artist's impression of a Dyson Sphere needs a dictionary.
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When Satya Nadella became CEO of Microsoft in 2014 he made sure that each employee knew and lived the company’s mission statement, which is, “To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” "When something's going wrong (You must whip it)"
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Yes, because it's all about team work, team structure, team interaction, team Eveything!
... Except that it is so f***ing NOT!
When you sit down to use a microsoft tool (VS, word, excel, etc. -- even notepad) you are NOT working as a part of a team; you are working as an individual.
ms is spending so much time and effort to make its tools "great for teamwork!", without paying a blind bit of attention to the fact that That Is Not How They Are Used!
How often do you "interact with the team" when writing code, editing a document, filling out a spreadsheet, fiddling with a presentation, etc?
Answer: You Don't! The things you do with ms tools are the things you do on your own -- preferably without any distraction from "the team".
This satya chap really doesn't have -- and never has had -- a f***ing clue what working life is for 99% of people, or what those people need from software apps. He's taken windows from being the most versatile OS on the planet to the most annoying, and ms office from being the most functional and useful software on the planet to the most egregious and time-wasting.
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Team word processing ... for those times when you have to share.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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 I guess that puts me in the top 1% then. 
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Distributed app platform's proposed agreement 'isn't freedom respecting,' he says Is there an open source license for writing new open source licenses?
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I love "procedural-type communications", and the brown envelopes that come with them.A con-man Arthur Brock said:
We are trying to say: the only valid way to use our code is if that developer’s end-users are the sole authors and controllers of their own private crypto keys
In other words, only organisations with lots of money for lawyers and developers and backhanders.
He personally won't make money out of allowing a million brilliant, individual (but not rich) devs to play with it, improve it, and branch it.
I.e. He doesn't want to open-source it at all; he wants a proprietary license -- so they should give him what he wants.
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Bingo!
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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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