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TTFN - Kent
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Java EE under Eclipse might not be called "Java." Oracle wants to restrict the use of the word in naming the platform, and also the use of "javax" for the standard package of extensions, because of branding intellectual property (IP) concerns. "By any other name would smell as sweet."
To your choice in definition of "sweet"
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It smells like popcorn to me.
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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How many robots does it take to screw in a light bulb? The answer: just one, assuming you're talking about a new robotic gripper developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego. At last! It's been so dark in here!
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All of those wires and cables are not going to work very well on a gripper (or end effector as we used to call them) that is supposed to rotate, or twist as it was described. They are going to have to make it work like a human hand where we release our grip, counter rotate, and then rotate some more.
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Power cables always seem to be the nemesis preventing the robot takeover, aren't they?
TTFN - Kent
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This allows the gripper to operate in low light and low visibility conditions...
(End with that phrase you tack on at the end of your fortune cookie.) 
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Google has removed a malicious extension from its Chrome Web Store that posed as the popular AdBlock Plus ad blocker but forcibly opened new tabs to show ads to users. But did it block ads?
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Quote: In this particular case, it appears that the extension's developer used a different ID than the one used by the original AdBlock Plus extension that may have taken advatange of a homograph attack using Cyrilic characters in the extension's ID to bypass Google's Web Store checks.
And this, kids, is why you apply Unicode normalization to strings that are going to be used as IDs.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The company forgets the importance of the consumer space at its peril. If they remember not to be an over-sized, slow corporate monster? Oh. Drat.
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..because without their phoney-OS they are bound that direction?
IIRC, then MS is not a one-trick pony, and there is something out there called "Windows 10" and "Office". Doesn't seem like a company that goes all-in on a phone 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Microsoft is running ahead of projections in terms of how quickly its Office users are moving to Office 365, says the head of Office. And more LinkedIn integrations are coming soon. "When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks"
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I find this extraordinarily depressing, browser hosted Excel is a dog, while I like the synch functionality, when I can type faster that the screen updates it is appalling, I'm not a touch typist! I can't imagine what a top flight typist thinks of Word.
Default opening in read only mode and having to reopen the spreadsheet when you turn all features on it really irritating. And the limit of 20mb spreadsheet size is ludicrous, the majority of sheets are all over 20mb so I have to download the sheet to a local drive completely negating any benefits I get from the "cloud".
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Shortly after 9:30AM ET today, the Dow Jones apparently fell victim to a “technical error” and began to publish fake headlines about Google acquiring Apple through its newswire. 'Technical Error' is the name of their new intern
Well, formerly new I guess.
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Note: to me this is news, interesting news; my intent in posting this is to share news, not to start a "political" discussion (you know what that leads to) [^]Quote: American voting machines are full of foreign-made hardware and software, including from China, and a top group of hackers and national security officials says that means they could have been infiltrated last year and into the future.
DEFCON, the world’s largest hacker conference, will release its findings on Tuesday, months after hosting a July demonstration in which hackers quickly broke into 25 different types of voting machines.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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are full of foreign-made hardware and software
And I would trust "American made" any better???
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At least the manual for the hacking software would be written in American English. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Since this post is trying to lead somewhere -- to the unknown and probably disprovable situation of whether or not voting machines could be and/or have been hacked -- we have to ask the inevitable question...
What about previous elections?
That is why no one has opened this can of worms.
No matter how much you want to say this is a technical story, it is far more a social, political story.
It's almost at the level of debating whether or not aliens exist.
You can never disprove that aliens or fairies or invisible flying dragons exist.
You can never disprove that the voting machines were hacked. You can only make confused people think that they possibly were and since possible then probably were.
And I hope you've read this with an open mind, because it is not a political statement either.
For real, not trying to be at odds with you. 
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raddevus wrote: Since this post is trying to lead somewhere
I cannot influence whether you perceive this post as "leading," or not.
All I can say is that my intent was to share information, and I trust you, as an intelligent adult person, will form your own opinions.
cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Tens of thousands of developers using weak credentials to secure their npm accounts inadvertently put more than half of the npm packages (JavaScript libraries and tools) at risk of getting hijacked and used to deploy malicious code to legitimate applications that use them in their build process. It's not like anyone depends on them or anything
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Oh the joys of open source components.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Oh the joys of open source components.
I completely agree. Only Windows is secure.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: Only Windows is secure
Too subtle. Many readers will not pick up on this.
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There are a lot of open-source products out there that don't have that problem. You're trying to pin this to open-source, where the average programmer is using Windows and VS, downloading a long list of packages and scripts that they "need".
Joel Spolsky already warned about dependencies. This is simply the price you pay for using unverified code.
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