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Mycroft Holmes wrote: NP rangers looking out forto evict you from your property.
FTFY 
As for the lakeside property, I seem to remember reading about seasonal floods in the area...
Perhaps you should switch from software to real estate development. 
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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The next time a software maker tells you to update your favorite computer application immediately to fix serious defects or patch gaping security holes, don't lose faith. Help is on the way. Good luck with that
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I too have some hopeless ideas about software...Can I get a $10 million founding too?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, I'll believe that when they launch their campaign without any bugs.
Bug-Free Software v1.24.
modified 7-Jan-16 16:12pm.
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They're going to encourage everyone to go back to chisels and granite...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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Most (if not all) of the methods that they describe in the article are already being used. I remember going to a lecture many years ago by a software engineer who worked in the Ministry of Defence (in the UK) and the processes and methods that they employ are on a completely different playing field to anything else I have come across. They start from Z specifications where they mathematically prove their design works, then they move onto developing the software using these models to cross check their code. They test their code on the same hardware that will be used in production.
Where there is a real risk of fatalities from software failure, we have stringent processes and methods already. Every navigation system in an aeroplane, life support machine in a hospital or nuclear reactor goes through a similar process.
These processes are incredibly expensive and time consuming, and so are reserved for applications that truly demand them.
I don't think the intention should be to re-invent the wheel and propose new processes for ensuring high quality (as we already have them) but to reduce the costs that they impose so that they are accessible to a greater number of industries and domains.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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In other news, I've just discovered dry water and fat-free lard.
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I've got a perpetual motion machine knocking around somewhere they may be interested in taking a look at too.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Mozilla reinstates support for the vulnerable SHA-1 crypto on a temporary basis until it can figure out how to avoid some unintended side effects. It's just cancelled-ish
Or in this case I can finally (re)use, "I fought the web, but the SHA-1"
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Your coat is by the door...
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It was a pretty stupid idea. I have to use an older browser to access my router.
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Here we go again. The usual suspects are trying to turn routine diagnostic information into another manufactured privacy controversy over Windows 10. Don't fall for it. (PS: You won't believe what Apple's privacy policy says.) Oooooh. "Analytics". Well, that's just fine then.
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To be fair, MS gets a lot of stick for doing exactly what every large tech company does.
Google and Facebook seem especially bad, collecting identifying information even for those users who have explicitly chosen not to use their services.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Very true.
But this way I get two headlines off of each controversy! 
TTFN - Kent
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Not true. Other companies give you a chance to opt out and no other company violates your firewall rules to send the data.
modified 8-Jan-16 17:57pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oooooh. "Analytics". Well, that's just fine then.
I am reinsured, wrong hands will never have access to the data. It like as safe as storing confidential data in the cloud. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I just want to know WTE MS was thinking when it decided to cut costs by laying off its entire FUD generation department?
At this point I think it has to rank as the worst mistake the company has ever made, above keeping Apple from going bankrupt in the 90s, Windows ME, or disbanding the IE development team after Netscape collapsed and declaring the web feature complete. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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When Microsoft first introduced the Surface Pro 4 tablet and Surface Book laptop back in October 2015, the tech giant said it was just trying to show its PC manufacturer partners what the future looks like. "War, has shattered many a young man's dreams."
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In version 9.5, PostgreSQL gets an UPSERT feature for the first time. Because looking first is for cowards?
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UPSERT reminds me of non-initialized, non-typed variables.. if it already exists, then change it to the value I give you, otherwise, just create it now... and we'll figure out the rest later.
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Scientists have long used X-ray or gamma ray telescopes to figure out where black holes may lie—but a new study suggests that we could accomplish the same thing with nothing more than a standard, optical 8-inch telescope. "...matter of fact it's all dark"
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I've been to the edge...it just looks like...more space 
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I'm in the dark on this one!
New version: WinHeist Version They all laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. Kurt Cobain
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Really squeezing it now!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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