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Why do they *always* say "customer feedback the primary focus?"
Marc
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It's like elevator and walk signal buttons. Gotta keep the illusion (that people have control) in place 
TTFN - Kent
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Privacy advocates have long tried to educate consumers on the perils of giving apps access to GPS data, but a group of Stanford researchers has developed a method to infer a device's location from a seemingly much more innocuous source — battery charge information. So... all you need is access to the phone, and you can tell me where it goes?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: all you need is access to the phone
With an installed app, say, Whatsapp. Battery and power usage metrics are not protected.
Also, it's fairly limited. The power usage signature would have to be matched against already known signatures (that the app "knows" in its database) in order for it to determine your location. And it's only about 90% accurate (so far).
It's not like a gps signal or like the google scanned personal WIFI routers.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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An HP report highlights how the bulk of exploits in 2014 revolved around vulnerabilities that were discovered before 2013. "So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999."
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"Of particular interest is the ability to implant memories.
‘First of all, someone goes on vacation before you, and pleasant memories such as walking on the seashore and picking up rocks are put on a disc,’ Dr Kaku told MailOnline.
‘Then they're uploaded into your own mind; relax, and there you are at the beach.
‘Feel the wind at your face, hear the sound of the waves, all the sensations – you’ll have a memory of a very nice walk on the beach in some exotic location, that’s what this person before you felt.
‘These things are within the realms of possibility – it’s only a matter of time.’" [^]
Not in my lifetime, however, and, in the face of that mortal thought, I can only say "thank you !"
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Total Recall? Arnold's gonna be proud.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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There are a whole lot of students who would like to have text books up-loaded into their brains. 
Of course, there has been a lot of sci-fi stories written on ways to abuse this kind of technology. If you can upload memories, you can upload opinions. 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Brainstorm[^]
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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High demand, large workloads, and the changing nature of programming work have some developers seeking reps to help them land new gigs. "Show me the money!"
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This new release is one of the most significant architectural updates we've done to ASP.NET. As part of this release we are making ASP.NET leaner, more modular, cross-platform, and cloud optimized. The most ASP.NET of ASP.NET versions
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Kent Sharkey wrote: most significant architectural updates
Why when I read these words do I mentally translate them as "we just mades sure your old code won't recompile ... again" ?
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Linus Torvalds has decided to move the Linux kernel release from 3.19.x to 4.0 more from whimsy then from a serious need. "Hurr durr I'ma sheep"
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It became a twice-a-week ritual - Torvalds shows how he is unable to handle the Linux project anymore...How sad...
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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Is it any worse than Microsoft skipping V9 for Windows and going straight to 10? What was with that anyways, I never really got "the scoop".
Marc
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You know, when Microsoft announced that the next version will be 10 - it happened once. It is also happened that Windows belongs to Microsoft...
However Linux version number 'game' is with us for half a year at least now, and around it Torvalds made some announcements - like the middle finger - that not fit Linux. Let face the fact that the actual kernel was written by over 10000 people, but it seems Torvalds want to hold it in his hands so all that version 'game' is nothing more than a demonstration of force... (Torvalds wrote about 0.7% of the new kernel!)...In my opinion, he behaves in a disgusting way...
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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They've never admitted it fully, but the best guess is due to many string searches for "Windows 9" (testing for 95/98) in their - and their partners - source.
TTFN - Kent
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In this particular case, I think Microsoft should have raised the middle finger to their - and their partners - stupidity. String searches to test for a specific Windows version - if this is true, why is this kind of bad practice, the buggy code of apparently incompetent programmers, always be honored?
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Because when an application barfs on a new version of the OS, how many people think "Derpsoft are a bunch of morons for abusing something in an old version of Windows that MS fixed in the new one, guess I'll have to buy a new version of their competitors product" and how many think "Windows.next is elephanted, the sunshines in Redmond can't code their way out of a paper bag and broke all my apps, I'm going to stick with V.last forever and badmouth v.next everywhere"?
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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Well, you're right, but the point is that it happens there is no bug on Microsoft's side - it's the third-parties that just don't use the proper APIs. And how difficult can it be to fix it and deliver an update to people these days in our always-on world? I mean, c'mon, an application that is using string search to guess via "Windows 9" if it is running on 95/98? People who code such stuff deserve to be called a bunch of morons and their applications being broken. But that's just my two cents.
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Uh, Hello. It's the YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP (yes, I'm yelling) so we had to move it to the version 4. Duh! Probably ought to get her up around 10 by June or so.
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A program is a story told in two languages: code and prose. On GitHub, countless stories of countless programs are being told every day. I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a b-tree (when properly balanced)
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A lawsuit charged Lenovo and Superfish of fraudulent business practices, making PCs vulnerable. Well, that didn't take very long
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The lawsuit is making PCs vulnerable? 
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