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What a self-absorbed idiot.  Does he think he has such power?
Tomorrow's headline: "Oracle Adobe to Facebook: 'Well, elephant you too'."
modified 13-Jul-15 17:37pm.
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Why is he an idiot? 
He is not asking to kill Flash right here right now, but to set a end-of-life date so that web sites can set aside budgets to clean up their own stuff.
He calls to stop using Flash as it is a huge security issue, not only for Facebook, but other corporations.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Nobody is forcing anyone to use flash. If it is a "huge issue" then it could simply be removed (or blocked locally like some of us do), but I guess that too much ads are still requiring flash for their animations 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The real problem is that every 2nd video website I visit not named Youtube requires a flash player. It's sufficiently irritating that I'm leaning toward reverting the click to play feature in my browser as too annoying. It's not like the flash ads aren't being stopped via another route anyway...
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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Maximilien wrote: Why is he an idiot?
Dunno. Sub-standard education? Poor drinking water? I have no idea what the causes may be; I only see the result.
He obviously doesn't understand technology.
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You appear to have confused flash with the other abomination of the 1.0 web; java applets. 
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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What? I was merely commenting on the messenger; not the message.
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Quote: Tomorrow's headline: "Oracle to Facebook: 'Well, elephant you too'."
Oracle doesn't give an elephant about flash; it's adobe's turd not theirs. Assuming they're not still smarting from Mozilla/Chrome putting a bullet in the head of Acrobat reader by replacing it with a javascript/html based pdf reader Adobe might have something pungent to say to farsebook.
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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D'oh! 
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It's always boggled my mind that something that displays music, video and images can expose such massive security holes - holes big enough to take out your entire system.
Flash is dead precisely because it's so scary to everyone. If they'd put the effort in to making it actually lean, secure and performant it would be a standard and we'd be done.
(and thank God they didn't make it lean, secure and performant. Die, Flash, die.)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Die, Flash, die
Am I the only one who sees a reference to Wolfenstein 3D?
Geek code v 3.12 {
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The resume offers an at-a-glance view of your past and present. If you want to get your foot in the door, be sure you avoid these missteps. But printing it in Comic Sans is still fine?
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A few make sense, but I really don't understand why would someone have to leave out their birth date in order to conceal their age?
Maybe because I am not old enough for that to be a problem. Can someone explain this one, please?
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It is obvious that CV writing standard has variations over countries...
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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Yes, of course it does. I am just looking for an example of when that would be wrong or inappropriate as I cannot think of one.
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One of my old managers actually suggested that it's not unheard of for people to also omit their name and any reference to their gender to completely eliminate the potential for discrimination.
I don't know how different companies would react to an anonymous CV though.
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It is to avoid ageism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism[^]. Yes a younger person will generally not have experienced this but as they get older many do. In many countries it is not even legal to require a respondent to give their age, marital status, religion etc.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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That's why I didn't know, I am not old enough yet 
I started my first job about a year ago and no one made fuss of me putting my date of birth on my CV. I mean they saw it sooner or later on my identity card anyway.
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I've never heard of anyone putting a birthdate on a resume. WTE? 
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I have put it on. I figured, sooner or later they will find out how old I am anyway. But I was applying for my first job, so I'm not quite old enough to experience selection based on age.
I guess, I'll have to remember that one.
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Always wondered if writing "I'm wasting oxygen in this world"...is it lying or a spare-time hobby?
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Prepending "On Error" to it?
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As long as it's followed by Next, you're good.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft has begun notifying users that they will be shutting down several apps that include Photosynth, MSN Food & Drink, MSN Health & Fitness and MSN Travel. I'm sure they will be missed?
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They already have been missed a lot, finally someone hit that darn target.
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