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Microsoft Research, its Developer Experience team and its Applications and Services Group are all building out pieces of the company's evolving bot platform. Here's what's under the hood. It looks like you're working on a conversational assistant. Would you like help with that?
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Microsoft and University of Washington (UW) researchers have demonstrated the ability to use synthetic DNA as a form of archival storage for data. Hopefully you'll have another backup after someone puts all your data in their tea
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Interesting... are they going to give life to the characters / people described on their own data? Or will that only happen when the data centers are consumed by Neural Networks?
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Yes, bring back Clippy the Paper-clip
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Better than bring back... give him life!
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He's already back and has transgendered and is now known as 'Cortana'.
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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Look into vendors software supply chain, check the maturity of their software lifecycle programs. But... it's open! "More eyes, etc.", right?
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Ok, How many are doing machine critical projects like Launching a Rocket 
Ranjan.D
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According to Microsoft's new Windows 10 business roadmap, new enhancements to Continuum, Passport authentication, file-level encryption and more are 'in development' and possibly coming soon. Because nothing says "business" like, "Passport authentication"
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Vulnerabilities in the software waiting to be exploited – yet still a worrying amount of people are using Microsoft's zombie-like operating system. If it ain't broke, don't upgrade it
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I stopped reading after the second "sentence". Tech people really shouldn't be allowed to publish articles, without an editor sending it back and calling them an idiot at least once.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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If XP is 'zombie-like', than what W10 is?
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: If it ain't broke, don't upgrade it
It is freakin' broke. Upgrade it.
The last friend who said that turned out to have a small bestiary of malware on their PC, including a bot that presumably was busy spamming or otherwise attacking the rest of us.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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While acknowledging that more work will need to be done after it is adopted, Microsoft has thrown its support behind Privacy Shield, stating in the blog post that after careful and detailed review, it “believes wholeheartedly that it represents an effective framework and should be approved.” Can anyone recommend a good irony meter? My current one just exploded.
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Have you forgotten that MS is at war with the Department of inJustice over granting access to data in Europe without a European court order?
Microsoft is fighting the DOJ too - Feb. 23, 2016[^]
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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No, I haven't forgotten either, I'm just agog at Microsoft signing on to something called a Privacy Shield after Windows 10.
It is a good thing though.
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: the observatory is downlinking data to help engineers determine what caused it to suspend science operations last week.
Unexpected pointer to void?
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Nah, probably an unplanned update to Windows 10.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Nah, probably an unplanned update to Windows 10.
What ? there was nobody on telescope to say NO to the nagging popup ?
Can't believe it. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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"All of these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no upgrades there"
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I think it tried turning itself off then on again...
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An hour’s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. The dangers of defaults
OK, maybe not defaults exactly, but "The dangers of imprecise data returned as though it were precise" doesn't fit on the bumper sticker.
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"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." Dorothy.
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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NASA is trying to resuscitate its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, in a state of emergency 75 million miles away. Quick! Someone call Bruce Willis!
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