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Printer manufacturers hate third-party ink cartridges. They want you buying the expensive, official ones. Epson and HP have issued sneaky “updates” that break these cheaper cartridges, forcing you to buy the expensive ones. Everyone's gone paperless anyway
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The research firm produces its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends list every year to give organizations insight into what they can expect. It's the same list from 2018, now with an extra Quadrant
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"Once again, the trends fall into three categories:" Obvious, Super Obvious and Mega-Super Obvious.
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Yeah, but they get $2500 per bullet point (guessing)
TTFN - Kent
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When you go into the privacy settings on your browser, there’s a little option there to turn on the “Do Not Track” function, which will send an invisible request on your behalf to all the websites you visit telling them not to track you. Do Not Say?!
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It might be that the browser says do not track my user... that the webs do what the browser says, that's another history
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"No cookies on my computer!"
"Then why did you click "remember me?""
Crickets
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The aftermath of that fiasco, when it became clear the advertiscum were just dragging out sham negotiations about the feature long enough for the feds to get distracted by some other shiney object and thus proved that no peaceful coexistance with them was possible, was when I switched from only blocking offensive ads (animated, audio, or disgusting) to blocking all ads, and using Privacy Badger to stop 3rd party CDNs/useful 3rd party web component providers from being able to set tracking cookies/etc in cases where I do need their content for the page I'm visiting.
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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Actions allow developers to not just host code on the platform but also run it. We’re not talking about a new cloud to rival AWS here, but instead about something more akin to a very flexible IFTTT for developers who want to automate their development workflows, whether that is sending notifications or building a full continuous integration and delivery pipeline. "I am an action man, always a need to party"
Because Action Man didn't have any lyrics in the theme song (that I knew of)
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They got a message from the Action Man
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too...
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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen has died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Vulcan Inc. said Monday on behalf of his family. RIP
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Although confidence can serve as both a blessing and a curse, new research shows how people can reap the rewards without risking the social penalties for overconfidence. Not that any of you will need this
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Essentially, it says that if you STFU, people won't realise that you're an arrogant @rsehole.
I could have told 'em that for a much smaller budget.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Scientists from EPFL and ETH Zurich have developed an ultra-light glove – weighing less than 8 grams per finger– that enables users to feel and manipulate virtual objects. Uhm... ... I say nothing
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Nearly half of smartphone users report spending more than five hours a day on their phone, with one in four reporting more than seven hours per day. But rather than making calls all day, smartphone users are primally using them as mobile PCs —browsing the web and playing games. I guess we'll need something else to be the phone then?
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Getting rid of passwords is a good idea, but we need to think through the consequences of the most likely replacement, too. Insert 3l of blood to access your computer
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Getting rid of passwords is a good idea, but we need to think through the consequences of the most likely replacement, too.
I hope it is not the fingerprint reader of Apple or Samsung... 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Step 1. review any and all history lessons.
Worded, aka Secret Word or Phrase, passwords have been used for a long time. At least ancient Egypt as far as I know.
Then the referral lock is added. "You visually know me Jimmy Two Fingers, I am vouching for this guy Andy Quick Draw."
Step 2. Read imaginative literature, aka Comics.
Biometrics is horrendous. We leak it all over the place. Plus changes are inevitable, unless you program a flawed system system which we have now. Face recognition and voice duped by twins. Eye scanners hacked with long lens camera and 1$ curved plastic.
Take Wolverine. A masterfully constructed killing machine.
But did that consider that he leaves his blood all over the place.
If the copyright lawyers were involved, they would have locked him down ages ago until they had a way to put a patent on his blood thus making if difficult for anyone else to copy and sell. They did that as well I think on follow up X-weapons. But we can't risk the first lesson, general consumer protection needs to be on stage 3 the first time round.
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Ironically, the article swings from strong (2FA) authentication back to weak authentication as it addresses biometrics, and calls it "the next step".
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Ask anyone which professional skill is most in demand right now, and they’ll likely say coding. But ask LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and he’ll give you a different answer. It's the gap between emails from LinkedIn in your Inbox
Yeah, yet another, "soft skills" push. You'd think the message would have reached colleges by now.
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I've heard this for 30 years, apparently it's not that big of a deal...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer will disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 by default. TL-whatnow?
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Run C# scripts from the .NET CLI, define NuGet packages inline and edit/debug them in VS Code - all of that with full language services support from OmniSharp. But is it as powerful as batch language?
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I think a tool that would allow you to write/run a c# script would be pretty cool. I would think it would compile the script on the fly and execute it just like any other c# code.
c:\program files\dotscript\dotscript.exe "\\machine\path\file.cs"
The dotscript utility would look for an optional file.cs.config file (in the specified path) that would provide script-specific parameters to "file.cs" (to avoid the quagmire of command line parameters that powershell has. Essentially, each script would be completely self-contained. It would be a thing of beauty, AND could be cross-platform, AND the programmer could use any CLR-compliant .Net language he prefers.
I suppose the only down-side is that the utility itslef would have to be a native C++ app in order to be truly cross platform...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The highly popular PHP 5.x branch will stop receiving security updates at the end of the year. Even more horrifying: 78.9 percent of all Internet sites today run on PHP.
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