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Apple CEO Tim Cook received a compensation package of $4.25 million for the 2013 fiscal year, a 2% increase over the year before.
But the board also dinged Cook to the tune of nearly $4 million in stock vesting reductions, citing Apple's subpar performance compared to the S&P 500's for the 12-month period. Poor guy, now he can't even afford a Mac Pro
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Jon DeVaan, the respected Microsoft executive who oversaw some of the company’s most important engineering initiatives, is leaving after nearly three decades — capping a year of massive changes in Microsoft’s executive ranks. "And another one gone and another one gone"
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tl;dr;
retiring or going somewhere else ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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"Spending more time with his family"
Of course, if he's been there since '84, there is a lot to spend.
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TTFN - Kent
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Is the uSoft ship sinking?
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It is in the process of being converted to a submarine just in case! 
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They better get some small life jackets for the rats then or they'll all be jumping!
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The most overhyped, in their view, were social tools aimed at the enterprise. This would include products like Jive, Microsoft’s Yammer, Salesforce.com’s Chatter, Moxie, VMWare’s Socialcast and a host of others. Does this explain why you won't "Like" me?
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By zooming in on high-resolution photographs of faces, researchers recovered images of unseen bystanders from reflections in the subjects' eyes. The technique could eventually be used in criminal investigations. Zoom in! Enhance!
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It's inevitable that at this time of year tech companies and analysts like to try to grab headlines with their predictions for the coming 12 months. Security specialist Kaspersky Lab is no exception, and guaranteed to make waves is its forecast of the collapse of the internet as we know it. Well, we had a good run there, where did I leave that BBS install disk?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: where did I leave that BBS install disk?
All will be revealed once you check out this[^] 
[Perhaps this one has been done to death by now] 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Ah right. Forgot about that one. 
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At the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), xobs and I disclosed a finding that some SD cards contain vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution — on the memory card itself. "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these"
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I had no idea. That's awesome.
Kent Sharkey wrote: "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these"
...all racing around cleaning up bad memory at amazing speeds. :p
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Agents with the U.S. National Security Agency are able to intercept crash reports from specific Microsoft Windows-based machines to better understand how to exploit a computer with spyware, according to the latest revelations about the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance program, published this weekend by Der Spiegel newsmagazine. No wonder they have more data than they know what to do with
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That's great news. Maybe they will publish a correct stack of unhandled exception filter pointers ! 
Nuclear launch detected
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Science is a very serious business, so what tickles a rational mind? In a not very scientific experiment, we asked a sample of great minds for their favourite jokes. Keep your day job
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Sigh. Editing is such a dead artform these days. The "ex" joke should read:
At a party for functions, ex is at the bar looking despondent. The barman says: "Why don't you go and integrate?" To which ex replies: "It would not make any difference."
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Three statisticains go hunting. They spot a deer.
The first takes a shot, but misses ten feet to the left.
The second takes a shot, but misses ten feet to the right.
The third says, "I think we got it".
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While he’s not busy writing instructions on how to lead a tech company or guides for switching from iPhone to Android, Google chairman Eric Schmidt has taken some time out to provide Bloomberg TV with his predictions for 2014. He's already looked at your predictions as well
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Google is going to sell us household robots, so they can map your entire house. Then they are going to take on IKEA.
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There's a great dystopian novel in there, I think.
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As you throw back another egg nog, mulled wine or other variety of sickly Christmas cheer, save a thought for the brain cells that take a hit with each swig. Your memory might not fare so well the morning after, but thanks to these tips from England's eight-time World Memory Champion and author of How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week Dominic O'Brien, there are a few things you can do to improve it in the future. "Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good."
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An Indiegogo project that aims to deliver the first gadget capable of translating a dog’s thoughts into the English language has reached its funding goal with 50 days left to go in the money-raising campaign. The “No More Woof” (NMW) project aims to deliver the first devices that will translate dogs’ thoughts into English and other languages at some point in April. "I so ever do want the ball!"
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