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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Where were you when I needed you in 1981?
I'm going to say not in existence. The first version rolled out in 1983.
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Actually it was released in August 1981, under the moniker "PC DOS". Same bits, different bottle. 
/ravi
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Doh. For some reason I missed the MS DOS bit, and concentrated on the Word version.
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Researchers have created Mylar, which creates Web applications and services that always encrypt server data and decrypt it only in the browser.
Data stored on servers should always be encrypted? That doesn't sound right...makes way too much sense.
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A filing widely reported today includes an anecdote from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, indicating that Google once approached her to propose a détente of sorts between the firms.
"It's our party, we can do what we want" -Facebook circa 2008.
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cereal takes arbitrary data types and reversibly turns them into different representations, such as compact binary encodings, XML, or JSON. I thought C++ developers never used libraries?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I thought C++ developers never used libraries?
I'm glad to say you're misinformed there. The standard library is pervasive, and in many ways superior to those shipped with most languages. It doesn't support as many scenarios (C++ file access is just making it into the standard) but what it does support is frequently as good as, or superior to, hand-coded solutions. Most other libraries trade efficiency for ease-of-use.
Further, the BOOST library covers a wide range of areas not covered by the standard libraries. There are GUI toolkits, Networking libraries, and many, many more.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Thank you. Lesson learned. I always thought you lot chiseled all your stuff out of silicon (after purifying it from sand), hand-crafting your quicksort like Jedis and light sabers.
TTFN - Kent
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There's actually an emacs key binding we use for that.
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Comment of the week. +5
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Doesn't stop them from writing them.
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Though the “Flappy Bird” craze may be winding down — currently, there’s only one “Flappy Bird” knock-off in the top 20 on the iTunes App Store — the longer-lasting effects of the viral game and all its many variations that followed, still continue to the point of ridiculousness. Repeat after me: photocopiers should not be development tools
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To realize what we've given away, imagine going totally offline. Better yet, believe in what a truly secure online life might look like. "Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather"
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I don't think I've read such drivel in a long, long time.
So we break the internet and suddenly the spooks can't spy on us anymore? Wow - I wonder what they did before 1990.
And nowhere do I see the words "Give you your credit cards, stop collecting air miles and stop filling in your details on magazine subscriptions."
ARGH! I think what has been done by the NSA and the rest is insanely dangerous, but if I see another blog post complaining about privacy while telling everyone to tweet and Facebook-like their stuff I'm going to puke.
"Break" the internet? How about "fixing the internet". Really, it should be "educate people" but I know that's never going to work. #getoffmylawn.
Regardless, the fixes are happening. The Snowden Affair was a trigger for a set of actions that were going to happen anyway. If not today, then tomorrow or the next. Talk about "the internet" in this manner makes me think they are talking about "the phone" in a sense of the 1970's when it was a household item that no one really knew how it worked nor ever envisaged that it would evolve into something completely unrecognisable - and effectively unneeded (the phone, that is; not the internet that took it's place).
Things evolve. Bad things happen. Things evolve. Bad things will always find a way to happen, but a lot of really, really wonderful, society changing things also happen, and as long as they outweigh the bad then we're winning.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Of course we all know you're saying that because the NSA has paid you too, and you make your living running a large web site 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Oh, I dream of being important enough to be paid off by the NSA!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's the Grauniad, a well known source of so-called intellectuals pontificating about subjects that they really don't understand but feel the need to spew their inane Islington dinner party excrescence over anyone who happens to be wandering by.
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But-but-but, that's noted Internet expert and large suit-wearer, David Byrne!
Chris Maunder wrote: Bad things will always find a way to happen, but a lot of really, really wonderful, society changing things also happen, and as long as they outweigh the bad then we're winning.
I have to get that on a bumper sticker (need a bumper as well).
TTFN - Kent
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You'd better get a really big bumper for that sticker.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But-but-but, that's noted Internet expert and large suit-wearer, David Byrne!
And so you realise how hard it is for me to actually flame a man who can wear a suit like that. I did not do it lightly, nor without pause.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If we can't trust our 90s music icons to set global policy, who can we trust?
I am glad you kept his suit in mind while flaming. I hope you also included thoughts of that hand-head merger thingie he did. Gah. Guess I know what I'm listening to today.
TTFN - Kent
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"We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better...stronger...faster."
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Foq is a mature open source .Net mocking library written in F#. It’s raison d'être is to enable F# as a unit testing language, for F#, C# or VB.Net code bases. Foq your code
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Kent Sharkey wrote: .Net mocking
They are always making fun of .Net. Sour grapes and jealousy! ...
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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This is the year where cheap computers and pervasive networks manifest themselves in cheap smartphones sold across the world. I thought this was the Year of Linux? Or does Smartphone come after Snake?
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