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The battle between the FBI and Apple over access to the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone is turning into little more than a battle of wills. And that's their job
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And McAfee didn't eat that shoe...
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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Microsoft spends a lot of time and money developing many technologies that could end up being part of the company’s next products. It's for all those bugs that may - or may not - be in the products
Totally kidding. They're there.
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A wise person once said time is a device invented to keep everything from happening at once. Jonas Boner explains how the database world has abused time from the beginning. "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."
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Only an old grizzled grey-haired man would even consider adding this to the "CQRS/Event Sourcing" rant he has been practicing in bus stations and on park benches up and down the country...
.. so, thanks, I appreciate this 
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It reminds me the worst philosophical theories I ever read...
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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A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion (£703 million) heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said. You see, kids, spelling does matter
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For $1 billion, I would run a spellchecker. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kevin Marois wrote: They only got away with 80 million,
Because of the misspelling.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Oh and it also suggests it's OK if your security is compromised as you can just sue someone else to recover your losses. So it's probably not worth bothering investment in security anyway  .
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That explains why they haven't given me my $10 million I inherited from a rich uncle I knew nothing about! 
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Enhance the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers. And if C# jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?
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We’re releasing the March 2016 edition of our 60-day evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center. The VMs come in Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox, and VMWare flavors. "The first hit is always free"
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Microsoft is trying to grab Oracle enterprise database users with a new migration offer for SQL Server 2016. May include fine print
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Kent Sharkey wrote: May include fine print
And constant nagging to update beginning next year.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I think there are any number of ways, some even credible, to measure productivity for developers. I think the trouble arises from the notion that they could be applied outside of a narrow context and also that it’s especially important how productive a developer is. My bugs/hour is less than 1. That's good, right?
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Microsoft buried a Get Windows 10 ad generator inside this month's Internet Explorer security patch for Windows 7 and 8.1 Stop me if you've heard this one before
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Teeth clinched.
Why the F do they want you all to be on this FREE OS so bad like their life depends on it?
This HAS to be a trap yet to spring.
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Windows 11 will turn it into a service and you will be up for a subscription.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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So I can't ever again trust Microsoft, not even on subjects of security...Very refreshing!
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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I cannot see those Win 10 ads in my IE 11 on Win 7.
By the way, also the article says so:
Quote: I spent most of the night trying to replicate this behavior -- a blue banner on new tabs in IE11 with "Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10" -- and couldn't get it to trigger.
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Open source database specialist MariaDB Corporation is launching its latest MariaDB Enterprise aimed at tackling the most pressing enterprise data management challenges. "Maria, say it loud and there's music playing"
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Our primate cousins spend 6 hours a day gnashing fruits and the occasional monkey carcass—all made possible by the same type of big teeth and large jaws our early ancestors had. At least until we got bacon
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Not the slicing/pounding, but the cooking made the difference; the biggest change was 400k years ago.
Site wrote: “What did humans do before they regularly had access to cooking?” he wondered.
They orderded a Big Mac using the internet.
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