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Walk-and-talk meetings can energize employees and boost creativity "Walk with me, Commander"
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Oracle has released a guide to help developers move from Java 8 to Java 9 "It's just a jump to the left. And then a step to the right."
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The German Bundesnetzagentur[^] has banned the MyFriendCayla - Wikipedia[^] doll treating it as spying device (Press release in German: Bundesnetzagentur - Pressemitteilungen - Bundesnetzagentur zieht Kinderpuppe „Cayla“ aus dem Verkehr[^]):
Quote: Gegenstände, die sendefähige Kameras oder Mikrophone verstecken und so Daten unbemerkt weiterleiten können, gefährden die Privatsphäre der Menschen. Das gilt auch und gerade für Kinderspielzeug.
Devices containing hidden cameras or microphones that are able to transmit data unperceived are compromising privacy. This applies also and especially for toys.
According to the German laws it is no longer allowed to trade or even own the dolls.
There has been recent discussions about this doll and other toys which lead to the ban:
The internet-connected toys ‘My Friend Cayla’ and ‘i-Que’ fail miserably when it comes to safeguarding basic consumer rights, security, and privacy.
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Aunty Beeb wrote: A vulnerability in Cayla's software was first revealed in January 2015*
And they're too busy to fix it?
If there's a chance of some perv hooking up to a toy and using it to spy on little kids, I'd say a ban is a good move.
Make 'em fix it or they can't sell it.
And that's not even getting into the severe privacy issues.
* Here[^]
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If there's a chance of some perv hooking up to a toy and using it to spy on little kids, I'd say a ban is a good move.
It is a symbolic move*. Parents who "want" such a device can easily combine a cam and a teddy-bear themselves.
*) elections are coming
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Sure, but they'll be a bit more finicky about security, if they have to handle it themselves.
With all children's toys, you have to trust that:
0. The manufacturer is doing everything in his power to make the toy safe.
1. The government will kick his @rse if he doesn't.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: you have to trust that . The manufacturer is doing everything in his power to make the toy safe.
Aw, come on, this is 2017. Enough normal toys are unsafe enough to be called back.
Mark_Wallace wrote: 1. The government will kick his @rse if he doesn't.
We already know they won't - they get a fine that is lower than the profit, and everybody thinks that it is just.
..and you already know that, regardless of law, sometime in the future a company will add GPS and track their stuff without the users' knowledge.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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A recent experiment conducted by security company Authentic8 showed how lax some users are regarding their phone data. Here's how to practice good security when you need to charge.
Beware of charging stations honey pot  . It might cost you your privacy 
Bryian Tan
modified 16-Feb-17 23:41pm.
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yup, for that reason, when I'm in the wild, I use a charging station to charge a 'battery/booster', and only plug my battery into my equipment
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Bryian Tan
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That's a nice tip, thanks!
But be careful! Someone will learn how to hack the battery to hack your phone and since you are aware enough to protect yourself that can only mean you got juicier data.
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Link fail.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Fixed. Thank you.
Bryian Tan
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The Visual Studio (VS) engineering teams have shifted into overdrive as they curate the next major release of their flagship IDE. Rather than resting on their laurels, they're making informed decisions while iterating at warp speed with a high degree of quality and innovation. And best of all, NO MORE SHOUTY MENUS
Yeah, they fixed that a while back. I'm still hurting over it.
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I'm still happy with VS 2008 
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But that version obviously wasn't broken enough, so they've been "iterating at warp speed" to fix it.
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Small aside:
Does anyone actually use the "dark" theme by choice (i.e. not just because the other available themes are even worse)?
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The default blue theme is fine with me. But lots like the dark theme.
Kevin
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They're all much of a muchness, to me.
I just want the old, visibly-contrasting title bars back. I'm sick of clicking on the wrong window, because you can barely tell where the top window ends and the one behind it starts.
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From my own personal and completely un-scientific observations, it seems that younger folk seem to prefer the Dark theme, whereas the slightly more *cough* mature developer prefer the lighter / Blue themes.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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My coworker in a dimly lit room does. With his lack of other lighting (by choice) the bright theme would be blinding on a big monitor.
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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I use f.lux on my computer plus dark theme in VS to avoid eye strain. Plus darker themes are easier to navigate and read for me personally.
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I use dark themes in every editor/IDE that supports one. VS, WebStorm, Sublime, etc...
I have gigantic wide screen monitors that have very large areas of empty space when looking at individual code files (the space comes in handy when merging or debugging which is the reason for them, but for coding... not so much). When that space is white, it actually hurts my eyes. I can look at a dark monitor for a lot longer than I can a white one.
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Vark111 wrote: When that space is white, it actually hurts my eyes.
That's the thing.
Until win 8, you could set the "window" colour (I'd call it the "paper" colour) to something less harmful to your eyes and headache-inducing, but they "fixed" that, so now you're stuck with white or black, unless you want to continually run .reg files to set a colour*, which gets reset to white at random intervals.
* You can actually set it once in the registry, then quickly save it as a theme, and reload the theme every time it gets "fixed", but I just keep a .reg file on my desktop.
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