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Email Address: self@mail.com
Subject: Things I must do
Body: Get rid of Cortana.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 10-Feb-17 3:25am.
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Dear self!
On the 10th of February, 2017 you listed to get rid of Cortana. It is a reminder to do so...
Regards,
Cortana
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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Why fix bugs, when you can p1ss about making "features" that no-one needs or wants?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What if you never intended to do what you promised?
That's the next step in Artificial Intelligence. But it will come with a huge price tag. 
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Cortana has an affectionate nickname in Italian. Consider that it rhymes with the most common word used for "easy girl who sells herself on the street at nights".
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Put on a red dress, baby!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You don't have to wear that dress tonight
Cooooortana
You don't have to sell your body through the night
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Well... at least they are now implicitly admitting...
we don't give a sh1t about your privacy, we are reading every email you send with the excuse of giving you a better service, but this actually is just a smoke wall so you don't realize we are just spying you and using / selling all the information we collect of you
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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Cortana, STFU!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The best proof ever, that the ability to read does not makes one intelligent... Intelligent one can read between the lines...
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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Once the province of nation-sponsored hackers, in-memory malware goes mainstream. I'm sure *your* bank will be perfectly safe though
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So if you load a file into registers, rather than disc blocks, it's not a file, any more?
Some might disagree*.
* But all should.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Back in the '90s, while working on VAX/VMS systems, we regularly submitted jobs to a batch queue and one of the first steps in the job was to delete the file itself. At that point, it resided in memory. If someone checked the queue while the job was in operation, they could see what the file was supposed to be, and, if it had never been backed up, then there was no trace of it outside of the copy in memory.
Since we were developers, we generally could get elevated privileges, so it wasn't to hard to have the job submitted as SYSTEM directly, or, start a job that submitted the second job as SYSTEM.. and delete itself of course...
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Google is making it easier to discover VR content spontaneously by bringing WebVR to Chrome. Because someone asked for it?
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Why view information in a 900-byte list, when you can view the same thing with 3 gig of bloat?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So this is the web 2.0 version of a late 90s VRML plugin? 
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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There aren't a whole lot of professions whose practitioners go home after work and do more work just for fun, but programming is a world of side projects—the job is the hobby and the hobby is the job. "Everybody's working for the weekend"
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The promises of agile — getting product in front of users faster, embracing requirements changes, choosing and trusting solid contributors — map incredibly well to today’s business environments, where disruptive technology and the ability to quickly capitalize on opportunities either make or break entire verticals. Your daily^H^H^H^H^H weekly dose of buzzwords
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I wish to claim kudos for having been able to read more than one paragraph.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Deciding how to route information fairly and efficiently through a distributed system with no central authority was a priority for the Internet's founders. Full of naughty images and conflicting ideas?
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According to well-placed sources, IBM's Software and Systems unit began a transition similar to the marketing department's upheaval late last year, with remote workers told they would have to move and work at one of a handful of city offices, or find a new job. " The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives."
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I've had several friends who were unfortunate enough to work for IBM in the past. They all said that "IBM" stands for I've Been Moved. Management regularly forces employees to move so they won't make any friends. It's a ghastly company.
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Don't know the source of the quote, but it reminds me of a scene from "Ice Pirates" (I think that's the name of the movie).
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The dates on all Windows drivers are set to June 21, 2006. The version number increases over time, but the timestamp stays put. "It's an awesome example of something that seems stupid and insignificant turning out to have a profound purpose." - the new Microsoft corporate motto
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That actually makes a lot of sense. Good job M$.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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