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The technology Microsoft develops ranges from complete junk (re: Bob, paperclip, sealed classes, The 1st X version of Entity Framework) all the way to the completely awesome amazing stuff, like the Node.js SDK & work with Windows Azure for Node.js, Visual Studio can be amazing sometimes too, and there are other things that are really solid pieces of software. So here’s my happy list and not so happy list of Microsoft Software. I love you... I love you not...
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Work's content blocker is stopping this one for "Malicious sources".
While the filters here can be overzealous; this category sounds like malware infested, not stuff you shouldn't be reading at work.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Work's content blocker is stopping this one for "Malicious sources".
Same here.
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What firewall / filter are you guys using? Back when I worked at a major financial institution they blocked my blog too (I'm the writer of said article on Composite Code). Which I can assure you is a bullshit filtering, because I don't even talk about malware and such. It's just a simple dev's blog (me) and I write about dev stuff 99% of the time. Windows 8, Web Dev, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, etc.
...would love to find out which company stuck me in the "malicious site" listing.
ABH
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Unless they replaced it without my noticing, Bluecoat.[^]
PS (Assuming your site wasn't hacked at one point and nailed for that.) You'd be wasting your time trying to figure it out. BC blocks about 2-3% of dev blogs for no reason I can ever figure out and an additional 1-2% apparently for reverse engineering/hacking type content (and even here I'm hard pressed to tell a difference between the ones that are and are not blocked). Meanwhile some of the internets gutters like cracked.com are left wide open.
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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Dan Neely wrote: an additional 1-2% apparently for reverse engineering/hacking type content (and even here I'm hard pressed to tell a difference between the ones that are and are not blocked)
PPS these are mostly IDed because the block reason is something like "bypassing firewall" or "proxy" with the latter often seeming to fail to tell the difference between talking about and running one.
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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These new chips won’t be programmed in the traditional way. Cognitive computers are expected to learn through experiences, find correlations, create hypotheses, remember, and learn from the outcomes. They mimic the brain’s “structural and synaptic plasticity.” The processing is distributed and parallel, not centralized and serial. With no set programming, the computing cores that the researchers have built can mimic the event-driven brain, which wakes up to perform a task. In other words, you're about to be outsourced... to a CPU.
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In other words, computers are about to become irrational, massively paranoid and subject to huge performance differences depending on how much they had to drink last night. I hope they don't snore in sleep mode.
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The big question is, will it have a pain inducing instruction? More importantly, will it actually be able to fee the pain?
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Samsung must pay Apple $1.05 billion for infringing several of its patents in Samsung smartphones and tablets, a federal court jury decided on Friday. The verdict ending a landmark trial between the two companies is a complex one, involving numerous products and company subsidiaries. But in most instances the jury found products of the Korean company and two of its U.S. subsidiaries infringed Apple's patents. The verdict can be seen overall as a big win for Apple. ...or as they say in Silicon Valley: Samsung owes one Instagram.
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Armstrong’s legacy is so much more than just Apollo 11. His contributions to and role in some of the earliest and most innovative early spaceflight programs are significant. Preserving that legacy will keep him alive and is vital to doing his memory justice. I can’t possibly sum up all the projects Armstrong was involved in in one article, so here’s a brief look at his career leading up to the Apollo 11 Moon landing with links to full stories I’ve covered elsewhere. I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
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Neil Alden Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and an enduring icon of the the space age for taking "one giant leap for mankind," died Saturday after complications from cardiovascular surgery. He was 82. That's one small step for (a) man, one giant loss for mankind.
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This sadly reminds me of a xkcd-strip[^]...
![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
(yes|no|maybe)*
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As I posted in the lounge:
Quote: unum parvum gradum pro virum unum gigas saliet pro homine.
R.I.P Neil, we will miss you.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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Observant software hacker Nadim Kobeissi stumbled upon an interesting observation today while running a network packet analyzer under Windows 8. It appears, by default, Microsoft's latest operating system is sending information to Redmond servers each time a user installs an application. Before the hearts of our readers are aflutter with panic though, allow me to stress this point: this behavior is simple to disable.
This behavior actually keeps you safe!
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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Could you not unplug the network cable? What happens then?
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Data is cached until there is a path to the internet again.
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Can you block outgoing packets to Microsoft on your router?
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Sure. Why would you want to?
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Don't you think it's rude for software to dispatch any information from your box without first asking politely (hell, even asking periodically is annoying/irritating)
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Come on! Do you really believe this is the first time Microsoft has done anything like this??
Did you know that Windows has been silently sending information back to Microsoft on how you use Windows for the last 8 years or so?? Like Windows items you've used, features installed, service packs installed, updates, system crashes, ...
It's all used to improve Windows.
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yes i know it's not the first time - but it's still annoying they try sneak out information without your consent. In fact, asking for a consent in the first place too is annoying, except perhaps during initial installation. And i really care less what the intention is
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