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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "Deep in the bowels of the planet, ancient computers tick away the millenia." (Or something like that, I'll have to look it up later.)
Here you go:
"An automatic system," he said and gave a small sigh. "Ancient computers ranged in the bowels of the planet tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks. I think they take the occasional pot shot to relieve the monotony."
Cheers! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Aye, that's the one. 
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Now research from Johns Hopkins University provides the first public confirmation that it’s possible to do just that, and demonstrates how. While the research focused on MacBook and iMac models released before 2008, the authors say similar techniques could work on more recent computers from a wide variety of vendors. "Be seeing you"
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The company is building a voice-activated app to contend with other tech giants' personal assistant apps, according to a report from Android Police. Going to be a little tricky to teach everyone how to yodel questions, isn't it?
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Steve Sammartino and Raul Oaida built a functional car out of Lego bricks that runs on air. Zoom zoom?
OK, I won't be terribly surprised if this turns out to be a hoax. But if not, oy.
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The wave of product updates may be drawing to a close, but the very direction of Microsoft's technology is shifting this year. "And you feel like it's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away"
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"Quote: Then it comes to be that the soothing light
At the end of your tunnel
It's just a freight train comin your way
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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Why are we teaching kids to code when they can't even balance a check book? Because the authorities behind the initiative have other intentions. John Dvorak continues his perfect record
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It's pretty bad when even the crack dealers have to outsource because they can no longer calculate the sales needed to by the Jag they want.
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Or when software developers are unaware of spell grammar checkers!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: John Dvorak continues his perfect record
Contrary to all the negative feedback he's gotten, I think he makes several very good points.
Marc
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I can't stand it when my kid comes home and says "we're learning to program; we're making web pages" -- there is very little coding involved in typical "web pages", especially the kind they have grade-school kids make.
The big software houses want to flood the market with low-quality developers to lower the "market average" and thereby reduce their overall payroll.
Similarly, don't you think they would rather say "we hire only the top 1% of candidates" than "we hire only the top 5% of candidates"? This way they can make a lower offer, because there's more "prestige" and the candidates should feel more honored.
While the big houses continue to hire only high quality candidates while the rest of the candidates continue to produce dreck and the big houses can extoll the benefits of using the services of a big well-known trustworthy producer rather than trudge through the mire trying to find a good alternative.
Having said that, yes, kids should learn a whole lot of things, including programming, cooking, sewing, drain-unclogging, car oil changing -- but that doesn't mean they should necessarily be thinking about a career in any of those until they're older. But as to programming specifically, they need to learn the fundamentals (datatypes, flow control, etc.) and should not be thrown straight into "web pages".
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The VMs are available for free for the purpose of testing your site on all versions of Internet Explorer; regardless of your development platform. The images are available for Linux, Mac and Windows across the most common desktop virtualization technologies. For your tire-kicking delight
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We want to make it as easy as possible to write apps that integrate with Azure AD, so to help with that we’re going to open source our developer libraries using github.com. Just in case you ever wanted to know what AD looks like from the inside
And if so, you *really* need a new hobby.
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After a record run, Bitcoin prices have tumbled back to earth after the Chinese government announced a series of bans on the currency. Here is a chart and some background. Pop
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Agreed
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TTFN - Kent
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"offers no safe haven for money."
What, like a bank, building society or stock market? Can you really trust those anymore? 
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With sound prudential regulation such as in Australia you probably can trust banks almost as much as Qantas.
Stock markets are and always have been caveat emptor.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Security experts have long opined that one way to make software more secure is to hold software makers liable for vulnerabilities in their products. This idea is often dismissed as unrealistic and one that would stifle innovation in an industry that has been a major driver of commercial growth and productivity over the years. But a new study released this week presents perhaps the clearest economic case yet for compelling companies to pay for information about security vulnerabilities in their products. Wanted: Resolved or Closed
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This idea is often dismissed as unrealistic and one that would stifle innovation
There's too much abuse of the word "innovation".
We should set a bounty on its use.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: There's too much abuse of the word "innovation".
We should set a bounty on its use.
How about just the people that use it? Like Buzzword Bingo, but with more heads on walls.
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TTFN - Kent
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: We should set a bounty on its use.
Now that is an innovative idea. 
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Quote: After decades of designing software, human beings still build imperfect, buggy, and insecure programs.
And in other news, the halting problem is still impossible to solve.
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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