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Is it still paranoia if everyone really is watching you? Most of us are likely aware at this point that unless we take some fairly extensive precautions, we’re always being watched in one way or another while browsing the Web. What you might not be aware of, however, is the shocking number of services that monitor us on nearly every website we visit. "Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts."
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When I saw the title I was about to mark this as spam too 
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Relax that trigger finger there, kemosabe!
TTFN - Kent
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I've used Ghostery for a long time. It was interesting at first and then I couldn't be bothered any more...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Want to bet the free tool is loaded with malware? 
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Ghostery's awesome. I've got it running all the time. Once you figure out you can disable the annoying popup, it's remarkably unobtrusive.
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A few simple changes in the way Microsoft brands Windows and its patches could make our lives so much simpler. Windows 9, Tuesday edition
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We're very happy to announce Xbox Music API availability for third party developers (didn't see that coming, did you!?) Building upon our internal service stack and clients on Windows 8.1, Xbox One, Windows Phone, the Web, Android and iOS, we’re inviting developers to dream up ways to make your apps and experiences cool and exciting by opening up our service REST APIs to the world. Dance party in the server room!
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Failing fast and often is one of the encouraged practices for agile teams. Sander Hoogendoorn, author of the This is Agile book discusses on his blog the importance of having a strategy that helps you on the decision of aborting a project by assuming its failure on an early stage. I should be *a genius*!
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There is no failure.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Fail fast, fail small, fail early.
That middle part is very important yet often omitted - in practice in programming this tends to mean "fail in unit test" or "fail to compile", but "fail to explain on the whiteboard" is probably the earliest and cheapest failure in Agile development.
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In about 10 years, we're likely to have digitally connected cars, smart homes, as well as refrigerators and dishwashers that can think for themselves. DEC is making a comeback?
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Yeah, the hackers will have a field day.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: refrigerators and dishwashers that can think for themselves
First we better educate some designers/developers/marketing people/customers that can think for themselves...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In about 10 years, we're likely to have digitally connected cars, smart homes, as well as refrigerators and dishwashers that can think for themselves.
I think I'm going to be joining the Amish.
Marc
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Maybe by then they will be using the internet so your transition won't be so hard.
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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Imagine your fridge deciding you have had enough for one day.
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With the way i eat junk food that might actually be a blessing. I can just see my fridge now "Adam, are you sure you want to put that much ice cream in the freezer? I have been talking with the scale and we both agree its a bad idea."
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: refrigerators and dishwashers that can think for themselves.
"Does anyone want any toast?"[^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Apple's PC, the Mac, has never been as dominant in the workplace, until now, according to new research from long-time Microsoft rival, VMware. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
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You know, it was only a couple weeks ago that I found myself sitting in front of a Mac trying to resize a window by click on the upper-left corner of the window.
Oh yeah, this is a Mac, where the only way to resize a window is first drag it and then use the lower-right corner to resize it. I guess Microsoft has the patent on "any corner window resizing."
But I quibble at details. Just give me a computer with a UI that I can configure to my tastes (along with the keyboard and monitors of my choice), and I won't care one wit what it runs underneath. I guess there's a patent for that somewhere out there too, since nobody has achieved that.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Oh yeah, this is a Mac, where the only way to resize a window is first drag it and then use the lower-right corner to resize it. I guess Microsoft has the patent on "any corner window resizing."
Must have been an old OS? They added that feature a couple of years ago. Lion, maybe?
Anyway, beyond that quibble (the word for the day!), yeah. All we really need is a UI that gets out of the way and lets us work. My days of wanting to futz with the OS to get things "just right" are way behind me.
TTFN - Kent
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If I was going to give up Windows, it'd be for Linux, not Mac.
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