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Accountants have no taste.
bish bada boom
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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US law can apply anywhere in the world, so long as a technology company has control over foreign data, a court rules. Good news for local email providers
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Since they're all already playing shell games with oversees subsidiaries to outsmart the taxman, I wonder if they could do the same to tell the courts to pound sand. Create a new company called Not in America Datacenters; headquarter it in the EU, and then give it ownership of all non US datacenters and have it lock the US staff out. Since NAD wouldn't have any presence in the US it would be out of jurisdiction from our courts; and when they tried to pressure staff at the US headquarters to get data they'd just get giant access-denied errors.
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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Researchers devise stealthy attack that reprograms USB device firmware. Don't stick anything in your computer, unless you know where it has been
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Reducing tool complexity requires mercilessly applying YAGNI to your toolchain. Resist the siren songs of new, popular memes and the blandishments of vendors, and choose the tools that deliver only what you need. Oh, YAGNI, how I need you
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 Hear! Hear!
Do more with less!
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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and do less with more!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Windows Phone update improves security and messaging, but the platform still trails Android and iOS by a wide margin. Yeah. That's what was causing developers to hold back: no folders on the screen
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In a job market where available IT pros can name their price and are rejecting poor offers, businesses need to step up their game or risk losing out on top talent. Go on then, sell yourself to the highest bidder
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Russia has proposed that Apple Inc and SAP hand the government access to their source code to make sure their widely used products are not tools for spying on state institutions. Is this the new thing then? Everybody gets to look at all the code now?
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So, trust demands open source? 
Whouldavethunk?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: So, trust demands open source?
Good one!! Lol 
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Dailytech[^] reported that Russia was arguing its demands were reasonable because MS let a Russian security firm look at their code, so Apple/SAP shouldn't have any problem doing the same thing.
However MS has allowed a number of security/academic groups access to all of their code for a long time. My question to that is, do Apple or SAP have any sort of equivalent programs? IF they already allow a number of 3rd parties access to their code, adding a Russian partner isn't prima facie unreasonable. However if they don't currently let any 3rd parties have access to their core codebases the Russian demand looks a lot more heavy handed.
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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“Just” makes me feel like an idiot. “Just” presumes I come from a specific background, studied certain courses in university, am fluent in certain technologies, and have read all the right books, articles, and resources. "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me."
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This sound oh so familiar for some reason.
"But what if blah, blah, blah happens?"
"We'll just have to deal with any problems as they arise."
Thanks, boss.
Comments from work:- "Why can't you just do it like everybody else?"
- "Well, we haven't had any complaints yet."
- "I just want to get it into production."
- "It only matters if it’s important to someone who matters."
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I suppose "management consultant" is two words, so that is valid...
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Ow! Yeah that one is definitely up there.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Just add [insert complex option here] to the settings screen.
That's the worst one, "sure just add an option to view this desktop application as a responsive web app to the settings screen" etc, eugh!
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I always thought it was "yes".
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me."
Unless they are on a performance evaluation form.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Free SQL tools for SQL Auto-complete, formatting,
refactoring, text and object search, and more. "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
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The now-aging TCP/IP protocol might not be around for much longer. That’s if a bunch of researchers promoting network coding have their way. Wake me up when it's gone. I want to see what the 22nd century looks like.
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The year of DECnet? 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I've been told (by someone here, was it you?) that 50-90% of Internet traffic is spam. Do we really need new patented complicated mathematical equations to speed up the net?
And of course, the whole idea of patenting a core backbone technology for transporting data around the Internet...wow, do I smell a cash cow. However, if pigs had wings...
so sadly, I do not see a direct as the crow flies path to a faster Internet, but it's a whale of an idea.
Why are all our metaphors ones involving animals and meat? Hmmm...I think my attention span is as short as a carrot stump today.
Marc
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