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Could the internet ever be switched off – or destroyed? Chris Baraniuk investigates what it would take to bring down the network we all now rely on. Ain't no party like an Internet party, 'cause an Internet party don't stop
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Quite a nice read 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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After just seven years on the net, GitHub now boasts almost 9 million registered users. The Octocat did it
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According to the business magazine and online publication Fast Company, Microsoft left the flashy product reveals and acquire-hires for other companies and instead has quietly been improving current in use products and services like health care, elevator maintenance and emergency response systems in New Orleans. But where are all their things?
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This is part blasphemy and part true.
Microsoft is pretty big.
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Today, we are going to attempt to answer that not-so-simple question and determine when a computer is truly obsolete. Can you remember when you got it? It's time for a new one.
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My computer - all my devices in general - are obsolete when they break and/or cannot be repaired or tweaked anymore (or reparing is not an option because it's getting too expensive).
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That's far too green a solution, but well done 
TTFN - Kent
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my wife is still using an acer 10 years old, with one core cpu and 1 gb ram. She is used to its speed, so she don't complain.
She is starting to think on buying a new one, but only because I told her it is better to have a controled change, than having to buy something on the fast when old one dies.
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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Well, with freedom comes responsibility. Sadly, most people just take the freedom and don't care about their responsibility.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's far too green a solution
yes - sure there are needs (wants?) - but I wonder how many people think of (environmentally) what it takes to produce a computer, then what's going to happen when they throw it away - obviously re-gifting it 'down the line' prolongs it ending up as scrap for a while, but eventually .....
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yeah - it was almost a rhetorical question 
which is why I struggle away on a machine until its near dead - its not so much being 'tight', its choosing a machine that'll last as long as possible, not succumbing to the advertising 'you must have this to keep up', then succession planning just before the machine dies (my patience for slowness etc lasts a lot longer)
cheers Kent
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When they bring out a new generation of i7's...
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Buy?  I build.
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Of course, if the question had been "When is your Apple product too old and when is it time to buy another?" then the answer would be simple. Every three months; more frequently for "power users".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Today, that story draws to a close with the final chapter in the SSD Endurance Experiment. More reasons why it's OK to move to SSD
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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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Deep down, you already knew this. But now you have a study to share with doubters: dealing with work emails outside of work ruins your personal life. From the category: News you already knew
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And requiring workers to check email while off the clock is illegal in some jurisdictions.
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It's a Google Now that anyone can use and modify. OK, Chris: hook it up to the site! "Bob, can I have codez plz?"
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Funny thing is that the framework seems to have a support for some informal words too... "codez", "plz". But.. being open-source it would be much more loved as compared to other products of same category.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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ow that its codebase is finally viewed as stable, OpenSSL is getting a good top-to-bottom once-over in the form of a sweeping audit sponsored by The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative.
Finally scraping off the band aids and going under the knife.
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