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As stopping Java development didn't slow down the language/environment as required, Oracle now goes for the other option...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The solution seems simple. Don't use Oracle, don't use Java. Yeah, Google might be screwed, but why doesn't it just rewrite Android using Go or something more modern than Java? 
Marc
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Strange, but I seem to recall reading a rumour that they're up to just that.
Great minds, etc. 
TTFN - Kent
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That gives me a strange sense of deja vu.
Remember when Sun sued MS re. Java, and MS went away and built .NET.
Guess that worked well for Sun.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Three email providers say their customers aren't at risk after the discovery of a hoard of login credentials. But if you can figure out which password goes with which account, you're golden!
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Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.[^]
“The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber.
“Wait,” I asked, “so it’s supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission?”
“Yes,” she replied.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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As long as they're shiny and trendy most people will still be ok with that, and pouring money in Apple products and support.
That's perfectly fine for me, it's one more opportunity for jobs (not the deceased one, the extinguishing ones).
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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One of the main reasons why I hate Apple and why I'll never buy, use or recommend an Apple product. Even at it's worst, Microsoft was never this brazen or diabolical. I find this practice of Apple's criminal.Quote: Apple will be in control, bringing their 1984 commercial full circle into a tragic, oppressive irony.
We're already there.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Indeed - me too. I've never understood how come Microsoft got hauled over the coals for embedding IE in Windows - and were forced to remove it - yet Apple get away with this kind of sh*t with barely a word said against them.
"I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart." - Linus van Pelt.
"If you were as smart as you think you are, you wouldn't think you were so smart!" - Charlie Brown.
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Wombaticus wrote: I've never understood how come Microsoft got hauled over the coals for embedding IE in Windows - and were forced to remove it - yet Apple get away with this kind of sh*t with barely a word said against them.
It's all to do with market share. Practices, such as bundling, are deemed fine when you're either one of many participants in the market or a smaller participant among a few. They're deemed "anti-competitive" once you get to a "monopolistic" share, say 80+%.
In streaming services, Apple is a minor player right now. In mobile they're minor (in share) compared to Google, even though they're not minor in share of industry profits. They have about 90% of the profits or something. Hence why they have circa $200 billion in cash!
Kevin
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A counterpoint that manages to totally ignore some points already raised in the initial article, and that includes a number of comments where other users have experienced the same issue.
It's called victim blaming, and is something that I would expect from an Apple fangirl.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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How about Snopes?[^]
...or are you the type that just wants to believe every negative story about Apple?
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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Next surprise, Apple Time Machine is integrated with Apple Music.
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Amber is a stripper name. It stripped you off your music. Now pay up.
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This relatively rare event, called a transit, happens on average only about 13 times per century. "I will stare into the sun until its light doesn't blind me"
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Quote: How to watch the rare transit of Mercury
Don't stop him now: he's having such a good time.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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I know you are all way to smart to look at the sun with a telescope - but just in case, here's a nice reminder[^].
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Some of us are smart enough to know how to look at the sun through a telescope[^] without cooking our eyeballs.
Sadly my Monday forecast is mostly clouds. 
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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A certain patch prevents Windows 7 PCs with specific types of motherboards from booting. Totally a coincidence. Totally.
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It's hard to stay sane when tech people look at me as if I'm a ugly green monster (I am not green!) because I disable Windows Update in every imaginable way... knowing that I'm saner than most of them (most of the time).
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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There was also a small bug that when automatic updates and windows indexing service were both enabled then the system would use lots of resources.
Oh I forgot that was a feature not a bug.
I disable both.
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ledtech3 wrote: windows indexing service
Typically the first service to die, especially on my workstations.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Windows App Studio is all about making it as easy as possible to build apps for Windows. Northwinds: Windows 10 edition
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