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We're online, all the time. Day and night. Weekday and weekend. Technology, supposed to make our lives easier, has made it a lot more complicated. You can take the internet from my cold, dead hands.
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I find I need to go offline for a bare minimum of least 40 hours/week or even caffeine can't keep me going; 45-50 if I don't want to either drug myself awake or asleep. 
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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Indian users claim sharing information with Facebook puts their privacy in danger. OK so maybe they will 'now,' but weren't gonna.
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A day after announcing a new artificial intelligence partnership with IBM, Google, Facebook and Amazon, Microsoft is upping the ante within its own walls. "My horn will toot the loudest."
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If many politicians are to be believed, an Internet disaster is set to commence this Saturday. That's when a tiny branch of the US Commerce Department officially hands over its oversight of the Internet's "address book" or root zone—the highest level of the domain naming system (DNS) structure—to a nonprofit, a Los Angeles-based body called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) tl;dr: Conservative politicians are resisting change
modified 30-Sep-16 16:23pm.
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By analyzing 26 million online job postings, researchers discovered that approximately half of the jobs in the top income quartile (paying a minimum of $57,000 a year) required some degree of computer coding skills. "Some people say it's folly, but I'd rather have the lolly"
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In one cybersecurity study, released by Veracode, 83% of IT decision-makers admitted to releasing code before testing it or resolving issues. Testing?! Isn't that what users are for?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 83% of IT decision-makers admitted to releasing code before testing
That means that testing is not the problem; we know how to do that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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HP is backtracking on a firmware update that recently blocked some printers from using third-party ink cartridges. At least until people stop watching them
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They have explicitly reserved the right to return to blocking 3rd party ink in the future.
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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We'll be good, we promise. 
Hp is a ill-spirited company on many levels today.
T'was such a great company when they had enough money love and market share to play nicer even if only engineering companies could afford their gear.
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I will never forgive them for killing Compaq. Take a great brand with excellent market reputation and merge it into a brand with very average reputation what a brilliant idea.
F***wits
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Birds of a feather do however flock together.
Compaq made the adorable decision to use torque screws on everything instead of Philips head like everyone else in the world.
Oh except Apple now we see.
We have a screwdriver in our shop PC called the Compaq driver.
They needed killin'.
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As an old ex-tech, no Compaq didn't need killin'. They made the best machines on the planet before HP corrupted them. I didn't give a rats ass what kind of driver I needed to get them open.
Apple was using Torx screws long before Compaq in the original Mac's. You just needed a driver with a 10" shaft to get at two of them and a "case cracker" to get the shell open. Now THAT needed killin'. I couldn't tell you how many power supplies I replaced in those little sh*ts.
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Church. 
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Now if only the other printer companies follow suit...
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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I couldn't care less what they do now. They have already made it clear that they despise their customers. Former customers, I should say.
They went on my boycott list the moment the article first came out.
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I have a better idea. Rather can kissing the feet of these corporate oppressors, how about a class action lawsuit instead.
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Now, they need to change the software to still print black & white when the color cartridge runs out or goes bad.
(OTOH, Years ago, I once used a generic cartridge in a LaserJet and it started having problems.)
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Funny, 2 weeks ago I discovered why my HP printer always ran out of ink while I barely print anything. Turns out the printer rinses its printing heads using ink every time it's turned out, which I did daily because I just flipped the switch on my power strip every day. I quickly switched to a laser printer after I discovered that.
For those who want to educate themselves as well:
How much ink does your printer waste?[^]
Is your printer wasting your pricey printer ink?[^]
Wout
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Google announced today that its now ten-year old service Google Apps for Work (formerly Google Apps for Your Domain), is getting rebranded yet again. This time around, the company will call it “G Suite.” Nope, that name doesn't make me think of a piece of apparel. Not at all.
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Not even a tiny bit?
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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Gee, saahweeet!
#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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I'd be happy if they'd just spend a couple days to take the contacts app out of the 1990's.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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I read that as "G Spot".
Watching too much p0rn, Iguess! 
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