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The FTC says that if companies don't change their warranty practices, it may take 'legal action.' Does this mean they'll visit everyone to pull their stickers off?
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Now if only the FTC can do something about those mattress tags! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I guess I'm in big trouble. I threw out my son's old Nintendo. So Instead of illegally removing the sticker, I removed the whole apparatus. Thhat's probably double bad. I wonder if I'll get any visitors and whether I'll be in jail or in a loony bin?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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A small but unspecified number of GitHub staff could have seen plaintext passwords. You did say, "open source", didn't you?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A small but unspecified number of GitHub staff could have seen plaintext passwords.
So everyone including the janitor.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Blockchain development is now the hottest skill in the freelance job market, growing more than 6,000% since this time last year and putting it on pace to be the new “cloud” of the 21st Century, according to a new report. Because you want to be trendy, don't you?
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It takes some doing to extract sound from an 1885 wax disc I hope Watson hears this. It sounded urgent.
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One example involved focusing a beam of light, projected through a liquid, onto a prepared photographic glass plate, which was described in U.S. Patent 341,213.
Dang, he invented the CD in the 1880's!
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For computer scientists, a naturally arising question is whether computers learn to understand source code? Hopefully we can plug this into Q&A soon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Hopefully we can plug this into Q&A soon
Urgentz! My computer says I must be an idiot because my source code is such garbage! Plz Helps!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Kent Sharkey wrote: Hopefully we can plug this into Q&A soon
Done I have popcorn!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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No, nothing can make sense of some of the Q's in Q&A
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As great as that is, Microsoft recently explained that the update also removes some experiences in Windows 10, so here’s what you need to know before you consider installing it on your PC. Bad(ish) news for fans of the XPS viewer
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Quote: Other notable features removed from Windows 10 can be seen below, complete with suggestions on alternatives:
People – Suggestions will no longer include unsaved contacts for non-Microsoft accounts: You can instead manually save the contact details for people you send mail to or get mail from.
Language control in the Control Panel: You can instead use the Settings app to change your language settings.
They removed people from their operating system? The biggest one for me was language control. Now I have to go back to the swear jar and my piggy bank is running on an empty stomach the way it is.
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Here’s what you need to know about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect 25 May 2018 Just in case you're wondering why every site has changed its privacy policy lately
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Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. You want us to install byte switches again?
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Where do all these people you reference buy their straw men? (Or is that straw people?)
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I don’t know, but they must be cheap. So many of them out there.
TTFN - Kent
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The site seems, appropriately foobar'd.
I guess that's what happens when you express a radical view about C, as anyone reading K&R would know.
"We are sorry ...
... but we have temporarily restricted your access to the Digital Library. Your activity appears to be coming from some type of automated process. To ensure the availability of the Digital Library we can not allow these types of requests to continue. The restriction will be removed automatically once this activity stops.
We apologize for this inconvenience."
Shocking, everyone knows clicking on a link automates the process of typing a URL manually into an address bar, or maybe they want us to go really low-level and access the page by IP.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As if the ACM had the faintest clue...
Software Zen: delete this;
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It probably means they tried writing their website in C and the entire server melted down over an attempt to access freed memory.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Same here... Maybe it's that there brand new web proxy/filter installed at work.
I did eventually get to read it from searching the title and viewing the cached-view from some website.
By one of the definitions of what makes a language "low level", the claim was the ability to have direct access to a memory address. That brought me back to Commodore BASIC's methods of PEEK and POKE to read/write an address.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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he's all bent out of shape about C because optimizing compilers do a lot of work to make average code more efficient ? and even angrier that CPUs take even more drastic steps to make average code run faster?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. You want us to install byte switches again? |
Yes, those where really neat, especially when demo-ing things to people who didn't know what they were for!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Computer Programmers make me sad sometimes. We're so good at so many things, and so good at learning whatever we want, but there are certain things we simply refuse to get better at, despite them not being all that hard, to our own detriment. Feel free to make a counter-proposal
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