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Kent Sharkey wrote: Russian arms maker Kalashnikov
They're building a bullet train?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A coffee-delivering drone that can detect when people are tired and bring them a drink has been patented by technology company IBM. That's what I hear buzzing over Chris' office?
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Now that's a good idea! Will it make the coffee? Or just a delivery service?
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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IBM? Does Wally work for IBM?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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This could be useful when they close down and spin IBM into International Coffee Machines ICM
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Why change the name? What could possibly be more important to a business than ensuring that its employees have a steady supply of coffee?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If the Commons clause were to be adopted by all open source projects, they would cease to be open source, and therefore the Commons clause is trying to destroy open source. Open-ish source?
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Drew wrote: If the Commons clause were to be adopted by all open source projects, they would cease to be open source1, and therefore the Commons clause is trying to destroy open source. When this first appeared I spoke out about it in discussion threads around the net, but didn’t think anyone would take it seriously.
Don't even worry, we don't take the idiotic statement even a tiny bit seriously.
You will never unite all code in a single license type. It is not a real threat, just a way to get attention and selling ads.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Intel is attempting to block benchmarks and performance tests from being shared on Linux platforms through a change to the terms of use found in a microcode update. Trust us?
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UPDATE 12:15pm ET, August 23 2018 - An Intel spokesperson responded: "We are updating the license now to address this and will have a new version available soon. As an active member of the open-source community, we continue to welcome all feedback."
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Yeah, that didn't take long. I really don't know how Intel thought it was going to get away with that.
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft announced that they're developing an improved Windows Update mechanism that would create a small update package for easier and faster deployment. Just more of them?
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However will they manage that, when the current monthly cumulative updates are a mere 800Mb in size? 
(To be fair, that's small compared to the July update for Server 2016, which weighed in at 1.3Gb!)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Windows 95 is the operating system that’s now used as a yardstick for what’s possible on modern devices and platforms. "Start me up!"
Some people really need a new hobby.
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Did Microsoft skip 85 versions? I thought windows 10 was the cats meow.
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*something*something* scientists, can not should. 
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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Is the tech industry ethical? Does it have to be? And the consumer demand for features is more important than security. And millennials don’t even care about privacy anyway. Especially the legally part (asking for a friend)
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... hypothetically; of course.
I believe the business bears responsibility for the code.
I also believe the business should enforce policies on the IT staff to ensure the software that meets these needs.
The problem is that the business does not know how to review software for potential security/ethical concerns; furthermore, the developers don't have a clue as to how half of the stuff works that they bring via GIT, NuGet, or any other imported frameworks etc. Not to mention the copy/pasting what we see here and on S/O
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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The term “Modern C++” is often used interchangeably with “Code using the new C++ standard”. "What kind of fool do you think I am? You think I know nothing of the modern world"
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...like the new spaceship operator?
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You don't focus as well as you think you do. That's the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley who studied monkeys and humans and discovered that attention pulses in and out four times per second. "Squirrel!"
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"You don't focus as well as you think you do."
Ha! I never thought I focused well. My teachers agreed.
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It’s the programming equivalent of the circle of life: programming languages are created, gain popularity, hit their peak, and slowly degrade until nobody uses them anymore. COBOL makes the list (for the last 58 or so years)!
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Quote: In the TIOBE Index, R has tumbled from 18th to 15th place over the past year
All languages wish they could 'tumble' like that.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Does asking questions about a language mean it is more popular, or that there are more problems with trying to maintain obsolete code?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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