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Kent Sharkey wrote: That worked out so well for AOL and Compuserve
That's a bit unfair to Compuserve, which actually predated DNS by roughly 15 years.
(According to CompuServe - Wikipedia, they were also the first online service offering Internet connectivity as well!)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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True, but they did seem to resist accepting the switch over to the web even when it was becoming obvious it was going to clean their clocks.
I do miss them though - it was expensive (to me at the time), but the conversations were excellent.
Present company is as well, of course! 
TTFN - Kent
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NASA's new leader is gung-ho on privatizing spaceflight, and that could lead to some new approaches to branding... like it or not. From NASA to NAScAr
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The Ford Saturn V?
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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You think we can get enough money to name a rocket "Boaty McBoatface"?
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On the surface, the world of agile software development is bright, since it is now mainstream. But the reality is troubling, because much of what is done is faux-agile, disregarding agile's values and principles. Agile, "agile", or Agile(tm)?
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I was going to write some snark about agile, but read the article instead. I should have gone with my first instinct because the article was awful. The irony is that he has a small point, but entirely misses it by not realizing that the "agile manifesto" is antithetical to the agile methodology. The former was a description of what good teams do; the latter falls for the logical fallacy (and conceit) that imposing values produces the same results as [innately] having them.
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A pioneering experiment will extend human vision to invisible wavelengths, say researchers. It was Bruce Willis the whole time (Sorry, “spoilers”)
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The US, UK, and three other governments have called on tech companies to build backdoors into their encrypted products, so that law enforcement will always be able to obtain access. “The men don't know, but the little girls understand”
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I think what these government agencies don't understand, or hope the public don't understand, is that a backdoor means that the device is not encrypted.
If you have a 'backdoor' it means that anyone can have access.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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One-time-pads don't provide backdoors. Implementation available on request.
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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Google has made the astonishing revelation that in 2017 it took down an average of “100 ads a second” for violating company policies. I'll believe it when I don't see it
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It was probably the same small set of ads, not 8.6 million unique ads a day. Or Google is just full of sh*t (cue the Google apologists...)
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Linus Torvalds thinks Intel has gotten better about keeping the Linux open-source community in the loop with CPU security problems, but it started out really badly. And it's still not fair that Linux has to fix hardware problems. In related news: dog bites man
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Did he stamp his feet and clench his fists while whining "it's not fair"?
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While ignoring the log in his own eye, yes.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: For all the pain this has caused, there's also been one good, unexpected result. Kroah-Hartman explained that Linux and Windows programmers are working together on CPU security bugs.
"We now have this wonderful back channel. We're talking to each other and we're fixing bugs for each other," he said. Who would have thought even five years ago we'd see this?
...dogs and cats living together in sin.
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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That is excellent news. I wonder if they're also talking with Apple? (or more accurately, if Apple is talking with them).
TTFN - Kent
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Conspicuous by their absence I think.
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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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Many famous programmers, particularly in the video game industry, started programming games in childhood on 8-bit computers like the Apple II and the Commodore 64. Just a PEEK
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Ah, PEEK and POKE. Good times. 
#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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At the Open Source Summit, Window Snyder, chief security officer at Intel, explains why fear is not a good motivator for improving cyber-security and provides insight into how to improve software defenses. So... stop hard-coding passwords?
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Or, in your case, p@ssw0rds
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Researchers from Nightwatch Cybersecurity this week put out an advisory about an Android vulnerability that purportedly exposes information about a user’s device to all applications running on the device. Stop me if you've heard this one before
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