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The UK's National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord. Those Linux folk *are* a shifty bunch
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If you read their full instructions, they recommend the softly-softly approach, engaging the offending child with "'Ello, 'ello, 'ello? What's all this, then?"
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It means you suspect if you use them; so, downloading Kali now 
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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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There's the rub: I'll bet all the Brummy kids who'd never heard of Kali Linux before this have all downloaded it.
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It is ethnical profiling by software; use Linux, you a criminal. If you use TOR, you a criminal. If you use bitcoin, you a criminal.
I'm not a criminal until proven, but will act as if any government is hostile, and will provide services to those who pay.
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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To be fair, Discord is really lame.
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A nocturnal work schedule is the key to creativity and productivity for many open source programmers. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
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Open Source wrote: Bright computer screens
It was already a thing when we worked with green-screens.
You easily get into the zone when focusing on a problem without being disturbed. That's not very easy in an office, and impossible in an open office. But.. go, open offices! The thing of the future!
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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There's nothing special about programmers in this regard. Anyone who works independently of others will tend to keep their own schedule. The 9-5 wasn't even invented until the industrial revolution, which means it's been around for only about a 200,000th of the history of people.Kent Sharkey wrote: "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
Not wanting to state the obvious...[^]
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It couldn't be they actually, you know, WORK during the day?
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I can't wait for their follow-up article. I hear it is an in-depth study of why night watchmen like to sleep during the day.
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Never let it be said that Amazon Prime Air VP Gur Kimchi thinks small: His latest patent lays out a plan for a launch system that could theoretically send payloads into space on the end of a miles-long whip, guided by a phalanx of drones attached to the lash. "When a problem comes along, you must whip it"
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Well, the Amazons were highly regarded for their physical abilities, not for their brains.
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Are patents requiring magic allowed.
(Seriously; they should require that an invention be actualized within, say, a year of the patent application. Used to that you had to bring a model of a patent to the patent inspector.)
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That’s what I always thought had to be the case. I think switching back to those requirements would definitely put a kink in the patent trolls.
TTFN - Kent
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Sure, but the US patent office wouldn't allow it, because then things would go back to the old way, with 90% of patents only being taken out by non-Americans (who are willing to do some actual work, rather than just talk big).
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Going to need good padding for all that liftoff vibrations.
Working in environmental and vibration testing, that sounds like more business for us
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Why am I picturing Johnny Weissmulle swinging from vine-to-vine with the famous undulating Tarzan Call playing?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Have you ever found yourself debugging a .NET project or memory dump only to be confronted with a No Symbols Loaded page? "When I start to break it all down it's becoming perfectly clear to me"
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Once you get past the confusing name, the latest Windows 10 feature update has a lot to offer. Here's what administrators, developers, and the rest of us can expect, plus details on how you can preview version 2004. Grief
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Quote: check out the release of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), which incorporates a major architecture change
You'll find that it will allow you to run some of the many, many, many Linux programs that you want to run.Quote: you can change the dull defaults, Desktop 1, Desktop 2, and so on, to more meaningful names. Press Windows key + Tab, then click New Desktop, and click the label above the desktop's thumbnail to change the name
So only when you create a new desktop. Gotcha. It's a pretty much useless function, even if you can do it at any time; being able to only do it when you create a desktop obviously makes it indispensable.Quote: In Task Manager, you can now see the GPU temperature for discrete graphics cards without having to install a third-party utility. Likewise, the Performance tab now shows the disk type (SSD, USB, and so on) for storage devices.
Because the Task Manager is almost the best place for that. Not perfmon, oh no. Who would ever look in a program called "Performance Monitor" for performance information? It's obvious that the place to look is a program that displays tasks.
It's a shame they're getting rid of Notepad, because it would have been absolutely perfect to put it as an option on the Notepad Edit menu.Quote: The new version also extends the option to automatically restore open apps after a restart
Because collisions and crashes and half-hour disc thrashes during boot-up are what you really need, for a great start to the day. Didn't Mary Poppins do a song about that?
However, the best quote is:Quote: Windows 10 users will finally get an option that Mac users have had for years.
In place of "Mac", put "Linux", "Control Panel", "Dexpot", "Sandboxie", or any one of the myriad other programs that have done what the "new features" do for years, only better.
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"Another new virtualization-based feature in version 2004 is an extension of the Windows Sandbox feature that made its debut in version 1903. Windows Sandbox is a simple virtual machine that allows you to test software in a safe environment, isolated from your working environment."
But can I put the Windows update in the sandbox? 
I am on my way to Virtual Machines. 95% of my work can be done within them, they are portable and allow me to be hardware agnostic. This is very important to me, since. Microsoft in it's somewhat dysfunctional thought process considers it a good idea to fold in driver updates now. For those of us who work on laptops, this is almost always a very bad idea.
The only downside to using VMWare is forgetting that VMWare will trail OS releases a few months. Always backup your Windows VMs before upgrading to the next OS release.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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36-year-old Larry Dean Harmon from Akron, Ohio, was charged with laundering more than $310 million worth of Bitcoin cryptocurrency while operating the dark web Helix Bitcoin mixer between 2014 and 2017. Good to see more proof of all the honest folk working with bitcoin
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good to see more proof of all the honest folk working with bitcoin
31 of the 18,213,787.5 bitcoins in existence. The US$ has still more attractive for not-so-honest people.
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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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: 31
I think you may be off by a decimal point or three, there.
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