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I went to download it, and they wanted to collect personal info, so I decided not to. Too bad.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Recently I discovered some computer code I’d written will outlive me — for many centuries. A copy of it has been stored in a chilly cave in the Arctic Circle. "Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold?"
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So my code is finally getting the respect it deserves!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But, but, what about the warming and the polar bears?
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Then your code will melt and get et?
TTFN - Kent
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There will always be a branch of archeology that thrives on digging through sh*t.
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Back in the old days, Windows 95 shipped with PowerToys, which allowed users to resize multiple images. And the PowerToys' Image Resizer feature appears to be making a comeback on Windows 10 later this year. Do you feel the excitement?
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Wow!
So they've finally re-added the power toy that absolutely no-one in the entire world ever used!
And they've added a fourth way to search for stuff on windows computers, in yet another attempt to compensate for the fact that they've f***ed the UI so badly that no-one can find a damned thing!
Truly, windows users are blessed, this year.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So you're feeling the excitement then? 
TTFN - Kent
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Pick your preferred response:
0:
I'm so far over the moon that I can't tell my arse from Uranus!1:
Can't you see how much better this will make the world for your brothers and sisters, Brother?
Lift your voice and sing your praises to the holy microsoft!
(Fortunately, this is the Internet, so I won't be able to hear it)
(Amen)I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I for one happened to like the image-resize Power Toy
And believe it or not, there is a Live Tile that I actually miss... the Weather app was kinda nice
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Yeah, the Weather live tile was good (it did take me way too many tries to get it to remember my location though).
TTFN - Kent
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MadMyche wrote: the Weather app was kinda nice
... Except for the minor details that its wind vane is displayed 180 degrees out and its wind units are beaufort, making it essentially unusable.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: PowerToys
Is this a joke???? I didn't see anything new at all. Oh, wait, it's a toy... Nevermind.
Yeah, soooo, excited.
#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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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Is this a joke???? I didn't see anything new at all.
You are color blind, aren't you?
They changed the color of the icon 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Fellow team members may be better at assessing candidates than the actual recruiters, a Blind report found. The other 4% are recruiters
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But HR is perfect -- ask anyone in HR!
I always insist that HR not "filter" CVs for me -- I ask them to just put the ones that they think are the best at the top of the pile, but let me see the cr@p applicants, too.
... And then I start from the bottom of the pile, and usually choose to only interview people from way down low.
If you're allowing HR to reject applicants, you're making a Huge mistake.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If you're allowing HR to reject applicants, you're making a Huge mistake.
If you have an HR team, you've already lost.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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"No jobs with Python; just C++"
Gets job posts with C++ and Python. (And one added Perl!)
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Say it isn't so... You mean people schillers are not the brightest? Do tell!
#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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An analysis of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database has shown that, if the number of vulnerabilities is any indication of exploitability, Windows 10 appears to be a lot safer than Android, Mac OS or Linux. How bad do you have to be?
I mean, even worse than Adobe Acrobat? Hang your head in shame! (More eyes, indeed!)
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Let us not forget Truth No.1!
Truth No. 1:
Size matters.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said. "Anonymous" isn't anonymous
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Quote: That approach, Kenyon said, flipped on its head the traditional method of seeking a search warrant, in which police target a person they already suspect.
You mean the method of going door to door asking neighbours if they saw something, and most likely not seeing anyone.
Quote: “This geofence warrant effectively blindly casts a net backwards in time hoping to ensnare a burglar,”
The article earlier points out that they received a basic data set of what was in the area - I am assuming device, date and time, with some GUID to link multiple devices and make the request back to google for further information. (might also include application that data point came from)
And he was giving 7 days to respond. Even gave him the case number so he could back trace the request.
I am someone still on a bit in the middle on this whole issue, but the way this has been put together will push haters to still hate.
Put it this way: how upset would the guy have been if no tech was used, instead they had an eye-witness that said this guy cycled past the place 3 time in an hour.
That right there is more details then what google had provided to them. (hint toward age, sex, activity, time)
Google provided date, time, device (maybe some other generic data). They require the next step of requesting more detail so they can find out that you are not a suspect, to which you have time to appeal.
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The really scary part is considering how and why the connection between Google and the police was established. Once the police knows that this person had been close to the burglary site, they can check the guy out of the case. But how did they get to know of him at all?
Either, the police can demand that Google (or any similar actor) seaches through all their anonymized data and selects whatever the police demands, and Google does not object to it at all: They will deliver any anonymized data to the police in a de-anonymized format, for no other reason that the police says "We want to take a look at it". The police is doing the selecting of "relevant" data, in a huge base - for all practical purposes, all of the location info that Google manages.
Or (which I actuall consider less likely): Google is itself doing part of the police investigation, evaluating which may be relevant evidence, to be handed over to the police, and which is not. Then Google serves as an extension of the police.
Actually, the second alternative is the scariest to me, that Google has become intermingled with the police. It will be much harder to reverse that. In the first alternative, it takes a decision by Google (which certainly is not likely, but it is in theory possible) to not give out any de-anonymized information about any indiviual unless the police has declared him/her as a suspect.
It is really scary in either case.
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