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British intelligence agency GCHQ has today launched an app called Cryptoy that is aimed at teaching secondary school-age children (and their teachers) about cryptography. Pay no attention to the encrypted traffic leaving the computer after installing
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We spoke with 2 Java Executive Committee members, Gil Tene and Werner Keil, together with Richard Warburton, a London Java Community member, and asked them about new features in Java and what kind of new capabilities they’d like to see in the future. "Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made."
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From what I've seen, C# 5.0 is still vastly superior to Java 9. 
Marc
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A former Apple engineer appeared in court on Friday as the final witness of an antitrust case involving the iPod and iTunes ecosystem, saying he worked on an internal project meant to box out competing digital stores and media players. "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them."
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It is just like locking the door on yourself and not letting yourself interact with other people. And yet, believing you are going to lock others outside!
Apple, Oh well... any sentence beyond this would be a biased one. You know! 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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"The more you tighten your fist, the more ... will slip through your fingers."
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One of this week's Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 7 has been withdrawn after some users discovered that it blocked installation of software containing digital signatures, including first- and third-party software, and even other Windows updates. I guess it was supposed to ship later? (Near the end of Weven support?)
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Or maybe the updates don't want users to update the systems at all.
I remember, 2 weeks ago I re-installed Windows 8 thinking this time I will get more space for my projects, and it was like 13GB free space after installing all of my required softwares (such as Visual Studio, MS SQL Server Express, Eclipse and JDK etc), and just after 2 days I recieved a notification saying "Restart to finish installing updates...". That was an unlucky moment, because just in 27 minutes, it left only 4GB of the space on my harddisk.
Now, I hate updates!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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If your system is running fine and you don't experience any problems after updating, you can cleanup your installation from time to time using the DISM tool to regain some space.
Dism /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase ...is your friend here. More info on TechNet[^].
Especially after a new installation with an older ISO release and dozens of updates downloaded and applied it makes a difference.
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Folks seem to enjoy pointing out that I use printf in many of my examples of “modern C++”, as if printf is not really proper C++. Apparently, I should be using cout. If it ain't broke...
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 Use what works. The older the better. Stay portable. Don't use the latest thing simply because it's the latest thing.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Don't use the latest thing simply because it's the latest thing.
5M+
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I personally love using the printf() command, and it seems more legit (at in my opinion). I do not only love this one feature, but I prefer C language as compared to C++ in many ways and I believe, C is way more better, although there are new fixes to the C++ making it a little more efficient.
But, after all this, writing,
printf("Hello World!");
.. seems reasonable, as compared to writing,
cout << "Hello World!";
.. Oh, well who can blame Bjarne now, everything seems to be working.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Why use a function that scans for formatting specifiers when you're just outputting a fixed string?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The company is under relentless attack by European authorities who won't stop until they do real damage. It's nicer in the south this time of year
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Kent Sharkey wrote: European authorities who won't stop until they do real damage.
Or more likely until the links between the Jean-Claude Juncker who is the current president of the European commission and the Jean-Claude Juncker who was finance minister and then prime minister in the tax avoidance scheme country of Luxembourg are "forgotten". Whichever occurs first.
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Generic offerings, specialized needs, and a desire to own one's destiny are shifting IT away from third-party private clouds. I could have sworn that was spelled, "Server room"
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The simple act of saving something, such as a file on a computer, may improve our memory for the information we encounter next, according to new research. "If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."
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The computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web says affordable access to the Internet should be recognized as a human right, as a report showed that billions of people still cannot go online and government surveillance and censorship are increasing. "Know your rights. All three of them."
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Near perfect timing, looks like, just around this[^].
Not sure whether this was coincidental, or intentional.
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Microsoft needs new ways to generate revenue, and a subscription-based Windows 10 version is a likely approach. But consumers may get a basic version for free. That should finally lead to The Year of Linux
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Quote: He predicted more expensive Windows editions that enterprises purchase will likely "shift toward a subscription mode, on top of the base product."
I thought software assurance already was a primarily subscription based model. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Not on the consumer side.
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By June of next year, HP will be showing off what it hopes will become the future of the operating system. Linux++? Sorry, no joke here, they've already made the punchline.
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