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History is not fixed; like memory itself, it is an act of reconstruction. And I invented silly lawsuits, so he better pay up.
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Hmmmm,
This reminds me of the CAPTCHA invention claims[^]... I certainly did not invent CAPTCHA but I can prove that I was using custom Perl scripts in 1995 that called ImageMagick[^] to generate GIF files with random letters/numbers to protect my "Bulletin Board"[^] from early spammers. I have no idea who actually invented CAPTCHA... I got the idea from looking at another bulletin board that was doing it.
Back then we were all creating new things and not even interested in patents.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I sit corrected.  That only makes it worse!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Lawyers are like spammers and politicians... the better ones are the nuked ones.
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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Which is faster, keyboard or mouse? Both should fall at the same rate (in a vacuum)
I haven't seen such a design-free website in ages! How quaint.
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Back in the day (yes, this was after vacuum tubes) I used to work on 1Mhz computers where I could type faster than the BIOS could service the interrupts, resulting in quite a lag.
Today, I was doing some pair programming and realized I needed to add a using statement:
- Ctrl+M to set a bookmark (I customize my VS shortcuts)
- Ctrl+Home to get to the top of the code
- A couple cursor down's, enter, "using [whatever];" to place it in alphabetical order
- Ctrl+N to get back to my bookmark (that's "next bookmark", it was the only one in the code)
Probably under a second.
My fellow peer gaped and asked "how did you do that???" 
There is no way a mouse user could have done it that fast. I cringe every time I see someone use the mouse for scrolling or clicking on a toolbar icon (my toolbars are all turned off.)
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Not only with customized shortcuts...
In previous work (using Step7 of Siemens for PLCs) I was like 20% to 30% faster as anyone just because I only touched the mouse when I had no other choice.
That in combination with slight modifications in variable name / error messages to put the #Index at the end to just copy+paste+F2(edit)+END+Backspace+New_Number
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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I am quite certain I am much faster with the keyboard when editing a file in vi (vi is a console program and does not take mouse input).
Quote: The third widely cited AskTog page cites a single experiment, where the author typed a paragraph and then had to replace every “e” with a “|”, either using cursor keys or the mouse.
I am also quite certain this would be much faster in vi than almost anywhere else. Assuming I'm not going to quickly record a macro to do it, it's just: /e<enter>r|nr|nr|... until there are no more e characters.
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Last month's devastating WannaCry ransomware outbreak was just a warning shot. In an unprecedented move, Microsoft today released critical security updates to block another wave of similar attacks, making those patches available on unsupported versions like Windows XP and Server 2003. Maybe they could just keep supporting it?
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Yahoo’s assets are now being mashed up with those of AOL, which Verizon bought in 2015, into a horribly named new division called Oath. 1. Run company (further) into ground 2.??? 3. Profit!
$23 million.
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A few years ago, Yahoo wasn't quite horrendous yet, but now their search and portal are complete junk. I just double checked and they do have a map feature again for the U.S., but for a while, they didn't have any. I wonder what Mayer was thinking?
I even owned stock long-term in it, because of Alibaba, but got rid of the last of it a couple of months ago, because the company was falling apart. It sickens me the stock is up 20% since. She wasn't a manager and only thing she actually managed was to make Yahoo worse than it already was.
I will say their apps aren't too bad. I do use the weather and finance apps.
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And don't forget her remote work ban. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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And MS wanted to buy them for $45 billion just before the financial crisis! 
Yahoo! Groups revamps were fiascos as well.
Kevin
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I know, I know... And sure, there are some advantages of MSFT buying Linkedin, but I would not be surprised if 10 years from now, pundits show how bad of a purchase Linkedin ended up being.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: horribly named new division called Oath
That's a terrible name.
Are you sure you didn't forget an 'L' and an'E' (LOathE)??
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Bangkok Post: Quote: Police are investigating how almost half a million unused Thai SIM cards got into the hands of three Chinese people allegedly operating in Thailand the business of generating fake page views and online. ... They found 474 iPhones of 5S, 5C and 4S series, 347,200 cards of Thai mobile phone operators.
[^] The three Chinese nationals arrested were, allegedly, being paid to manipulate the Chinese social site WeChat.
I wonder why they preferred iPhones ? Note: the bust was in a place right across from the Cambodian border; the Cambodian border-town is a place where fake i-Anything can be bought. Of course, even the wizards of Shenzen and Guangzhou can't clone Apple's proprietary hardware
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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BillWoodruff wrote: 474 iPhones of 5S, 5C and 4S series
Older phones.. I wonder if these got there through some of the phone recycling companies?
One reason for choosing iPhones over everything else is that it'd be easier to root one device rather than having to do specific roots on all different versions of Android with different connectors and potentially different sized SIM cards.
Surely though someone would have to put credit on all those SIM cards to be able to use them? That seems like it'd take a lot of time and money. They'd be much more efficient with a bot net.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Surely though someone would have to put credit on all those SIM cards to be able to use them? That seems like it'd take a lot of time and money. They'd be much more efficient with a bot net.
Not if they're spamming via wifi I'd imagine. Then the sim's just part of the fake identity. OTOH spammers pay to have their crap promoted so plussing up the cards'd be affordable if they needed to.
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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You can use an iPhone on wi-fi without a SIM card. Even if the SIM's only had a dollar put on each one, that's still over $400,000.. plus the cost of the iPhones (even if stolen, people would need paying and it'd cost money to transport them)..
I find it difficult to understand how this would be economically viable in any way? They'd have to be making millions in return, and getting that just for "likes" doesn't seem realistic. Something isn't right here.. 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Something isn't right here.. 
What about business diversity: selling "likes" and selling fake/old iphones?
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I don't know.. seems like it'd be easier and more profitable (not to mention, legal) just to sell the old iPhones.
In my opinion either they're complete idiots or there's more to the story.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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A team of researchers has created the largest virtual model of our universe, complete with billions of galaxies, to probe the effects of dark energy and dark matter. Am I in it?
Also, is there a simulation of a universe in it? If not, it's not really complete, is it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A team of researchers has created the largest virtual model of our universe
Seems like an NP-Complete problem
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It was only disallowed because people who got wind of the application presented evidence that this had been prior art for literally decades.
