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By analyzing 26 million online job postings, researchers discovered that approximately half of the jobs in the top income quartile (paying a minimum of $57,000 a year) required some degree of computer coding skills. "Some people say it's folly, but I'd rather have the lolly"
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In one cybersecurity study, released by Veracode, 83% of IT decision-makers admitted to releasing code before testing it or resolving issues. Testing?! Isn't that what users are for?
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HP is backtracking on a firmware update that recently blocked some printers from using third-party ink cartridges. At least until people stop watching them
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They have explicitly reserved the right to return to blocking 3rd party ink in the future.
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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We'll be good, we promise. 
Hp is a ill-spirited company on many levels today.
T'was such a great company when they had enough money love and market share to play nicer even if only engineering companies could afford their gear.
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I will never forgive them for killing Compaq. Take a great brand with excellent market reputation and merge it into a brand with very average reputation what a brilliant idea.
F***wits
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Now if only the other printer companies follow suit...
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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Google announced today that its now ten-year old service Google Apps for Work (formerly Google Apps for Your Domain), is getting rebranded yet again. This time around, the company will call it “G Suite.” Nope, that name doesn't make me think of a piece of apparel. Not at all.
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Not even a tiny bit?
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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Gee, saahweeet!
#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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I'd be happy if they'd just spend a couple days to take the contacts app out of the 1990's.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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A new report, released by security company Check Point on Tuesday, claims that some form of known malware is downloaded every 81 seconds in an enterprise organization. Did they think it wasn't downloaded correctly the first 80 times?
People, just use a reliable download tool next time. Sad!
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Would you stop it! You're slowing down my innernet!
#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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Some, within Microsoft’s ranks, are so entrenched in the evolution of the PC experience that they envision a future where the multitude of input options users will have when interacting with their PCs will eventually stave off their reliance on the last two vestiges of the modern day PC experience, the mouse and keyboard. From my cold, dead fingers... (which are on home row)
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That would be awesome, especially if it really helps handicapped people with interacting with a computer, even coding!
Marc
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First, I agree with Marc's comments.
Second.. what are you smoking? Can you imagine a room full of people taking to their computers???
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Tim Carmichael wrote: people taking to their computers
They're already doing that... oh did you mean talk??? 
#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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Well done... long day... I almost typed the participant number for a conference call from my keyboard instead of my phone.
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This week, Microsoft released the Windows Upgrade Analytics Service, designed to make it easier to decide whether you can carry out a massive upgrade. "Forewarned is forearmed"
And you know the rest of it.
But they would be handy.
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A tool from Microsoft telling you how a Microsoft upgrade will effect Microsoft devices.
Totally unbiased of course.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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For the last year or so, Microsoft has backed artificial intelligence as "the most important technology on the planet" and has released various products that make use of AI. New VP, Clippy, was unavailable for comment
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Kent Sharkey wrote: New VP, Clippy, was unavailable for comment
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Welcome to the Collective! Absorption is inevitable. Resistance is acceptance.
#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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Dammit - from Ruby to Objective-C. Damn that Ophiuchus! 
Of course, I think I'd lose either way.
TTFN - Kent
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I used to be swift, now I'm java.
So I went from crap to poop.
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According to the blend of those two articles, Ophiuchus can't be programmers. I guess someone has to collect the trash.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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Their work involves sending secure passwords through the human body itself, using low-frequency transmissions generated by fingerprint sensors on smartphones and other consumer devices. Feels like a login request, or the chili I ate at lunch
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Feels like a login request, or the chili I ate at lunch
Ewww....
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Sounds orificial to me 
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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So now my phone is going to pull my finger?
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Facebook successfully ported its SQL-powered detection tool, osquery, to Windows this week, giving users a free and open source method to monitor networks and diagnose problems. SELECT hackers FROM network
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DELETE hackers FROM network. 
The title had me thinking that Farcebook was providing a tool that detected open source on Windows!
Marc
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That's what I thought too...
#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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Reminds me of MS Log Parser somewhat.
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In an act of self-governance, these five companies came together today to announce the launch the new Partnership on AI. "Politics makes strange bedfellows." (and the fear of politicians equally so)
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D-Wave, a Canadian company developing the first commercial “quantum computer,” announced its next-generation quantum annealing computer with 2,000 qubits, which is twice as many as its previous generation had. Mo' quantums, mo' better?
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It's worth noting that the claims that D-wave are making are disputed by the leading experts - it's seems to be a case similar cold fusion.
This is a pretty good critique of dwave: http://news.mit.edu/2015/3q-scott-aaronson-google-quantum-computing-paper-1211
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Microsoft’s addition in the collation to securely transmit data in a global economy comes just days after cloud storage competitors Dropbox and Google (among others) also adopted the Privacy Shield agreement. Because Microsoft and privacy fit together so well
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Mastercard launched an ambitious open Mastercard Developers platform today to help third-party developers easily create commerce-related apps and services. And of course, it's priceless
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The code provided is in Java, Javascript, C#, Ruby, Python and Node.js.
Well, I guess NOW we finally know the most popular languages.
Marc
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The tech giant has released a set of new tools to help developers tackle common XSS vulnerabilities. Oh, no one has those anymore, do they?
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<script>alert('Hello World');</script>
Dang, doesn't work. 
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See? Everyone has solved those problems.
TTFN - Kent
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A federal court in California denied Oracle another trial in its longstanding copyright infringement dispute with Google over the use of Java code in the Android operating system. "This is the end, beautiful friend"
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I expected: "In reply, Oracle's lawyers threw themselves on the floor and while waving their hands and feet screamed "It's not fair.""
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BlackBerry has announced that it plans to stop making its own phones as the struggling company continues to focus on its software and security products. Blackberry waves Whiteflag
Maybe they'll sell more phones by not making them?
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The Priv may have worked out better if it wasn't so damn expensive.
i cri evry tiem
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