* Posts by Forget It

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Facebook is no charity, and the ‘free’ in Free Basics comes at a price

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This article: LIke!

Bigger than Higgs? Boffins see hints of bulbous new Boson

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Re: As heard by ATLAS experimenters

I like the head of the one who said that on a platter.

/Herod's daughter/

Predictable: How AV flaw hit Microsoft's Windows defences

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IT Angle

How does MS's own Windows Defender fare here?

Typo in case-sensitive variable name cooked Google's cloud

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Holmes

The world is everything that is the case.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Wittgenstein

http://genius.com/2201817

All hail Firefox Dev Edition 44 – animations, memory and all

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: All well and good

try switching from AdBlock+ to uBlock

that halve the footprint for me

Downloads for Windows 10 November big-bang build axed by Microsoft

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ElReg explains for us:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/25/windows_10_download_explained/

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Meh

Muggins here

used MCT last week and managed to install the upgrade.

It fouled up on reinstalling my laptop's bluetooth driver and

that in turn broke the Send_To menu (all of it) and so I had to

get my hands dirty fixing it. I guess feedback from such not so trivial

incidents made MS pull the techie solution so they didn't have to cope

with the flack,

Rdio's collapse another nail in the coffin of the 'digital economy'

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Joke

Addio Rdio ?

Microsoft to world: We've got open source machine learning too

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Meh

Cortana do you use GPU?

Pause Patch Tuesday downloads, buggy code can kill Outlook

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bleak out look for tomorrow then

Google open sources machine learning software

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How does this fit into the Theano/Lasagne Python approach to OpenSource to

deep learning?

Mostly Harmless: Google Project Zero man's verdict on Windows 10

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Happy

Re: Google security

The Cheshire Cat didn't laugh (ha ha ...).

It just smiled.

:-)

NASA announcement of MAJOR MARS DISCOVERY imminent: WHAT can it be?

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Huge in the dense grey ten together

Megalith-still. They breathed, making no move,

With draped manes and tilted hind-hooves,

Making no sound.

I passed: not one snorted or jerked its head.

Grey silent fragments

Of a grey still world.

http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/poem/the-horses/

Ad-blocking super-weapon axed by maker for being TOO effective

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Gimp

Peace?

He'll be back with the next app called Love

and the one after that Understanding.

(yuk)

Facebook gains power to Like any word ever written

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Come on unicode you can dot it!

In Chinese, emphasis in body text is supposed to be indicated by using an "emphasis mark"which is a dot placed under each character to be emphasized. This is still taught in schools but in practice it is not usually done, probably due to the difficulty of doing this using most computer software.

src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_%28typography%29#Punctuation_marks

Journos to be spared replacement by robots, BBC claims

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Go

Golgafrincham and the B-Ark see here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSid-p0Xlk0

Swooning MEPs go all Directioner over Edward Snowden

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Mushroom

I suppose they intend to deliver the prize by hand

thus

the icon

(if the NSA get to it on the way)

'Hey Siri, it's Obama, what should we do about Iran?'

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I suppose this is different from

Asking the Oracle.

Next question Siri: Who killed JFK?

Grinning BBC boss blows raspberry at UK.gov, eyes up buffet

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Fine with me if they dismantle it all except for

BBC radio 4

I'd pay for that.

The most tragic thing about the Ashley Madison hack? It was really 1% actual women

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Coffee/keyboard

Follow question

of the low percentage how many were MtF crossdressing?

Use QuickTime … and become part of the collective

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Stop

Quick!

Quick Time to unplug!

How British spies really spy: Information that didn't come from Snowden

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How come there isn't yet

European GCHQ-thingie?

That way they could only legally spy on communications

with one receiver/sender outside of the EU.

Firefox to speed up dev cycle, go multi-process, rip and replace UI – soon

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Stop

This is bad:

This is bad:

1. They're going to arbitrarily kill features (at a moments notice) that we've grown to love and rely on.

2. It's going to be harder for our Heroes to add back those feature as Extensions - since they are also going to mess with Add-On/Extension system.

Help!

Google IS listening: Binary blob banished from Chromium build

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Pint

Nice title

Clever article title

worth the notional beer!

Amazon enrages authors as it switches to 'pay-per-page' model

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Maybe authors could supply their books to Amazon one page at a time.

Then if it gets read enough they supply the next page.

Oops I just reinvented blog posts

Cupertino GIVES IN to Taylor Swift, will pay Apple Music royalties

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Mushroom

Finally the tables are starting to turn?

https://youtu.be/7rZbvi6Tj6E?t=65

talking about a revolution

Why is that idiot Osbo continuing with austerity when we know it doesn't work?

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And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Miketz#Fourth_reading_.E2.80.94_Genesis_41:53.E2.80.9342:18

Astroboffins perplexed by QUADRUPLE QUASAR CLUSTER find

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The article says:

Supermassive black holes can only shine as quasars if there is gas for them to swallow, and an environment that is gas rich could provide favorable conditions for fueling quasars.

So they may be more quasar out there that are not shining - as they are out of gas.

Time to get your babble on: Microsoft opens Skype Translator Preview to all comers

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Trouble with automatic translation: they present only the most popular result. If you use an uncommon idiom, for dramatic effect, it is almost bound to spoil your party. You are thus reduced to newspeak just to communicate - not just a language barrier also a cultural barrier.

See the Edinburgh Prof explain it all better than me here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UVgFjJeFGY&t=26m3s

Rand Paul: I'll filibuster the hell outta the Patriot Act, fellow Americans

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Big Brother

May be he's seen this video by John Oliver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M

Do you have the intellectual bandwidth to attend ISC 2015?

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Alert

With Registration over 350 euro a day

I would be hoping for a return of interest a little more substantial to

drinks & snacks from the high performance buffet!

Facebook serves up shaved, pierced, tattooed 'butterfly' as CAPTCHA

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just another face on the pillow case for a Butterfly collector

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Whn2eQGSM

Paul Weller, Jam

Radio 4 and Dr K on programming languages: Full of Java Kool-Aid

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Re: “Goto statement considred harmful”

message passing as between processes in Erlang/Elixir is really a resurrection of the goto

iex> send self(), {:hello, "world"}

{:hello, "world"}

iex> receive do

...> {:hello, msg} -> msg

...> {:world, msg} -> "won't match"

...> end

"world"

http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/processes.html

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Re: miss

Javascript +1

(it must be the most ubiquitous by a long chalk)

RELICS of the Earth's long lost TWIN planet FOUND ON MOON

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Doh,

Earth & Moon

we are talking

Chalk and Cheese here

'Virtual nose' makes VR less dizzying, say boffins

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Joke

missing link

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q1/virtual-nose-may-reduce-simulator-sickness-in-video-games.html

says:

Findings showed the virtual nose allowed people using the Tuscany villa simulation to play an average of 94.2 seconds longer without feeling sick, while those playing the roller coaster game played an average of 2.2 seconds longer.

Not to be sniffed at?

RIP Sir Terry Pratchett: Discworld author finally gets to meet DEATH

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“People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”

They've finally solved it: Schrödinger's cat is both ALIVE AND DEAD

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Meh

Re: Quis custodiet ipsos felis?

A cat may look at a king ... if that helps any.

Professor's BEAGLE lost for 10 years FOUND ON MARS

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A handful of pixels:

... some corner of a Martian field / That is for ever England.

http://www.bartleby.com/103/149.html

Quantum computing is so powerful it takes two years to understand what happened

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Go

Re: So what is it? *

Your pic sir:

https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/834/1*YFBcLhwxjI2q2ko-Rxlw7A.png

best read with this blog:

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-mathematical-trick-that-helped-smash-the-record-for-the-largest-number-ever-factorised-by-a-77fde88499

Bada-Bing! Mozilla flips Firefox to YAHOO! for search

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Big Brother

> As part of its deal with Mozilla, however, [Yahoo!] says it will now recognize Do Not Track again but only for Firefox users.

Okay, when you need a “burner” email ac­coun­t [1] - choose Yahoo using Firefox and that should be marginally safer.

[1] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/11/14/Being-Secret

NetApp cyclists part from storage firm... go to Bora Bora

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Re: NetApp did actually ride the 2014 Tour de France

http://www.cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/team_palm.asp?year=2014&teamcode=TNE&podium=1

shows:

Victories 5

Seconds 10

Thirds 14

Doping incident 0

Philae healthier: Proud ESA shows off first comet surface pic

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FAIL

No soup dragon then?

simulation video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G512fvK9KXA&t=1m19s

DAY ZERO, and COUNTING: EVIL 'UNICORN' all-Windows vuln - are YOU patched?

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Some script kiddies weren't born when this bug began life.

Are open Wi-Fi network bods liable for users' copyright badness?

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Pint

Re: Please don't fuck this up

> At the moment, the only safe public WiFi that I can use is in McDonalds (here in France).

Obligatory culture reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLtwFugudZE&t=0m58s

Italian appeal court clears seismologists of manslaughter

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Don't you just love the Occam's Eraser that is the Italian justice system.

Not.

Even the judges are ignorant of what Karl Popper told them.

Not only that, they take years to delay decisions so their lawyer mates

can rake it in. Banana justice banana ...

We must SMASH the Democratic Deadlock with MINDFUL EVIDENCE

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FAIL

Re: Spoiler alert

oops auto FAIL!

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FAIL

Wrong it was Philip Larkin not Sir John Betjeman

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178055

This be the Verse

Virgin 'spaceship' pilot 'unlocked tailbooms' going through sound barrier

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Feathers

Flight

Icarus

WH Auden

In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Happy 2nd birthday, Windows 8 and Surface: Anatomy of a disaster

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Joke

Re: What is "the Windows client"?

Duh

It's the guy looking thru it to see something better

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