Indeed, so it seems. Media says so, but i did not see this news outed officially by Google yet.

I read this at http://tweakers.net/nieuws/957...
which cited http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/...
but that lacks source, i for one did not find the original Google statement regarding business anywhere.

If true, i guess the gmail PGP they considered made it impossible to scan the emails anyway, so they might as well make a big deal out of it. First education ofcourse, it'll simplify that lawsuit and all. http://www.edweek.org/ew/artic...

Git is remarkable in that way in fitting into current practices of using hierarchical files changed by desktop tools. Still, it misses a lot as far as references to data items that can be exchanged globally (needing longer hashes), or dealing with large binary files (constantly rechecking stuff, but with workarounds), or dealing with rapid collaboration by several people such as to create shared drawings. But it is still awesome as far as it goes.

To that i say "To facilitate comprehensible opportunities, you have to limit options.".
This goes for game level design, the Apple ecosystem, jigsaw puzzles for toddlers, and the kind of focus that i only see in broke entrepreneurs that reboot their career.

The main story is an interesting opinion piece.
But further down he represents facts that i dont believe. Citation needed.

Tell me more about the "two lines of code that parse two lines of embedded comments in the code to read the Mayan numbers representing the individual ASCII characters that make up the magazine title, rendered in 90-degree rotated ASCII art." program. I cant find it on the internet.

Theres arcade games like hoops around a cone, but for games that require me to invest more than the few minutes of screentime i give them, i need something to help me keep the suspension of belief. This is where a story that keeps me interested is required.

But there are exceptions. The story may be cheesy, like C&C:Red Alert 2 where its just mechanism to explain the next mission. So either the story is informative, or the story is required to keep me interested.

Same for curled garden hoses. This is no new shape, ROFLOL.

For those outside of Lybia, USA, and Burma:

"at 6 km the temperature experienced by a stowaway would be -25C, at 9,1 km it would be -45 in the wheel well — and at 12,2 km, the mercury plunges to a deadly -65C (PDF). "

20,000 feet = 6km
40,000 feet = 12,2km
-13F = -25C
-85F = -65C

Sorry for the bad link, i meant
https://code.google.com/p/chro...

I think this is the link of the bugreport in question:
https://code.google.com/p/chro...

Seems legit. f#$!.. Google don't be evil. This attributes to being evil, regardless whether it happened knowingly.

From Stargate SG1:
"Plausible deniability. In the event of a future breach of security, we'll be able to point to this television program. That is, if it stays on the air." - Hammond

Well they sure solved that last part... fast turnaround times. I wonder who had the idea first.. (i hope the engineers that developed it)

772876 < 956533, so you tell me.. :)

I see weirder A/B tests flash by on a monthly basis at the least. They never get rolled out as seen in these experiments.

/ puts off aluminium hat
/ stares at ceiling
/ puts on aluminium hat

OSX 10.2 (2002) had applications better sandboxed than Windows XP (2001).
Windows by its nature doesnt have sandboxes, and is part of why it grew so fast. The newer Windows RT OS did implement application sandboxes i believe, tied right into the distibution/installation method like on iOS and Android

Its a shame the current (which was not even using RT .. all the more puzzling) users/customers did not want to know any of it due to the new Startscreen. I rather like the RT idea. Not going to use it myself, but its perfect for those of us not brainwashed with the traditional GUI "workflow", in which case its suddenly very intuitive.

Like .. Linux?

On Linux, i have yet to find any desktop application (thats not part of a distro) that installs in the ever-the-same, proper directory since its v1.0 release. At least most of the time it is /opt/* or /usr/bin/* or /bin/* .. its time Linux got some proper application-sandboxing too. I should not need to be root to install software, there should be a userspace level that can manages sandsboxes only. The Synaptec Package Manager (same for apt-get) software installer was way ahead of its time compared to other OS, but why is it overtaken?

Insights on this are welcome .. but keep the blind MS/*ux hate-love to yourself.

This article is bogus and even /. MS bashing unworthy. A proper upgrade is a OS reinstall, not a wizard that performs some half-ass "lets copy files and hope it works". Windows XP was never intended to boast a upgrade system like this. Applications can do anything on the whole computer and there is nothing to properly wall these in, except for using a sandboxed OS like Android or iOS. But these are, ofcourse, not as productive.

Quit the whining, just buy the new hardware and accept that the world doesnt stop spinning because you got stuck in 1994.