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Comment Re:Amen brother! (Score 5, Informative) 424

Check this box if you can spell and really mean what you type.

There is, but unfortunately you can't set it up as a default, and you have to select it after you've done your search.

Go to Search Tools, you'll see a drop down currently marked "All Results", change it to "Verbatim", and you'll get a classic Google search (for the most part.)

I'm finding about 90% of my Google searches end up with my selecting that option. Google, seriously, when are you going to fix this?

If you put &tbs=li:1 at the end of your search URL, you'll get verbatim results.

Comment Privacy won't occur until... (Score 5, Interesting) 161

Privacy in your video rentals was not a reality until some Congress critter's rental history was obtained and made public.

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Privacy in cell phone communications was not commonplace until some Congress critter's cell phone calls were taped and made public.

Privacy in facial recognition will not become a reality until some Congress critter is caught and embarrassed via the use of facial recognition.

Congress does not care about privacy until they are the victims of the lack of it.

Comment Does he really talk like that? (Score 4, Insightful) 121

Nadella said in an email to employees: "We are aligning our engineering efforts and capabilities to deliver on our strategy and, in particular, our three core ambitions. This change will enable us to deliver better products and services that our customers love at a more rapid pace."

And is he really under the impression that customers love Microsoft products?

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Most of the Microsoft customers I talk to use Microsoft products either because they are required to do so at work, or the Microsoft product came with the computer they bought.

I have yet to hear one customer use the word "love" in relation to any Microsoft product.

Comment Re:Monster Business School (Score 1) 288

I have always admired Monster's business model. Take something as dirt cheap as a cable, tack on a price at least 3000% above cost and not only make it a success but have customers who advocate the superiority of your product on faith alone. Because they spent so goddamn much.

Monster cable is bargain basement compared to the bill of goods that many "audiophiles" are buying nowadays... To the audiophile, this $10,000 Ethernet cable apparently makes sense. At least Ars had the sense to add this sub-headline: "In reality, one-way silver cable does nothing but make "audiophools" poorer.".

Comment Re:Why not future proof the application? (Score 1) 257

This is similar to the backup media problem. Yeah, the code, build system and makefiles need to be updated when they go out of fashion, just as the backups need to be moved to new media when the current media goes out of fashion.

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So you deal with it.

Design for it. Make change your friend, not your enemy.

When your fashionable long-term build environment looks like it is dying, create a new build environment based upon the current fashion.

If you cannot or do not adapt, your pet project will be history.

Comment What can Facebook do? (Score 1) 219

...What can Facebook or other companies do to help these journalists report on corruption in a safe manner?...

For starters, they need to want to do something to help. Just because someone happens to post on a Facebook webpage, does that put the onus on Facebook automatically to protect that journalist? Probably not.

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So it then comes down to Facebook actively wanting to provide such a mechanism for journalists.

Will Facebook want to do that?

Probably not, as Facebook appears to be more interested in tracking people than providing posting sanctuaries for journalists.

Comment FB & GOOG - different tiers (Score 4, Interesting) 89

From the looks of TFA, it seems that Facebook's direction is about commoditizing the hardware, and google's direction is about commoditizing the services.

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That makes sense because Facebook's service requirements are not transportable to other industries, but Facebook's hardware needs may be.

Meanwhile, google is providing services to companies, and is looking to make those services transportable.

I wouldn't say that google is "dismissing" Facebook's strategy but instead, google is working a few levels above it.

Comment Windows as a [Ad] Service (Score 1) 231

...A paper from Microsoft researchers posits the possibility of 'pushing' web ads to a user's own computer and serving them into pre-arranged containers on web pages...

So this is what Microsoft meant when they said Windows would become a service. Microsoft just neglected to mention who would be of benefit from this service --- the advertisers.

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