The point of the thing is not your want of a particular job. If all you were able to do was flip burgers, then you'd find yourself in one of two situations to earn your living. Either flipping burgers, or demanding that those who are able to do more give what they earned to you. Essentially the philosophy here is that ability deserves punishment and not reward.

Microsoft only releases some builds to the insider program. More to the fast ring than the slow, but they certainly do not release every internal build to the insider program. For example, the currently available build for PC is Build 10130. For me, it's always interesting to see what's in the latest internal builds even if they aren't released to the public - just to know what to expect when a build is released.

Also, this is not just a screenshot release. The entire build was leaked, and this is the appropriate word, because it is not available through official Microsoft channels. The story chosen for the summary was just one that shows a lot of pictures primarily in place of writing more informative content.

The easiest solution that I've found for this at home is opendns using DNS port intercepting on a ddwrt router. Simple instructions for making this happen are at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/ind.... If you give your kid a cell phone with a data plan this will be quickly side stepped, but if you take a pass on giving your preteen a phone until they are old enough to grasp some of the needed conversations, it does give some measure of reliable and configurable protection to your local network.

According to the article this is not the reasoning that is being given for banning the app. As with any aggregator app that runs on a phone, there are many rather plain reasons why data such as emails and attachments would be temporarily stored on the app provider's servers.

The real issue that is being objected to here is that the app double-encrypts login credentials for various email providers using both a unique-per-client key that they generate and a key that is derived from the specific piece of hardware accessing the data. This encrypted data is then stored in "the cloud". The counterpoint to this methodology is gmail's use of OAuth to avoid storing any credentials - regardless of the sophistication of the encryption scheme - in a public cloud setup.

The certification argument is almost entirely a red herring for two major reasons. First, if you ask most teachers with certifications, you'll find that a massive portion of their education was based on classroom administration and not effectively communicating specific subject matter. Secondly, most home school curriculum are not based on in seat teacher to student instruction (though there are a plethora of online options if you choose that style). They are generally based on classical education which relies heavily on teaching children a love for reading with a heavy emphasis on classics and an ability to go seek and find answers for one's self.

Oh boy... are you still running XP?

That is already how windows 8/8.1 handles OEM licensing. There is no more product key sticker as the product key is integrated into the BIOS. The licensing agreement with OEM stuff has always technically been that it is tied to the specific hardware if my understanding is correct. With 8.1, this is just being more effectively enforced through technical means. It seems extremely unlikely that Microsoft will depart from that model going forward.

However, with the 8 upgrade licenses, they were product key based, because there is no control over the hardware before it reaches the user as there is with an OEM device. I don't really see how they could possibly get away from shipping a product key if they are upgrading any Windows 7+ machine. It also seems unlikely that at registration of said product key, Microsoft is going to store some sort of hardware fingerprint in a database to prevent reusage of the key at a later date on different hardware.

http://blogs.windows.com/blogg...
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Not too shabby. It's most interesting to watch people I know who started kicking themselves for not getting into bitcoins when it had skyrocketed to $600. Kudos to all those who got in sub $200.

I'm fairly certain that people can still assemble peacefully offline. I should probably check the news in the morning to be sure...
I wouldn't go to Atlanta, but this is a major enough shift that I'd show up in Chicago to publicly register discontent. As one poster wrote:

If indeed the above is a documented phenomenon, then certainly the laws need change. I doubt eliminating child porn laws is a good solution... perhaps immunity for people who turn it over to the police (like used heroin needles or firearm collections).

Even with that risk in play, I have to note that I believe that logic very similar was used at Penn State. Bring the tapes directly to the police. Cowardice, however shrewd in its self-interest is still cowardice. I maintain the belief that the judicial system would ultimately do right, and if it did not that the legislative would. Even if I never lived to see either of those two things happen, at least I wouldn't go to my grave knowing that I am a coward who could have stopped more children from being raped and instead did nothing.

No actual people are physically harmed.