steve2470
steve2470's JournalHow is the RW lying about the effects of the tax bill on Medicare ?
Reference: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/29/1719511/-The-Republican-tax-bill-will-end-cancer-treatment-for-Medicare-patients
I'm sure they are lying their ass off about this. Thank you in advance!
Steve
Did anyone else get a letter from Wikipedia ?
I gave them a lifetime donation (meaning no more money, period, ever) and I get this fundraising letter. I'm a bit annoyed.
You too ? Don't they have plenty of freaking money to do their thing ?
very well said
I'm expecting you to be scolded any day now for trusting anyone with your data. Like you said, a human is NOT going to go looking through my data to find stuff. Google has every incentive to safeguard data and I'm sure you really have to have a top-level clearance at Google to do that in case of the feds.
Security discussions get way too close to the truly paranoid for me at times. Yes, you want to take reasonable measures but jesus, if you're THAT worried, go live in the Montana woods like Ted Kaczynski and don't tell anyone anything unless there's a gun to your head.
I've been on the net for 21 years being reasonably careful and OMG (sarcasm) I'm still ok. Could the NSA get me ? Hell yes, but if the NSA wants you, they WILL get you, it's only a matter of time. The only way to avoid the NSA is to go offline completely. AFAIK, they have even cracked Tor and probably crack everything.
Not ranting at you, Egnever, just the people who just get a bit....off...about this whole privacy thing.
I can't say enough good things about Vivaldi browser
The only very trivial thing I don't like about is, the top bar turns the same color as the web page and sometimes I don't like that. I might be missing how to configure that, if you can. eta: nvm I think I fixed it.
The CEO of the company used to run Opera, so he's trying to recreate it under a new name and make it better. AFAIK you can turn off all the Google-related stuff that people hate. ETA2: I meant Google Chrome's data collection. Sorry.
https://vivaldi.com/features/
On a sidenote, this guy is remaking Opera 12: http://otter-browser.org/ It's still in beta.
Cat pulling snow skier
https://twitter.com/WZorNET/status/9364667148035563541- Is that a Maine Coon cat ???
2- Is this considered animal abuse ???? I almost didn't post it.
Rinse repeat: 21F at 72.67 N (well into the Canadian Arctic)
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/ca/pond-inlet/CYIONaw, no global warming/global climate change. Nonsense!
Profile of an incredible woman in software
https://news.microsoft.com/stories/people/laura-butler.htmlBefore I copy/paste the article, I just want to say that I know a lot of people on DU and in RL hate Microsoft. Fair enough. They definitely deserved it back in the bad old Bill Gates/Balmer days. At any rate, try to read the article and put your hatred for the company aside. She's pretty freaking incredible. I talk to her on Twitter a bit.
Children love bubbles and water fountains. Most adults tend to find more exhilaration from an incoming text. Sometimes, however, theres that rarest of souls, a grown-up who manages to find beauty in both. Those are the types of people you want to be around, because their contagious joie de vivre delivers a jolt of energy to your ho-hum day.
Laura Butler, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, is one such person. Currently shes standing in harms way for a photo shoot, underneath a massive metallic fountain at the Seattle Center. As the waterworks cascade down, Laura just laughs and twirls her umbrella, a modern-day Mary Poppins. If its not fun, youre doing it wrong. Inspiring words to live by indeed. If I had a second umbrella, I thought, Id probably join her.
Such is the magnetism of Butlers personality. Shes a funny and self-deprecating force of nature, given to free-form monologues that display humor, pathos and massive amounts of brainpower. Lauras incredible energy, intelligence, and dizzying stream of analogies leave you awed in the first five minutes of meeting her, said Microsoft Corporate Vice President and former boss, Darren Laybourn. Microsoft Technical Fellow Richard Ward, a longtime peer, concurs, adding, You never walk away from Laura without learning something new.
Shes quirky, a pop kitsch queen who freely mixes references to '80s anthems ("Safety Dance" , cult comedies ("Team America: World Police), and Miss Piggy with nods to high culture (Dostoyevsky, War and Peace, and Horatio Hornblower). Her cats are named Pavlov and Curie, after the scientists. Shes a Star Trek fanatic with an autographed picture of William Shatner and a Spock cookie jar by her desk. She readily admits that she has a thing for the pointy-eared Vulcan and his logical, yet emotional charms. Butler always carries a journal to scrawl notes. Theres a page devoted to television shows, movies and books she wants to consume, another for book ideas she wants to write, to-do lists, little tactical notes for work, and one for potential inventions, such as an umbrella with a cup holder, that are brilliant in their simple utility. As one of Microsofts early employees, shes worked on products dating back to Word for Windows (she jokes that it was just a single Window back then). During her tenure at the company, she has helped design a laundry list of features, including a new user interface in Windows 95, multi-monitor support, and Application and Desktop sharing in NetMeeting, a forefather to Lync. During the Windows Phone 7 revamp, she was the driving force behind the Buttery Smooth metro user interface, including the phones elegant home screen, live tiles, modern interfaces and touch capability. As a Distinguished Engineer at a company filled with brilliant minds (or, as she puts it, people who got beat up in high school), Butler takes her corporate role very seriously. With authority and power comes obligation and responsibility. Thats why shes constantly self-evaluating, not in her own interest but on behalf of her team, wondering: Whats the right thing to do by them? Each person gets that feeling that shes personally invested in their success, said Ward. She knows what everyones working on and the issues theyre having.
Profile Information
Gender: Do not displayMember since: Sat Oct 16, 2004, 01:04 PM
Number of posts: 37,457