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For your security, of course.

Google to require all Windows Chrome extensions to come from Chrome Web Store.

Google is making a move to control the kinds of extensions that are available for Chrome users on Windows. Today the company announced that, starting in January, all extensions to Chrome on the Windows platform must come from the Chrome Web Store. Google has decided to force all Chrome extensions to be exclusively available on the Chrome Web Store.

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...and the fools march on:

THANK GOD!...Microsoft needs to mandate this as well for Windows in general. I know that 8 has the Windows store for Metro apps. However Microsoft could easily make and manage a central app/program site that you access for free to get a program.

Very scary stuff. Very scary indeed.

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[I, user.]

Sir! You have started to officially scare me. Things that you have posted here are very disturbing, especially the way it is all put together in one thread. It is almost like a digital holocaust of open applications and devices. (Not trying to make the real holocaust any less important, of course.)

Keep up the good job!

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...(Not trying to make the real holocaust any less important, of course.)...

Indeed. A bit off-topic to this thread but some things in human history should never be forgotten. The holocaust was scary stuff.

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Motorola which is owned by Google wants you to tattoo a smartphone microphone onto your throat.

...simply put, Motorola has applied for a patent of a microphone with a tranceiver and power supply that is designed to be tattooed onto your throat. ... the patent adds that the technology could also be applied to "other animals"...

These corporations seem to see their customers as animals so let me repeat this part:

...the patent adds that the technology could also be applied to "other animals"...

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Just found a nice hidden Facebook advertisement in Hothardware Web site. They post articles from time to time on how much privacy users are losing by using products from Google, Facebook and such... the flip-floping is amazing to watch because their "agenda" keeps changing, depending on who is paying them at any given time:

Facebook's revamped messenger application goes after SMS with addition of phone numbers.

Now, normally I would expect at least a tiny rant about how Facebook will now steal your SMS messages as well and sell it to the highest bidder... but no... no no no... check this quote out:

...The tried-and-true phone number is a hangover technology from many generations ago, and it's actually quite unfortunate that it's still around...

Hah! Did you see what they did there? According to them, having a private phone number is now a legacy thing for the old generation and it is oh, so very unfortune that it is still around! Clearly, it is Facebook who bought this advertisement "article".

I havd one word for them; Motherfuckers!

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Microsoft releases browser-based IDE, Visual Studio Online.

Ah yeah, coding on the cloud. Will I use it? Never. How about you?

All the stability of Internet Explorer for a developer sandbox, and all the speed of your local internet connection! No more pesky waiting for your SATA drive! Now you can access your code through the blazing speed of your cable modem! MUCH faster. And add to that the security of not actually hosting your files locally. The cloud is always a better solution! For anything! I feel much better knowing that some faceless someone at Microsoft will be in charge of my backups. I certainly can't be trusted to do them.

Win-win I say. This sounds golden.

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Ps. I imagine they will slowly call the Visual Studio which runs locally "legacy" like they call the desktop "legacy". Oh well, it's OK. I can always code in notepad++ or something similar again. I did it for dunno, 10 years and I can do it again. Fuck you Microsoft.

[CharlotteTheHarlot]

This is all I had to see ...

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Visual Studio is now a friggin' glorified webpage. Screw that. I'll stick with VS6 and Borland C++ and Delphi.

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Speaking of VS, it "can" be made somewhat tolerable, if you can look past THE SHOUTING MENUS that is.

This is how mine looks like right now:
(Notice how it reminds of Borland Pascal 7? )

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Incidentally, the screenshot is from the server which we host foolsdesign.org on. Ah yeah, I DO develop on a live production server. Yihaaa!

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Of course, who doesn't miss Borland Delphi 7!

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[CharlotteTheHarlot]

It does look tolerable, good job.

Delphi 7.04 ftw.

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..."an accidental side effect".

Google to pay $17mn for spying on Safari users.

The settlement was announced on Monday after it was revealed that DoubleClick, a Google subsidiary that develops and provides Internet advertising services, manipulated a technological loophole to spy on millions of people using Safari Web browsers in 2011 and 2012.

Google has not acknowledged any wrongdoing saying the violation has been an accidental side effect of efforts to make it easier for people to recommend ads.

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