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How appropriate. I'm at my daughter's house. She's pregnant and keeps the temperature in the low 60s. There's no body heat left to harvest.
modified 15-Sep-16 12:43pm.
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They haven't met my wife apparently.
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The "powered by frigid" invention is next.
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I looked at an invention at Texas A&M University, called a thermally Activated Capacitor. Basically, it uses a special dielectric between carbon fiber plates tto force charge migration to the plates in the presence of a thermal gradient.It didn't look too practical to me it delivered power on the order of nano watts. But perhaps someone figured a better way to do it. Interesting stuff.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Many businesses don't carry out frequent security testing despite believing that it's critically important to securing their systems and data, according to a new survey. For those who wonder why there are so many hacks lately
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We know.We might be one of those who are vulnerable. 
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But it's so easy...
CEO: Do we have security vulnerabilities?
CTO: Yes.
Done.
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I'm surpised it's not 3 or 4 out of five.
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jeron1 wrote: I'm surpised it's not 3 or 4 out of five.
They test for it, but don't do anything about it. Of course, their testing often consists of the equivalent of:
"try 'password' for the password."
"That didn't work."
"We PASSED!"
(I wish this was a snarky answer.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: (I wish this was a snarky answer.)
True.
Recently, I was asked to grant access to my sons school records by some third party company studying the effectiveness of the current teaching program at his school, they claimed "we take data protection seriously, therefore the risk is very low...", I, of course declined.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The company has more than 16,419 contributors, beating Google and Facebook. "There is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with. Nobody can ever improve the software."
Yeah, they don't use the GPL. Whatevs.
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Stanford engineers have invented a technology that would allow an internet user to tell network providers and online publishers when and if they want content or services to be given preferential delivery, an advance that could transform the network neutrality debate. Bigger pipes? (Sorry. Tubes)
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And I'm sure my one (and only) network provider will gladly let me pay an additional $45 per month for the privilege of telling them which content I want preferential delivery for. 
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How about just looking at the network traffic, or is that too hard? (Hint: Netflix, Hulu, YouTube. Hell, any streaming video.)
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Oh my god, they invented QOS. Someone give that man a cigar.
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Find out what pays and what doesn't for European software engineers, developers, and other programming professionals. Did they separate out the UK data?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did they separate out the UK data?
There is no UK. Didn't you know that due to Brexit, it vanished?
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Dang. Another vacation ruined!
TTFN - Kent
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"The median salary of the entire EU sample was $56,000"
Why does anyone in Europe go into software development?
"Software development is a social endeavor: people who are on tiny teams and who don’t attend meetings tend to earn much less."
No, people who are on tiny teams tend to work for companies with no money (but generally hopes of making some. Perhaps, we could call these... startups. Nah, how about just "Wishful Dreamers"?)
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I agree! $27 mllion in expenses just seems nuts!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, we don't normally think about the hackers having expenses do we?
They have people to pay-off too. 
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As long as the tax-man gets his cut everyone's happy.
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Unfortunately true. A few decades back the IRS claimed taxes from a prostitute's (illegal) income. The fact that the source is illegal makes no difference to the "revenooers".
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Microsoft is looking to entice more Win32 and .NET developers to bring their apps to the Windows 10 Store via its Desktop Converter, aka its 'Centennial' bridge. Got any old apps lying around that you want to sell?
I'd say, "VB6 apps", but frickin' Hanselman beat me to it.
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