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Two months ago, astronomers picked up and then pinpointed a location of a weird burst of radio waves from space, prompting heated debate about just what was sending them. Now, new data has finally revealed that source. "A hundred billion castaways looking for a home"
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"A supermassive black-hole", IOW "Uranus"?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Quote: This is the source of those mysterious radio bursts from space
Except that even the elephanting article eventually says that its not. The fast radio bursts are all single events; what they've done is to find one object that they initially thought was an FRB but which turned out to be a recurring source and figured out what it was. We still don't know what any of the other FRBs are from.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A group of researchers found out and advanced the field of robot interaction design. Rule 34, where are you?
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NoScript, Firebug, and other popular Firefox add-on extensions are opening millions of end users to a new type of attack that can surreptitiously execute malicious code and steal sensitive data, a team of researchers reported. I'm switching back to using IE4. At least I won't have a false sense of security.
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Our goal is to enable application developers to write once, in an open and interoperable way, the exact same code to access functionalities that are shared across similar Things. And now you've got 15 standards
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The 2016 .NET Developer Community Report sheds insight on popular technology choices, as well as developer attitudes towards the latest in the ecosystem. C# to B#
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I wish some parts were broken out in more detail. eg desktop dev was split ~50/50 between WinForms and WPF with UWP a small sliver of the total. UWP is w10 only, so that's not too surprising, most of us can't abandon legacy OS support until virtually all our users have upgrade; but I'd be really curious to see what the WinForm/WPF split is for new applications vs legacy maintenance. The former's been my bread and butter for most of the last decade; but if I had to start a new app now I'd almost certainly use WPF (and if possible try to isolate the top of the GUI enough that UWP would be an easy future upgrade or parallel fork.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Despite the name, Perl 6 is not the successor to Perl 5. They’re “sister” languages in the way that C# is a sister language to Java. Everyone involved dies a horrible, bloody death?
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Mountain View is home to WhatsApp, an online messaging service now owned by tech giant Facebook, that has grown into one of the world’s most important applications. More than a billion people trade messages, make phone calls, send photos, and swap videos using the service. This means that only Facebook itself runs a larger self-contained communications network. And today, the enigmatic founders of WhatsApp, Brian Acton and Jan Koum, together with a high-minded coder and cryptographer who goes by the pseudonym Moxie Marlinspike, revealed that the company has added end-to-end encryption to every form of communication on its service.
Winning!
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More delay to the messages for overhead decryption. Good one, WhatsApp, good one.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The White House and the federal government will begin to make a major commitment to open-source software this summer. While the government has long used open-source software and tools, a new proposal out of the White House last weekend suggests that governmentally written or commissioned software should be released under free and open-source licenses. The government and software is like water and oil.
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If they only knew what they we're saying.
Remember the High Level dude in the government that got hacked and extorted was an AOLer.
They just wanna say something hip n' cool
They have no more of a clue that the middle aged walk-ins that we see every day here at the "opps you clicked that?" shop.
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Haha seriously, next they are going to become "agile"
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Their agile procurement manual weights more than the 767 based K46 tanker aircraft. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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There would be a whole lot of DevOps going on beside the black ops.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Researchers improve the BREACH attack to extract sensitive data from encrypted HTTPS connections faster Faster is unsecurer?
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Did you read beyond the headline?
Life is too shor
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very strange and need to worry about.So what else we have for safer and faster communication.
Thanks & Regards
Puneet Goel
Save Paper >> Save Tree >> Save Humanity
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New APIs could let users jump among apps seamlessly across Windows, iOS, and Android devices As in, "All roads lead to..."? (If so, congrats. Best code name in a while)
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"People called Romanus, they go the house?"
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Ballmer.. in a toga.. fiddling by the fire? 
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Or is it that the founders were reared by wolves?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Do they keep Bill Gates in a cage between the Forum and the Campus Microsoftus?
(pardon my Latin  )
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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