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Yuri Milner is spending $100 million on a probe that could travel to Alpha Centauri within a generation—and he's recruited Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking to help. In an interview with The Atlantic, Milner makes his case for star travel. "We've got to get ourselves back to the garden"
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Milner told me the probes will use a small laser to communicate with Earth
Communicate what? With what sensors? All of which need power to operate, power to stay warm, etc., making for a bigger payload than a "chip", adding to the mass. How does it orient itself to look at interesting things? Momentum wheels? Thrusters? Heck, how does it orient itself to even be able to point whatever microwatt laser is on the thing to phone home? 
And ok, you've accelerated this thing to 20% of C, now what? If the thing reaches the orbit of Pluto in one day, then at the other end, without decelerating, it's going to zip through the destination solar system might fast. Probably too fast to do any real science.
What ARE these people thinking?
Marc
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If this laser in space, the United States would never stop trying to make it point towards earth as weapon.
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Windows users will no longer be forced to manually Google error messages to figure out why their computer crashed, as development builds of Windows 10 now include a QR code on the Blue Screen of Death. Because nothing says "friendly" like a near-opaque blob of pixels
Now we can do Rorschach tests with our blue screens! It's a bunny! It's a butterfly!
"I'm not trapped in here with you... You're trapped in here with me"
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I'm waiting for the QR code with a "Jesus" or "Virgin Mary" image.
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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I'm surprised it hasn't already happened. There was a salt lamp with JC on it around here about a month ago. 
TTFN - Kent
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I'm still waiting for the BSOD's with ads.
"Too bad your system went t's up. Time for a new Dell?"
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Quote: Subject: To make crashes 'friendlier,' Microsoft adds QR codes to Windows 10 BSOD
Yeah, now BSOD will be green, that make them more friendly. 
And all previous windows until 3.1 will receive a special correction that will nag to upgrade to W10 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Either I'm not using the hardware the cool kids are using, or I completely fail to understand why QR codes are ever used. My iPhone doesn't support them out of the box. My Mum would have no way in hell of trying to use a QR code to go to a webpage. Can they please just go away?
It's 2016. Why can't we just have the phone's camera automatically detect URLs in the picture, highlight them, and let us tap the highlighted URL in order to take us to the site?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Because for many of them, detecting and decoding a QR code is the most sensible option.
To try to decode text requires consideration of the following:
a) round-trips to home base with all of your images or slow search and decode times
b) an application that has limited font support or one which is quite large
QR does away with all of those limitations. A great solution? Nah. The least imperfect? I can't think of anything better off-hand.
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The human desire for knowledge and discovery has spurred us on to some pretty amazing achievements, although it’s also motivated us to do a whole load of dumb stuff too. You know you want to read it...
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Actually curiosity already killed us all.
Now we are all in the after life... living! With no memory that we already died!
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Without looking at the article, I must ask... are we all plebeian cats?
I mean obviously our pet cats are the nobility of the species. We take care of their every need, sometimes they attack us, other times they seem pretty daft, they can be affectionate when we have something that interests them(food mostly).
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Thats not a mass problem. A lot of people arent too curios 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Diagrams of software architecture have a certain aesthetic appeal to them. Don't they always match the UML the project manager created?
I suddenly became nostalgic for my old flowchart stencil. Wow! They're still selling them...
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At this late hour, the key is to minimize your exposure You have just enough time to install dBase III
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Microsoft Research, its Developer Experience team and its Applications and Services Group are all building out pieces of the company's evolving bot platform. Here's what's under the hood. It looks like you're working on a conversational assistant. Would you like help with that?
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Microsoft and University of Washington (UW) researchers have demonstrated the ability to use synthetic DNA as a form of archival storage for data. Hopefully you'll have another backup after someone puts all your data in their tea
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Interesting... are they going to give life to the characters / people described on their own data? Or will that only happen when the data centers are consumed by Neural Networks?
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Yes, bring back Clippy the Paper-clip
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Better than bring back... give him life!
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He's already back and has transgendered and is now known as 'Cortana'.
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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Look into vendors software supply chain, check the maturity of their software lifecycle programs. But... it's open! "More eyes, etc.", right?
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Ok, How many are doing machine critical projects like Launching a Rocket 
Ranjan.D
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According to Microsoft's new Windows 10 business roadmap, new enhancements to Continuum, Passport authentication, file-level encryption and more are 'in development' and possibly coming soon. Because nothing says "business" like, "Passport authentication"
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