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NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster | Ars Technica
Still something going on, but the most detailed external noise suppressed testing setup is seeing the same net effect regardless of which way the notional thruster is pointing. Their current theory is the earths magnetic field leaking in where cables are piecing their magnetic shield chamber.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Avast has found that many low-cost, non-Google-certifed Android phones shipped with a strain of malware built in that could send users to download apps they didn’t intend to access. That's a great time saver
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Kent Sharkey wrote: download apps they didn’t intend to access You have got to be joking, I have a Samsung S8 and there are more than 50 apps I have no idea what they are for and I did not install. Malware - bullshit, every vendor loads crap onto your phone.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Kent Sharkey wrote: send users to download
Mycroft Holmes wrote: every vendor loads crap onto your phone
At least they do it before you buy the phone, unlike this malware that installs them after you get it.
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Parts of the brain not traditionally associated with learning science become active when people are confronted with solving physics problems, a new study shows. Don't tell the physicists. They're bad enough as it is.
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Audio files of a family chat was sent to the husband's employee without warning. Little Bobby Tables[^] strikes again (audio edition)
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Funny
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OMG! I hope Skynet doesn't start the KillAllHumans protocol due to misunderstood background conversation!
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After launching in 2002, website discovery platform StumbleUpon is shutting down on June 30. It stumbled?
Actually, seems more like it was bumbled and fumbled a few times
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Quote: We are the Borg Microsoft. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Several tech firms have opted to block EU residents from using their services because of concerns they are not compliant with a shake-up to the 28-nation bloc's data privacy laws. There's still plenty of time to work on that, isn't there?
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A “horrible mistake” from 1997, the Java object serialization capability for encoding objects has serious security issues I'm sure that won't break anyone's code
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The work comes from researchers at Cornell University, Google Jigsaw, and Wikimedia, who teamed up to create software that scans a conversation for verbal ticks and predicts whether it will end acrimoniously or amiably. "I know you are, but what am I?"
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Windows 10 users over the past two days have begun reporting serious glitches after updating to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. At least it's not a BSOD?
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BSOD - Black Screen Of Death?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have a dell that has only 28 Gigabytes on the SSD, and have unloaded a lot of programs and user files off the SSD. Still the C drive has only a couple of gigs free. New installation is requiring a ridiculous amount of storage. Wants an additional 3 GB. How ridiculous.
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I have a dell that has only 28 Gigabytes on the SSD, and have unloaded a lot of programs and user files off the SSD. Still the C drive has only a couple of gigs free. New installation is requiring a ridiculous amount of storage. Wants an additional 3 GB. How ridiculous.
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I have a dell that has only 28 Gigabytes on the SSD, and have unloaded a lot of programs and user files off the SSD. Still the C drive has only a couple of gigs free. New installation is requiring a ridiculous amount of storage. Wants an additional 3 GB. How ridiculous.
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Researchers created a technology that could lead to new devices for faster, more reliable ultra-broad bandwidth transfers. For the first time, researchers demonstrated how electrical fields boost the non-linear optical effects of graphene. The list of things graphene "might" do is longer than the bug list for Windows
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Hackers possibly working for an advanced nation have infected more than 500,000 home and small-office routers around the world with malware that can be used to collect communications, launch attacks on others, and permanently destroy the devices with a single command, researchers at Cisco warned Wednesday. Well, I was thinking of buying a new router anyway...
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So I'm guessing router manufacturers have never watched a movie in their lifetime? Only the idiot antagonists build a single kill switch into every evil scheme/concoction so that the good guys have something to thwart and win in the end. I guess they wanted to try it the other way and give the villains a shot.
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I have no idea what movies the router makers watched, but it's not relevant. The hackers otoh appear to've watched some where the villains pushed a big red button to blow up stuff all over the world and said "I gotta get me some of that"; so they put the brick the router feature into their malware.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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You've got a full hour until your next meeting. But you probably won't make the most of that time, new research suggests. That explains why I can't get anything done today. I have a meeting on Monday.
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I also know that the end of the day seems to affect my productivity, probably for the same reasons.
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