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Google’s Chromium team never ceases to amaze. Its latest project is a Chrome app-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) codenamed Spark. Well, I guess it is possible to develop something in Dart
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There’s a lot of chatter about moving applications to the cloud, whether the public cloud such as Amazon Web Services or private cloud offerings powered by open source technologies of OpenStack. "Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd on my cloud baby"
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The past decade shows only trivial progress in improving web app security, according to new vulnerability guidelines in the OWASP Top Ten 2013. "Goodbye, Piccadilly. Farewell, Leicester Square!"
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The chipmaker is ready to turn Android into a full-fledged 'client' operating system, much like Windows has been. To be 'like' Windows? Sure. To be as popular as Windows? Not likely.
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When it comes to malware, Android is pretty much becoming the new Windows.
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Having been one of the founders of id in 1991, responsible for games that include Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, John has been the developer at the forefront of many advances for over 20 years.
But fret not, he's merely ceased to hold positions at both id Software and Oculus Rift, concentrating full-time on the immersive VR technology company that produces VR goggles.
Link: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Doom-Creator-John-Carmack-Leaves-id-Software-for-Oculus-Rift-402932.shtml[^]
Sure beats the 3 monitor, 270° FOV trick for versions upto v1.1.
"doom -devparm -nodes 3 -left"
"doom -devparm -nodes 3"
"doom -devparm -nodes 3 -right"
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In addition to learning how to craft new technologies, undergraduate engineers are learning to not care as much about their fellow human beings, suggests a new study from a sociologist with a degree in engineering. Not that there's any evidence of this in any discussion forums I read
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Here and I thought I was just a bad person. >:
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We'll have all the friends we need when we meet the Vulcans.
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It's almost as if growing up may influence your personality...
What an unexpected breakthrough. Thank God I'm still alive to experience this new insight in the nature of humanity that nobody else has ever noticed before.
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 that great science journal "Duh!" strikes again.
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TTFN - Kent
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Cech did not survey a control group of undergraduates in other subjects.
Sure, pick on the engineering students why don't you. I'm sure you'd get similar results with any major
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Jason Cardoza wrote: I'm sure you'd get similar results with any major
I dunno. While the lack of a control is a back-handable offence, I think you wouldn't see a similar result in a group of chemists, sociologists, or most other majors. Part of it is I think selection pressure (a certain subset tend to head towards enginnering/CS), and part of it is the training (isolated for the most part, requiring a certain degree of preciseness). Nature and nurture, if you will.
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TTFN - Kent
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Of course, from the link:
There is, though, one big caveat to this study: Cech did not survey a control group of undergraduates in other subjects. So while her results are intriguing, it’s not clear whether engineers in particular come out of their studies with a dulled sense of social responsibility, or it’s just something that happens to all graduates when they start having to fend for themselves in a harshly competitive economy.
Which contradicts the title. The study doesn't suggest anything unique about engineering because of the above.
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While the FAA has cleared the use of electronics on US passenger airplanes at all stages of flight, there's still one major restriction in place: you have to shut off all cellular access. That rule may not exist for much longer if the FCC has its way, according to sources for the Wall Street Journal. But I thought that would cause the plane to automatically crash?
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Imagine up to 300 people chatting for eight hours in an already cramped airline.
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Quick! Buy all the shares you can in "Noise-Cancelling Headphones" manufacturers.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Since revelations of the NSA's widespread data collection and monitoring earlier this year, Google has staunchly denied working with the government agency and has taken it to task on a number of occasions. After calling the NSA surveillance "outrageous" earlier this month, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has come out against the agency again in an interview with Bloomberg News. "The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything," Schmidt said in a speed at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. "We can end government censorship in a decade." Strangely enough, that's also the solution to Google's surveillance
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Strangely enough, that's also the solution to Google's surveillance
Not if Google provides the encryption - They will sooner or later, since they started encrypting their whole internal data traffic. 
Veni, vidi, caecus
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Yeah. I meant encrypt it locally, then use their stuff (mostly gmail). Just like the bad old PGP days 
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TTFN - Kent
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That copes with the content of the message, unfortunately not with the metadata.
Maybe we should all go to the dark web side.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Maybe we should all go to the dark web side.
I'll make an entire new internet before going to that place.
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Blackberry did this for ages. But they are not social. Ha.
Nuclear launch detected
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Are you a competent JavaScript developer but have yet to hit Jedi-level secrets? No worries -- these steps will take you to the next level. "There is no try, only do" (Thank you, snydeq)
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