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A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Planet hunting: the Andromeda strain!
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Spending too much time in dimly lit rooms and offices may actually change the brain's structure and hurt one's ability to remember and learn, indicates groundbreaking research by neuroscientists. Dim bulbs make dim bulbs
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I cannot remember if I have a dimmer. I don't see one.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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A new and emerging technology is hitting the ground running, and creating a frenzy in the industry. "But I found out I'm just a link in your chain"
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In ten years: Remember when everyone was using that block chain stuff for everything? (Yes, I'm cleaning that crap out of code right now.)
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Quote: Blockchain is bringing the concept of trust to the Internet
The only people I see interested in Bitcoin (I know this is about blockchain, not bitcoin) are criminals and get-rich-quick artists. What happens when only those two types of people are interested in something? Endless scams. Endless, endless scams, from bitconnect to the million other scams just like it and even worse.
Quote: It can make things a lot more efficient in terms of confirming a transaction and storing data.
Really? Blockchain can handle, what, 3 or 4 transactions per second? VISA can process tens of thousands of transactions per second. Blockchain isn't scalable either, something their current debating\bickering over how to solve.
Terrible article, terrible "experts".
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Really? Blockchain can handle, what, 3 or 4 transactions per second? VISA can process tens of thousands of transactions per second. Blockchain isn't scalable either, something their current debating\bickering over how to solve.
That's specifically bitcoin. Other payment blockchains have been designed to scale to much larger volumes from the start, and for applications other than high volume payment systems even a bitcoin speed chain is more than fast enough. I'd expect most of those applications are using more scalable chains anyway though; just because no one's using BTC as a baseline implementation any more.
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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Even networks designed with performance can still only do a few hundred transactions per second. The very nature of what is being done means it is never going to be as fast as a centralised network. And like all things, it's a trade-off; to gain more performance you have to compromise elsewhere, be it integrity, latency, security or whatever.
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That article read like at least the first half of it (where I stopped) was written a month or two ago before all things crypto started plunging again.
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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As a concept, block chain is still relatively in its infancy; only time will tell how it will proceed or morph. If we disregarded all technology in its infancy that had to POTENTIAL to improve over time, we would never have the firearms we have now.
Thank about that... the first firearms didn't have a fast load rate, an accomplished archer could inflict more damage than the first firearms.. but the designers persisted.
So... before we condemn block chain, look into it and ignore the hype (good and bad).
Coincidentally, I received an e-mail from work last night about emerging technologies they have on their watch list - and block chain was there. I don't work for a speculator or a criminal, by the way.
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Learn how the compiler framework for programmatically generating machine-native code has made it easier than ever to roll new languages and enhance existing ones "Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years"
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I didn't expect to find LL Cool J here 
And for that, I'm NOT gonna knock you out 
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Low levels of alcohol consumption may reduce inflammation and help the brain clear away toxins, including those associated with Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests. Bad news for those who like their dirty minds
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Brought to you by the nutrition scientists who can't decide if eggs have good or bad cholesterol.
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If a little bit can do all that, just imagine how much good a proper session can do for you!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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The three exploits are EternalChampion, EternalRomance, and EternalSynergy; all three leaked last April by a hacking group known as The Shadow Brokers who claimed to have stolen the code from the NSA. Good news for everyone sticking with Windows ME
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In a poll of 20,000 European workers released Monday, Microsoft, which became one of the world’s most profitable companies by marketing office productivity software, acknowledges new digital technology can, in some circumstances, make businesses less productive. I completely ... hey, have you seen the cat and the heater video yet?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: cat and the heater video
Googling now... 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ...have you seen the cat and the heater video yet?
Nah, got caught up with the rat taking a shower[^].
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A secret code hidden in a painting that gave access to an online wallet containing Bitcoin worth $50,000 (£35,500) has been cracked after nearly three years. Dang, and I almost figured it out
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Chaos engineering is pretty simple — and fun too. Break things, break them all the time, and keep breaking things …. until they work again, and always. Code ... uh ... finds a way
I couldn't decide between that, or "Blood and souls for Arioch!"
Because Agile is so last week, and the acronym for Break-Driven Design was already taken.
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A new European data privacy law and official internet policy are about to conflict with each other. People (who aren't spammers) still use WhoIs?
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The best news for bad actors in ages.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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At the same time, "good actors" are susceptible to bad acts by the bad actors because their whois info (address, phone, email) is in the public domain. And it shouldn't be. I understand why they have whois, but making it public was always a bad idea, IMHO.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'd rather have to deal with some spam and spear phishing than not have a reliable source for my heuristics to make traffic decisions with. Without a WHOIS mechanism, good luck even sourcing the traffic, and we can say goodbye to denying known proxies.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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