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A team of physicists, led by research assistant Asier Marzo of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, has released instructions in the journal Applied Physics Letters and on YouTube for how to create a plastic tractor-beam device. "You left spacedock without a tractor beam?"
I was going to go with, "But nothing runs like a Deere", but I wasn't sure how well that one would travel.
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using the pressure of sound waves to move objects.
Sadly it won't work in space. 
Marc
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You mean, in outer-space.
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In space, no-one can hear your tractor beam?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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According to the report, while companies continue to move toward agile, agile testing remains one of the biggest issues for teams. Who has time? We have a sprint to get through people!
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Testing is but one, albeit huge, fatal flaw with agile. One solution is to have a testing sprint offset from the development sprint.
The notion that automated testing is the only, or at least primary, testing that needs to be done is one of the worse ideas ever inflicted on software development. Automated testing confirms the software works. The goal of actual testing is to prove that the software doesn't work. (Or, as I like to put it, testers try to show that developers are idiots; developers try to prevent that.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Testing is but one, albeit huge, fatal flaw with agile
User documentation is another.
If you don't tell your users clearly and (as) fully (as possible) how to use your product, they will make incorrect assumptions, which almost invariably lead to changes having to be made, to match their assumptions -- so add a few dozen blank sprints to your planning, to handle all the enhancement and change requests.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The data point is an update to IDC's spending guide study that covers the 2015-2020 forecast period. And that's just the payments to people ransoming your house's wired gadgets
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"If you not wanting your ice-cream melting, send moneys soonly!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Can humans hang on to their dominance at this game of chance? It probably has the best poker-face
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I challenge an AI to beat the games my granddaughter invents. (The problem being that a) the rules constantly change to her advantage and b) to win, I must lose.)
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The radio burst studied by the astronomers is the first known example that "repeats" "CQ, this is W9GFO. Is anybody out there?"
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Quote: The flashes and the persistent source must be within 100 light-years of each other
Worst use of the word "pinpointed" ever!
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WOO-HOO!
Now we can make up all kinds of new, stupid, brain-f@rt theories, and state them as if they're absolute fact!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As of January 1, the delivery of ransomware is illegal in California thanks to Senate Bill 1137 going into effect. Well, that should stop them then
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Um, where is it not illegal?
Unless they mean that people who've had their computers compromised, and are unknowingly deploying the cr@p, are now criminals.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe before it was legal to deploy as long as you didn't use it? Possibly a case of the law lagging behind technology.
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the way it works was a poor fit with the existing state extortion statue (and while the feds have the CFAA that's a dumpster fire of a different sort and they generally only go after the biggest offenders anyway), so the law was given a minor update to explicitly state that it's a violation.
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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Ah. I'm not used to the "this is a state crime and that one's federal" thing you've got going, over there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Feds cite use of internet-connected cameras to launch botnet attack as proof that better security is needed. And the prize for closing the barn door after the horses have left goes to...
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Automatic IoT patching; does that mean that each and every device gets a (standardized) port trough which we can send codez?
Rly? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Ugh... a project that might actually be useful is offered less than $25,000 (that $25k is the total prize pool including the $3k honorable mentions). The article even says the winners of a previous contest had to fully pay their way to the conference to even have their idea judged. So a possible net positive of (25,000 - (3,000 x HonorableMentions) - TravelCosts) with a possible net negative of TravelCosts.
Meanwhile projects like the TSA Randomizer app that take less than 10 minutes to write and debug pay out 1.4 million. I don't even 
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The open source, multiplatform Gitea project for lightweight code-hosting is written in Go. Now you can be a git on your own network
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This analysis is not perfect, as the comment “that one’s so stupid it underflows and becomes awesome” appears in both lists. "I'm so happy that I can't stop crying"
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Apparently:
"You're an idiot  "
is happy
"You're an idiot."
is sad.
Perhaps the "happy" stats are really measure phoniness and insincerity, while the "sad" stats are measuring directness and honesty.
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