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It strikes me that any sufficiently advanced extra-terrestrial civilization will be using point-to-point communications because broadcast is just wasting energy.
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Does it come with a "find-my-radio" feature?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I swallowed a pink diamond once...that may explain the voices in my head. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Whenever I declare a variable in a function body, I try to think if I can make it constant. Let me explain why I think you should be doing the same. "O constancy, be strong upon my side,"
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const universe = NothingIsConstant();
Marc
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This is a constpiracy - Arrr
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“The aircraft was substantially damaged,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Did it have something to do with contacting the ground?
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It was updating its status with a selfie showing its wheels a few feet above the runway.
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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LinkedIn has begun informing Lynda.com users of a data breach, emailing customers to say that "an unauthorized third party breached a database that included some of your Lynda.com learning data, such as contact information and courses viewed." Now people are going to find out I took that VB training video.
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The mystery of how Father Christmas can deliver presents to 700 million children in one night, fit down the chimney and arrive without being seen or heard has been 'solved' by a physicist at the University of Exeter. For all your junior Einsteins
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Does a hypothesis about a fictional being exist?
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Einstein was fictional?
Because you can't be talking about Santa - he's real! Chris assured me he is.
TTFN - Kent
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Did Chris tell you your Christmas bonus would be brought by Santa? But only if only you believe enough.
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You don't want Kent to realise there's no naughty/nice list.
It'll get messy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The amount of insecure software tied to reused third-party libraries and lingering in applications long after patches have been deployed is staggering. Including reusing secure libraries?
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Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered? There might just be a "Natural Stupidity" joke in there
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One year after Microsoft announced its $1B investment into a holistic cybersecurity strategy, executives discuss how their plans unfolded and what's on the agenda for 2017. I leave it as an exercise for the reader as to whether that strategy is applied anywhere
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Leaders at the UN in Geneva just agreed to officially discuss guidelines for the design, development, and engineering of autonomous weapons. Because everyone always listens to the UN
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Thought Java was 'free'? Think again (and you owe us $$$ in 2017) Free as in, "Gotcha!"
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Speaking from experience, oracle must be really hurting from the move to hadoop storage for data warehouse operations and need another cash cow to shore up their bottom line.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Well it's not that the world needed any more reasons to uninstall java but...
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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When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? But now how are they going to keep the barbarians out of the castle?
And what of the poor alligators in the moat? Does anyone think of them?
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Microsoft wants to feed Oracle to them. Well, so do most of us.
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Enterprises that rely on mainframe are having a hard time delivering applications as fast as they need to, a new report by Forrester and Compuware has shown. This news brought to you by 1970
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Quote: Enterprises that rely on the Ford Model-T are having a hard time delivering as fast as they need to, a new report by Gartner has shown.
Ya think?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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