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The company on Wednesday introduced a connected door-lock and security-camera system to let package carriers, guests and eventually dog walkers in and out of customers’ houses, all controlled via an app. Now all you have to do is teach the dog to accept random strangers entering the house - what could go wrong? 
--wsj seems to have removed the article. Ad for the product can be found here[^].
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yeah, what could go wrong? 
Have a friend whose mother is elderly. Mother has two, very intelligent, very protective German Shepard dogs. The backyard is FENCED. There are signs everywhere - DOGS - BEWARE.
Apparently an illiterate (joking) utility worker ignored the signs, opened the gate, walked in to do something, and got his ass chewed on as he was leaving at a high rate of speed. Mother was still cited.
What could go wrong indeed....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Mother has two, very intelligent, very protective German Shepard dogs.
Cool breed, the police has a few of those too 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I have an 83 pound female black lab who will love you to death and you'll never see your children again. 
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charlieg wrote: There are signs everywhere - DOGS - BEWARE.
The utility worker was obviously very literate, and possibly a computer programmer.
He read the signs, realised he wasn't a dog, and therefore concluded that he didn't need to beware.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The new business of the future: BaaS (Burglary as a Service).
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Thanks for all the passionate feedback. It has been very helpful, painful, and entertaining all at the same time. We're changing the orange icon to blue for Stable and keeping green for Insiders. That many people care that much about an icon?
So many words in response to so many people about such a minor issue. But, I guess that's the world we live in now. 
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There are two reasons that I don't use Code:
1) I've never really found a use for it.
2) I don't like the logo.
The more I think about it, the second is obviously more important than the first.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Choosing a code repository is an important decision. But how can a team make that choice? Subversion?
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Yet another "article" written to fill space. Would have been more useful if it mentioned lesser-known services, like Microsoft, Unfuddle or even, gasp, SourceForge.
(I keep meaning to put some projects on Microsoft, but have so far found that simply archiving my personal projects periodically and keeping the latest/greatest on OneDrive is sufficient.)
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As long as my code is on the public servers of a proprietary company where I have no control over it and it will all go if the company folds tomorrow or will be public if the company is hacked, I don't really care which of those repos I use.
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That's why I use magnets to keep all of my backup floppies attached to the side of my metal filing cabinet.
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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The irony of that is, I really don't give a rats arse what the repo is, it's the client-side tools / VS integration that matters.
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Agents at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been unable to extract data from nearly 7,000 mobile devices they have tried to access, the agency's director has said. Or: Encryption works. News at 11.
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A new policy limits data requests that prevent companies from telling customers. Sorry, slow news day
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It's a shame this is being framed as slow filler news, because this is a pretty immense f'n deal. The DOJ has been swinging their stick with reckless abandon for too long, and this is a big win for consumers driven by industry leaders. Hopefully the momentum will continue and the ECPA will get updated ... oh wait, that requires Congress to do something useful. At least celebrate this one victory, then.
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Paving the way for transforming the world's measurement system, an international task force has determined updated values for four fundamental constants of nature. Uh... {b}constant{/b}?
15 parts per billion change on the Planck constant? If I understood it, I'd be outraged!
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Reading the article and following the links, I finally got there[^]. It made my day
selfish adj. Defines someone who does not think of me.
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The thin, rubbery sensor can be programmed to control everything from computers to TVs. Anything?
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The iSoft sensor is made of a "piezoresistive" carbon-filled silicone rubber, which when touched changes electrical resistance to provide sensing data. Meanwhile, an algorithm allows the sensor to continuously interact with interfaces even while it's being stretched or deformed.
I predict an offshoot to an existing entertainment industry. 
Kent Sharkey wrote: Anything?
Succinctly put.
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Quote: I, Mudd
comes to mind
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Developers already have access to a number of tools that let them see how real-world users experience their websites, but until now they weren't able to see how their website user experience compared to others. Add more orange?
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Google wants to help developers make better websites
Greenfield the whole thing. Throw out HTML, CSS, Javascript, every MVM framework (yes, that means you, Angular), don't let corporations architect the new web and don't let open source people touch it.
I guess that pretty much leaves nobody.
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