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Kent Sharkey wrote: the unit of mass that underpins our entire international system of weights and measures.
When did the US switched to metric ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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whether US switched to metric or not, you have the following choices:
- having the yard / miles etc.. defined as a scratch on as stick
- having the yard / miles etc... defined as a rationale multiple of a length which precision is defined to roughly the size of a proton... using universal constants...
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Behavioral biometrics technology and two-factor authentication are on the rise as safer alternatives, according to a study. They'll all have been hacked by then
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I already saw how fingerprints can be hacked with simple rubber (silicon?) made fingers holding the fingerprint taken from any object someone touched - very promising...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You've been watching too many heist movies!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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No. It was real, made by a team from a security firm, to prove how it is unsafe alone...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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In late March, at its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 had made its way to 270 million devices. Five weeks later, in early May, it said that that figure had climbed to 300 million. Only one more month to force it to a billion, people
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I threw 19 * 350 mil at calc.
They would be morons if windows didn't go subscriptionware for even half or a quarter of 19 / month.
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Belarusians are now stripping off in their offices after the president ordered them to "get undressed and work."[^]
Seems rather unhygienic.  How is "pair programming" handled in these bare situations?
#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
modified 30-Jun-16 14:37pm.
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With the official launch of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update less than a month away, recent preview builds have been downright boring, with no new features to write about. But hold on a minute. What's this Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool? Sooner, or later, you know they'll try it
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Message Closed
modified 30-Jun-16 13:42pm.
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Yeah, they probably couldn't pull a cross-licensing agreement in place.
TTFN - Kent
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It seems like to me they want to keep control of it and just want you to acces it over the interent on their servers.
It's like they don't want any more installed desktops.
Everything runs from "Their Servers" OS, and applications "They" choose".
Just saying. 
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Google announced on Snapchat today that Android N, the latest version of Android, will now go by Android Nougat. The announcement comes after the company said at I/O last month that users could submit suggestions for the name online. Dang. I had my money on 'Nicotine gum'
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Meant to put my Nutella comment here, Dang it! or should i say Noug-it!
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Wasn't that also someone's advertising thing? At least I remember some old commercial bragging about "only the finest nougat de Montelimar"
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Techeye Millions of Microsoft Office 365 users were exposed to a massive zero-day Cerber ransomware attack last week... Link[^]
Thar' be pirates in them thar' clouds!
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The fact it took M$ 24 HOURS to respond doesn't help their public image much.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yeah, it's called Office365. They own the only crapware used to access your documents and you have to pay a fee to access them. Wait until they will force users to save them in the cloud, so that if you don't pay you won't have ANY access whatsoever to your documents...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: They own the only crapware used to access your documents
If you don't feel like paying, LibreOffice[^] supports reading and saving MS Office file formats. 
"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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I know I know, it's quite low quality IMHO, at least compared to Office 2010. I never used newer version than 2010 so I don't know if they are crappy too, in the purest MS tradition of making a good version out of 2 or 3.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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It is no news that Office 365 is a ransonware. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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In a bad week for Britain in the news, the UK can at least take solace in its average mobile connection speeds, which — according to a new report from content delivery network Akamai — are the best in the world. "Low rider drives a little slower"
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Actually, I don't care about speed on mobile networks anymore. For me HSDPA is more than enough - although I think LTE is cool, but not for the speed. What I am more concerned about is the small data plans. It's cool to have 150Mbps mobile connection, but it's useless, when you can burn all of available data in minutes.
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