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Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have discovered what could one day be a new type of display technology: bubbles of graphene that change color as they expand and contract. "They give us those nice bright colors. They give us the greens of summers."
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Since it's a slow news day...
Schiaparelli landing investigation makes progress / ExoMars / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA[^]
When merged into the navigation system, the erroneous information generated an estimated altitude that was negative – that is, below ground level.
Maybe they should have had TopTal consultants write the software (for those that know why I'm referencing TopTal!)
Still, I wonder what the code actually looks like, and how if/how it handled obviously wrong data.
Marc
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Maybe there was a hardware failure somewhere that generated a wrong value just inside over/under flow boundaries ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Since it's a slow news day...
It definitely will be.  , and Monday will be even worse. Why can't companies and developers in Europe, Asia, and Africa pick up the slack?
TTFN - Kent
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It would be interesting indeed to have that code published for peer review.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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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We all have only so many days on this green earth, and Microsoft is suggesting you do not waste them waiting on your PC to boot each day. Then you can wait for Windows Update to finish applying patches to your new machine instead
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I'm going to build a new PC when Kaby Lake Core i7 7700K becomes fully available. That said, my Core i7 2600 based system boots in about 15 seconds.
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Wait for Reboot? Never heard of hibernate?
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They plan that you have two machine: one installing updates and patches and the other you can work.
Maybe the second should be a Mac 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: Maybe the second should be a Mac
or not connected to the internet at all 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Until we know how much data breaches cost each victim, there's little chance of getting business to invest enough in cybersecurity, warns the Internet Society. Also, some people are afraid of cat videos
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What an idiot chart. The percent of households WITHOUT internet who state privacy or security concerns went from 0.4% in 2009 to 1.4% in 2015. In other words, it went from statistically insignificant to statistically insignificant.
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There's people stopping themselves from getting on the internet?
I haven't met them.
Wait, no, my late dad was not on the internet.
A decade ago this perplexed me.
As years went on though I was never so grateful for that anomaly.
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I know what you mean... my mother got ill and had to stay at home for a very long time and she learned to use whatsapp...
Luckily she has more common sense that many others, but it is still concerning me a bit how she uses it
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Until we know how much data breaches cost each victim, there's little chance of getting business to invest enough in cybersecurity, warns the Internet Society.
It is not that knowledge that would 'force' them to invest in security, it is the fact that they are not financially responsible.
Something they are if we're talking about physical products. Change that, and security will become a sudden priority.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Windows 10 updates?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A little over 2 years ago Microsoft announced that they were open sourcing large parts of the .NET framework and as Scott Hanselman said in his recent Connect keynote, the community has been contributing in a significant way. That's 'open' as in 'open'.
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But post Snowden, and particularly after the result of the last election here in the US, it's clear that everything on the web should be encrypted by default. zvffvba nppbzcyvfurq
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With my code, that's not necessary. Nobody will understand it, neither me...
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I personally use Letsencrypt for some of my home servers. And I agree with your point about encrypt everything.
However, Letsencrypt has some serious shortcomings that they seem oblivious to. Number one, their certificates expire in ridiculously short time. They say they do this on purpose to "encourage" system owners to automate their renewal practices. Nice idea, except that some systems CAN'T be automated. I have an Exchange server behind a big hardware firewall. Every time the cert expires, it means downtime for me to manually export the cert and reconfigure the firewall. This can't be automated.
So, it is actually less expensive to pay $300 a year for a commercial cert than to spend hours and hours every 60 days fixing the free one, and dealing with down time.
I wish people could see the big picture. It's so frustrating. It's like they don't live in the real world.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has again reaffirmed the company's commitment to developing smartphones. Oh sure. *This time* you'll get it right
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At last! We are saved!!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The secret, according to a report published Wednesday to the journal Advanced Materials, lies in how the fibers are shaped and heated. Your new muscles are available in sheer, neutral, and fishnet
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While the game as existed on Windows for more than 25 years, the modern Solitaire Collection will now be available outside of Windows for the first time. "All by myself in the morning, all by myself in the night"
It was either that, or the Hallelujah chorus.
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