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He can Zuck off if he thinks I'd trust him with anything financial.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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After 26 years, Boston Dynamics is finally getting ready to start selling some robots. Frickin' lasers sold separately
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A team of researchers in Germany and at the University of Michigan have demonstrated how infrared laser pulses can shift electrons between two different states, the classic 1 and 0, in a thin sheet of semiconductor. Also, may cause seizures
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"You may never own a quantum computer, but IBM will still let you use one "
"You’ll probably never use quantum hardware yourself,"
..that was last week 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Over 15,000 bricks and a Lego Mindstorms heart bring the game to life. Wizardry!
"There has to be a twist!"
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Hands. Time. Too much or too little; you decide.
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It's hyper-cool but I rather suspect that a classic pin table would have cost less than 15,000 Lego bricks.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Microsoft Principal Software Engineer Adam Tuliper explains the .NET Standard, a formal specification of .NET APIs that are intended to be available on all .NET implementations in order to establish greater uniformity in the .NET ecosystem. .NET Standard, not to be confused with standard .NET (or .NET Core, .NET Dry, or .NET menthol)
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t this moment there’s a proposal to add standardized 2D graphics support to C++, known as P0267 or simply IO2D. It hasn’t been published as TS yet and there’s some controversy around it, but still, the proposal was proven to be implementable on different platforms and the reference implementation is available for test usage. See C draw. Draw C, draw
OK, it's C++. Whatevs, that didn't work into the rhyming scheme
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Sounds like a terrible idea. Create a whole different standard if you want that. You could even call it OpenGL or something like that.
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I disagree, this could really help. College courses can use it to teach basic graphic principles without tying to a particular vendor or implementation. Useful for basic output such as graphs. I don't believe it is intended for use in production graphical applications - simply to allow basic graphics to be available on most platforms.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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CodeAI is able to predict new defects in code and suggest simple fixes for the issue. Does it include the option, "throw this out and start again?"
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A survey compiled last month at the RSA security conference reveals that most companies are still behind with proper security practices, and some of them even intentionally ignore security flaws for various reasons ranging from lack of time to lack of know-how. "For the want of a nail the shoe was lost"
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Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text. I'm using it right now
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
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Interesting.
But you don't really need all of that to send information over plain text. You can use any shape, length or time delay for encoding information. An alternative approach without inventing anything new would be to encode information using font kerning[^] using the standard CSS letter-spacing[^] property. For avoiding really long-distance kerning you could encode as binary–coded ternary[^].
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Academics long ago figured out how to hide information in plain text. Some even manage to hide it so well, nobody understands more than the words.
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Two ears and a tail for that one
TTFN - Kent
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A new exploit allows hackers to spoof two-factor authentication requests by sending a user to a fake login page and then stealing the username, password, and session cookie. I have a new idea to stop hackers - it's called a 'password bat'
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This definitely falls into the "no sh*t Sherlock" area as well as the "welcome to the 1990s".
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rather that linkedin can be hijacked using cookie stealing?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Researcher Amanda D. Hanford at Pennsylvania State University has created a real cloaking device that can route sound waves around an object, making it invisible to some sensing techniques. But I can see it, right there in the photo!
Oh. "a sonic cloak". Sounds better.
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Quote: This means the new material would be invisible to sonar.
Fish everywhere are rejoicing!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Call me when they've developed a sonic distruptor; I've always wanted a Kilngon hand weapon. 
Ad astra - both ways!
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Wouldn't that routing cause the sound wave to take longer to get to the destination? Thus any variation in the sound could not only be readily detected, but the shape of the object determined.
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Thinking about it, you appear to be correct.
If the original wave is a single frequency, the cloaking device would have to adjust the path of the sound by full wavelengths in order to avoid interference patterns when the sound is recombined. You might be able to do this for one frequency, but how do you deal with frequency hopping?
Ad astra - both ways!
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