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If Boeing could track and disable the operators, they'd really have something!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I know I saw a proposal for a counter sniper system that would trigger automatic weapons fire back at the source. Combine that with a DF antenna to find where the drone controller is at...
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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New research finds evidence for an innate ratio processing ability that may play a role in determining our aptitude for understanding fractions and other formal mathematical concepts. n/m of you will understand this
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I understood about 1/2 of that.
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Quote: Basic ratio capacity may serve as building block for math knowledge Interesting reading.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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As a school kid, there was a puzzle our teacher posed:
That fraction'th part of the sum of half a fraction and twice the same fraction, is equal to that fraction itself. Find that fraction.
Note: I am translating this from my native language Kannada; so there are possibilities of ambiguity in the translation. Kindly excuse me for that.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: n/m of you will understand this
I actually understood this. n = 5m for you!
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Philae, the first human-made object to land on a comet, is now permanently inoperative. Alas, poor Philae. I knew him not.
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Over! Did you say "over"?! Nothing is over until we decide it is!
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V'ger urges you to think better.
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 you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Delivering increased productivity is a key priority for many IT executives. Yes, agile can help with that, too (it’s not just for development). "Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger."
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Net returned value is the only metric that counts. Everything else is a proxy measure and you should not manage to proxy.
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IBM hopes that Google's language, already in use by Docker and Kubernates, will stretch the open source ecosystem for its mainframes. I'm sure that makes the one potential user very happy
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The OS turns Android into a windowed desktop environment with the ability to multitask, just like Windows, Mac OS, and desktop Linux. Get that great user experience of your phone, on your computer (without the phone bit)
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Fascinating...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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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I wonder why they didn't call it as "Rewindows 10"...
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More than three decades after the worldwide communications network was born, Clark and Benkler say they’re deeply concerned that the Internet is headed in a dangerous direction that its founders never intended. "The call is coming from inside the house"
OK, maybe that's not quite what they said. But it is a good warning.
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Quote: Looking back, Clark wonders if he and other founders should have left behind guidance on how the Internet should grow up.
“Not constraints, not rules, but guidance, advice — like, ‘don’t be stupid,’” he says.
Yeah. I'm sure that'd've stopped Google, Apple, Farsebook, and 20 bajillion advertising companies you've never heard of from turning the internet into a set of walled gardens where your every move is tracked to shove crap bought by the highest bidder down your throat.
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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Microsoft and Apple have always been great frenemies, competing aggressively in some areas of computing and cooperating in others. Nice to know there are some people at Microsoft who still can smack talk the opposition
Somedays it seems like they've all changed. Consistency can be nice.
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Google readies developers to build the IoT, starting with its open version of Bluetooth Low Energy beacons. Wait, don't tell me... I'm guessing... there are things involved... (and adverts)
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It just seems like the IoT is going to be an utter mess of incompatible protocols and millions of stupid little open source projects, and thousands of people, each with their own ideas, no coordination, no standards. And of course every durable good manufacturer will want their own proprietary standards, so if you by a Whirlpool refrigerator, you'll want all your appliances to be Whirlpool because otherwise they won't talk to each other. Then the gov't steps in and sets up idiotic rules and regs for intercommunication, and the hackers start to have a field day turning your house into a refrigerator and your refrigerator into an oven.
Oh, and Git will probably spawn a GitIoT.com website (damn, the domain is taken) just for all the drivel. Heck, we might see a "mysite.iot" whatever that thingy after the . is called.
Fun times ahead!
Marc
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I fear history will show you to be highly prescient.
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: It just seems like the IoT is going to be an utter mess of incompatible protocols and millions of stupid little open source projects, and thousands of people, each with their own ideas, no coordination, no standards
What do you mean "going to be".. It already is.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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