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Interesting article
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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That's curious! How'd they accomplish that? Scientists are still learning to learn themselves!
(notice no full-stops!  )
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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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: notice no full-stops!
Artificial Sincerity? 
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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Wow, I knew that stupid couldn't be fixed but they can teach it to a machine...cool!
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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Do you know what most affects software development productivity in your organization? Probably not, and you are not alone. Distance between keyboard and coffee pot?
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ebaumsworld.com
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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Some pundit wrote: you are not alone
Yep, that's the problem.
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Facebook wants to speed up research into artificial intelligence for everyone by making the plans for a massively powered box available to any company that wants to hasten up its efforts to build better facial or voice recognition. Some assembly required
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A new project on OpenJDK was released today, and its focus will be on porting the JDK to mobile platforms like Android, iOS and Windows 10. You know what this would help? Writing once, running everywhere.
But... I could have sworn there was a JDK on Android...and Windows 10?
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There’s a legend out there saying that every time someone mentions Project Jigsaw, it’s delayed by one month. They should have started with the edge pieces, that always helps
Not a repeat, this is the official announcement (the other was someone asking for objections)
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As long as it is in production by November 2019[^] we should still be good, yes?
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Microsoft had originally planned to release extensions support for its Edge browser in the recent major Windows 10 update. Those plans hit some delays, and the official release is now expected in early 2016. In related news, Edge close to being a useful browser
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In related news, Edge close to being a useful browser
It already is. It helped me download Chrome in no time at all.
This space for rent
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Tens of millions of users would be unable to access HTTPS websites that only use SHA-2-signed certificates, Facebook and Cloudflare have warned. You must be *this* secure to enter
I really wanted to say, "I fought the law, but the SHA-1", but I think I saw that somewhere else yesterday.
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(Mostly a repost of something I wrote elsewhere yesterday.)
The problem is that, like with most hard problems, there are *NO* good solutions. We could:
1) Yank the plug before a disaster happens; don't have any fallback mechanisms in place. This is the current plan. It will have the unfortunate effect of cutting of millions of people whose $10 feature phone with a minimalistic web browser is the only way they can get online, and which they can't afford to replace because $10 is a weeks total income/a years disposable income making it unaffordable.
2) Maintain the status quo. Allow SHA1 to continue to be used. This keeps poor people who can't afford to replace their very low end hardware able to access the internet. Eventually, we'll discover that someone, either an entity that owns super computers; or that runs botnets with supercomputer scale compute capacity is breaking SHA1 for malicious purposes. In this case, the abrupt, disorderly shutdown that occurs when the major players all pull the plug in SHA1 immediately after the disclosure will be messy and spread the harm across most than just people who'd lose any secure internet access. Don't forget that the negotiations to pick the crypto mode for HTTPS/etc are of necessity done in the clear; if SHA1 is available everyone is vulnerable to a MITM downgrade attack. You, I, and everyone living in Oppressistan where the secret police control all the border routers connecting their country to the internet.
3) Pull the plug for most people but offer a fallback for when they encounter people who can't do SHA256. This is Facebooks proposal. The problem is that the same entities who'd break SHA1 and abuse it in scenario 2 would still be able to do so by conducting a man in the middle downgrade attack; meaning that like 2 it leaves everyone vulnerable to attack including the people for whom the false sense of security it gives is *most* dangerous to.
Remove what's soon to be a false sense of security to some of the poorest people in the world and kick them off the secure web; or leave everyone vulnerable to having our secure communications compromised. Pick your poison. These choices all suck.
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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Support for Apple's Mac hardware continues to climb. ((Looks to the right.)) ((Looks to the left.)) Not around here.
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One have to praise Apple marketing machine - you got to be very good to convince people to pay 2-3 times as much for comparable hw/sw.
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That must be the worst bit of technical reporting I've ever seen. Blatantly untrue.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I can see more and more Mac's at places with high visibility (like the reception) just to make a "good" impression on visitors.
Might depend on your definition of "office" ofcourse, but they are on the rise here.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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On the rise yes. Overtaking is overstating it a tad.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In headline speech, "is overtaking" means "currently growing faster and I just linearly extrapolated it like I learned in 7th grade"
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May also be influenced by locale. I see far too many Macs in places where one would simply expect a cash-register. I believe it is called a "POS" (a piece of dung) or something like that 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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