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Funny coming from a man who has spent years feeding at the government trough.
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The military today, we cubicle slaves tomorrow ? [^]Quote: US military successfully tests electrical brain stimulation to enhance staff skills
... in a series of experiments at the air force base, the researchers found that electrical brain stimulation can improve people’s multitasking skills and stave off the drop in performance that comes with information overload.
Research cited: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: "The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Multitasking Throughput Capacity" [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Hi raddevus,
Your recall of Dilbert is impressive: may I ask if you are using any cognitive enhancement pharmaceutics ? !
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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BillWoodruff wrote: may I ask if you are using any cognitive enhancement pharmaceutics ?
I genuinely LOLed on that.
And, no, you may not ask!
The reality is...
The Dilbert site is fantastic in that you can search for any words you remember from a strip or just keywords and it'll find associated strips with those words.
It's great because basically if something dumb happens at work (and when don't dumb things happen at work? -- this is rhetorical, of course) then you can do a quick keyword search and reply with a Dilbert. 
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Concentration is not actually a desirable skill.
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Hi, Piebald,
Okay ... care to expand on that a bit ?
yours, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Software development is a creative process.
It seems to me that concentration on one thing eliminates the ability for the mind to float on other things, reducing creativity.
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Software development has two parts...
Design - this is a creative process where hi level concentration wont' help
Writing - this is the black part, and hi concentration can help (at least can make it shorter)
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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Concentration in excess is actually something that would be undesirable from an evolutionary perspective as well. Can't get too focused on rubbing those sticks together when a Saber Tooth Tiger is sneaking up on you, ya know?
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 And people willingly subject themselves to this? I guess anything to advance one's career opportunities. With stuff like this, I can only imagine how un-human the world will be in 100 years, probably unrecognizable in 500 years. William Gibson[^] couldn't even come close to this dystopia.
Marc
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Google's DeepMind will train artificial intelligence on the game "StarCraft II," the company announced on Friday. Zerg rush!
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Well that's it then. The human race is saved.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Microsoft last week announced that it would support the Enterprise Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) through July 2018, a year-and-a-half extension for the anti-exploit utility. It's almost like people aren't rushing to Windows 10 or something
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The stalwarts have held the top two spots in Tiobe's popularity index since 2001, even as other languages get all the hype Bad news for all those expecting VB to make it's comeback
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bad news for all those expecting VB to make it's comeback
To do a comeback... it should have been gone first.
VB is like mosquitos, you might not see them, but when you relax and think you are safe... plof, a new bite in your XXX starts itching like hell.
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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I wonder if samsung will use it to say... "do you see? ours were not so bad after 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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Nelek wrote: do you see? ours were not so bad after all"
I'm heading over to samsung.com right now to offer you up as their new head of Marketing/Customer Relations/Spin team. 
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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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No, Samsung will sue them for patent infringement.
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Ok... if I can get the Marketing job... you can definitivelly get the lawyer job 
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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The results of NASA's tests on the 'impossible' EM Drive have been leaked, and they reveal that the controversial propulsion system really does work, and is capable of generating impressive thrust in a vacuum, even after error measurements have been accounted for. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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This means we need to update our "understanding" of physics. It could be the key to everything.
#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
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