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Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize how business transactions take place. I'm going to go with "no" on that one, but YMMV
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Quote: Protecting your data with passwords is considered safe and a very common method which is used by every internet user. However, hackers can still attack your computer by cracking your password and stealing your personal information. This is not the case with blockchain technology because this latest innovation uses enhanced security measures like encryption technology to protect your data from online threats.
*checks to see if this was published on 1st April*
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This author must be right on top of things if he thinks encryption is the latest innovation in enhanced security measures. Apparently he does not realize that if encryption makes a difference it's already too late. True security would have no need for encryption because no could else would be able to see the data in the first place.
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By artificially replicating the neural firing involved in correct memory formation, researchers improved memory by 35 percent I think I'll stick with Post-it notes for now, thanks
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Thanks for posting this. Dr Hampson was a regular on another forum I frequent, but dropped off when real life started sucking up too much of his time. I'm glad to see his research is still progressing.
Kent Sharkey wrote: I think I'll stick with Post-it notes for now, thanks
Probably a good call. Epilepsy that's only treatable surgically would suck, and the risks from sticking electrodes in your brain are still high enough that anything like this is limited to people having their heads wired for something else.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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This document provides a peek into what's next for Visual Studio. It captures some of the significant features we are currently committed to, and a rough timeframe for when you can expect to see them. "We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives."
I figured I haven't used that one in quite a while. Plus, many of us almost live in VS.
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Quote: It is not a comprehensive list of all new features in Visual Studio, but is intended to provide some visibility into our key investments.
This author obviously took a course on executive speak. He is getting the dialect down so he has a promising future in management.
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A project that started as a joke can be useful to people wanting to learn the concepts of OpenGL. When you don't realize how much you don't need something until someone invents it
Yeah, based on the publish date I'm skeptical, but it does seem to be real (for some value of real)
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RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble protocol has managed to keep on trudging along despite all evidence that it is dead, dead, dead. "Have you ever talked to a corpse? It's boring!"
I don't think I could do this job as poorly as I do without RSS
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Out of interest Kent, what do you use as an RSS reader nowadays.
It seems that each service I use retires just as I get comfortable.
Damn google for starting the trend by shuttering Reader.
"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'm pretty happy with Feedly. I've got it set up to look and work mostly like Google Reader (bastards! Philistines! How dare they cancel it!), so I'm pretty happy. I managed to get one of their lifetime Pro packages, but I'm tempted to ask them to start billing me as all the use I've had from it.
TTFN - Kent
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Interesting, I've been using the free version, but haven't spent much time in configuring it, so will check to see if I can get it set up more to my liking.
One thing I do seem to observe though, is that frequently it reposts articles I've already seen as unread, making it hard to focus on new announcements. With feeds like Ars Technica, this can get quite tricky.
"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 suspect some people may find that the NamedType class template has a nice interface but is using a somewhat heavy machinery to achieve the modest goal of strong typing. For those people, I have good news: you can achieve many of the functionalities of NamedType, with a very simple tool. I was unaware I was being charged for my data types
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Clearing your download history could speed up Chrome's startup slightly. Getting caught is a bug
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The largest-ever dataset on typing speeds and styles, based on 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 volunteers, finds that the fastest typists not only make fewer errors, but they often type the next key before the previous one has been released. More than two functioning fingers?
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Some applications and websites don’t render and display so called “zero-width characters.” A developer created a tool to hide these invisible characters in plain sight, and then use them to identify who copied and pasted the original text. Just in case you're worried about such things
Coming soon: a tool to prevent zero-width characters from being posted to the clipboard
also coming soon: malware that uses zero-width characters
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Well, that's actually just a more modern (and less easy to detect) version of an intentional tyop.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Convert it to ANSI in Notepad++ and the characters become question marks.
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The irony is that what makes open source work—and differ from commercial software—is that only a few developers do the major work on any project "They're the people that you meet, while you're walking down the street"
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And how does "is that only a few developers do the major work" actually differ from a commercial software project?
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I was just thinking the same...
in Germany we say: "TEAM = toll, ein anderer macht's" (= nice, another one does 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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Thousands of Google employees have signed an open letter asking the internet giant to stop working on a project for the US military. That's totally IBM's job
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Researchers have developed a computer interface that can transcribe words that the user verbalizes internally but does not actually speak aloud. Electrodes in the device pick up neuromuscular signals in the jaw and face that are triggered by internal verbalizations -- saying words 'in your head' -- but are undetectable to the human eye. Sorry, I wasn't talking to you, I was just eating lunch
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If that happens where I work, a lot of people are gonna be really upset with me. I'm already pretty vocal and willing to call an idiot an idiot. Can you imagine what I hold back? 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Can you imagine what I hold back?
Better not... I still want to sleep today
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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