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Lloyd Atkinson wrote: What was this guy smoking?
Plutonium.
By the way, plutonium was used as a "portable" power source not only in space craft, but also for heart pace makers decades ago. And some patient still live with them.
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The technology is out there and used in space/military, but because people are irresponisble idiots nuclear batteries are considered to be not fit for mass consumption.
Plutonium was in the 50's seriously considered to be made available to public households by the US government. You could use it to heat water, insulate your house and to make batteries that deliver power for a lifetime.
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Today, in partnership with the Bing team, we’re excited to release the first of several features that will make your SkyDrive photos smarter by using OCR (optical character recognition) to extract the text from photos in your camera roll when you view them on SkyDrive.com. 1T l0Ukz l1kE ¥ov arë p05ting a p8ot0?
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It’s official: The English language has jumped the shark. Srsly?
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The English language is a "living" language, it evolves and the Oxford will reflect the current state of the language.
One nice thing about the Oxford, is that I think it never deletes words.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I know, and I've used many a neologism in my time. But can we wait longer than one music video awards show before we're condemned to see "twerking" forever inscribed in the English language?
Damn kids... always on my lawn.
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TTFN - Kent
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Sprinklers. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It’s official: The English language has jumped the shark. Srsly?
O RLY? NO WAI!
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Srsly?
Hey, there is something wrong with your keyboard! 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Frank Shaw has a message for Microsoft's critics: You're focusing on the wrong things. "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."
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For developers, discovering NuGet packages can be a daunting process. The best way to do so is either via word of mouth or online search. However, your friends aren’t always available when you’re looking for a new package at 3:00 in the morning. You could try to search online, but you’d need to spend unnecessary amounts of time sifting through the results before finding a package that may be helpful. We recognize that this time is better spent actually developing software. We wanted to create an accessible service to deliver package recommendations using real world data about how developers use packages. Do you want fries with that?
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Passage of new patent law marks end of years of debate and lobbying. I was unaware there was a lot of software patenting going on down there
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I was unaware there was a lot of software patenting going on down there
That must be the reason why such a law could be passed I guess. If the lobby against such laws isn't powerful enough there is a chance that the lawmakers can push it through.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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A DARPA director argues that the end of the Moore's Law could come about because of insurmountable economic challenges. Reduced speed ahead
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Tried the link, but it took me to a blank page. It is CNET, so that is an improvement over having some type of content.
Kent Sharkey wrote: A DARPA director
Sounds like a manager of some sort...
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Hmm. I just tried it, and it worked for me. Maybe you have an ad blocker (so it blocked all of CNet?) 
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A good ad blocker should do just that for CNET. Sadly I dont have one. No big deal.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Better in the lounge than here...
This is almost not a new: no link, no extra information apart from the fact we know you will get one iPhone soon 
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Sorry to say that I don't like iOS7, it looks worse than Android or Windows Phone. Sigh...
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Using a non-invasive brain-to-brain setup, a researcher in one lab was able to send a signal from his brain to control the movements of a second researcher in a lab on the other side of campus. "My mind to your mind... my thoughts to your thoughts..."
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Message Removed
modified 28-Aug-13 14:05pm.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Never mind. Looks like the subject is requires a brain for the control to work.
Yeah, they just use the old time-tested, "insert money to purchase opinion" method.
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Cracking really long passwords just got a whole lot faster and easier. I'm *so* glad their job is getting easier... 
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A friend of mine uses passwords longer than 20 characters. Recently he failed to change it for a specific web site: on the page for changing the password, the field for the old password was limited to 15 characters (I saw that in the HTML source), while on the page for creating the initial password, no limit was set.
How did the site's security team react when they were told about that error?
They said: use the "forgot password link" on the login page, you'll receive an email with a link to a page where you can create a new password.
Actually a case for the daily WTF or for the Weird and Wounderful...
Hashcat's new abilites were not required for that site, as 15 characters was the old limit. Perhaps now they are willing to allow for upto 55 characters?
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