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Matias Duarte, Head of Design at Android, has recently held an interview on software design during Accel Design Conference 2014 underlining the need for a shift in software design approach from separate apps made for different devices to one app for multiple screens. "Then you will see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."
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The Internet of Things will add so much programmability to devices that keeping software current will become a never-ending task. Just put a brick on the F5 key
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just put a brick on the F5 key
We're not animals, let's write a tool that does the job 
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With several states and municipalities considering various mandatory “kill-switch” laws for mobile devices, the wireless industry announced a voluntary commitment to include new anti-theft technology on phones starting next year. "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim."
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Voluntary my ass. If it weren't for the flood of various pending kill-switch legislation, the carriers would never allow such functionality, even though several cell phone makers have had it available for over a year. Why? Because it cuts into a major portion of the carrier's revenue.
The carriers saw the writing on the wall and "decided" to go with the flood and also to avoid some negative PR.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Definitely. One big rule of marketing: if you see something about to roll over you, raise the banner and claim it was you all along.
TTFN - Kent
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Hm.... "remotely wipe data": that will be a great toy for hackers.
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Scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have demonstrated significant progress in their novel gas-to-liquid process, which simultaneously recovers carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater, and report that it can produce a fuel-like hydrocarbon liquid which may eventually offer a renewable replacement for petroleum based fuel in jet engines. CO2 + H2 (+ Magic) = Jet Fuel
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For magic, read energy...
Obviously energy will be required as an input to drive the system, and currently this energy is going to come from fossil fuels.
Read more at http://www.iflscience.com/technology/using-seawater-create-jet-fuel#LOTDpeee3Q5riguK.99
Actually, this energy will probably come from the nuclear reactors on the aircraft carriers.
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But aren't nuclear reactors just magic (all sparkles and pixie dust)? 
Yeah, nuclear reactors are the most likely power source. Hopefully they can get this scaled up - it might provide a broader, more carbon-neutral energy solution.
Was your quote formatted using the C# format? Cute to see the random blue words.
TTFN - Kent
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*Checks Source*
He used SQL. Or, more likely, CodeProject used SQL when pasting.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Phew - I thought the synaesthesia was acting up...
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I am totally going to do that in the future with posts.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: CO2 + H2 (+ Magic) = Jet Fuel
  Brilliant!
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I clearly need more sleep. I read that headline as "Usng sweater to create jet fuel" 
That would certainly have been magic.
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Oh good! A way to extract CO2 from water and put it back into the atmosphere! And, if we use fossil fuels to power the process, we kill two birds with one stone!
Marc
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The company wants a base "gray phone" model of its Project Ara modular smartphone available by early next year. Lego your phone
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A new WhiteHat Security report takes a deeper look into the security of a number of the most popular programming languages including .Net, Java, ColdFusion, ASP and more. "Security is a process, not a product"
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.NET is not a language. ASP is not a language. How much faith can we have in a report that starts off by getting the basics wrong?
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From here (and now), at least, their site is also so secure that I cannot access it.
"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 finally managed to access the site and the article seems very, very confused.
It is possible to leave SQL injection attacks in code in most languages, for example, its really a matter of programmer discipline to avoid them. A good example of blaming the wrong tool (we should be blaming the one who wrote the code).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The world’s most powerful companies want you to log in with fingerprints and eyescans. That might bring new meaning to "hacking the password"
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How much will it cost to pay a plastic surgeon to change your fingerprints when a site you logged into gets pwned again?
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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They can want all they want.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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