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Graphene breakthrough may yield contact lenses with night vision(independent.co.uk)
7 points by gphilip 13y ago|1 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
A new study from MIT describes “living materials” that combine bacterial cells with nonliving materials that can conduct electricity and emit different colors of light. Researchers say that future applications could include cheaper, more ef
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by gphilip 13y ago
Apparently "Thousands of ‘secret keys’, which unlock access to private Amazon Web Services accounts are currently available unencrypted to members of the public with just two clicks of a mouse."
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AWS urges developers to scrub GitHub of secret keys(itnews.com.au)
8 points by gphilip 13y ago|1 comments
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Solar panels of the future could be grown from bacteria(qz.com)
3 points by gphilip 13y ago|1 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
You're in front of a Linux computer. You compile an exploit you read about on Slashdot, run the resulting executable, and voila!, you are dropped into a root shell. After a couple of seconds you realize that you have no ideas on what
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by gphilip 13y ago
From the Abstract: ... we consider replacing all modes of personal transportation in a city such as Singapore with a fleet of shared automated vehicles, able to drive themselves, e.g., to move to a customer’s location. Using actual transpor
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By sharing self-driving cars we can cut car population to a third(dspace.mit.edu)
1 points by gphilip 13y ago|1 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
And if you'd like to try your own hand at solving problems using some of these algorithms (a good way to get some hands-on practice in your favourite new language), Rosalind [1] offers a gentle learning curve. There are hundreds of pro
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by gphilip 13y ago
From their main problems page ( http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/ ): Algorithmic Heights -- A collection of exercises in introductory algorithms to accompany "Algorithms", the popular textbook by Da
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Rosalind adds exercises to go with the DPV "Algorithms" textbook(rosalind.info)
4 points by gphilip 13y ago|1 comments
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Silicon Valley Investors Worried: Low Interest Rates Cause A Tech Bubble?(businessinsider.com)
4 points by gphilip 13y ago|1 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
"This year marks the first time that the U.S. has earned Reporters Without Borders' dubious honor."
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8 biggest “enemies of the Internet” (salon.com)
1 points by gphilip 13y ago|1 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
From the article: "Microsoft admitted in federal court documents that it forced its way into a blogger's Hotmail account to track down and stop a potentially catastrophic leak of sensitive software. The company says its decision i
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Microsoft defends its right to read your email(money.cnn.com)
106 points by gphilip 13y ago|90 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
I am not an expert in whatever field "materialism" belongs, so I will defer to accepted knowledge (or lack thereof) as professed by layperson-friendly sources such as Wikipedia. Till the time I really get interested in these fine
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by gphilip 13y ago
> But for any task which requires semantics -- real human intelligence -- it is foolish to attempt to replace humans. It cannot be done. Well we don't know this for sure, do we? "It's an open empirical question whether the
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ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP(computerworld.com)
136 points by gphilip 13y ago|124 comments
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D.B. Cooper(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by gphilip 13y ago|0 comments
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by gphilip 13y ago
If I may ask: Did you find such errors in the linked article? Is this what prompted your question? "The Hindu" (linked in the post) is one newspaper which takes these things seriously. They even have an "ombudsman" of so
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by gphilip 13y ago
> How many have stuck with Linux 2 years out? 5 years out? IT@School (see another comment for details) seems to have stuck with it for at least 6 years, to go by the retrospective on their webpage [1]. And they show no signs of migrating
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by gphilip 13y ago
In particular, the Department of General Education of the state of Kerala (more than 12,000 schools, about 6 million students, and about 200,000 teachers [1]) heavily promotes FOSS software both as a medium of teaching (all subjects, not ju
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by gphilip 13y ago
> This is such stupid advice. Is it, even after MtGox? As far as I know (IANAL) there is no law or precedent which takes the value of stolen bitcoins into consideration while sentencing. There is also no history (AFAIK) of prosecution,
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by gphilip 13y ago
> if you perceive the meaning of the words slightly differently based on the skin color of the speaker, it's textbook racism. What textbook would that be? My dictionary defines racism as: 1. the belief that all members of each race
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by gphilip 13y ago
> Did you read your own sentence before posting? What does this question add to the discussion? > So yes, you do need both sides of the story. In particular, one should not dismiss a complaint of sexism before hearing both sides of
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by gphilip 13y ago
>Imagine that black person says: "I am proud to be black!". >Now imagine that the white person says "I am proud to be white". >Now throw away you knee-jercky reaction and think about it. I thought about it, and
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by gphilip 13y ago
GP asked the converse.
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Formatted for easier reading: Linus was directly aiming to maximize the number of person-hours thrown at debugging and development, even at the possible cost of instability in the code and user-base burnout if any serious bug proved intr
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by gphilip 13y ago
> saying "When you grow up/stop being immature/a child/etc you'll share my opinion on X, Y, and Z" isn't providing any support for your positions, and even if you was, it is not an effective argument e

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