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MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has figured out a way of measuring walking speed to within 95 and 99 percent accuracy – all without requiring a wearable or other on-body measurement device. Yes, having WiFi everywhere is much more convenient than wearing a Fitbit
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Does it still work if you're wearing your tinfoil hat?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The system - called FlowLight - sends corresponding color signals to let others know they should stay away from your office or workspace or feel free to stop in. Can I get one just in red?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The system - called FlowLight - sends corresponding color signals to let others know they should stay away from your office
Pfft!
Who needs high-tech for this?
A lump of wood with a latch serves the same purpose.
0. If my office door is closed, stay the Hell away!
1. If my office door is open, stay the Hell away!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: A lump of wood with a latch serves the same purpose.
Just a lump of wood is fine..
If it's in the drawer, I'm approachable. If it's on the desk.. well! 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Now, now. All things in proportion.
(And 2"x4" is a pretty damned good proportion)
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The colors actually indicate four states: Available as green, Busy as red, Do Not Disturb as pulsating red,and Away as yellow.
And the manager's is always off.
Speaking of managers, I can just imagine this being used as an aggressive tactic with immediate visual feedback of what management will call "productivity indicators."
An a new breed of managers, the "floor productivity manager", will be hired to roam the labyrinthine isles of cubicles and pounce on the poor Sisyphusian worker bees whose light flickers green.
Marc
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Users will finally be able to get updates to the Edge browser via the Windows Store, which will allow Microsoft to add new features more frequently. So there will be more updates you won't use on the browser you don't use?
Yes, I know *you're* perfectly happy using Edge. Good for you, sport!
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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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Took you long enough, I was waiting for this one. 
TTFN - Kent
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Hey, I've been stuck in airports and on planes for the last 9,327 (subjective) hours!
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It was supposed to have died a long time ago, but, for a near-cadaver, the password has managed to hold onto its last breath for over two decades. A promise that you are who you say you are?
No fingers crossed!
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..unless you can come up with something that is better in any way I'll stick to my old habits.
Beta News wrote: Indeed, the only way passwords can be effective, according to NIST, the US National Institute for Standards and Technology, is by requiring users to come up with 16 character
..with bank accounts being protected by 4 numerals. If the accepting automata are limiting the attempts, then "guessing" becomes a thing of the past.
For the moment, I'm going to ignore the NIST and the "password is dead" hype.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Quote: 16 character (preferably a mix of letters and digits, with some capital letters and/or alphanumeric symbols thrown in) standard passwords,
Pa$$word20050812. Done. What do I win.  
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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I hate to have to admit that pushnots will be more effective.
... For about a week, by which time everyone will be getting spammed with 300 pushnots a day.
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MIT has successfully test-fired what it believes is the first completely 3D-printed rocket motor to be made with plastic casing. Time for LEGO... in spaaaaaaace
"Spaceship!"
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Having seen hybrids made from PVC pipe and whipped-cream sparklets with the nozzle made from bentonite clay and candle wax, this seems like an obvious idea in retrospect. Makes one wonder if it'd be a better proposition to use machined graphite for the nozzles or perhaps even 3d printed titanium.
Thanks for the link, brilliant.
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Hot damn!
OK, next sprint, we redesign my jet-pack motors!
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ZetaVM, from the creator of the Higgs compiler for JavaScript, enables easy construction of interpreted and JITed dynamic languages. Because we always need new languages, right?
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Quote: "By freezing the core VM semantics and freezing submitted packages, we make it possible to write software that never breaks,"
So the VM doesn't get patched or upgraded for twenty years? Really?
I can imagine the conversation in 2037:
"Why are we running a Windows 10 VM? Support for that expired over a decade ago."
"Well, yes, put that way it does sounds a little bit scary but the thing is, some genius wrote some brilliant Javascript thing 20 years ago and we don't want to break it. It might be a bit insecure but hey, it runs like a slug with go-faster stripes and it's in a child-friendly language - or at least we think it is because the guy who set it up didn't have time to document it. What's not to like?"
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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The scope of Jigsaw is impressive, intending not only to modularise the monolithic Java runtime, but to also enforce strong encapsulation, so that Java code is forced to only access platform libraries via their public interfaces. Modular code may not simply reach into the internals of another module. "If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him."
Not sure why that quote appealed to me, but there you go.
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Young crayfish can get drunk — and they get drunk a lot faster when they’ve been hanging out with their friends, new research says. Next time you're stuck in a meeting, or having a bad day at work, remember that someone gets paid to get crayfish drunk.
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And apparently someone gets paid to write about it too.
Too bad they didn't figure out they're called crawfish though. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Also known as "Crawdads".
I always wondered where all the "Crawmums" were ("Crawmoms" in the US, I suppose).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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