Late Tuesday night, I was playing an old game on my Dell laptop, and the machine froze up — nothing worked. It was the first time that had happened since the motherboard was replaced more than a year ago. Rebooting it led to strange errors, so I shut it down and went to bed. Wednesday …
And I thought lobsters only looked weird after they’ve been cooked…
Another developer I work with sent me this link. Under that definition, I might qualify as mentally ill too, for the same reasons as the author of the article. 🙂
I really was born too late.
Computer security people have seen this coming for years. Signature-based detection of specific malware variants is less and less effective all the time; there’s no way antivirus programs can keep up anymore, and they’re just going to get further behind. Not to mention the ongoing problems with false positives. (I don’t even bother running an …
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Here’s something you’d probably never think of: […] a self-enforcing protocol for determining property tax: the homeowner decides the value of the property and calculates the resultant tax, and the government can either accept the tax or buy the home for that price. Sounds unrealistic, but the Greek government implemented exactly that system for the …
Gotta love the idea.
It’s not what you’d think, but if you read the article, it does make sense.
Interesting idea. Sounds like it might even work.
I find this quote shocking: Sure, it sounds like a rant your grandfather can chime in on, but most of us probably aren’t as familiar with how our roads are laid out and how maps correspond to them. Surely GPS systems aren’t so old that people have forgotten how to use paper maps?! I can …
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