But for how long will this work?

But for how long will this work?

Originally shared by The Hacker News

Microsoft builds Anti-Ransomware Tool in Windows 10
http://thehackernews.com/2017/06/windows10-controlled-folder-access-ransomware-protection.html

The modern equivalents.

The modern equivalents.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/20-free-electrical-ebooks/

Very Cool stuff.

Very Cool stuff. You can read about the author at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Powell_Morgan and download a free copy of the book at http://www.tayloredge.com/museum/museum/TheBoyElectrician.pdf !

https://i.imgflip.com/10islq.jpg

https://i.imgflip.com/10islq.jpg

Stanford Engineers Design a Robotic Gripper for Cleaning Up Space Debris

Originally shared by Astro Watch

Stanford Engineers Design a Robotic Gripper for Cleaning Up Space Debris
Right now, about 500,000 pieces of human-made debris are whizzing around space, orbiting our planet at speeds up to 17,500 miles per hour. This debris poses a threat to satellites, space vehicles and astronauts aboard those vehicles. What makes tidying up e...

Yet one more reason not to have social media apps on my smartphone.

Yet one more reason not to have social media apps on my smartphone.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-28/snapchats-snap-map-feature-raises-safety-concern/8660066

Available in Notepad++ shop:

Originally shared by Notepad++

Available in Notepad++ shop:
https://shop.spreadshirt.fr/notepadplus/

D'oh!

D'oh!
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/new8xw/hacker-behind-massive-ransomware-outbreak-cant-get-emails-from-victims-who-paid

Dinosaur find could hold key to 95-million-year-old diet

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/dinosaur-discovery-sauropod-diet-winton-dinosaur-museum/8651792

A bit of overthinking here.

A bit of overthinking here.
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/68726234382/?utm_campaign=popular_pins&e_t=66cd270a3271403da6049815ac239675&utm_content=68726234382&utm_source=31&utm_term=1&utm_medium=2012

Or, you could just use a Nokia 3310 - see...

Or, you could just use a Nokia 3310 - see http://www.smh.com.au/technology/mobiles/nokia-3310-a-new-version-of-the-classic-mobile-phone-released-20170226-gulswu.html - or just not install social media apps on your smart phone.
https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-want-to-stop-being-connected-247-try-th/f-365455c561%2Fmashable.com

I wouldn't mind testing this, but only under some form of supervision.

I wouldn't mind testing this, but only under some form of supervision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZCfmgzoS0&feature=share

This might be a good technique, for discrete short tasks.

This might be a good technique, for discrete short tasks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOQCsc02xus&feature=share

The criticism that hits Hoel and Albantakis the hardest is one physicists sometimes make upon hearing the idea: They...

The criticism that hits Hoel and Albantakis the hardest is one physicists sometimes make upon hearing the idea: They assert that noise, the driving force behind causal emergence, doesn’t really exist; noise is just what physicists call all the stuff that their models leave out. “It’s a typical physics point of view,” Albantakis said, that if you knew the exact microscopic state of the entire universe, “then I can predict what happens until the end of time, and there is no reason to talk about something like cause-effect power.”

WE haven't heard the last of this.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-math-untangles-the-mysterious-nature-of-causality-consciousness/

Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Walter Gropius, László...

Originally shared by Open Culture

Download Original Bauhaus Books & Journals for Free: Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy & More
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/download-original-bauhaus-books-journals-for-free.html

Here we go again. If it's there I dread to think how long an orbit is!

Here we go again. If it's there I dread to think how long an orbit is!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431314-400-weird-orbits-hint-planet-ten-might-lurk-at-solar-system-edge/

33 Fabulous Resources To Use When You Name Characters

https://writerswrite.co.za/fabulous-resources-to-use-when-you-name-characters/

Heh. I first saw this at https://writerswrite.co.za/

Heh. I first saw this at https://writerswrite.co.za/
https://twitter.com/bymariandrew/status/877482482815447040

I've started seeing G+ posts and comments with lots of symbols in them.

I've started seeing G+ posts and comments with lots of symbols in them. Wasn't sure how they did that. This page tells you how to use fonts, and http://www.osfvad.com/google_plus/google_plus_symbols/google_plus_symbols.php and http://fsymbols.com/google/ give lists of symbols.
http://garymatthews.com/2014/03/fancy-fonts-special-characters/

Who knew that Wikipedia had a store?

Who knew that Wikipedia had a store?
https://store.wikimedia.org/

a bit of fun

a bit of fun
http://theavatarmaker.com/

those were the days

those were the days
http://designbeep.com/2010/09/30/55-vintage-computer-ads-which-will-make-you-compare-today-and-past/

Free eBooks with Modern Typography & Nice Formatting, All “Carefully Produced for the True Book Lover”

Originally shared by Open Culture

Free eBooks with Modern Typography & Nice Formatting, All “Carefully Produced for the True Book Lover”
http://www.openculture.com/2017/06/free-ebooks-with-modern-typography-nice-formatting-all-carefully-produced-for-the-true-book-lover.html

Feeling euphoric on a low-carb diet?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-22/feeling-euphoric-on-a-low-carb-diet-the-effect-on-your-brain/8641396?smid=Page:+ABC+Science-Facebook_Organic&WT.tsrc=Facebook_Organic&sf90941175=1

Interesting read, even though it's from 2013.

Interesting read, even though it's from 2013.
http://www.davidrevoy.com/article107/textured-brush-in-floss-digital-painting

I'm thinking of upgrading my ram on my Studio PC from 8GB to 16GB.

I'm thinking of upgrading my ram on my Studio PC from 8GB to 16GB. After some searching (it's hard to find ram that will run on an ASUS A85XM-A I found THIS. Is it worth it? The local shops I've phoned didn't have ram that would run on that motherboard, and the people at the other end of the phone suggested I upgrade the Motherboard instead! Kind of like suggesting I buy a new engine for my car when really I'm having trouble finding better tyres! Of course I have NO car anymore, but that was the best analogy I had.

The issue is being on a fixed income. I upgraded my RecRoom PC a bit last year with both a new motherboard and gee-whiz graphics card, but that's the PC I'll be DRAWING on mostly. The Studio PC will be used mostly for doing 3D stuff on , but not stuff that's so complicated it needs a new graphics card. More along the line of models for Opensimulator, stuff like that. With only 8GB, I've found that there's a distinct lag with the stuff I've been doing. The RecRoom PC, which has 16GM ram, has no such problems.

There's no immediate rush, so I won't be buying anything until I get feedback on this.
https://www.ramcity.com.au/buy/crucial-16gb-kit-2x-8gb-kit-pc3l-12800-240-pin-udi/CT2K102464BD160B~KIN1-AAd-00-19090

Dr Karl: Why you probably can't remember your childhood

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-20/dr-karl-childhood-amnesia-theories/8622326

Updated to version 2.2

Updated to version 2.2
https://aeontimeline.wistia.com/medias/b72kn1aw62

This looks interesting, though I might stick with Mint KDE for now.

This looks interesting, though I might stick with Mint KDE for now.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/xfce-explained-linux-speediest-desktop/

10 Ways to Celebrate World Tessellation Day

https://denisegaskins.com/2016/06/17/world-tessellation-day/

One of the reasons I've deferred learning Blender properly, is the bloody interface.

One of the reasons I've deferred learning Blender properly, is the bloody interface. I have bifocals and my vision is not good at the best of times. Looking at the Default Blender theme, it's all small text on colours that blend too easily (see the mostly grey screenshot below) and that's a real pain to use, when I can barely read the headings let alone the buttons and values!

When I inquired about higher contrast themes in the community a while back, I was told GO DO IT IT YOURSELF without actually telling me how. So I left Blender alone after that, it such was an example of help. Now I've started playing around with themes It's a work in progress but I made the text LARGER and have more of a contrast (see the screenshot with the purplish 3D background colour). It's a start!
#blender #gui# #accessibility

How Does Earth Move Through Space? Now We Know, On Every Scale

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/06/16/how-does-earth-move-through-space-now-we-know-on-every-scale/#711461ce861f

Have often done this technique in the past.

Have often done this technique in the past. It doesn't guarantee a "correct decision", but rather informs you about what the outcomes might be.
http://www.lifehack.org/531415/when-you-cant-make-your-mind-try-this-technique-make-wiser-decisions?ref=content_bottom_related

Mind Palaces are real? Mine must be an outside dunny. ;)

Mind Palaces are real? Mine must be an outside dunny. ;)
http://www.lifehack.org/562103/sherlock-holmes-memory-palace-proven-technique-can-practice-daily-life?ref=sidebar_related

Just don't call me a "slow learner", which was all the rage in the playground as an insult, when I was a child.

Just don't call me a "slow learner", which was all the rage in the playground as an insult, when I was a child.
http://www.lifehack.org/572775/find-your-own-learning-style-make-learning-more-easy-and-effective?ref=sidebar_related

Attendee Shames Mostly-Male Science Panel For Mansplaining to Female Theoretical Physicist

https://www.themarysue.com/dont-mansplain-to-female-theoretical-physicists-bruh/

My first encounter with LUA was an application called DOGA 3D, (http://www.doga.co.jp/english/) which used Lua to...

My first encounter with LUA was an application called DOGA 3D, (http://www.doga.co.jp/english/) which used Lua to organise the models in its videos.
http://www.lua.org/about.html

Or, you could simply leave it in another room on SILENT mode.

Or, you could simply leave it in another room on SILENT mode.
http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/health/article/2016/01/15/new-iphone-update-will-help-you-go-bed?cid=inbody:psychologists-explain-your-phone-anxiety-and-how-to-get-over-it

blobs

blobs
http://www.johnsolo.net/#

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Originally shared by A. Christopher

PBS Space Time #Science & #Physics

If you study a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, you may notice a large, deep blue splotch on the lower right. This area, creatively named the Cold Spot. Is this feature a statistical fluke, the signature of vast supervoids, or even the imprint of another universe?

Written and Hosted by Matt O’Dowd
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Kurt Ross
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrS0rxX-UhA

The last time I had no superfluous light, would have been almost exactly 10 years ago, when after the big storm of...

The last time I had no superfluous light, would have been almost exactly 10 years ago, when after the big storm of 2007 (in which the Pasha Bulker ran aground) my suburb had no power for 4 days.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-08/why-humans-need-darkness-but-dont-get-it/8597016?smid=Page:+ABC+Science-Facebook_Organic&WT.tsrc=Facebook_Organic&sf86343075=1

So you want to browse the Dark Web? Here's why you'll probably change your mind

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/internet/what-is-dark-web-deep-web-3593569/

Werner Heisenberg: Quantum Mechanics and Uncertainty Principle

Originally shared by annarita ruberto

Werner Heisenberg: Quantum Mechanics and Uncertainty Principle

Werner Karl Heisenberg (born December 5, 1901, Würzburg, Germany—died February 1, 1976, Munich, West Germany), German physicist and philosopher who discovered (1925) a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices.
So, in 1932, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for: 
The creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has led, among other things, to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen.

In 1927, he published, in the paper “Über den anschulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik” (“On the Perceptual Content of Quantum Theoretical Kinematics and Mechanics”), his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known.

This paper articulated the uncertainty, or indeterminacy, principle. Quantum mechanics demonstrated, according to Heisenberg, that the momentum (p) and position (x) of a particle could not both be exactly measured simultaneously.

Heisenberg drew a philosophically profound conclusion: absolute causal determinism was impossible, since it required exact knowledge of both position and momentum as initial conditions. Therefore, the use of probabilistic formulations in atomic theory resulted not from ignorance but from the necessarily indeterministic relationship between the variables. This viewpoint was central to the so-called “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum theory, which got its name from the strong defense for the idea at Bohr’s institute in Copenhagen.

A his quotation:
"Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables."
Physics and Beyond (New York 1971)

He also made important contributions to the theories of the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, the atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays, and subatomic particles, and he was instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear reactor at Karlsruhe, together with a research reactor in Munich, in 1957. 

References and relevant links

► Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and philosopher>>
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Werner-Heisenberg
► Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976)>>
https://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p01.htm
► Werner Heisenberg - Biographical>>
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1932/heisenberg-bio.html
► Full MacTutor biography>>
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Heisenberg.html
► The Uncertainty Principe>>
https://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p08.htm
► Image
In a nutshell: Dresden Codak's cartoon "Lil' Werner">>
https://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p08z.htm

#history_of_science, #quantum_mechanics , #physics , #werner_heisenberg

And we're not - so far as I know - taking about "free energy" and "death rays" here, but real practical stuff.

And we're not - so far as I know - taking about "free energy" and "death rays" here, but real practical stuff.

Originally shared by annarita ruberto

N. Tesla's Pyromagneto Electric Generator Patented May 13, 1890

Nikola Tesla was an inventor who obtained around 300 patents worldwide for his inventions.
Some of Tesla's patents are not accounted for, and various sources have discovered some that have lain hidden in patent archives.

There are a minimum of 278 patents issued to Tesla in 26 countries that have been accounted for. Many of Tesla's patents were in the United States, Britain, and Canada, but many other patents were approved in countries around the globe. Many inventions developed by Tesla were not put into patent protection.

The drawing below shows the original image of Pyromagneto Electric Generator
► Source>>
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US428057-0.png

►You can see U.S. Patent 0,428,057 and Tesla's explanation about his eletric generator>> https://www.google.com/patents/US428057


#physics, #HistoryOfScience, #NikolaTesla, #pyromagnetic_electric_generator

And you though WiFi black-spots were bad!

And you though WiFi black-spots were bad!
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-celestial-boondocks-idea-void.html

Hurray, they've restored this very useful add-on.

Hurray, they've restored this very useful add-on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-bookmark-here-2/

"The reality is that AI will have a dramatic impact on all aspects of people's lives, and it's going to happen...

"The reality is that AI will have a dramatic impact on all aspects of people's lives, and it's going to happen sooner than most of us realize," wrote Ryan Bort in Newsweek. "The consensus arrived at by the world's top AI researchers bears this out. Admittedly, it's a little frightening, especially if you have a job that involves anything technique-based or formulaic."

Somehow I don't think I'll be around for this. I suppose the issue is then, how to adapt.
https://m.techxplore.com/news/2017-06-experts-ai-surpass-humans-tasks.html#

Have fun when they catch a virus!

Have fun when they catch a virus!

Originally shared by Brandon Price
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/godlike-homo-deus-could-replace-humans-tech-evolves-n757971

How useful.

How useful.

Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

"Algorithm designs seven million different jars of Nutella."

"The algorithm pulled from a database of dozens of patterns and colours to create seven million different versions of Nutella's graphic identity, which have been splashed across the front of jars in Italy."
https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/01/algorithm-seven-million-different-jars-nutella-packaging-design/

Have always found this a handy Windows program to load at Start.

Have always found this a handy Windows program to load at Start. It disables the Caps Lock (and also the Insert key if you want) but you can also set it so that pressing Shift+Caps toggles the CAPSLOCK. wHY IS THIS SO hELPFUL, YOU ASK?! Because when I type I have a habit of accidentally hitting the thing. :P

You can also use the technique at https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-caps-lock-key-in-windows-vista/, but I find this little utility is more flexible.
#windows #win7
http://www.brainsystems.com/capsunlock/