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Smart and automated homes are closely related to my research so I'll chime in on this. Even though the technology exists to do lots of cool things no one has built a modular system…

You can always use the slackware-current packages to run with software that is newer than the last release.

Campaign money also comes from people though, so if enough people care about an issue then even politicians who only care about raising money will respond. A quick google search sh…

The software process that develops the applications are very different. An avionics system must be able to operate autonomously, must have robust fault detection and tolerance, and…

Not really - a lot of the technology that NASA builds ends up being used in other areas, from materials science to computer engineering.

Don't get too excited just yet - actually putting a sensor on everything would cost a huge amount of money and anything besides a passive RFID tag or barcode would need a battery. …

"Evidence-based" means that you tie statistical outcomes to procedures as apposed to doing what you think might be right based on your limited life experience (which is biased). Fo…

It's probably easier to use that much less power for the same performance than to push the same power in and get higher performance. On smaller size scales power leakage and heat d…

I feel compelled to disagree with people who insult C++ for the fun of it. In response to what you said, the STL is optimized and fast. You shouldn't be using that many smart point…

Return types can't always be deduced since they can be ambiguous - imagine an if statement where one branch returns a float and the other returns a double. The desired return type …

I thought the same thing when I starting working with the new standard, but I've really grown to enjoy a lot of the new features, specifically the new pointer types, rvalue referen…

I've been using them for a while now (gcc has support) and they're not awkward. The ability to specify scope is actually rather nice and most of the time you'll either leave the sc…

What would stop special interests from buying a new candidate every cycle? They help the candidate get elected, the candidate crafts legislation to the special interests' benefit, …

I much prefer Zeno's Republic, where everyone is equal but strives to be wise. Really, I think that there is no such thing as a perfect government, only a perfect citizenry, becaus…

This is actually an active research area so a google scholar search can turn up interesting stuff from various security conferences. Here's a summary of what I've read and heard ab…

Rutgers Winlab is has also been testing a sensor based approach to detecting open parking spots. They're using a sensor on the car to detect open spaces and measure their sizes to …

For that range it's probably using active tags, which is why they cost so much. On the other hand passive readers often cost a few thousand dollars and have tiny ranges so I think …

Another thing left out is solder flux. Some surfaces might be too small or too hard to reach and heat with the iron so I put flux onto the surface first and it causes the solder to…

I've heard arguments to the contrary, for example that deflation encourages people to invest their money under their mattresses. If money you hoard loses value then you feel a stro…

The value being passed in java is the value of the pointer, where the original pointer value cannot be changed by the function. This is pass-by-reference. Think of pass-by-referenc…

There is a precise term for that and you said it - pass-by-value. Recall that somewhere each language turns into assembly and that in order to pass a value to a subroutine you must…