Wow, these comments are horrific. Zero creativity or imagination. And the flames! Relax, guys!

Here's something to think about: When you visualize a scene in your mind's eye, how is your brain representing and rendering the geometry? Is it using triangles? NURBs? Or is it using something novel that you haven't thought about yet?

Nvidia is currently using neural nets to enhance rendering ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.nvidia.com%2Fblog%2F2017%2F07%2F31%2Fnvidia-research-brings-ai-to-computer-graphics%2F ), and so is deep mind ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeepmind.com%2Fblog%2Fneural-scene-representation-and-rendering%2F ).

One thing that NURBS and trinagles are bad at capturing is the fractal forms that you see in nature, like trees. Those never look realistic in games. What if we could program neural networks to create compressed holographic representations of their fractal structure, so that they could be stored and rendered efficiently, while looking more treelike?

Is anyone else surprised it took Trump this long to guess the net-nanny password his aids put on his internet access. Whoops, looks like he got to google his own name for the first time in 2 years.

Finally links to infowars/Alex Jones will be marked as satire. Tired of people thinking it's real journalism or news.

If anything were to happen to the covered bridge in Hartland, New Brunswick I assure you, it would be very disruptive to the flow of traffic.

I agree -- imperial units are generally better for human perception and estimation. One of the worst metric units is pressure, which is measured in kilopascals (newtons per meter). Who the hell knows how big a newton is?? :) Pounds-per-inch is way easier to wrap your head around.

I think the exception is Fahrenheit, which is not only annoying to spell, but nonlinear, and calibrated quite absurdly. (-10F is actually 22F! WTF! :)

I also find gallons and miles a bit unwieldy, but I suppose they are "chunkier", making it easier to do rough estimates.

Where are these wonderful places, and how soon can I get there?!!?

No one could have predicted when Duke Nukem Forever would arrive.

Once UAVs have delivered bombs to critical infrastructure, UAVs can deliver the things the infrastructure used to enable the delivery of. Maybe Disney can do a song about the circle of UAVs.

Rob (who should've had a promotion by now to at least Admiral),

It's been a damn long time.

I used to be ticked off that I didn't register for an account until long after I started reading (I could've been a 4-digit!) and I look now at some of the UIDs and think that you've got to be overwhelmed by what you and Jeff put together.

I'm glad you're taking some family time - just don't stay off the internet for too long huh?

And for (really) old time's sake, I notice that there has not yet been a mention of Petrified Natalie Portman or Grits in this article. Consider the oversight fixed.

See ya around.

Master's Thesis on SCADA Sec? Really? Published anywhere?

SCADA security isn't. I'm sorry but it's true. And the entire "security industry" is talking just like all the slashtards commenting.

Doing security right in this environment is non-trivial. The SCADA/ICS vendor community isn't providing it because SCADA/ICS customers aren't asking for it. The downside of course is that the SCADA/ICS customer is NOT the individual who is going to suffer when the screwups happen. The SCADA/ICS vendors and customers have externalized the costs of failure on the general public and no country-scale government is actually doing anything other than paying lip-service to the idea of dealing with aging/insecure infrastructure.

If you want to see more - have a look at the talk I did at DEF CON 18 - it covers the situation nicely.

50% market share isn't that bad is it? For a long time after DVDs came out VHS was still selling and renting well. Most people I know (including my parents) upgraded to Blu-Ray shortly after getting a >40" LCD.

pics or it didn.... oh.

"Even if Smith is lying, it makes you wonder how long it will be until Hollywood starts to recycle actors as well as scripts"

I think that last part should read "to recycle actors like they do scripts". Hollywood certainly doesn't recycle scripts well.

Leprechauns rejoice!