The Daily Nerd (February 22nd, 2014)

The Daily Nerd (February 22nd, 2014) #

Have I tattooed a syntax error on my arm?

A few months ago I tattooed a fork bomb on my arm and I skipped the whitespace because I think it looks nicer without it. But to my dismay, sometimes(not always) when I run it in a shell it doesn’t start a fork bomb but just gives a syntax error.

Long-Term Climate Warming Trend Sunstained in 2013

NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1998, the 10 warmest years in the 134-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the warmest years on record. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which analyzes global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated report Tuesday on temperatures around the globe in 2013. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience temperatures warmer than those measured several decades ago.

Stick-on screens open up a new vista for window projections

Scientists have created a transparent screen that can turn any window into a display for moving images. The screens, which are made by adding tiny nanoparticles that reflect blue light into a liquid polymer, can be stuck on to any window. The nanoparticles are invisible to humans, creating the transparency, but images projected in blue light show up.