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Patch Tuesday: IE at risk of malware attacks; 57 flaws in total
Have you ever worked 12 hours with pounds of red mud stuck to your boots? It weighs a lot and if very annoying when you want to drive home or go eat.
It goes somewhat further if you let it/your system is compatible.
60 by.ryan.werber (206.214.251.177) 153.282 ms 154.264 ms 149.479 ms
61 when.ccies.get.bored (206.214.251.182) 154.085 ms 150.249 ms 147.620 ms
62 ccie.38168 (206.214.251.185) 148.633 ms 150.156 ms 152.908 ms
63 fin (206.214.251.190) 155.715 ms * 429.865 ms
So those are the ONLY choices for the source of something metallic-looking on a roughly earth-like planet in our Solar System?

A. Aliens

B. Piece of one of our own spacecrafts

I choose C. None of the above.
What this proves is that the law is so absurd that not even the enforcement officials are willing to comply. Ever heard of the prohibition? There were "corrupt policemen" which bought and sold spirits! Same here. This is why it is relevant: not hypocrisy but lack of common sense in the law.

On the other hand it seems that they are using a public service for their private pleasure. I do see a problem here.
A bit of tweening animation should be able to fix that though.
> I'd pay for an app that runs this simulation just to make this point sharper.

My sister wants an app to help explain to clients who don't understand cash flow problems. "How can I be broke? I make more money than I spend!" (Not this month, you didn't)

I'll see what I can do with Cocos 2D. It'll be like my Wa-Tor inspired A-Life programs from middle school.

EDIT: BTW, this applet runs just fine on my iPad as it is.
I'm sorry I've missed your point too, let's say he against all odds now magically got a pre-completion OPT authorized (which takes A LOT OF persuasion of the school officials BTW), an EAD, and have enough money to get a lawyer and incorporate a C-corp or what have you, before Immigration gets to him, now what? He still violated the rules to maintain his visa status.

If indeed he is in danger of being deported, how is ANY of your suggested action going to save him? He's running against time here, he can try to change his visa status, which Uncle Sam could find out about this and deny by the way. But if he was successful, Immigration could still decide to immediate terminate his visa when they find out about this. He is under risk of being deported, whatever he does now might alert Immigration, which puts him under further risk of being deported. I'm sorry I've totally missed your point here, but wouldn't minimizing damage the best course of action under these circumstances? What's the best way to minimize damage? Oh right, getting his money back, transfer it out of the country and hope Uncle Sam doesn't find out, or do absolutely nothing and hope Uncle Sam doesn't find out and still have money to go to school.

OP said he's from Venezuela, did you hear they just decided to devalue their currency by a third? Assuming he doesn't get his money back, his family suddenly has to pay 150% of tuition before devaluation for him to stay in school in the US. I don't know about his financial situation, but sounds like a lot of burden to me. Tuition and living expenses for international students currently range in about $100K a year. Minimizing damage sounds like the best course of action here.
As a doctor I agree.

At medical school you learn to develop algorithms to deal with inputs and act upon the output.

Out of medical school you are meant to keep up to date with countless updates in clinical practice based on mountains of studies and publications. Plenty of data is not distributed.

This is a great step forward for medicine.
So a movie is information now? A song is information? Even the dictionary doesn't agree with your definition:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/information?s=t

How about your name, address, ssn, CC number, and bank account information. Information wants to be free, right?
"Outdated affirmative-action programmes should give way to schemes to help students based on the poverty of the applicant rather than the colour of his skin."

Tell that to Harvard and look at Caltech's Asian student enrollment numbers: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/339778/racial-quotas-...

Race should be left out of the qualifications for getting into university, but be prepared for those universities' Asian student populations to grow significantly, probably whether they are rich or poor. That's fine with me (I dislike racial quotas), but it wasn't mentioned.
"except to remove situations where they currently have an (in my opinion) unfair advantage"

How would you do that?
Those on the IEEE board get paid? That surprises me, although I could believe it -- do you have a cite?
For 18.5 billion, I'd be surprised if they had anything left.
> something made with particles that are much smaller than your cells

Nearly everything we come into contact with during the day is made from particles smaller than our cells...
Internally, it is spoken of as a liability

I doubt that their API is spoken of as a liability internally because, if it was spoken of as a liability then Twitter.com itself is a liability. Why? Twitter.com itself is powered by their API[1]

[1] http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/09/tech-behind-new-twitt...
certainly works quite well in the format of telling a story.
> Intel should spec "to change screen brightness, write a value from 0 to 0xFF to this register"

There is already (mostly Intel made) spec for this kind of things. It's called ACPI. Which by the way Samsung started (partially) using not so long time a ago. Reason for that was that Microsoft was going to stop selling them Windows 7 OEM licenses unless Samsung starts using ACPI.
Quite frankly, the other day I attempted to track down a humorous but "pornographic" image that I had seen many moons ago. It was all but impossible on Image search even though I'd found it before the recent SafeSearch changes.

I don't really understand the rationale for the change... was there just too much stuff leaking through SafeSearch or what?
well, I guess if a guy hears of Nokia probably (s)he knows about Finland :-)
Good ol' windows DPMI, where you could create a read/write LDT value with the same address as the GDT, taking over the processor security at the lowest level. That wasn't fixed until win2k.
Before I studied the history the use of asbestos as an industrial material, I didn't take warnings like this seriously. Now I do.
Why is it a pet peeve of yours? Do you have a reason you could explain our does it just rub you the wrong way?
Verizon engineers? But android and ios already gather statistics on every app's battery consumption, connection usage and cpu time.
I'd be surprised if Google doesn't already collect this data from android devices. Would be nice to see it integrated with Play store.
> how can I practically make my journal open access? There is a need for technology to assist in setting up open access journals.

I would like some further clarification of why you believe this is true.

The tech to make a journal open access is no harder than the tech to have an online journal with a paywall.

Is the issue just that if you go with an existing commercial paywalled publisher, they supply you with tech staff to do it for you, but if you aren't bringing in any income you have to figure out how/who is going to do the tech yourself?

That seems potentially legit, but it's not purely a tech issue. There are plenty of open access journals publishing using open source tech -- from tech like OJS (designed for that purpose), to WordPress, to static HTML. I don't think any of the tech solutions produce _great_ UIs -- but then again neither do any of the paywalled UIs, the bar is pretty low, unfortunately. I don't think lack of existence of software is really a barrier.

"Who is going to set up and maintain this software if we don't have money to pay them, and our editors aren't techies" is probably a much bigger barrier. But what would be needed to solve that isn't just 'we need technology' -- it would be -- and geez, I can't believe I'm just thinking of this for the first time spurred by your comment (thanks!), a hosted 'software as service' solution, grant-funded, that provides centralized free (or very cheap) hosting to open access journals. Might be a business opportunity there, in fact.
Right. Note my comment didn't say religion would be destroyed.
Well, I think Verizon's point is that some games never let the device go into sleep mode even when paused, inactive or running in the background. I get the impression that Verizon compiled its rating by comparing actual resource consumption compared to "expected" resource consumption, which is probably a fairly relative term. For instance you expect Netflix to consume a lot of data and run down your battery when you're actually watching a movie, but you don't expect a game to do the same when you're not playing it.

-- Kevin F (the article's author)
To expand on your comments I think it is safe to say that the elite, whether aristocracy or meritocracy, are adept at keeping the wealth, influence and power for themselves and their friends. Some of it is innate in that they will pass on resources to their children out of a desire to see them succeed. Some of it is cronyism as they want to do good things for their friends.
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enlightened species

Name the occurrence in the history of our planet where the much-more advanced/capable species did not displace and diminish the indiginent one. In many cases, the more advanced or aggressive species completely wiped out the existing one.

There's a lot more that's extremely unlikely in the Star Trek universe besides just transporter beams and faster-than-light travel.

A sufficiently advanced species might not feel any more compunction about eradicating the human race than I would feel about eradicating mosquitoes.
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There's a [dead] reply taking me to task on my use of the word "superstition" because apparently Wikipedia thinks that superstitions have to be beliefs in the supernatural. Like all semantic arguments, this is boring and dumb, but in point of fact, the first definition in every dictionary I can find supports my usage.

Here's Random House:

a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
Also: merit is not one-dimensional. Which merit is being measured? Merit at what?

I've noted for a while that a significant fraction of those successful in business, especially in certain sectors, are basically glorified street hustlers. They're very good at rapidly building social networks, smoke and mirrors, and shell games that create the illusion of value. The game they play could be called "lie, leverage, flip."

Is this the merit that we want?

I would argue that all societies are meritocracies for some value of "merit." Defining merit in any objective sense is not easy. In fact, it's probably capital-H Hard and reduces to the same effectively-infinite-dimensional search problem solved by evolution itself.

I think meritocracy is a great example of a simple idea that is incredibly appealing but wrong in a way that creates pathologies. Economics and biology are just chock full of that stuff.
1. Tutoring does not make a dumb person smart. Your IQ does not grow because you have a good teacher.

2. Complaining about people not having a fair chance in an age where everybody has access to the internet (which is pretty much all human knowledge) is just wrong.

3. You don't need college to rise to the top - that's just a myth (check out Thiel Fellowship website, they have lot's of materials on this topic).

4. The fact that you don't agree with someone doesn't mean they lack intelligence.
I'd be more surprised if they weren't downloading. Spend enough time monitoring / maintaining any large network and you will see everything, regardless of the perceived seriousness of the organization.
"I never played for score, only for meditation. :)

I remember passing level 29 on two or three occasions, always a freak happening. I can't find a video online of anyone doing this without tool-assist though." - a friend of mine, who is really, really rainman-good at NES Tetris.
Not withstanding the problems mentioned, you can leave your TTL as a low value. Amazon S3, for example, leaves it as 60 seconds.
Your life will be made much easier when the Singularity arrives.
>We could then put Mars in the same category as the Moon when it comes to the life hypothesis. This is not the case - so I'd say a search for evidence of life on Mars (past or even present) is justified.

Of course searching for evidence of current or past life on Mars is justified. But there is a huge difference between searching for evidence, and declaring every anomalous discovery to be potential evidence. In addition, the hypothesis "a technological civilization has lived on/visited/probed Mars" is a minuscule subset of the hypothesis "there is, or has been, some form of life on Mars".
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sinister.agents
Princess.Leia.races.home
aboard.her.starship
custodian.of.the.stolen.plans
that.can.save.her
people.and.restore
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Technically, a B1 is what you would want rather than a B2. But I wouldn't worry about it. Entering at the border, don't say you will be starting up a company.
Set up a multiplayer Minecraft server accessable over the Internet
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We don't know that. There are plenty of examples on Earth of cross-species infections. No telling how microbial/fungal agents could directly attack or indirectly impact the delicate balance here on Earth.

Further, any microbe hitching a ride aboard an alien may well find Earth's general environment to be easy to thrive in. Think Kudzu, but at the microbial level. Eventually, the alien microbe and/or the natural Earth microbes will mutate in order to out-survive the other.
See what this poor guy is going through? There are a lot of bright people here. Sounds like a start-up opportunity for someone. He can't be the only person who winds up in this situation. Solving this could open the door for others who have the skills to make money like he did.
What about a list of things Bill Gates did to build Microsoft, and the positive results of those achievements? It's a huge list, and it's the one that people should use to assess him morally.

For example, there is huge value in standardization: having one platform that most people use at a given time saves a ton of porting effort. Same with the backward compatibility: I know several people that still get a lot of value from DOS applications. And look at the price of software over the last 30 years, adjusted for inflation. Microsoft helped bring those prices down and make these technologies more available to people.
"All models are wrong; some models are useful." -- George Box. Or as I like to put it, "The key to life is perspective" (http://jamesthornton.com/manifesto).
that was a good chuckle... thanks for sharing.
iOS 6.1 should be on that list in my experience.
Hey Curll, send me an email and I'll pass you along our work. john@bitfountaincode.com
A human explorer probably wouldn't have seen it though; it's really tiny. The reason this was seen at all is that the high resolution images are being looked over by a large number of people on Earth. NASA themselves didn't even spot it.

(High resolution imagery + many many human eyes) > Human eyes

Never mind that Curiosity has now been operating for 6 months without food, water, or sleep, and is expected to continue doing so for years.
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I'm not 100% sure what this means. I remember hearing a lot of rabble rabble a few months back about Microsoft placing some roadblocks on hardware that would make it more difficult to install Linux on machines.

Does this mean this is now a non-issue?

Thanks in advance.
But that is far too pessimistic, even for a cynic like me.

That stuff roughly occured to me in my youth.. that you probably cannot fully know and describe a system while being part of it. I don't find that depressing at all. Sure there is a reality, maybe it is internally consistent; there's just no way from fiction leading to there. We can build imperfect models of the shadows on the wall of the cave; we can't even make imperfect models of all of reality. It's like trying to make sense of a piece of code, give a definite answer, without knowing the code that comes before and after it... it won't ever happen, you can guess as long as you want, you can never fully confirm or deny your model. Don't get used to, don't identify with that house of cards, and there is nothing depressing about blowing it away.
It may not invalidate the claim that piracy is wrong. But it certainly calls into question their suitability to enforce anti-piracy laws.

As to orofino's claim that it doesn't make piracy any more morally right, I disagree. It is one more piece of evidence that piracy is so widespread that it is morally correct - when people in basically every organization in the world break the law on a regular basis, it means the law itself needs to be reevaluated.

To use his own example, the same can be said for speed limits which are generally supposed to be set to the 85th percentile. If a speed limit is set too low - as shown by more than 15 percent of drivers exceeding it - then the limit itself needs to be corrected.
Bricking a laptop might be an efficient threat to extort a ransom.
While you are absolutely correct that nanoparticles need to be used with caution, it might be difficult for a superhydrophobic particle to enter a body that it is so repulsed by. But I can imagine them being quite harmful when they nevertheless find a way in.

An interesting consideration: testing potentially harmful products on the public is done with many technologies. I am guessing the public benefits from this often enough to justify continuing the practice. Compare this "easier to ask for forgiveness than permission" style to the public utility lost by performing rigorous governmental approval and costly testing of the likes that pharmaceutics pass through before market entry.
Most of the arguments over our meritocracy come down to a matter of semantics. People seem to have wildly different definitions of a meritocracy. If you define (as I do) a meritocracy as a society in which power is given according to ability, then a society in which there are educational disadvantages for the poor is nonetheless still a meritocracy, albeit an educationally-unequal meritocracy. A society can be both a meritocracy and have poor social mobility. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive (though in some cases they can be).

Yes, it is true that today's society is by no means a pure meritocracy. Connections matter. That is unlikely to ever change. The problem of "who you know matters" is a problem of information - people would rather hire a slightly-below-competent friend than a supposedly-competent stranger because their friend is a known quantity.
A map is not a territory - this is already an old maxim.

A model is not a reality is the one of today. Look at all that "economy", "psychology", "nutrition" nonsense. These models are so weak and artificial, they are not even good-enough for considering "as if".)
Similar in that there are variable writes you can perform that break the system. Code-wise, entirely unrelated.
As far as I can tell, this can be summed up in the two aphorisms

"The map is not the territory"

and

"All models are wrong; some are useful."
> I suppose very few doctors have way less than 90% accuracy

It's a reasonable thought. When this has been studied at autopsy, however, doctors seem to be right 70-85% of the time (higher when very confident of the diagnosis) [1]. There are a bunch of studies that show this, and you can find many in the linked meta-analysis.

Of course, this focuses on things that can lead to death. If your doctor misdiagnosis RSV as metapneumovirus, you'll survive either way in all likelihood, so for some diseases we'll probably never know the true diagnostic accuracy.

[1] = http://www.pathkids.com/autopsy/hasleton%20on%20discrepancie...
Unfortunately just RAM, lots of time and the mind of a 12 y/o!
It's by Ryan Werber [0]

[0]http://www.linkedin.com/in/rwerber
we really don't know

I think that's the point. When you don't know anything about the motivations of an alien race that can easily wipe out our species, why would you take any chances?

Pretend for a moment that I have a Button. The owner of that Button can push it and eliminate every person on the planet besides the people that owner didn't want to kill (friends, family, city, state, country, whatever)

Would you be an advocate of giving that Button to any random person on Earth?

Any race of aliens capable of interstellar travel probably has that Button. So while (I assume) that you wouldn't be okay with giving that Button to any person on Earth -- you'd be okay with having an alien race that we don't understand even a little bit in possession of such a thing.
Does testing on Wine complicate the development of a game?
Of course they do my ass. To most people it is not obvious so it is a good thing that they are being called out on it. You acting as if everybody already knows does not help. But of course you know this.
It's been a non-issue for a couple of months - the Linux Foundation implementation is an alternative approach, but there's already a freely-available signed bootloader that distributions can use.
I think the article did a poor job of representing the recent efforts by elite universities to open up access to the children of farmers and auto-mechanics. http://npc.fas.harvard.edu/
There's still more to be done, sure, but it's important to mention that this isn't as bad as it was even 10 years ago.
I think focusing on WINE style emulation sounds like a very sensible way forward. The thing for me is, though, that it would be great if more games came pre wrapped in some sort of emulation with all the relevant settings tweaked.

I don't want to buy a game and then spend hours messing around to get it to work.

Having a big library of emulated games is more important (in my opinion) than squeezing every last frame rate out of a small number of native ports.
I'd rather have the calculator pop up for you, then myriads of Linux Newbies complaining that their Laptop doesn't fully "work" out of the box in Linux and thus Linux sucks.

Also, as mentioned by others, there are all those special buttons for volume and screen brightness, for stamina/power mode and what not that are actually useful!
To those who are unaware of: The Pirate Bay - AFK was released yesterday
Thanks, fixed now.