Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 12:52 PM EDT |
Pitt-Michigan study finds that more women than men have combination
of high math and high verbal skills, recommends new focus on tapping potential
of women with that combination for careers in science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics (STEM)
Study also finds that women with high math skills and
only moderate verbal ability are the ones who appear more likely to choose STEM
careers
http://www.news.pitt.edu/women_STEM
A PDF of the study is
available upon request.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 01:34 PM EDT |
Robotic Mantis Hexapod
I
want
one.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 01:37 PM EDT |
Are CMA and R66T reviving ad injection on pay connections
to
residential users? Only those two companies can explain exactly what
the
situation is, and neither has been over-anxious to respond immediately
to
questions.
Na
te Anderson, ars technica[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 01:42 PM EDT |
Story at Ars Technica . [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 03:52 PM EDT |
Under the
amendments, which might be voted on as early as April 10, violating
terms of service could be defined as racketeering -- so that you could
be prosecuted as though your violation of terms of service made you into a
mobster.
They also add "conspiring" to violate terms of service to
the list of offenses that are a felony under the CFAA. So you can be thrown in
jail just for talking about ways to violate terms of service.
The
amendments also make it a felony to obtain information that you are entitled
to obtain, if you do so in a way that violates terms of service.
My wife
and I share some online accounts, including our "family" airmiles account with
British Airways, which we both contribute to and use, but only my wife can see
the details of them (she signed up for the service, so it's linked to her
login). We're both entitled to see those details, but poor service design makes
it impossible to do this without sharing a login and password. No problem,
except that BA's terms of service forbid this. So looking up my own airmiles,
which I earned, and which I'm entitled to see and use, would be a felony under
these amendments because I was looking at them in a way that violates BA's
terms.
The amendments also include increased powers for seizure of
property, which will enable the Feds to take away the assets you might use
to defend yourself against a CFAA claim.
Cory
Doctorow, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 04:20 PM EDT |
There were two sessions in a row on Wednesday afternoon at this
year’s GDC. The first was a panel of women in the games industry, discussing the
causes and results of the #1ReasonWhy and #1ReasonToBe phenomena – the reasons to be and not be
in the games industry. The second was Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian,
talking about the positive and negative consequences of her Kickstarter
campaign, and the way forward from here.
I came out of the first – vivid,
passionate declarations of purpose from the likes of Leigh Alexander, Mattie
Brice and Brenda Romero – feeling certain that the industry and its audience was
on a wave of significant change.
An hour later I came out of the second –
Sarkeesian’s challenging and demanding story of recent horror – re-grounded to
the current reality, introspective, and further determined.
John Walker, Rock Paper Shotgun
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 10:02 PM EDT |
Why it's not a good idea to keep a secret that has to be known (sort of) by 4
billion people.
Michael Mimoso blogged this three days before other places started to run
the story.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 10:09 PM EDT |
There is also the interesting question of how a national
intelligence service only found out about the article now, several years
after it was first added: this hardly suggests a firm grasp of what's happening
in the online world.
That's confirmed by the fact that the deleted article
is, of course, back on line, in French and a dozen other languages. Moreover, the DCRI's ham-fisted
attempt to censor an extremely obscure Wikipedia page that hardly anyone ever
visited, has achieved exactly the opposite effect: in the last few days, the page has been viewed over 45,000
times.
This is
how the article about the not-so-secret military installation now
concludes:
As a result of the controversy, the article
became the most-read page on the French Wikipedia. It was translated into
multiple other languages. The French newspaper 20 minutes noted it as an example
of the Streisand effect in action.
Will they never
learn?
Glyn Moody, Techdirt[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 10:36 PM EDT |
Pencil and Paper Cosmological Computer arxiv.org PDF
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 08:16 AM EDT |
OSNews article "Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle file antitrust
complaint about Android". As the linked article states this does seem like
clutching at straws. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 08:36 AM EDT |
Microsoft has accused
rival Google of pushing Android handset makers to use its applications such as
YouTube and Maps. --- The following program contains immature subject
matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 10:42 AM EDT |
The idea that saboteurs in wetsuits would dive to the bottom of the
Mediterranean Sea and cut a fiber optic cable, though not impossible, is highly
unlikely, if only because doing so would be a good way to wind up
dead. --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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