Link. So unlike them. Fox colludes.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Gassée on a humbler Intel.
Link. Content owner negotiations are brutal.
Via xkcd i learn adobe’s pw encryption was incompetent.
Link. Cryptographers are costly.
Why extremely low fed rates may in fact be “natural”.
Link. Savings glut / side-effect of catchup industrialization of most of the planet.
The extreme sophistication of modern autofocus cameras.
Link. I had no idea.
Sigiriya Sri Lanka.
Link. I want.
Comcast $10 mo internet for low income families.
Link. "one child eligible to participate in the National School Lunch Program"
Goldberg revisits old question of how much future there is.
Link. Nothing new, but nice review for w=-1
How quickly does superposition expand – quantum gravity tests emerge.
Link. Impossible experiments now inevitable.
Eugenics continued: abortion for 14% risk schizophrenia.
Link. Trisomy 21 is unusual now …
Carl Icahn is awful. Dell edition.
Link. A malevolent force.
China 2013: patients assaulting physicians.
Link. Huge anger.
“many pills labeled as healing herbs are little more than powdered rice and weeds.”
Link. Is anyone surprised?
Why jobs vis recruiters usually suck.
Link. Too true.
Lessons in IMAP, and Mavericks innocent of one charge.
Link. Rogue Applescript.
Power over USB.
Link. Smart power will have powerful malware.
iGoogle is dead. 24 alternatives.
Link. More than I would imagine.
How FDA knows accelerated approval is working: bad outcomes.
Link. Omelet, egg. Absolutely correct.
House Intelligence Chair: “You Can’t Have Your Privacy Violated if You Don’t Know Your Privacy Is Violated”
Link. Obama owns this disaster.
Ergot as a deliberate hallucinogen in medieval europe.
Link. Dangerous high, but life was cheap.
Salmon: Amazon is good for publishers.
Link. So far. Wonder what they think.
American poverty is mainstream
Link. About 40-50% experience poverty during life.
Obama chose wrong people to do healthcare.gov.
Link. They wouldnt admit they were failing. Fault Obama.
Readdle’s Calendars 5 price goes from $2 to $7.
Link. I’d have aimed for $5, but $7 is a better choice than $2.
More murmurs of a market bubble.
Link. Money sloshing around.
Moving to the Snowden statues: “Snowden leaks look more and more justifiable in retrospect”
Link. Yeah, sure do. What comes first, the pardon or the statue?
Wanted: A blog feed that consists of a random sample of all past posts.
Link. Feels like it might be coming to WordPress…
Humanity progresses: Closing the madhouses of the industrializing world.
Link. Sometimes we get better.
Masonic Lodge concealed in London hotel.
Link. Open for guests.
Why would Walmart care if things are made in the US?
Link. #4: They need their customers to have money.
Innovations in chemotherapy: multi-modal delivery systems.
Link. Decades away, but unusually promising because it’s a technical innovation.
How long could wealthy countries pay debt if they couldn’t roll it over?
Link. US 17w, France 9w, Japan 14d – but US and Japan can print money. France though …
Some people fearing loss of beloved health insurance are unwitting chumps.
Link. They’ve been conned, and haven’t yet figured it out.
Germany needs to party like it’s 1997.
Link. Go wild.
Quebec Photo Radar – automated speeding tickets.
Link. I got one on my rental car. Big surprise! I would have been doing typical US speeds on an open highway. A human cop would not have bothered.
Unlocking a service swapped AT&T iPhone – a surprisingly good experience.
Link. Would be even better if ATT emulated Verizon.
Two straps on a backpack or one strap?
Link. My kids are 2 strap. Great story, via dalton.
Google KitKat needs to know: post-AI.
Link. Dogs and Neandertals teach best response to new apex predator.
Installation notes from buying a new AT&T contract phone iPhone 5s
Link. Swapping SIMs, restore bugs, corporate complexity …
When iPhone AT&T visual voice mail has disappeared and change voicemail password is stuck on “saving password”
Link. "Change greeting" may be pure voodoo, but if you’re desperate…
iPad Air LTE can easily switch carriers.
Link. Apple web site warning is obsolete.
Tor: Ender’s game flops at the end.
Link. Happily Thor sounds great.
Mavericks issues with Thunderbolt storage, eSATA cards.
Link. Mavericks is nice, but no rush. Just wait a bit.
U.S. Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Mothers.
Link. Smoking and obesity most likely causes.
Kristof rants on war on terror.
Link. If Obama really didn’t know then NSA director should be fired.
Snake neurons? Legacy of primate vs snake.
Link. Today primate is ahead, but don’t count snakes out.
Google’s quandry: if it can snoop, so can government.
Link. True security would wreck their business.
Surgeon skill varies greatly and has big impacts.
Link. Fits with endoscopy studies. To civilians this seems obvious, but within medicine it is a bit surprising.
Tail wags: left bad, right good.
Link. Whose left? The "not communication" argument begs the question.
Mavericks Finder Tabs: “Tabs work like a cross between windows and spring-loaded folders, “
Link. Big advantage for moving files.