Link. His lackeys are in their places.
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The best SD Card for your summer snapshots
Romney’s ACA poster child is victim of GOP, not Obama
Google Maps for ios
Link. Will apple approve it? turn up heat.
Germany: unliked, unwilling, wanted.
Link. With great power…
Our 100 Trillion Good Bacteria
Link. I am Legion.
Romney blocked anti-bullying guide
Link. Not all bullying bad?
Managing Citizens United: punish the donors
Link. Get me the top 10 list. I’ll boycott.
GOP huge money advantage
Link. The master speaks.
EPA fines are ridiculously low
Link. like getting a $1 fine for speeding
How far to that star?
Link. cosmic distance video
A Bite of Food, A Whole Lotta Love
“The most persecuted group in Asia”
Amazon Elastic MapReduce with MapR
Link. Apple’s true rival.
Wall Street’s preference for low-priced stocks
Link. “If the companies don’t want to subsidize Wall Street, all they need to do is price their stock higher.” Apple.
Iceland > Estonia >> Latvia
Link. Krugmania uber alles.
iOS 6 maps: bike, walk, bus to 3rd party?
Link. But only built on iOS maps. This is not good.
Apple misjudges their base – The Pro
Link. Clueless. That’s not good.
Obama’s disappearing liberal donors
Link. Political spam -> filters -> don’t see appeals.
The deregulatory racket
Link. OSHA broken.
On That Whole Message Thing
Link. It’s like advertising. We really don’t know what works.
Median net worth stasis: health and demographics?
Link. We are an aging population.
Game changing bugs: The MySQL authentication disaster.
Link. Linux memcmp() design flaw. “One in 256 times *any* password might get you in”. Pull the cord, we’re doing something really wrong.
Conclusions:
1. Never make assumptions when coding. If a function returns an int, accept that any value which fits in an int might be returned, regardless of what the developer, the manual and received wisdom tell you.
2. Patch your MySQL or MariaDB installations if you haven’t already.
3. Don’t expose database servers to external connectivity unless you really mean to. Even inside your corporate network, be very restrictive about who can reach database servers at all, let alone log in to them.
4. Watch out for speed optimisations. Invoke them only if you genuinely need extra speed – they may represent a less-travelled code path and thus expose your users to obscure bugs.
Dyer: Spain’s deal means Syriza wins
Outcomes of China’s top test takers
Link. Test taking is a useful skill, but not THAT useful.
High-Quality Fake IDs from China
Link. I don’t understand Schneier’s solution
Dysregulation: the sensation
Link. “I can be lying on my bed, perfectly fine, then I can be moving me legs around on the bed just trying to feel regulated again. There is always a trigger, but sometimes it may be hard to determine the trigger.”
The occupational licensing racket #wonkbook
Microsoft as a fun place
Link. Not evil any more.
DRM-free Redshirts sells like crazy
Link. Scalzi rules.
Stump the sphinx: ultimate logic puzzle
Link. Spoiler: includes original answer
Swiftkey – xkcd
Link. An extraordinary mind.
Why bicyclists run red lights
Link. Off the wagon.
Rachael: Yummy dog, chewy kids
Why The Economy Can’t Get Out of First Gear
Link. Redistribution.
The secret world of health-care pricing
Link. Left out CPT committee. So only half the story.
Median net worth – unchanging for 30 years
Link. impossible to live without social security
Diesel Fumes Cause Lung Cancer, W.H.O. Says – NYTimes.com
Calcium and Vitamin D Ineffective for Fractures, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Says
Link. Groan.
6 Famous News Stories – the surprise endings
Link. Journalists suck at followup.
Israel Demanding Passwords at the Border
Link. Grim.
Pay Phones
Link. “toll-free lines of social-service agencies”.
Robert Sténuit: The Original Aquanaut
Drag Folders of Aperture Projects to Export Multiple Projects
Google dead to Apple
Link. Scary to this consumer.
Fiscal cliff is mirage
Shorter David Brooks on Followership
Link. Authoritarian impulse is a reublican trait.
What Did Jeb Really Say?
Link. what was reported. also he was very partisan.
Prometheus deconstructed
Link. Too mythic.