Monitoring P2P Networks (6)
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Interesting paper: "Challenges and Directions for Monitoring P2P File Sharing Networks or Why My Printer Received a DMCA Takedown Notice": Abstract -- We reverse engineer copyright enforcement in the popular BitTorrent file sharing network and find that a common approach for identifying infringing users is not conclusive. We describe simple techniques for implicating arbitrary network endpoints in illegal content sharing...
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Jackson said:
Interesting paper ... especially if you've ever received a notice from a copyright holder.
Happiness Inequality #2: Differences Between Groups (3)
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Yesterday I showed that happiness inequality has fallen since the 1970's. The natural question is: Why? To answer this, we ran an analysis that simultaneously estimated the evolution of happiness through time, by education, race, gender, age, marital status, and region. Here are a few graphs summarizing these findings. (To think about the units on these [...]
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Jackson said:
The declining happiness inequality in race and gender is interesting.
Intel's Larrabee Architecture Disclosure: A Calculated First Move (3)
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While not giving away much if any info about future products, Intel has cracked the door open just a bit on their Larrabee project. As expected, the information was fairly graphics centric. While we don't know a whole lot more about the hardware, we do have some better insights in to how Intel plans on using it....
Rules for Living from Nassim Taleb (7)
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The Author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan has some suggestions for you:Taleb's top life tips 1. Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic. 2. Go to parties. You can’t even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues. 3. It’s ...
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Jackson said:
Some good points ... don't bother with the video, it's just a recital of the points.
The Big Picture | Rules for Living from Nassim Taleb (5)
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The Author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan has some suggestions for you:Taleb's top life tips 1. Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic. 2. Go to parties. You can’t even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues. 3. It’s ...
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Jackson said:
Some good points ... don't bother with the video, it's just a recital of the points.
Sleep Headphones (1)
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How do you feel about looking like a sweat band-wearer straight out of the 80s? You’re okay with that? How about if we add in an awkward wire extending out of the forehead area? Don’t worry about looking cool. You’ll be asleep for most of the time. These are the Sleep Headphones, straight from the pages of Etsy. The Sleep Headphones are made to fit comfortably around your head and ears while you sleep. Wearing ...
Logitech to produce Guitar Hero controllers (1)
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Logitech, the famous Swiss maestros who have produced some pretty decent hardware to date, will be working on premium instrument controllers for the upcoming Guitar Hero World Tour title that will be released across the PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 platforms. These will be compatible with Guitar Hero World Tour’s advanced feature set, “enabling players to elevate their Guitar Hero jam sessions to full-fledged rock concerts.” I wouldn’t go smashing those controllers after gaining ...
U.S. Government Policy for Seizing Laptops at Borders (34)
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Amazing. The U.S. government has published its policy: they can take you laptop anywhere they want, for as long as they want, and share the information with anyone they want: Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border...
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Renton said:
Do they need to burn the laptops and books front of Airport in order to force people understand what is at stake for US citizens?
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Jackson said:
The linked-to essays are good reads (if they're not already old news for you).I wonder what the best practice is for securing Mac laptops and iPhones?
When a Novelist Holds an IPO (8)
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When rogue author Tao Lin set out to write his second novel, he realized he would need to raise some capital to sustain himself. So he has decided to sell shares in 60 percent of the U.S. royalties for his forthcoming, as-yet-untitled book. Not only will the scheme defray his financial risk if the book [...]
Terrorists Using Open Wireless Networks (9)
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Remember when I said that I keep my home wireless network open? Here's a reason not to listen to me: When Indian police investigating bomb blasts which killed 42 people traced an email claiming responsibility to a Mumbai apartment, they ordered an immediate raid. But at the address, rather than seizing militants from the Islamist group which said it carried out the attack, they found a group of puzzled American expats. In a cautionary tale ...
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Andrew said:
Open wireless networks are where *I* go to look up bomb-making instructions and child pornography - where do you go?
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robteix said:
Hmm... have to rethink my own open-network policy.
Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids (7)
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Many teachers believe that a "few bad apples" can spoil a whole classroom, reducing the learning of everyone in the room. While this is part of the folk wisdom of teaching, it has been surprisingly difficult to find these effects in the data. But a very convincing new paper, by Scott Carrell of U.C. Davis and [...]
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nadir said:
i originally tried to do my masters thesis on this subject, but could not come up with the proper data sets to get at the info correctly . but in my time in the classroom this was definitely a problem and ultimately was one of the main things - the ignoring the problem completely due to underfunded counselling infinitives and parental interference - that i left the vocation.i sure hope this is seriously looked at and kids get the help they need to succeed, as they so were not when i left the field 5 years ago.
Why You Should Never Talk to the Police (61)
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This is an engaging and fascinating video presentation by Professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law, explaining why -- in a criminal matter -- you should never, ever, ever talk to the police or any other government agent. It doesn't matter if you're guilty or innocent, if you have an alibi or not -- it isn't possible for anything you to say to help you, and it's very possible that innocuous things ...
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Ben said:
In case you need a few more reasons never to talk to cops.
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André said:
Para quem vai aos US.
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Michael said:
Yes officer, I confess. Errr, wait a minute... ahhh nevermind.
Domino's Delivers Online (2)
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Ever since I was a child I have dreaded interactions with sales people. I don't even like to call in takeout orders. My wife Jeannette handles that duty in our family. This weekend, however, I was forced to do the ordering myself. I turned to the internet with the hope that I might be able to [...]
Geeking with Greg: Easy processing of massive data sets (13)
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Ronnie Chaiken, Bob Jenkins, Per-Ake Larson, Bill Ramsey, Darren Shakib, Simon Weaver, and Jingren Zhou have an upcoming paper at VLDB 2008, "SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets" (PDF), that describes a parallel data processing tool "being used daily ... inside Microsoft" on "large clusters ... of thousands of commodity servers" over "petabytes of data".Scope is similar to Yahoo's Pig, which is a higher level language on top of Hadoop, or ...
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Cosmin said:
I expect a new "SQL-9X"-like standard for distributed processing on column-based data storages to emerge soon :)
Social Engineering (12)
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