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by nickolai 16y ago
For what I've seen from the couple of papers our team submitted while i was working in a research institute, there is no negaive feedback on the committee member "farming out" the reviews if his PhDs screw up. Why would he worry about it?
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by nickolai 16y ago
Because he hasn't got a clue as to what a keylogger actually is?
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by nickolai 16y ago
Next entry actually deals with this exact issue : http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002133.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391289 It's even getting triggered by an empty SL folder apparently. Looks a lot like some sort
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by nickolai 16y ago
I'm no expert of Antivirus software, but figuring whether something is a threat by its _folder name_ ??? With all the money going into the industry? That has to be some sort of april fool's prank gone really bad.
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Samsung blames security software false positive for StarLogger issue.(tgdaily.com)
118 points by nickolai 16y ago|52 comments
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by nickolai 16y ago
You cant dismantle a plant that still generates residual heat while a used fuel pool is on fire nearby. Its just too dangerous a place for humans to be. What should they have done? Sent Asimo?
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Dell Exec: iPad Too Costly, Closed, Complex(pcworld.com)
1 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 16y ago
Tried a shot at both simultaneously actually. saying his theory is oversimplified(theorist) and that his insult system is missing a critical element (discrete approach is invalid - experimental faliure). Anyone has interesting ideas to crea
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by nickolai 16y ago
Doesnt this set up an oversimplified theoretical separation over the admittedly simple but continuous spectrum of research and corresponding insults??
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by nickolai 16y ago
Performance surely doensnt matter in the main stream - my grandma's computer has comparable processing power to supercomputers 20 years ago( and she has a Pentium 4, that has been obsoleted many times over already) [1]. But I think google w
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Astronomers find cool dwarf(cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com)
1 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 16y ago
Aw... i just wish they didnt swap "new tab" and "new window" in the right-click on link menu. I understand the decision, but im so used to the previous setup that I get owned every time :/ Apart from that, im really happy with this new vers
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by nickolai 16y ago
I find javascript refreshingly faster compared to 3.5 . I no longer even get the "unresponsive script" messages when using the usual lot of JS-abusing pages our "tools support" team has cooked up.
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by nickolai 16y ago
Such an argument could only come up on some simplistic and dramatically uninformed media channel. One that no one would be using anyway. Oh wait... forget what I just said.
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by nickolai 16y ago
quote from table in the article >Table 2: Symptoms associated with acute radiation exposure >(dose for one day) > Dose : 0-0.25Sv. Symptom : none . Outcome : - . I was not referrign to any regulation, which is understandably way
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by nickolai 16y ago
That's still way below the "no health issues" threshold of 0.01 Sv/hr (so we're 10 000 times below the threshold) (source : http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/docs/energy-good-bad.pdf )
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by nickolai 16y ago
> The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis in space, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph). The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced and the no
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by nickolai 16y ago
Sure is. To some people. I was talking about my own perspective :)
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by nickolai 16y ago
My real life is better without two different temperature scales. And I happen to have learned some chemistry. It's all about what one is used to. Of Fahrenheit I only know that 100 is about body temperature. Above is too hot, below - could
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by nickolai 16y ago
> Post-PC Device : Build me a computer - No Local Filesystems Allowed. I'm not sure I would agree with the post. It is difficult to argue with the success of the tablets, but I am not sure if diskless systems could really qualify as a "
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by nickolai 16y ago
It's just a little more targeted than the average captcha. It should weed out both bots and people you wouldn't want using the website in the first place.
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NASA: Observation satellite fails to reach orbit(google.com)
1 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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Android malicious app list(businessinsider.com)
1 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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Google yanks over 50 infected apps from Android Market(computerworld.com)
1 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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Google user-managed storage launches with up to 16 terabytes of space(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
2 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 16y ago
Interesting that you mention Java... I think there was a similar argument for it. Here it is => http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool... .
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GDC: Google Woos Game Makers(informationweek.com)
1 points by nickolai 16y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 16y ago
I'm not sure the idea was to validate her as a person. It was more to reprupose her from being a "beauty idol" to being a "scientist idol" This is important if you beleive that 1) A society with more Scientist idols would get more scientist
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by nickolai 16y ago
I guess you're happy they did not hire you, right?
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by nickolai 16y ago
Something like this -> http://xkcd.com/796/ ?

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