Yostivanich

Sci­en­tists need to remem­ber to be sympathetic.

“Google is try­ing not to be creepy. That’s accord­ing to CEO Eric Schmidt, who told Fox Busi­ness Thurs­day that “we’re try­ing not to cross what we call the creepy line” when it comes to the data it gath­ers. As an exam­ple, Schmidt said Google only pub­lishes satel­lite data that is a month old, indi­cat­ing that Google would con­sider it creepy to pub­lish real-time satel­lite data.”

“To pre­empt the tide of angry com­ments and emails, let me clar­ify that, despite the ambi­gu­ity of the lead­ing clause, I sup­port Sec­ond Amend­ment rights. But one of the favorite argu­ments used by staunch advo­cates of the Sec­ond Amend­ment is some vari­ant of the “we don’t need more guns laws, we just need to enforce the cur­rent laws.” Ya think? The recent under­cover oper­a­tion con­ducted by New York City blows a giant hole in the idea that we’re enforc­ing the cur­rent laws. Of course, guns don’t kill peo­ple, peo­ple kill peo­ple. Well, sure, but they’re killing a lot more peo­ple in red states than blue states. Hold­ing DC aside, the ten states with the low­est per-capital gun death rates all voted for Barack Obama, and seven of the ten high high­est voted for John McCain.”

“Traf­fic Server enables the ses­sion man­age­ment, authen­ti­ca­tion, con­fig­u­ra­tion man­age­ment, load bal­anc­ing, and rout­ing for an entire cloud com­put­ing stack. Yahoo says that with the open source ver­sion of Traf­fic Server, orga­ni­za­tions can ben­e­fit from access to cached online con­tent. In addi­tion, Traf­fic Server enables faster responses to requests for stored Web objects, such as files, news arti­cles or images.”

“So here I am to answer your dreams: A sim­ple straight­for­ward func­tion that sends HTML e-mails with a plain text coun­ter­part for those over 80 and still using AOL 2.5.”

“Thus, the direct person-to-person con­nec­tion Kiva offered was in fact an illu­sion. Kiva’s lenders were actu­ally back­stop­ping micro­fi­nance insti­tu­tions, and since Kiva and other online giv­ing and lend­ing mod­els pride them­selves on their trans­parency, Mr. Rood­man and oth­ers sug­gested it might bet­ter explain what its lenders’ money — about $100 mil­lion over four years — was really doing.” Inter­est­ing and really bad pr for Kiva.

“Page nav­i­ga­tion (scrolling) and pag­i­na­tion using key­board short­cuts with micro-formatted html ”

“It turns out the size of the aver­age American’s social cir­cle is smaller today than 20 years ago, as mea­sured by the num­ber of self-reported con­fi­dants in a person’s life. Yet con­trary to pop­u­lar opin­ion, use of cell­phones and the Inter­net is not to blame, accord­ing to a new study released Wednes­day by the Pew Inter­net and Amer­i­can Life Project. In fact, peo­ple who reg­u­larly use dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies are more social than the aver­age Amer­i­can and more likely to visit parks and cafes, or vol­un­teer for local orga­ni­za­tions, accord­ing to the study, which was based on tele­phone inter­views with a national sam­ple of 2,512 adults liv­ing in the con­ti­nen­tal United States. The study found some less-than-social behav­ior, how­ever. Peo­ple who use social net­works like Face­book or Linkedin are 30 per­cent less likely to know their neigh­bors and 26 per­cent less likely to pro­vide them com­pan­ion­ship.” It makes sense.

“The result­ing chaos is a yet another stark reminder of how much mod­ern civ­i­liza­tion relies on behind-the-scenes automa­tion to deliver and con­trol basic ser­vices and infrastructure.”

“A study put out by the National Cam­paign to Pre­vent Teen and Unwanted Preg­nancy has found evi­dence that the major­ity of teens at risk of unwanted preg­nancy are not from low income and/or sin­gle par­ent families.”

“Stop. Ok, I feel your frus­tra­tion. You’re a web devel­oper and you’re ready to tear your hair out because you have to sup­port Inter­net Explorer 6, but, to put it tact­fully, IE6 doesn’t sup­port you. You’ve spent hours on it, but you just can’t seem to get your lay­out right. I can empathize. I can also help.”

“I’ve been look­ing for a solu­tion to cache heavy pages and just serve a sta­tic html ver­sion for a lit­tle while now, and I’ve found a solu­tion in out­put buffering.”

“Sex colum­nist Dan Sav­age explains the ben­e­fits of hav­ing a reli­gious upbringing.”

“Some­times we want to extract the HTML con­tent of the remote web­site page, this tech­nique is called as HTML scrap­per. This arti­cle will dis­cuss on how we can extract the HTML con­tent of the remote webpage.”

“Here’s how to cre­ate a basic web ser­vice that pro­vides an XML or JSON response using some PHP and MySQL.”

Shred­ders are fun, dag yo.

Pro­gram­mers are tiny gods.

“Say good­bye to the browser-specific prop­er­ties and hacks clut­ter­ing your files and say hello to lean, mean CSS. With eCSS­ten­der, when you write the rules, browsers pay attention.”

“This leads us to con­clude that the Top Gross­ing Apps list seems to include In-App Pur­chases in its calculations.”

“First of all, I’m not sure why this mag­a­zine cover is scan­dalous and this one isn’t. Teen preg­nancy is talked about and fea­tured every­where — from glam­or­ized pics of Bris­tol Palin to MTV”s 16 and Preg­nant. And the fact is, the teen preg­nancy is a real­ity — the teen preg­nancy rate in the U.S. went up for the sec­ond year in a row for the first time in a decade (thanks, abstinence-only edu­ca­tion!). Is it really bet­ter to hide the issue?”

“The Stupak-Pitts amend­ment makes it vir­tu­ally impos­si­ble for pri­vate insur­ance com­pa­nies that par­tic­i­pate in the new sys­tem to offer abor­tion cov­er­age to women. This would have the effect of deny­ing women the right to use their own per­sonal pri­vate funds to pur­chase an insur­ance plan with abor­tion cov­er­age in the new health sys­tem — a rad­i­cal depar­ture from the sta­tus quo. Presently, more than 85 per­cent of private-insurance plans cover abor­tion services.”

“An amend­ment was passed that pro­hibits cov­er­age for abor­tion in the government-run pro­gramme except for rape, incest or if the mother’s life is threat­ened. Pri­vate plans can still offer the cover.”

“For all intents and pur­poses, then, Stupak-Pitts pre­vents pri­vate insur­ance plans from offer­ing cov­er­age for abor­tions. Appalling stuff.”

“Cur­rent pub­lic opin­ion about child­hood vac­ci­na­tions some­times seems to be influ­enced less by sci­ence and more by Jenny McCarthy. But here’s some­thing that rarely gets dis­cussed: the threat posed by the non­va­c­ci­nated to chil­dren who are immuno­sup­pressed. Last year, while search­ing for child care for our 2-and-a-half-year-old son, my hus­band and I thought we had we found the per­fect arrange­ment: an expe­ri­enced home day care provider whose house was an invit­ing den of tod­dler indus­tri­ous­ness. Under her mag­i­cal hand, chil­dren drifted calmly and hap­pily from the bub­ble sta­tion to the fairy gar­den to the bun­nies and the trucks, an orches­trated preschool utopia. But when I asked: “Are any of the chil­dren here unvac­ci­nated?” the hope of my son’s per­fect day care expe­ri­ence burnt to a lit­tle crisp.”

“The final score­card: ten machines totally unpro­tected, eight machines poorly pro­tected, two machines well-protected. That’s an improve­ment, but then again any pro­tec­tion at all would have been an improve­ment. We still have a long way to go.”

“Yoani Sánchez says the police beat her while she was on they way to a march for nonviolence.”

“The bill would reward states for reduc­ing the num­ber of unin­sured and limit mal­prac­tice awards. It has no chance of passing.”

“There were other hints too, that Strate­gic Vision’s poll may have been fake. The scores that Strate­gic Vision claimed the kids had got­ten, for instance, were strangely under­dis­persed. And they seemed to con­tra­dict results from Oklahoma’s own stan­dard­ized test­ing, which asked much more dif­fi­cult cit­i­zen­ship ques­tions and found most of the stu­dents doing just fine.”

“This evening, CBO released a pre­lim­i­nary analy­sis of a sub­sti­tute amend­ment to H.R. 3962, the Afford­able Health Care for Amer­ica Act, pro­posed by Rep­re­sen­ta­tive John Boehner, the Repub­li­can Leader in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. CBO and the staff of the Joint Com­mit­tee on Tax­a­tion (JCT) esti­mate that the amend­ment would reduce fed­eral deficits by $68 bil­lion over the 2010–2019 period; it would also slightly reduce fed­eral bud­get deficits in the fol­low­ing decade, rel­a­tive to those pro­jected under cur­rent law, with a total effect dur­ing that decade that is in a broad range between zero and one-quarter per­cent of gross domes­tic product.”

“In New Jer­sey, you had an extremely unpop­u­lar incum­bent — Jon Corzine — who had never par­tic­u­larly clicked as a gov­er­nor, and who’s approval rat­ings crossed into the red in Feb­ru­ary, 2008. In Vir­ginia, you had an open seat race to replace an out­go­ing, and in fact fairly pop­u­lar Demo­c­ra­tic governor.”

“Ear­lier this week, a bill­board went up in Nashville for a group called Sec­u­lar Life. An offen­sive, hate­ful, evil bill­board. One so awful, a num­ber of peo­ple denounced it!” One has to won­der the aver­age IQ level of the peo­ple who called.

“A MARTA bus dri­ver is on sus­pen­sion fol­low­ing alle­ga­tions that he forced pas­sen­gers to pray before allow­ing them to exit the bus. Christo­pher James was one of those pas­sen­gers. James said, ini­tially, he thought some­thing was wrong when he rang the bell to get off the bus and the door didn’t open. James said the bus dri­ver asked him and three other pas­sen­gers to join hands in prayer. James said the dri­ver prayed with the group for about four min­utes.” This is beyond insane.