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Submission + - Russian Wikipedia shutters in protest of Internet Blacklist plans (en.ria.ru)

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decora
decora writes: "If you visit Russian Wikipedia today you will be forgiven for thinking the entire site has crashed. It is not a crash, but a protest of the Russian State Duma's Bill 89417-6 According to Ria Novosti, the bill is "proposing a unified digital blacklist of all websites containing pornography, drug ads and promoting suicide or extremist ideas." Russian Wikipedia's main page has been replaced with a redacted logo and a protest text, part of which says "The Wikipedia community protests against censorship, dangerous to free knowledge, open to all mankind. We ask you to support us in opposing this bill" (translation by Google Translate)"

Submission + - Winscape now with Kinect tracking (rationalcraft.com)

Submitted by
hoagaboom
hoagaboom writes: "The Wii Remote and IR necklace tracking combo was clumsy, at best. Now with tracking via the Kinect Sensor, the Winscape is much more user friendly. New features also include support for up to 6 displays and 4K video playback for much better resolution. The demo video also experiments with cubicle and marketing applications."

Submission + - wow, that global warming sh@t was, like, real ?!? (cringely.com)

Submitted by
nerdpocalypse
nerdpocalypse writes: "Yes, global warming may interrupt your video game playing and, when it does it can then be considered a fact.

Sadly, one of many unfortunate biproducts of our evolution has been an overwheening fondness for waterfront property. This gets hit first with increasing sea levels and, probably, increasing storms. Computers use a lot of fiddly bits, some of which are going to be made in hazardous spots.
for much more, see
www.nerdpocalypse.net/climate"
Apple

Submission + - Steve Jobs Movie (cringely.com)

Submitted by
nerdpocalypse
nerdpocalypse writes: "Robert Cringely had probably the best Steve Jobs interview sitting on his shelf. It seems a good time for a retrospective and releasing it since it can't be superseded and made irrelevant. Looking at the amount of money/time/effort/life involved to get it spiffied and into theatres, one can see why Mr. Cringely did many other useful things instead up til now.
We thank him."

Submission + - Kindle Fire Rooted (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by Ogre332
Ogre332 writes: It's been just one day since Amazon's flagship Android tablet began shipping to consumers, and less than a week since the first review units were sent out.Yet the device has already been taken apart and rooted, thanks to the website iFixit.

Comment marker for discretion (Score 1) 196

by nerdpocalypse (#37501228) Attached to: Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check
And nobody is making it illegal nor very difficult to make an entirely fake online persona. Personally, most jobs I have had require a certain amount of social IQ*, this is a marker for people lacking that skill set. If my employees are either total party-tards or unable to put up a professional artificial front, they are really dangerous to me and my business. *LYING.
Medicine

Submission + - diy electronic medical records

Submitted by nerdpocalypse
nerdpocalypse writes: previously mentioned at
http://www.slate.com/id/2274809/?from=rss
as patient centered medical records.

yeah, I'm log rolling for myself here, but the basic concept is sound.
a simple listing of meds, conditions, contact numbers, allergies, pharmacy numbers.... (the components of the ccr), scribbled in plain text via notepad and saved with the extension *.html...becomes an electronic health record more interoperable than any on the market. It is able to be stored on thumb drives, most mp3 players or smart phones. It is displayable everywhere.
extension #1. Front end program to make the file automatically.
extension #2 add every other medical thing into the same file folder as *jpg images THEN add
targetname.jpg for each file at the end of the first key file to make a medical record file linked to all previous medical files/ekg/xray/etc.
extension #3 read in every line as a string, have a program that parses each string and then compares it to a list of best practice recommendations to make an automated tickler for popping up best practices for conditions found in the original medical record key file.

(I would hardly be mentioning these extensions if they were not already written (in python, actually)).

Comment cognitive processing help to deal with complexity (Score 1) 511

by nerdpocalypse (#32883630) Attached to: Do Scientists Understand the Public?
The real question, obviously is, how do you deal with the apes ? Yeah people are stupid.... nearly half don't believe in evolution, there is no stupid Republican lie that doesn't fool at least 20% of the public (birthers, death panels, Obama is a socialist...when everyone knows he's really a Vulcan...., etc.) Ok, I can answer this one. I'm a physician. I HAVE to deal with people who cannot reliably count to three. This is a huge problem facing health care: http://www.nerdpocalypse.net/limited%20health%20literacy.html You fit things into how their brains work. Paradigms. Paradigms that they know....(i.e., metaphor). Draw pictures to illustrate causality chains. (oh, by the way, the term nerdpocalypse.net means this sort of cognitive visual framework). And, if I'm trying to get YOU GUYS to start using primary source data, and multiple references and facility with enormous data sets....it's becomes the same problems I have with the low health literacy patients.
Politics

Submission + - Is she or isn't she.... Is Elena Kagan a Nerd ? (nerdpocalypse.net)

Submitted by nerdpocalypse
nerdpocalypse writes: The mainstream media is becoming distracted by issues such as sexual orientation and Stare decisis. Given that the Supreme Court is the most nerdly branch of government (they research minutiae and flame each other about it for a living !), the real question is whether Elena Kagan is a nerd. For every positive feature implying she is a nerd, there is a negative one implying quite the opposite. Sure, she certainly looks like one of us, but she got to where she is by being connected, and underlying that, by her consummate social skills.

Frankly, I think that puts her far outside of our mainstream, and outside of the mainstream of Supreme Court Justices.
Television

Submission + - TV Research Says Television Will Deliver The Next (appmarket.tv)

Submitted by expathos
expathos writes: Television is the most popular device in the home, and with the addition of interactivity, it's serving up the next wave of killer apps according reveals to FourthWall Media's recent research that indicates consumers are ready for their TV to do more, and are open to seeing the Web integrate with their televisions on the big screen in the living room. In the report they showed resounding interest in using their remote to submit "American Idol" votes, check personalized financial, weather and fantasy sports information, and keep tabs on their eBay bids.

Submission + - Creative Commons Responds to ASCAP Letter (zeropaid.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Drew Wilson at ZeroPaid has a followup to the story that ASCAP told its members that organizations like EFF and Creative Commons are undermining copyright. A spokesperson from Creative Commons said, “It’s very sad that ASCAP is falsely claiming that Creative Commons works to undermine copyright Creative Commons licenses are copyright licenses – plain and simple, without copyright, these tools don’t even work.” He also said, "Many tens of thousands of musicians, including acts like Nine Inch Nails, the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Radiohead, and Snoop Dogg, have used Creative Commons licenses to share with the public." Many ASCAP members are already expressing their disappointment with the ASCAP letter over at Mind the Gap. Sounds like ASCAP will be in damage control for a while.

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