Can't you do something like public key logins? If your phone gets stolen, just revoke the public key from whatever servers it's on.

Not that I agree with the idea that it's a mental illness, but gender dysphoria is an illness according to the DSM-IV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity_disorder#Diagnostic_Criteria

So, in the US, you're 'ill' too. In fact, it was only recently that the people who do the DSM realized that homosexuality was not an illness.

The problem with this approach is that the students are then spoon-fed their sources. Giving them an assignment with a pre-approved list of sites takes away the part where they have to actually dig for information.

I don't think this is really a problem. For example, when I was in grade/middle school the internet didn't exist as it does today. We were supposed to do research papers on various topics (specifically, I wanted to be a vet at the time, so I was doing one on the health of cats).

I had access to the complete resources of our school library. This was a pre-approved list, and I (still) had to dig for information. When you're 12, you really don't have the critical thinking faculties to determine what is a good and bad resource. Librarians have had lots of training, supposedly they're good at it.

In my mind, having a whitelist is the best possible solution for institutions like grade/middle schools. It's exactly like the librarian model, and would prevent most abuses.

No, this is not what SSL is for at all. SSL you have a party you wish to communicate with, but an insecure channel.

Here, you don't want to communicate anything useful to anyone. This is more a privacy preserving data mining problem. It goes something like this:

I have a long list of secret numbers 1...n. I do something to these numbers, so that Google doesn't know what they are, and then I send them to Google. Next, I want to know how many numbers are larger than, say k. So, I ask Google, but in a clever way, so that Google doesn't know what I'm asking.

Google then tells me how many of my original numbers were larger than k. However, Google doesn't know my original numbers, and they don't know what question I asked. There needs to be some theoretical mapping that preserves this privacy, but still allows the data mining to occur.

I'm not an obesity apologist (or at least, I don't think I am), but I think it's important to recognize that not everyone who is obese just eats cheeseburgers all day. In fact, my diet is pretty piss poor, but I'm thin. Similarly, I know obese vegetarians.

Who cares how much of earth is covered with water? I didn't know how much (other than that it was >60% or so), and I'm going to graduate with an engineering degree in May. I know about science, but I don't know random facts about Earth. Does that make me illiterate?

No, I'm more concerned with concepts. For example, I recently shared with my girlfriend why metal is so much 'colder' than plastic (i.e. they're both the same temperature, but metal conducts the heat away from your hand much faster). She doesn't need to know ANY of the thermal conduction constants for metals or plastics to know the concepts. Giving people the idea that earth is 'mostly covered' with water is more important than giving them the exact number.

Check to see if the URL to the site begins with http:/// [http] before you login. If it does, and it's displaying a padlock icon (suggesting that it is 'secure'), then you're being attacked. Really, you should already be wary when a site asks you for login information over HTTP rather than HTTPS.

Even this doesn't work. Legitimate banks do this (http://www.usbank.com is one, who I've banked with in some fashion since I had a net worth of over $50). Note that after you type your username in, you're taken to a secure page.

I have been employed by the REU program doing research since August 2007, and I've had a blast. I've learned a lot about how to do research, written a paper, and had a lot to talk about on my graduate school applications.

I highly recommend the program to anyone interested. If you can find a professor who is willing to take you on and really teach you, it can be a life changing experience. It was for me.

Amarok 2 does not have support for an equalizer, because Phonon (KDE4's media backend) does not have equalizer support. I have seen no timeline which indicates that there are even plans to add equalizer support to Phonon (although, presumably I'm not the only one missing this feature).

A google search of "phonon equalizer" yields nothing of any value.

Does anyone know if there will be an equalizer for phonon?

I was thinking about this the other day, but, does the 32MB on disk cache really matter?

Think of it this way: the Linux kernel does disk caching with my free RAM (which I generally have more than 32MB of) according to some reasonable locality scheme (LRU or something).

If the HDD does the same caching according to nearly the same principles, won't the data on the disk cache nearly always be a subset of the disk cached in RAM? Meaning: doesn't the disk cache have no effect whatsoever?

I'm genuinely interested in an answer to this question, even if it is a little OT. Please burn a little karma for me :)

Replying to undo moderation. Damn auto submit.

Uh, Wine went 1.0? How is this not on the list, but Google Chrome is? Chrome isn't even open source, Chromium is.