While we should be able to assume that the hashes were salted, there have been other breaches in the past year in which the exposed password hashes were not salted. A quick web search turned up drupal.org and LinkedIn. Also, many other companies, like Sony, specified when they disclosed their breach that the password hashes were salted. As Ubisoft did not opt to specify and have not responded to the question anywhere as of yet, I am operating under the assumption that they did not, in fact, salt their password hashes. In 2013, any DBA should understand the importance of salting password hashes and insist on always doing so. In my opinion, any company over a certain size that not only fails to secure the contents of their account table against an attack and weren't even bothering to salt their passwords should be subject to fines and/or civil liabilities.

My understanding is that while copper has higher contact heat conductance than aluminum, aluminum has higher conductance with air. Hence (in addition to how much lighter aluminum is), the large number of heatsinks that have a copper core and aluminum fins.

One such hippie: former Republican president of the U.S., General Dwight D. Eisenhower. From his farewell address:

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That sounds absolutely terrible for productivity, consistency, and internal accountability. Not being able to search for (or needing to meticulously save and organize mysefl) things like instructions, contacts, and details sent in past emails would seriously hinder my ability to do my job. I am very glad that I do not work for that kind of company.

You are correct, and this pattern continues to make it difficult for women to achieve parity in the most powerful positions; it is assumed that women of childbearing age will take more time off. In fact, countries that offer more maternal leave and more paid maternal leave have, on average, greater employment disparities in advanced positions.

I have heard of one interesting idea. Certain countries, such as Sweden, have programs in which a certain amount of parental leave is guaranteed, but at least some portion of it must be taken by each parent. I understand that it has had some success in decreasing the disparity in terms of leave time taken, although there is certainly still an imbalance.

Not everyone agrees with you.

I don't think that would be a concern, on account of the fact that they are probably relying mainly upon information that is not really "brain waves".

The headset supposedly uses both EEG (brain waves) and EMG (electrical activity from muscle firing). However, measuring the electrical activity of neurons (very small and very weak) with any kind of specificity by using electrodes placed on the other side of the skull and other protective tissue is... let us just call it "nontrivial". EMG signals are much stronger.

From the paper:

"In particular, personalized mental tasks (e.g., sing their favorite song silently, focus on their personal pass-thought) do not produce higher signal similarity or authentication accuracy over mental tasks that are common to all subjects (e.g., close eyes and focus on breathing)."

Similarly, this discussion includes a comment by someone who claims to have developed for the platform, "IMHO, the NeuroSky devices which are currently on the market exist mostly to record EMG from the forehead."

The paper does not mention EMG. Perhaps they are are specifically avoiding making use of EMG information from the headset, although they do not mention any such technique in the paper. Personally, I would wager that unless you have significant changes to the musculature of your face and scalp or suffer new large-scale brain damage or other abnormalities, your "password" would not be terribly likely to change.

While I'm not a physicist of any variety, the following text from the article also caused me to call its reliability into question:

"As the moniker suggests, dark matter is dark; it doesn’t interact with electromagnetic radiation."

Isn't one theory that dark matter is normal baryonic matter, just not baryonic matter that is concentrated or luminous enough to have a measurable effect on any light getting to us?

Capsaicin (the chemical that makes most hot peppers spicy), in reasonable quantities, is hypothesized to have a few mild health benefits.

A fun board game, and excellent for teaching the basic mental skills used in queuing up a list of instructions and then having them all execute in the order that you specified.

http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-of-the-Coast-217580000WOC/dp/B0009HLSP0/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1350385716&sr=1-1&keywords=robo+rally

Does DOSSHELL count as a GUI? If so, that was the first one that I ever used, back when I had my first computer and was still learning the command line via trial and error. The computer was a 386 (DX, not SX!) and had a Turbo button that bumped it up from 16MHz to a blistering 25MHz. As far as I can tell, the only point of said button was to slow down old games so that they wouldn't run so fast that you couldn't see them. (Yes, the speed that a lot of games ran at depended on how fast your computer was.) Ah, those were the days.

Actually, I am running the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on the same hardware that I was previously running a clean XP installation, and Windows 8 is definitely snappier, plus has better search/launch functionality. I can't say that I am particularly fond of the Metro UI (I mostly use the Explorer-style interface), and I preferred the search UI in Windows 7 to the one in Windows 8. But saying that Windows 8 is a worse OS than such champions as Vista, 98, and ME is quite a stretch.

For many modern cars with internal combustion engines, I hear their wheel noise at low speeds before I hear the engine. Certainly, some of them are quiet enough that I am not confident that I could tell if one was about to back up. Personally, I would prefer less background noise, as it makes it easier for me to pick out sounds that are actually close to me.

Three original and talented groups from France that I found to be interesting:

Pin-Up Went Down

Akphaezya

Polichinel

This being an article about a Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel, a Suk Doctor would have been more appropriate than a Sak Doctor, but close!