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Artem Tashkinov writes:
Electronic Frontier Foundation has published the white paper "How Unique is Your Browser" where they show that most Internet users are easily traceable and uniquely identifiable even with cookies support completely disabled. Also they released a web tool which shows your favourite web browser uniqueness, you can check it on you own by visiting this website. The only mitigating factor for this privacy vulnerability is disabling JavaScript and Flash plugin support for websites you don't trust (that can be accomplished by using NoScipt extension for Firefox web browser).
9752046
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Artem Tashkinov writes:
Recently scientists have reexamined a 100kg meteorite that hit Australia in 1969 and discovered that the rock which originated in the early days of the Solar System or even earlier contains a soup of highly complex organic chemistry. These findings further prove a theory of a primordial life possibly boosted by extra-terrestrial material. The researchers found 14,197 distinct elemental formulas. Taking into account the limitation of the instrument used, the researchers estimate that there may actually be more than 50,000.
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Artem Tashkinov writes:
Maggie Jackson wrote a book in which she is proving that "compared to past generations, we are in fact less capable of quality analytical thinking, more ignorant about many issues, and more fragmented as a community." As a a result of infinite and distracting flow of information coming from the Internet, mail, TV and and medias "it becomes nearly impossible to utilize our capacity for sustained attention, and the implications are felt in business, the home, and society at large."
Jackson notes that the average worker switches tasks every three minutes and once interrupted takes nearly half an hour to go back to the original task. Families and friends find it increasingly difficult to meet face-to-face and even more difficult to do so without interruption or willful multitasking. News segments bombard us with superficially simple pieces of information. We have essentially been ushered into a world of constant distraction in which reflective thinking and undivided attention (single-tasking) has become exceedingly rare.
However she says that there is a remedy.
