Comment: And then there were five (Score 1) 208
No, make that five. Steam Box adapts the existing PC standard, and Ouya adapts the existing Android standard.
Comment: Which 8-gen console is friendly to tiny devs? (Score 1) 208
Yet the console makers have historically been opposed to micro-ISVs developing for their platforms, like when Nintendo rejected Bob's Game because Robert Pelloni couldn't demonstrate the trappings of a "legit" business. Among seventh-generation console makers, Microsoft was the most indie-friendly with XNA on Xbox 360. Have the console makers announced their plans for courting indie developers this generation? Or are PCs ready to open up to genres traditionally associated with consoles, such as fighting games, party games, and cooperative platformers?
Comment: Throw It All Away (Score 1) 79
In the eternal words of Tyler Durden
The things you own end up owning you.
Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients 191
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from the still-angry-that-santa-isn't-real dept.
from the still-angry-that-santa-isn't-real dept.
An anonymous reader sends news of a study which found that "two out of five medical students have an unconscious bias against obese people." The study, published in the Journal of Academic Medicine (abstract) examined med students from many different cultural and geographical backgrounds.
"The researchers used a computer program called the Weight Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measures students’ unconscious preferences for 'fat' or 'thin' individuals. Students also answered a survey assessing their conscious weight-related preferences. The authors determined if the students were aware of their bias by seeing if their IAT results matched their stated preferences. Overall, 39 percent of medical students had a moderate to strong unconscious anti-fat bias as compared to 17 percent who had a moderate to strong anti-thin bias. Less than 25 percent of students were aware of their biases. 'Because anti-fat stigma is so prevalent and a significant barrier to the treatment of obesity, teaching medical students to recognize and mitigate this bias is crucial to improving the care for the two-thirds of American adults who are now overweight or obese,' Miller said. 'Medical schools should address weight bias as part of a comprehensive obesity curriculum.'"
Six Months Developing Software For Wearable Computing 17
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from the i-need-a-HUD-that-points-out-youtube-commenters-in-real-life dept.
from the i-need-a-HUD-that-points-out-youtube-commenters-in-real-life dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Twilio's Jon Gottfried has written an article about the lessons he's learned after six months of developing software for Google Glass. He has some insightful points: 'I expected it to be very similar to building mobile applications for Android. In fact, I began learning to build Android applications in preparation. My efforts were for naught, because the Mirror API is a RESTful web service. This means that developing applications for Glass is actually more similar to building a website than it is to building an Android application.' He also talks about how this fits in with the future of technology: 'I would argue that Google took the only option available to them. The only truly scalable products of the future will be developer platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Twilio, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Arduino – all of these products have been successful in large part by embracing and empowering their developer communities. No company is omniscient enough to imagine every potential use of their products. This gives developers an immense amount of power to define the success or failure of an entire product line.'"
Comment: Just Say No (Score 2) 149
I've made it exceptionally clear that I am not available 24x7. If my boss would like me to be on call for some period, I'm willing to discuss that, but it needs to be arranged in advance for a clear time period.
If some communication is coming in for work right now, I don't even know about it and I'll handle it on Tuesday, given the 3-day weekend. Weekends are not "extra work days", they are my time to relax, unwind, and come back to the office ready to do a much better job than if I were constantly tired, fatigued, and burnt out. Ultimately, that benefits my employer, too.
+ - Apple 1 sells for $671,400, breaks previous auction record->
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hypnosec writes "What is believed to be one of the six working Apple 1 computers has fetched a whopping $671,400 for its current owner at an auction in Germany. The Apple 1 system was built by Steve "The Woz" Wozniak back in 1976 at Steve Job’s parents’ garage and is probably either from the first lot of 50 systems ordered by Paul Terrell, the owner of Byte Shop chain of stores or part of the next lot of 150 systems that the Steve duo built to sell to friends and vendors. The retail price fixed for the Apple 1 at the time was $666.66 with a 33% markup."
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+ - ARM In Supercomputers - "Get Ready For The Change"->
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An anonymous reader writes "Commodity ARM CPUs are poised to to replace x86 CPUs just as commodity x86 CPUs replaced vector CPUs in early supercomputers. An analysis by the EU Mountblanc Project (using Nvidia Tegra 2/3, Samsung Exynos 5 & Intel Core i7 CPUs) highlights the suitability & energy efficiency of ARM based solutions. They finish off by saying that 'Current limitations due to target market condition — not real technological challenges' and 'A Whole set of ARM server chips is coming — solving most of the limitations identified'"
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Comment: Limited applications are enough for the majority (Score 1) 62
I wish to point out that whitelisting may work for some users who use a limited number of applications
BasilBrush and other iOS advocates would point out that the commercially relevant majority of users do in fact "use a limited number of applications". Because nobody needs an app to do any of these tasks. "Ha ha ha, boom boom."
Ex-Marine Detained Under Operation Vigilant Eagle For His Political Views Sues 240
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from the within-his-rights dept.
from the within-his-rights dept.
stry_cat writes "You may remember the story of Brandon Raub, who was detained without due process over some Facebook posts he made. Now with the help of the Rutherford Institute, he is suing his captors. According to his complaint [PDF], his detention was part of a federal government program code-named 'Operation Vigilant Eagle,' which monitors military veterans with certain political views."
+ - Ex-Marine detained under Operationn Vigilant Eagle for his political views sues->
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stry_cat writes "You may remember the story of Brandon Raub, who was detained withtout due process over some facebook posts he made. Now with the help of the Rutherford Institute, he is suing his captors.
According to his complaint [PDF], his detention was part of a federal government program code-named “Operation Vigilant Eagle,” which monitors military veterans with certain political views."
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According to his complaint [PDF], his detention was part of a federal government program code-named “Operation Vigilant Eagle,” which monitors military veterans with certain political views."
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European Commission Launches $12 Billion Chip Support Campaign 94
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from the there-would-be-this-thing-called-comparative-advantage dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Neelie Kroes, European Commission vice president responsible for the digital economy, wants to use 5 billion euros of European Union tax payers' money, together with matching funds from the chip industry, to recreate European success in semiconductors similar to that of Airbus. Because of its strategic importance to wealth creation Kroes wants Europe to reverse its decline in chip manufacturing and move back up from 10 percent to 20 percent of global production."
+ - Europe Commission launches $12 billion chip support campaign->
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An anonymous reader writes "Neelie Kroes, European Commission vice president responsible for the digital economy, wants to use 5 billion euros of European Union tax payers' money together with matching funds from the chip industry to recreate European success in semiconductors similar to that of Airbus. Because of its strategic importance to wealth creation Kroes wants Europe to reverse its decline in chip manufacturing and move back up from 10 percent to 20 percent of global production."
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Scanner Identifies Malware Strains, Could Be Future of AV 62
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An anonymous reader writes "When it comes to spotting malware, signature-based detection, heuristics and cloud-based recognition and information sharing used by many antivirus solutions today work well up a certain point, but the polymorphic malware still gives them a run for their money. At the annual AusCert conference held this week in Australia a doctorate candidate from Deakin University in Melbourne has presented the result of his research and work that just might be the solution to this problem. Security researcher Silvio Cesare had noticed that malware code consists of small "structures" that remain the same even after moderate changes to its code. He created Simseer, a free online service that performs automated analysis on submitted malware samples and tells and shows you just how similar they are to other submitted specimens. It scores the similarity between malware (any kind of software, really), and it charts the results and visualizes program relationships as an evolutionary tree."
+ - Scanner Identifies Malware Strains, Could be Future of AV
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An anonymous reader writes "When it comes to spotting malware, signature-based detection, heuristics and cloud-based recognition and information sharing used by many antivirus solutions today work well up a certain point, but the polymorphic malware still gives them a run for their money. At the annual AusCert conference held this week in Australia a doctorate candidate from Deakin University in Melbourne has presented the result of his research and work that just might be the solution to this problem. Security researcher Silvio Cesare had noticed that malware code consists of small "structures" that remain the same even after moderate changes to its code. He created Simseer, a free online service that performs automated analysis on submitted malware samples and tells and shows you just how similar they are to other submitted specimens. It scores the similarity between malware (any kind of software, really), and it charts the results and visualizes program relationships as an evolutionary tree."