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Comment Milk Good, Bad, Good, Bad...wait GMO is good (Score 1) 470

by sanspeak (#52434297) Attached to: Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates
After years of research scientists are still debating if milk is good or milk is bad. They are still debating carbs vs fats vs protein ratios for humans.So what does this mean. More useful would be to comment on what will happen if Trump comes in power. That will still be considered logical with respect to Democracy atleast and anyone can comment on Democracy.

Submission + - Metrics Mania & the countless counting problem (nytimes.com)

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mobkarma
mobkarma writes: "Einstein said once “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” This NYTimes article titled 'Metric Mania' suggests that unless we know how things are counted, we don't know if it's wise to count on the numbers. The problem isn(TM)t with statistical tests themselves but with what we do before and after we run them. If a person starts drinking day in and day out after a cancer diagnosis and dies from acute cirrhosis, did he kill himself? The answers to such questions significantly affect the count."
Social Networks

Submission + - On Social Networks You Are 'Who You know'

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santosh maharshi
santosh maharshi writes: "On social networks like Facebook even if you have kept your profile very very private, people can just look at your friends list and get lots of vital information about you. Most of the social networks like Facebook & LinkedIn allow people to see your pic and friends list as part of the open access for visitors. In a study "You Are Who You Know:Inferring User Profiles in Online Social Networks" [PDF], conducted by Alan Mislove of Northeastern University and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems an algorithm was tested that could accurately infer the personal attributes of Facebook users by simply looking at their friend lists. The results show that certain user attributes can be inferred with high accuracy when given information on as little as 20% of the users."
The Internet

Submission + - It's time take internet seriously, says David G (edge.org)

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santosh maharshi
santosh maharshi writes: "David Gelernter recommends on Edge.org that it's "Time to start taking the Internet Seriously". It's an introduction to the concept of algorithmic culture. To get it, you need to be part of it, you need to come out of it. Otherwise, you spend the rest of your life dancing to the tune of other people's code. Just look at Europe where the idea of competition in the Internet space appears to focus on litigation, legislation, regulation, and criminalization. You might want to take David seriously as David had previously predicted the Web, and who first presented the idea of "the cloud". He is also the professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies (New Haven)"
Japan

Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams 642

Posted by Zonk from the science-in-the-wheels dept.
Galactic_grub writes "Japanese researchers recently performed the first experimental demonstration of a phenomenon that causes a busy freeway to inexplicably grind to a halt. A team from Nagoya University in Japan had volunteers drive cars around a small circular track and monitored the way 'shockwaves' — caused when one driver brakes — are sent back to other cars, caused jams to occur. Drivers were asked to travel at 30 kmph but small fluctuations soon appeared, eventually causing several vehicles to stop completely. Understanding the phenomenon could help devise ways to avoid the problem. As one researcher comments: 'If they had set up an experiment with robots driving in a perfect circle, flow breakdown would not have occurred.'"
Microsoft

Aging Security Vulnerability Still Allows PC Takeover 282

Posted by Zonk from the there-are-issues-here-and-perhaps-they-should-be-investigated dept.
Jackson writes "Adam Boileau, a security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password. By connecting a Linux machine to a Firewire port on the target machine, the tool can then modify Windows' password protection code and render it ineffective. Boileau said he did not release the tool publicly in 2006 because 'Microsoft was a little cagey about exactly whether Firewire memory access was a real security issue or not and we didn't want to cause any real trouble'. But now that a couple of years have passed and the issue has not resolved, Boileau decided to release the tool on his website."

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