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"Time Cloak" Created; Can Make Events Disappear
Einstein's theories of relativity suggest that gravity can cause time to slow down. Now scientists have demonstrated a way to stop time altogether—or at least, to give the appearance of time stopping by bending light to create a hole in time.
The new research builds on recent demonstrations of "invisibility cloaks" that can make objects seem to disappear by bending waves of visible light.
The idea is that, if light moves around an object instead of striking it, that light doesn't get scattered and reflected back to an observer, making the object essentially invisible.
Now Cornell University scientists have used a similar concept to create a hole in time, albeit a very short one: The effect lasts around 40 trillionths of a second. -
So Much Fun. So Irrelevant. - NYTimes.com
Two things have struck me about the Republican presidential candidate debates leading up to the Iowa caucuses. One is how entertaining they were. The other is how disconnected they were from the biggest trends shaping the job market of the 21st century. What if the 2012 campaign were actually about the world in which we’re living and how we adapt to it? What would the candidates be talking about?
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An Entrepreneur Reviews What Worked and What Didn't in 2011 - NYTimes.com
The beginning of the year is a great time for reflection, revelation, resolution and even a little celebration. We did do some things right last year, and the results are starting to show. I also did some things wrong, which I intend to rectify in the near future. Move out of the way, 2011.
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prog21: A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of
While this is easy to explain and give examples of, it's not simple to implement. All we want is an operation that looks like idiom(Function1, Function2), so we could write the "open a file..." example above as idiom(Open, Read). The catch is that there needs to be a programmatic way to determine that the inverse of "open" is "close." Is there a programming languages where functions have inverses?
Surprisingly, yes: J. And this idiom I keep talking about is even a built-in function in J, called under. In English, and not J's terse syntax, the open file example is stated as "read under open." -
Deobfuscating malicious code layer by layer | PandaLabs Blog
This post explains how to analyze the malicious code used in current Exploit Kits.
There are many ways to analyze this type of code, and you can find tools that do most of the job automatically. However, as researchers who like to understand how things work, we are going to analyze it with no other tools than a text editor and a Web browser.
My goal is to lay the basis for you to learn how to remove the different obfuscation layers that a malicious JavaScript code may employ. I will teach you how to remove those layers step by until you get to the last layer where the logic that exploits the relevant vulnerability is found. -
“English is Tough Stuff” is a poem intended to point out, satirize, or exaggerate the inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation. It is particularly popular on websites and online forums intended for people learning English. The introduction typically appended to the poem says that “a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud.”
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Outlook Over the years I've met my fair share of monsters – rogue individuals, for the most part. But as regulation in the UK and the US has loosened its restraints, the monsters have proliferated.
In a paper recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics entitled "The Corporate Psychopaths: Theory of the Global Financial Crisis", Clive R Boddy identifies these people as psychopaths. -
http://www.skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunking_Handbook.pdf
Debunking myths is problematic. Unless great care is taken, any effort to debunk misinformation can inadvertently reinforce the very myths one seeks to correct. To avoid these “backfire effects”, an effective debunking requires three major elements. First, the refutation must focus on core facts rather than the myth to avoid the misinformation becoming more familiar. Second, any mention of a myth should be preceded by explicit warnings to notify the reader that the upcoming information is false. Finally, the refutation should include an alternative explanation that accounts for important qualities in the original misinformation
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WTF PayPal DESTROYS a $2,500 violin and gives the owner nothing : WTF
WTF PayPal DESTROYS a $2,500 violin and gives the owner nothing (regretsy.com)
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As you know, I have had my share of issues with Paypal recently, and while I appreciate the effort they made to do the right thing in our case, I still have a lot of misgivings about them as a company.
This e-mail didn’t help. -
BBC News - Reaction to Stephen Lawrence murder verdict
Two men have been convicted of the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence - 18 years after the attack in Eltham, south London.
Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, were found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey after a trial focused on forensic evidence held since 1993.
Reaction has been flooding in to the verdict from those close to the case.
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