Via: dvorak.org: Video – How Lexar Makes Its Memory Products
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NASA’s Kepler Spots Its First Rocky Exoplanet
slashdot.org: NASA’s Kepler Spots Its First Rocky Exoplanet
“NASA today said its star-gazing satellite Kepler has identified its first rocky planet orbiting a sun similar to our own — 560 light years from our solar system. While not in an area of space considered habitable, the rocky planet known as Kepler-10b is never-the-less significant because it showcases the ability of Kepler to find and track such small exoplanetary movements.
We’re all a bunch of Monkeys!!!
Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud’, British journal finds
cnn.com: Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal finds
Via: digg.com: Retracted study linking autism to vaccines was an ‘elaborate fraud’ by doctor, British …
An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study — and that there was “no doubt” Wakefield was responsible.
“It’s one thing to have a bad study, a study full of error, and for the authors then to admit that they made errors,” Fiona Godlee, BMJ’s editor-in-chief, told CNN. “But in this case, we have a very different picture of what seems to be a deliberate attempt to create an impression that there was a link by falsifying the data.”
Britain stripped Wakefield of his medical license in May. “Meanwhile, the damage to public health continues, fueled by unbalanced media reporting and an ineffective response from government, researchers, journals and the medical profession,” BMJ states in an editorial accompanying the work.
The Moon Has a Fluid Outer Core
slashdot.org: The Moon Has a Fluid Outer Core
The new research confirms the existence of a solid inner core and liquid outer layer, similar to Earth’s. Unlike Earth, the moon also has a partly melted, mushy layer over that.
Seismic Detection of the Lunar Core
Abstract:
Despite recent insight regarding the history and current state of the Moon from satellite sensing and analyses of limited Apollo-era seismic data, deficiencies remain in our understanding of the deep lunar interior. We reanalyzed Apollo lunar seismograms using array processing methods to search for the presence of reflected and converted seismic energy from the core. Our results suggest the presence of a solid inner and fluid outer core, overlain by a partially molten boundary layer. The relative sizes of the inner and outer core suggest that the core is ~60% liquid by volume. Based on phase diagrams of iron alloys and the presence of partial melt, the core likely contains less than 6 weight % of lighter alloying components, which is consistent with a volatile-depleted interior.
Major Security Flaws Discovered In Internet HDTVs
C’est evidemment juste pour rire un peu que j’ecris a ce sujet. Qui, avec des connaissances minimales et du gros bon sens, pourrait bien s’imaginer que ces produits sont securises correctement 😉 C’est quand meme interessant de penser que la facon d’entrer chez-vous pour hacker le reseau sera la TV ou le lecteur Blu-Ray. La seule facon de se proteger serait-elle d’avoir un firewall/router interne dedie aux cochonneries electroniques comme les TV/Blu-Ray? Remarquez que le probleme existait deja avec les consoles de jeu qui utilisent encore WEP!
“Security researchers have discovered several security flaws in one of the best-selling brands of Internet-connected HDTVs, and believe it’s likely that similar security flaws exist in other Internet TVs. The security researchers were able to demonstrate how an attacker could intercept transmissions from the television to the network using common ‘rogue DNS,’ ‘rogue DHCP server,’ or TCP session hijacking techniques. Mocana was able to demonstrate that JavaScript could then be injected into the normal datastream, allowing attackers to obtain total control over the device’s Internet functionality.”
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Hehe.
Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore
Une autre bonne raison de ne pas acheter de iWhatever.
slashdot.org: Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore
“Apple has removed VLC media player from the App Store, putting an end to the controversy on the license (in)compatibilities. Indeed, the iTunes page for VLC media player stopped working. VLC developer Rémi Denis-Courmont notes that he is ‘not going to pity the owners of iDevices, and not even the MobileVLC developers who doubtless wasted a lot of their time. This end should not have come to a surprise to anyone.'”
Demonstrations of silencing, a visual illusion
visionlab.harvard.edu: Demonstrations of silencing, a visual illusion
Via: slashdot.org: It’s Surprisingly Hard To Notice When Moving Objects Change
SILENCING demonstrates the tight coupling of motion and object appearance. Simply by changing the retinotopic coordinates—moving the object or the eyes—it is possible to silence awareness of visual change, causing objects that had once been obviously dynamic to suddenly appear static
Motion silences awareness of shape changes from Jordan Suchow on Vimeo.
On est pas les seuls jambons
informationweek.com: Social Security Data Center Approaching Collapse
Via: slashdot.org: Social Security Information Systems Near Collapse
J’aurais pu ecrire qu’on etait aussi jambon que les autres, mais il me semble que notre perception est qu’au Quebec et/ou Canada, les couts de developpements informatiques sont astronomiques, pour ne pas dire ridicules/insenses/criminels/demoralisants/etc.
Mais on peut se consoler en regardant ailleurs, a defaut de se prendre en main et de regler les problemes! Bonne nouvelle, non? 😉
One of the biggest problems is the agency’s transition to a new data center, according to the report. The IG has characterized the replacement of the SSA’s National Computer Center (NCC) — built in 1979 — as the SSA’s “primary IT investment” in the next few years.
The agency has received more than $500 million so far to replace the outdated center, which is now so severely strained by an expanded workload over its time of operation that it may not be able to function by 2012, according to the report.
Mais bon, avec notre registre des armes a feu de 2G$, et le fait qu’on est 10 fois moins, ils ont encore des croutes a manger ces americains pour nous battre!
P.S. Mon estimation est que mon ordi a la maison pourrait gerer le registre des armes a feu sans probleme, mais aller dire ca aux compagnies qui ont empoche les 2G$….
Farewell, Pioneer Anomaly?
Cosmic Variance : Farewell, Pioneer Anomaly?
Five years have passed. Using the telemetry data, the two scientists created an extremely elaborate “finite element” 3-D computer model of each Pioneer spacecraft, in which the thermal properties of 100,000 positions on their surfaces are independently tracked for the duration of the 30-year mission.
But according to Toth, “You can take it to the bank that whatever remains of the anomaly after accounting for that thermal acceleration, it will at most be much less than the canonical value of 8.74 x 10-10 m/s2, and then, mind you, all those wonderful numerical coincidences people talk about are destroyed.”