Apple Just Blocked Hackers From Taking Advantage of This Serious Security
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The latest Mac security update patches a nasty Screen Sharing vulnerability.
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4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures: how to be seductive - article
analyzing three primary things:
* Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? Doing that flirty lip-pursing thing?
* Photo Context. Is there alcohol? Is there a pet? Is the photo outdoors? Is it in a bedroom?
* Skin. How much skin is the person showing? How much face? How much breasts? How much ripped abs?
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/
Prehistoric life was not short - it is a statistical "error"
"Prehistoric life was not short. This is a blessed scientific lie.
We explain this in much more detail in the book, but here's the misunderstanding in a nutshell.
* There was high infant mortality in prehistory. (How this compares to infant mortality in Medeival Europe or modern India and China is an interesting question we look at in the book, but no space for it here.)
* There are technical difficulties in distinguishing age of death beyond the early 30s, when one's last teeth are fully erupted from the jaw bone.
* These two factors combined with sloppy thinking to create the wide-spread "fact" that "if you made it to 30 or so, you had done well."
full article here:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201001/lies-damned-lies-and-blessed-lies
7 Bullshit Police Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
"Hollywood has never been afraid to sacrifice realism for the sake of an entertaining story. And since pretty much every movie or TV show features the police in some way, we as an audience get fed a lot of total horseshit about how the law works and how cops operate in the USA.
But as most of us are on the outside of the judicial system (for the moment) we usually don't even realize that what we're being told is incorrect. So we just accept things like..."
http://www.cracked.com/article_18385_7-bullshit-police-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html
YouTube video - 5 million views and a $30 million contract
1/11/2010
In about two months, a YouTube video from Uruguay got over 5 million views.
And a $30 million contract for producer Fede Alvarez.
Panic Attack! (Ataque de Pánico!) only cost $300 to make (as CNN points out, not counting time and equipment).
According to the BBC, the project be directed by Sam Raimi (Spiderman):
The movie Mr. Alvarez has been asked to produce is a sci-fi film to be shot in Uruguay and Argentina. He says he intends to start from scratch and develop a new story for the project.
"If some director from some country can achieve this just uploading a video to YouTube, it obviously means that anyone could do it," he added.
WATCH PANIC ATTACK:
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