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Women With Both High Math & Verbal Ability Appear Less Likely to Choose Science Careers
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 12:52 PM EDT
Pitt-Michigan study finds that more women than men have combination of high math and high verbal skills, recommends new focus on tapping potential of women with that combination for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)

Study also finds that women with high math skills and only moderate verbal ability are the ones who appear more likely to choose STEM careers

http://www.news.pitt.edu/women_STEM

A PDF of the study is available upon request.
Why no link to the study?

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OTT - Robotic Mantis Hexapod - Powered by Linux
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 01:34 PM EDT
Robotic Mantis Hexapod

I want one.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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OTT - How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on apple.com—without Apple’s OK
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 01:37 PM EDT
Are CMA and R66T reviving ad injection on pay connections to residential users? Only those two companies can explain exactly what the situation is, and neither has been over-anxious to respond immediately to questions.
Na te Anderson, ars technica

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OTT - Study suggests patent office lowered standards to cope with backlog
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 01:42 PM EDT
Story at Ars Technica .

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Today, we save the Internet (again): fix the CFAA !
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 03:52 PM EDT
Under the amendments, which might be voted on as early as April 10, violating terms of service could be defined as racketeering -- so that you could be prosecuted as though your violation of terms of service made you into a mobster.

They also add "conspiring" to violate terms of service to the list of offenses that are a felony under the CFAA. So you can be thrown in jail just for talking about ways to violate terms of service.

The amendments also make it a felony to obtain information that you are entitled to obtain, if you do so in a way that violates terms of service.

My wife and I share some online accounts, including our "family" airmiles account with British Airways, which we both contribute to and use, but only my wife can see the details of them (she signed up for the service, so it's linked to her login). We're both entitled to see those details, but poor service design makes it impossible to do this without sharing a login and password. No problem, except that BA's terms of service forbid this. So looking up my own airmiles, which I earned, and which I'm entitled to see and use, would be a felony under these amendments because I was looking at them in a way that violates BA's terms.

The amendments also include increased powers for seizure of property, which will enable the Feds to take away the assets you might use to defend yourself against a CFAA claim.

Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

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Misogyny, Sexism, And Why RPS Isn’t Shutting Up
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 04:20 PM EDT
There were two sessions in a row on Wednesday afternoon at this year’s GDC. The first was a panel of women in the games industry, discussing the causes and results of the #1ReasonWhy and #1ReasonToBe phenomena – the reasons to be and not be in the games industry. The second was Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian, talking about the positive and negative consequences of her Kickstarter campaign, and the way forward from here.

I came out of the first – vivid, passionate declarations of purpose from the likes of Leigh Alexander, Mattie Brice and Brenda Romero – feeling certain that the industry and its audience was on a wave of significant change.

An hour later I came out of the second – Sarkeesian’s challenging and demanding story of recent horror – re-grounded to the current reality, introspective, and further determined.

John Walker, Rock Paper Shotgun

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Psst, BIOS UEFI keys ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 10:02 PM EDT
Why it's not a good idea to keep a secret that has to be known (sort of) by 4 billion people.

Michael Mimoso blogged this three days before other places started to run the story.

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from the not-so-clever dept: French Intelligence Isn't
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 10:09 PM EDT
There is also the interesting question of how a national intelligence service only found out about the article now, several years after it was first added: this hardly suggests a firm grasp of what's happening in the online world.

That's confirmed by the fact that the deleted article is, of course, back on line, in French and a dozen other languages. Moreover, the DCRI's ham-fisted attempt to censor an extremely obscure Wikipedia page that hardly anyone ever visited, has achieved exactly the opposite effect: in the last few days, the page has been viewed over 45,000 times.

This is how the article about the not-so-secret military installation now concludes:

As a result of the controversy, the article became the most-read page on the French Wikipedia. It was translated into multiple other languages. The French newspaper 20 minutes noted it as an example of the Streisand effect in action.
Will they never learn?
Glyn Moody, Techdirt

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How old is your universe?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 08 2013 @ 10:36 PM EDT
Pencil and Paper Cosmological Computer arxiv.org PDF

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Off Topic Thread
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 08:16 AM EDT

OSNews article "Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle file antitrust complaint about Android". As the linked article states this does seem like clutching at straws.

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Microsoft accuses Google of pushing services to Android
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 08:36 AM EDT
Microsoft has accused rival Google of pushing Android handset makers to use its applications such as YouTube and Maps.

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Why Undersea Internet Cables Are More Vulnerable Than You Think
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 10:42 AM EDT
The idea that saboteurs in wetsuits would dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea and cut a fiber optic cable, though not impossible, is highly unlikely, if only because doing so would be a good way to wind up dead.

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