You should read George Orwell's piece "What is Fascism?" [1]. It's a short essay worth the read before you're tempted to point the finger and call someone or something fascist.
One of the assignments I enjoyed the most was the "bomb lab". The bomb is a C program (w/ some Assembly required) that you have to defuse at certain phases in order for it to run to completion. It felt like a game more than an assignment, using and learning gdb along the way.
I've been getting a lot of the IRS and the "This is Windows calling" calls recently. I usually tell them to fuck off, but once in a while I will string them along. I figure my best revenge is to waste their time so they can't spend it harassing someone else who doesn't know better.
Maybe I'm being myopic as far as the definition of firmware. I've never heard of a firmware update for a car, but if it's not happening already, it'll probably be part of the regularly scheduled maintenance in the future.
I think the downvoters are missing my point. By definition, firmware is read-only software, so I was asking sure what (potentially modifiable) software the EFF is referring to.
I don't think we need to worry about STEM being over-pushed. STEM degrees are self filtering. Math, engineering, and science are hard, and getting kids interested at science at a young age can motivate them only so far. Many will enroll, and when things get tough, a good portion will transfer to other majors.
In the article I didn't see what type of ultrasound they are using. I don't know a great deal about ultrasound, but I do know that there is a difference between diagnostic (imaging) and therapeutic ultrasound systems. It's likely they were using a therapeutic system for this test.
I was having chronic muscle spasms in my right shoulder blade area, and the physical therapist used therapeutic ultrasound on me. It melted the spasms like butter. Several months of terrible pain gone in an instant. I was never so tempted to steal a machine in my life.
They changed the default search provider from Google to Yahoo in the US, Yandex in Russia, and Baidu in China. (I believe only new installs were affected by this change.) The word "dramatic" is a bit over the top, but the changes were significant given their longstanding relationship with Google.
> For example, the FBI discovered that several Internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with known North Korean infrastructure communicated with IP addresses that were hardcoded into the data deletion malware used in this attack.
The biggest surprise was the IP address traced to NY. Why wouldn't the FBI seize this system?
So a Results-Only Work Environment works because it focuses on results. Got it. That may work fine for programmers, but when knowledge worker theory meets the reality of a mass workforce, you're resorting to a circular argument. The GP cited businesses that need employees available at all hours when the business is open. That's the only way to get results. So in the context of a 35 hours work week, I don't see it as applicable. Convenience stores, restaurants, and hospitality businesses would just end up hiring more part time workers.
How would that apply to the woman in the article, Ahlem Saifi? She works at the airport and at a market. A Results-Only Work Environment might work for some knowledge workers, but I don't think it would apply to the majority of the workforce.
I've seen two variants of parallax - parallax scrolling (which is fine) and parallax videos that play behind text. When you're trying to read text, having a moving image behind the text makes it harder to read. It looks cool, but it's a bad design. And not just for the readability issues, but also due to the loading. For example, PayPal has it on their front page now. I used to be able to go to PayPal and immediately click the login button. Now I have to wait for the loading to finish. It's annoying.
As a NoScript user I understand your point, but if screen readers can't handle dynamically generated content then they will need to evolve along with the rest of the web.
When I maximized and then restored, it put the section in a popup window and removed it from the original layout. I would have expected restore to dock the section back in the original layout as before.
I guess older sites can drop the NOYDIR meta tag. A few weeks ago i noticed my site still has the NOODP tag. I have to think that Google doesn't even bother with that anymore.
The CARDIAC was my first introduction to computing. This is a cool little project, but while nostalgia may cast a warm glow, the truth is that most of my class found the CARDIAC to be mind-numbingly boring. I was thankful when we moved on to Basic and Fortran.
That's an extreme example, but really traveling anywhere before modern transportation was slow. I remember from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography that it took him two weeks just to travel from Boston to Philadelphia. And IIRC, he went by sea and almost drowned in a ship wreck along the way.
Most likely the professor is pulling together whatever information she can with the resources she has. Can you imagine how big of a ground effort it would take to collect the information you described?
Where does DataNitro run - is it an add-in, is it a desktop program that operates on external Excel files, or are the files uploaded to, and processed on your site? If it's an add-in, is it Windows-only (COM)?