“Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text”
This should go a long way toward preventing Wikipedia-spread hoaxes. With it, Wikipedia might actually become the all-around useful resource that it has long striven to be.
Archive of posts filed under the Science and Technology category.
Topics pertaining to science and technology, current or future.
“Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.”
Very interesting information here.
“Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”
Neat information.
The Joys (?) of a New Computer
I have a love/hate relationship with upgrades. On the one hand, it’s exciting to have something new, especially since that something is almost always a major improvement over its predecessor. But on the other, it’s always a major pain to transfer all your data, reinstall all your software, and get used to the new quirks …
Computer use as a mental illness?
Another developer I work with sent me this link. Under that definition, I might qualify as mentally ill too, for the same reasons as the author of the article. 🙂
“Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom”
I really was born too late.
“Virus arms race primes malware numbers surge”
Computer security people have seen this coming for years. Signature-based detection of specific malware variants is less and less effective all the time; there’s no way antivirus programs can keep up anymore, and they’re just going to get further behind. Not to mention the ongoing problems with false positives. (I don’t even bother running an …
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“Self-Enforcing Protocols”
Here’s something you’d probably never think of: […] a self-enforcing protocol for determining property tax: the homeowner decides the value of the property and calculates the resultant tax, and the government can either accept the tax or buy the home for that price. Sounds unrealistic, but the Greek government implemented exactly that system for the …
“Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin”
It’s not what you’d think, but if you read the article, it does make sense.
“Vanish Gives Your Message an Expiration Date”
Interesting idea. Sounds like it might even work.