Nerd-Alert: A new take on science
Science discussion
I am impressed by this site- a discussion of kebab vans explaining the Yule-Simpson effect- suddenly I have clarity and the desire for a kebab.
The YS-effect (or Simpson’s paradox) is one of those counter-intuitive statistical phenomena that make you realise that you’re thinking the wrong way about things.
Anyway - Nerd Alert is definitely worth checking out – they also have a nerd alert podcast which is great and has a good music too
wordpress vulnerabilities and no-script
So wordpress installs everywhere have been under pretty heavy attack, and the attack seems to be evolving – they’re reading the same pages we are to remove the hacked code.
I found a good way to check if you’re hacked is to install noscript (http://noscript.net/) firefox extension.
Then navigate to your “Users” page in wp-admin and if you have been hacked into you’ll see extra admin users (in my case three). They are well created using names from your email address etc. They can be deleted in the usual way- keep checking to make sure they don’t reappear AND make sure you’re updated to wordpress 2.8.4
This really shows the power and dangers of javascript.
Wireless Photo and Music Sharing with iPhone OS 3?
A new Apple patent application shows iPhones giving the user the opportunity to share Music, Photos, Videos, Voicemail etc by different communication modes- phone, email, text message, fax, chat etc
A communications device may transmit a media item chosen by a user over a communication path also being used to transmit an established communications operation. The user may select a media item of any known type, including for example a musical selection, a video, a voicemail, a podcast, an image, or any other suitable media item. The user may select any suitable contact method for the communications operation, including for example, telephone, voicemail, email, text message, chatting, fax, or any other suitable method.
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