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Banks Aim to Secure Customers' PCs

If you give a hacker a Flashlight ... So now we can expect to receive carefully spoofed email messages, allegedly from our bank, that say **"Your... (read full comment)  

Posted on March 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM EDT

HTML 5 Could Challenge Flash

Most Flash content is crap As a consumer of web content, my perspective is that most Flash content is crap, viz., broadly focused advertising that... (read full comment)  

Posted on March 25, 2010 at 11:43 AM EDT

Religion As a source for research ideas

Motivation *A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.* - Ecclesiastes 10:19 (read full comment)  

Posted on December 1, 2009 at 8:53 AM EST

Tiny Irrationalities That Add Up: Texting While Driving

Mental distraction Replacing text messaging with text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology could reduce *physical* distraction, but the... (read full comment)  

Posted on November 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM EST

Travel book goes mobile with scannable QR code

Wrong answer Remember the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cuecat (read full comment)  

Posted on October 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM EDT

The Death of the Teapot Effect

Milk jug problem Can these researchers also solve the milk jug problem? I refer, of course, to the annoying habit of new-fangled... (read full comment)  

Posted on October 23, 2009 at 12:03 PM EDT

Software Photoshops Any Image You Want

Too late to worry; that ship has sailed. (read full comment)  

Posted on October 7, 2009 at 4:25 PM EDT

A Vision for Headlight Communications

Unintended consequences A big problem with autonomous automotive control is, literally, knowing when to stop -- and when not to. If the car ahead... (read full comment)  

Posted on June 22, 2009 at 11:54 AM EDT

Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Perfect candidate for Kindle-ing This book seems ideal as a Kindle e-book. I urge you to go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691118809 (read full comment)  

Posted on June 5, 2009 at 12:25 PM EDT

Q & A: Steven Chu

Wasted energy Dr. Chu is right to disparage using hydrogen to power automobiles, a blue-sky proposal intended to draw attention away from more... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 15, 2009 at 1:25 PM EDT

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