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(let's not discuss the examples here, though, that's garage territory. It's just a cool concept in general.)
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Also, be careful, this is actually going around: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/google-docs-phish-worm-grabs-your-google-app-permissions-contacts/
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@Yamikuronue It sounds like it is being aggressively neutered:
[ Update, 4:40 pm EDT:] Google has struck hard at the worm. Not only have all the sites associated with the phish been taken offline (their domains appear to have been completely erased), but the permissions associated with the worm have been dropped from victims' accounts. Attempts to reach the domains used in the attack fail, and a whois lookup returns "No whois server is known for this kind of object."
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This file is registered to start via a Scheduled Task every time the user logs into his computer. According to modzero researchers, the file "monitors all keystrokes made by the user to capture and react to functions such as microphone mute/unmute keys/hotkeys."
This behavior, by itself, is not a problem, as many other apps work this way. The problem is that this file writes all keystrokes to a local file at: C:\users\public\MicTray.log
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On the plus side, if you spin the world once in any direction it will become a lot more peaceful.
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@Zecc I'm not too sure about the accuracy of that map: it has the marker for Putin talking about the weekend's malware spread over Beijing
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@boomzilla The article and the blog are, of course, @antiquarian-approved. I found this especially interesting:
Interestingly the ancient Egyptian halving and doubling algorithms for multiplication and division are, in somewhat modified form, how modern computers carry out these arithmetical operations.
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http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/25/an-approval-like-no-other
Merck got an unusual approval at the FDA recently, for its Keytruda antibody in oncology.
Whatβs new about it is that it is the first approval thatβs based on the molecular biology of the tumors rather than their location.
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@boomzilla said in π Quick links thread:
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/25/an-approval-like-no-other
Merck got an unusual approval at the FDA recently, for its Keytruda antibody in oncology.
Whatβs new about it is that it is the first approval thatβs based on the molecular biology of the tumors rather than their location.I really hope in a matter of a few years, cancer will become as treatable as pink-eye, where you feel a lump, go to urgent care, and they prescribe you something to treat it.
I know due to things like relapsing and certain locations being harder to detect, it'd probably not be quite that trivial in the near future, but the thought of someone getting a simple prescription to fix it even temporarily is a really cool thing.
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@The_Quiet_One said in π Quick links thread:
@boomzilla said in π Quick links thread:
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/25/an-approval-like-no-other
Merck got an unusual approval at the FDA recently, for its Keytruda antibody in oncology.
Whatβs new about it is that it is the first approval thatβs based on the molecular biology of the tumors rather than their location.I really hope in a matter of a few years, cancer will become as treatable as pink-eye, where you feel a lump, go to urgent care, and they prescribe you something to treat it.
I know due to things like relapsing and certain locations being harder to detect, it'd probably not be quite that trivial in the near future, but the thought of someone getting a simple prescription to fix it even temporarily is a really cool thing.
While I understand your sentiment, it is a pet peeve of mine for people to simplify cancer down to a single disease. That we should have already have a for cancer by now, etc.
Cancer there more than 100 types of cancer. So there is an awful lot of complexity that is ignored by the general public.
There is a range of difficulty in detection, and a range of difficulty in treatment.
Some cancers are actually effectively curable now.
Some cancers are so slow growing you will die of something else first.
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@Karla said in π Quick links thread:
there more than 100 types of cancer
Arguably, because a significant proportion of the disease involves genetic mutation, there's possibly several types of cancer per patient. Fortunately, there's a lot of common patterns.
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@Karla Exactly. There's no such thing as "the cure for cancer" because there's no such thing as "the cancer".
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@Karla said in π Quick links thread:
While I understand your sentiment, it is a pet peeve of mine for people to simplify cancer down to a single disease. That we should have already have a for cancer by now, etc.
I get that. However, we've made tremendous breakthroughs in even the past 5-10 years that have, in fact, simplified cancer far more than 10-20 years prior to that. The point of my post was that I believe sooner than later we will, in fact, have made more strides in making each permutation that covers the broad scope of "cancer" enough that it is, as a whole, simplified to a more manageable problem.
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Some epidemiologists from Canada took data from the National Cancer Insitute SEER database and wrote a web app that uses R to show lots of graphs.
https://corinne-riddell.shinyapps.io/black-white-life-expectancy/
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Wow...data leads to another overturning of conventional wisdom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/sports/mlb-launch-angles-story
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@boomzilla whenever I see MLB, my first thought is My Little Brony
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I found the right shell for @ben_lubar
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@wharrgarbl said in π Quick links thread:
yeuchh. Also:
Well why the fuck do you guys need cookies in the first place? You guys know that it's possible to make a webstie that doesn't need cookies, right?
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@wharrgarbl said in π Quick links thread:
I don't know.... some of them seemed pretty nice to me.
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This is the most pointless Ars article ever, and yet somehow, I found it charming and cute:
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I donβt think the device Iβm a few hours from buying will make me a better person. Nor will it turn me into a lesbian. Itβs just a phone, and I recognize that.
Edit: FOllowed the link to https://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/09/im-not-leaving-without-a-gold-one-tales-from-the-iphone-5s-line/ to find out what that was about, and found this:
Then, the bombshell. "I gotta have the gold one. I don't care. I don't waaaaaaaaant this stupid black iPhone!" she whined. "It's gonna make people think I'm a lesbian!"
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@raceprouk Women who are not color-coordinated, pretty, and perfect looking sometimes get called lesbians.
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@yamikuronue said in π Quick links thread:
@raceprouk Women who are not color-coordinated, pretty, and perfect looking sometimes get called lesbians.
That sounds like the sort of logic that leads people to conclude that a man who understands fashion must by definition be gay.
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@raceprouk Exactly the same :)
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@raceprouk
I understand fashion ... but nobody seems to understand my fashion
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@yamikuronue said in π Quick links thread:
@raceprouk Women who are not color-coordinated, pretty, and perfect looking sometimes get called lesbians.
Added to life goal list: get called a lesbian.
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@tsaukpaetra is a lesbian
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@raceprouk said in π Quick links thread:
@tsaukpaetra is a lesbian
Addendum: not by people who know me!
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@tsaukpaetra on the internet, no one knows that you are a lesbian.
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@boomzilla unless you tell them, but as it's the Internet, you might really be a guy pretending to be a lesbian.
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@dse said in π Quick links thread:
This is pretty cool! Log in Windows in Cinnamon!
We'll have no more of that, mate.
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@arantor said in π Quick links thread:
@boomzilla unless you tell them, but as it's the Internet, you might really be a guy pretending to be a lesbian.
You know what they say about good writing: Show. Don't tell.
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@arantor said in π Quick links thread:
@boomzilla unless you tell them, but as it's the Internet, you might really be a guy pretending to be a lesbian.
But we can be almost certain that @blakeyrat will never pretend to be a lesbian.
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@dse said in π Quick links thread:
@arantor said in π Quick links thread:
@boomzilla unless you tell them, but as it's the Internet, you might really be a guy pretending to be a lesbian.
But we can be almost certain that @blakeyrat will never pretend to be a lesbian.
But how would you know? Assuming a states preference for women, which I doubt has ever been stated, but assume it anyway, how could you tell outside of other contextual data?
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Neat:
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@boomzilla Basically, rich people have expensive hobbies, poor people have cheap hobbies
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@raceprouk Not exactly. For instance: running. Tobacco and drug use. Writing for personal interest. Watching sports.
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@boomzilla said in π Quick links thread:
@raceprouk Not exactly. For instance: running. Tobacco and drug use. Writing for personal interest. Watching sports.
I don't do any of those things. Where do I fit on this chart?
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@tsaukpaetra said in π Quick links thread:
@boomzilla said in π Quick links thread:
@raceprouk Not exactly. For instance: running. Tobacco and drug use. Writing for personal interest. Watching sports.
I don't do any of those things. Where do I fit on this chart?
Pretty sure you're at least in:
- Computer use for leisure (exc. games)
- Reading for personal interest (I've heard you talk about fan fiction)
- Socializing and communicating (if you can call it that on TDWTF)
- Playing games
Possibly others, but there's a broad range of stuff, plus some catch alls, like "Hobbies, except arts & crafts and collecting."
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@raceprouk said in π Quick links thread:
@boomzilla Basically, rich people have expensive hobbies, poor people have cheap hobbies
Rich people watch the poor playing basketball
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@dse said in π Quick links thread:
Rich people watch the poor playing basketball
I imagine the rich watch the poor play more and the poor watch the rich play more.
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@tsaukpaetra said in π Quick links thread:
@dse said in π Quick links thread:
Warning: Autoplaying video.
AND anti-adblock.
And the video plays while the anti-adblock page yells at you.
Fuck that.
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@yamikuronue i only watched on mobile. It's a shame it is national geographic :(
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Nature dropped some glitter all over this beetle and evolution was like "yeah ok let's do this"
https://t.co/T4q5CpCY4A