Tuesday, May 31, 2011

How it works

How it works


Sin City silliness on 'The Bachelorette'

Posted: 31 May 2011 08:28 AM PDT

Last night's episode of "The Bachelorette" began with Chris Harrison ordering the 18 remaining suitors in the living room to explain how the show works. Even after advancing to the next round, few of the suitors understand the concept of shaving. William is the recipient of the first one-on-one date with Ashley, with a promise [...]

How To Conquer Your E-Mail Inbox

Posted: 31 May 2011 09:00 AM PDT

? I love e-mail. I love its efficiency, its clarity and the fact that it creates a detailed, se

Intel anthropologist: Fieldwork with the silicon tribe

Posted: 31 May 2011 07:02 AM PDT

Anthropologist Genevieve Bell gives the chip maker insight into how people experience new technologies

How to secure your VMs in the cloud, Part 1

Posted: 31 May 2011 09:50 AM PDT

Choosing a protection product for a virtual infrastructure is a lot like buying an anti-virus product for the Mac OS: most people would say why bother when few attacks have been observed to date. (Although that situation is changing see our coverage here on Mac Defender . )Nonetheless, as more IT shops make use of the cloud, it is only a matter of time before protecting these resources becomes ...

Murder they wrote, and it still works

Posted: 17 May 2011 07:39 AM PDT

No one connected with the Snowtown case wanted a film to be made about it. Relatives of victims in South Australia's ''bodies in barrels'' murders called the project exploitative and complained to the Commissioner for Victims' Rights. And people in Snowtown, north of Adelaide, were upset at the prospect of being further stigmatised.

How good is your memory?

Posted: 30 May 2011 01:54 PM PDT

If you really studied a list of random words, how many could you recite- in exact order?

Design ordinance met with mixed reaction

Posted: 30 May 2011 07:02 PM PDT

A proposed ordinance that would create an "overlay district" in downtown Hazleton and recommend how business owners can decorate buildings within that area drew mixed reaction from two city residents who attended a public hearing on the topic at City Hal

No X-aggeration: How Companies Can Gather Information and Still Preserve Privacy

Posted: 30 May 2011 08:14 AM PDT

Companies and individuals are often at odds, concerned either with collecting information or with preserving privacy. Online stores and services are always eager to know more about their customers--income, age, tastes--whereas most of us are not eager to reveal much. Math suggests a way out of this bind. A few years ago Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant, both data-mining researchers ...

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