Link. Inverse of the mobile revolution. Whitewater times.

Link. I need to compare this to my current use of Pinboard and IFTTT. Unfortunately, this is a “free” service.

Link. I assume there is a lot of research of this sort. Very interesting.

Link. “It seems that the major Out-of-Africa event happened pre-100ky, the Eurasian bottleneck occurred at ~70ky and coincided with well-known adverse geo-climatic developments; some of the survivors went north Out-of-Arabia out this time, started interbreeding with Neandertals, and finally the MP/UP transition occurred post-50ka, probably first in the Levant, and followed very quickly in Russia, Central Europe, and the Mediterranean.”

Link.

Link. Security question are Satans spawn.

Link. Strong pw make reset the weak link.

Link. “…30,000 habitable worlds within 1,000 light-years of Earth … 34% of sun-like stars could host habitable planets … tens of billions of such worlds exist in the Milky Way …”

And yet we only hear crickets …

Link. Salmon: “… high-frequency algobots, operates on a level which is simply beyond intuition. Pattern-detecting algos detect patterns that the human mind can’t see, and they learn from them, and they trade on them, and some of them work, and some of them don’t, and no one really has a clue why.”

In Stross terms, this is Finance 2.0. As DeLong used to say, the Singularity is in our past.

We are on one hell of a ride.

Link. Presidents were once soft targets. Hardening the world. Technology driven?

Link. Metabolic efficiency rises with calorie reduction and is unaffected by exercise. Means need to readjust calorie/weight loss expectations. (Article is confused, makes it sound like exercise doesn’t burn calories.)

Link. Thermodynamics is the hottest area in modern physics. (sorry)

Link. He sets up the problem. Next, interventions.

Link. “President Barack Obama is a descendant (he would be the 11th great-grandson) of the first enslaved African in America”. Ratings drop threatens reality?

Link. Radiology next.

Link. Vote thoughtfully.

Link. Interesting as a herald of shocks to come.

Link. AppleScript finally saves me.

Link. Slowmo revolution.

Link. Good answers to this from Macintouch readers: “… Tell Mr. Gordon that Apple does track unlocked iPhone status for phones that are unlocked by the carrier. Second-level Apple support did this for me when I was having problems with a T-mobile SIM in my iPhone 4. First-level support apparently does not have access to this database.

…Not true — at least not for iPhones replaced under warranty. Under those conditions, the characteristics of the original phone (locked status, AppleCare, etc) are automatically transferred to the replacement phone. Once an iPhone is unlocked (after sale, by carrier’s request), it appears as such in Apple’s product database. For example, I paid $80 to unlock officially an iPhone 4 originally sold locked to Vodafone UK; when it required replacement under warranty, the local Austin, TX Apple Store gave me an American iPhone 4 and unlocked it.

If Apple won’t do this for an out-of-warranty iPhone, perhaps JG should contact Apple Executive Relations and request an exception. Anyone in an Apple Store can see on their handheld checkout device whether an iPhone is locked or not, and there’s a simple checkbox that determines whether a replacement phone is locked or not…”

Macintouch readership is the best.

Link. Use by students?

Link. “within a year of becoming unemployed the worker is out of the labor market for all practical purposes: a job must arrive at his or her door, grab him or her by the scruff of the neck, and through him or her back into the nine-to-five routine if he or she is to be employed again.”

Link. Nice ars summary of days to point releases. Pretty predictable.

Link. Expert tells me this is best bet for non-Apple repair of broken glass iPhone.

Link. Learning VerizATT scams.

Link. “I met with two Apple Genius Bar staffers today, and neither knew the answer. This is what they do know:
 
1. Only ATT&T does US post-contract carrier unlock. Verizon/Sprint can’t/don’t. So nice advantage AT&T.
2. If you buy an unlocked phoned it will show as unlocked in Apple’s database and if you have it serviced it will be replaced with an unlocked phone. However, if you have a post-contract phone unlocked they don’t THINK Apple updates the database used to check replacement status.
3. If you are post-2 years with AT&T, but haven’t switched to a new phone/contract (so old contract is current) there is an option. What happens is that in this situation you do the glass repair / refurb switch, then put your SIM into your phone and AT&T changes the IMEI associated with your current (completed) contract. Then you go through the unlock process with AT&T.
 
They’ve never come across my situation. My guess is that there’s no way to do it at this time.”

Link. Also, tragedy of the wifi commons.

See also: NetUse Traffic Monitor and RubberNet.

Link. Funny to hear Tea Partiers complaining about the moral decline of America.

Great quote: “Pennsylvania House Majority Leader — a Republican — said of his legislature’s law: “Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.”

Link. Continents moving.

Link. Walmart MiFi and the like. We need OS support.

Link. What does human history teach us?

Link. We need lots of miracles.

Link. Duopoly makes price fixing possible.

Link. My senator is the best in the senate.

Link. Is this what Romney believes? “Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel or the health and wealth gospel)[A] is a Christian religious doctrine which claims the Bible teaches that financial blessing is the will of God for Christians. The doctrine teaches that faith, positive speech, and donations to Christian ministries will always increase one’s material wealth.”

Link. Explains why we should reduce taxes on the rich.

Link. ICIJ is a heroic enterprise.

Link. NPR was part of this investigation. We need an urgent rethink.

Link. US imprisons more than any other country – makes our employment seem better than it is.

Link. A revolution in slow motion.

Link. God chooses the winners, Satan gets the losers.

Link. How can we not admire Atlas?