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Sunday, January 30, 2011
How to Break Your Blog Traffic Addiction
This guest post is by John Burnside of MoneyIn15Minutes. My name is John Burnside and I am a recovering traffic addict. I got sucked into the analytics quicksand, and barely got out alive! I used to wake up in the morning and check how many hits I had over night. I used to stay up [...]
Sony PS3 Hacker Gagged
A few weeks ago, we talked about Sony's attempt to get an injunction against a guy who figured out how to hack the Sony PS3 to "jailbreak" it and reinstate the "Other OS' feature allowing people to install alternative operating systems, such as Linux, on their PS3s, which Sony unilaterally deleted. While jailbreaking smartphones for similar purposes has been declared legal, for whatever reason, if you're dealing with a gaming console, it suddenly becomes criminal and you can face jailtime. No, it doesn't make any sense.
However, the judge is buying it, so far, and has issued Sony's requested temporary restraining order and told the guy behind the hack, George Hotz (Geohot) that he cannot do anything relating to circumventing the PS3s digital locks. He's not even allowed to link to other people talking about it. Seems a bit aggressive, but isn't all that surprising. Unfortunately, too many people still believe that simply jailbreaking a device is some horrible crime.
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However, the judge is buying it, so far, and has issued Sony's requested temporary restraining order and told the guy behind the hack, George Hotz (Geohot) that he cannot do anything relating to circumventing the PS3s digital locks. He's not even allowed to link to other people talking about it. Seems a bit aggressive, but isn't all that surprising. Unfortunately, too many people still believe that simply jailbreaking a device is some horrible crime.
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes
Fever Dream Critics worry that genetically engineering mosquitoes and releasing them into the wild-one proposed method for controlling the spread of malaria and other diseases -could cause those diseases to become more virulent Jamie Sneddon
Genetically engineered mosquitoes could even spread genes to other insects
As carriers for diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever, mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on the planet, responsible for millions of human deaths every year. And as the planet warms, the insects are broadly expanding their turf and bringing their diseases with them; thousands of cases of dengue, a tropical disease, have appeared in the U.S. in the past five years. DDT was long used to control the mosquito population, but it is now widely banned, and in any case, many scientists believe that mosquitoes quickly build up a resistance to the insecticide. That, in part, is why the battle against mosquitoes has gone genetic.
Generally speaking, the goal of gene-based mosquito-control projects is either to kill the insects or make them benign. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, for example, are studying mosquitoes that were made malaria-resistant through the activation of a gene responsible for a protein that blocks the infection. And the British company Oxitec has engineered a strain of mosquito that cannot survive without regular doses of tetracycline; in the wild, these mosquitoes would survive just long enough to mate and pass on their tetracycline-junkie genes to their doomed offspring. In a trial in the Cayman Islands last year, Oxitec-modified mosquitoes were able to cut the overall population by 80 percent in just six months.
But the problem is that we don't fully understand how mosquitoes and the diseases they carry would adapt in response to such experiments. New strains of malaria and other diseases could emerge. Jo Lines, a malaria expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has described the process as "a series of arms races that the [malaria] parasite has consistently won." Three percent of the offspring from Oxitec's tetracycline-dependent mosquitoes survive-what happens if those bugs breed with wild mosquitoes?
It's even possible that the changes we induce in mosquitoes could move into other animals. Horizontal gene transfer could result in midges, gnats and black flies developing the same mutations, including the unfortunate characteristic of dying shortly after hatching-and a mass die-off of insects that provide sustenance to birds, bats, frogs and fish would be a food-chain disaster.
How We Can Do Better
Joe Conlon, a technical adviser for the American Mosquito Control Association, favors using a variety of techniques all at once-dispersing larvicide, which is less environmentally harmful than pesticides that kill adults; planting Ovitraps, which attract egg-laying females; and, where possible, getting rid of the water impoundments where the insects breed.
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
My 5 Favorite, but Often Ignored, Analytics Features
This post was written by the Web Marketing Ninja?a professional online marketer for a major web brand, who?s sharing his tips undercover here at ProBlogger. Curious? So are we! The wonderful thing about working online is that our work is just so measurable. In just about every other industry, a lot of decisions are based [...]
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A Smart Pill Box Uses Face Recognition Tech to Ensure We Take Our Meds
Project Smart Pill Box
For people with memory-degrading conditions like Alzheimer's, it's not always easy, or even possible, to remember to take one's medicine. Yet forgetting to take your meds-or perhaps worse, forgetting that you already took them and doubling up-can derail a dosage schedule and in worse cases be detrimental to your health. So a couple of University of Texas students have come up with a smart digital system that helps the forgetful among us remember to pop our pills and verifies visually that we've done so.
By the students' own admission their Project Smart Pill Box is somewhat rudimentary, which in certain respects is an advantage because the only hardware it requires is a computer and a Web cam, two pieces of technology that are already present in most homes these days.
When it's time to take you meds, the computer sounds an alert. The Web cam powers up and recognizes your face, and a colored band worn on the finger (the patient has to put this on) helps the system track hand movement. It then watches you take your pills and notes that you have done so, ensuring that you don't forget you took them and come back for another dose until the proper amount of time has passed (it can be programmed to fit your doctors regimen).
The system does require a high degree of patient participation-that is, it doesn't ensure that people who are trying to dodge their medicine take their pills on time. But for the merely forgetful, it does seem like a handy system to have around. Given the time and technology, the duo would like to design a special pill box with embedded weight sensors so it can verify that you take the right pills and that you take all of them.
Jackie and Zach offer a more thorough demonstration in the video below, and there's more info on the project here.
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5 Ways Facebook?s Discussions App Will Make You a Better Blogger
This guest post is by Tommy Walker, Online Marketing Strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name. ?Build a community.? You hear it all the time. ?Comment on other people?s articles, guest post, and join the conversation.” One of the problems with the way most online communications systems are set up is that they’re top-down in nature. A [...]
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