Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice | LiveScience

As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood. But the factor that explained the relationship between these two variables was political: When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brains and bias.

People with lower cognitive abilities also had less contact with people of other races.

"This finding is consistent with recent research demonstrating that intergroup contact is mentally challenging and cognitively draining, and consistent with findings that contact reduces prejudice," said Hodson, who along with his colleagues published these results online Jan. 5 in the journal Psychological Science.

I believe this study because it agrees with me. I will not check the details. I know it to be true because it resonates with me. I've been proven right once again. Vindication is mine. Rejoice.

No, but seriously, did they do this study just for me?

New Malware Protection Using Big Data Analytics From Sourcefire

One of the more interesting features is called File Trajectory. This tracks file movement within the enterprise, allowing organizations to identify the entry point and propagation path of malware. As you see from the below display, you have a list of every endpoint that has touched a particular file.

Interesting.

If You're An Average Worker, You're Going Straight To The Bottom | Seth Godin

"For 80 years, you got a job, you did what you were told and you retired," says the former vice president of direct marketing at Yahoo! People are raised on this idea that if they pay their taxes and do what they're told, there's some kind of safety net, or pension plan that's waiting for them. But the days when people were able to get above average pay for average work are over.

If you're the average person out there doing average work, there's going to be someone else out there doing the exact same thing as you, but cheaper. Now that the industrial economy is over, you should forget about doing things just because it's assigned to you, or "never mind the race to the top, you'll be racing to the bottom."

However, if you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more, Godin says.

This. Stop waiting for the jobs to come back. If you're not exceptional, they'll be filled by people overseas.

Google's Browser Security Principles | ZDNet

  • Defense in depth: Our goal in designing Chrome’s security architecture was to layer defenses, and avoid single points of failure. Chrome’s sandbox architecture represents one of the most effective parts of this strategy, but it’s far from the only piece. We also employ the best available anti-exploit technologies—including ASLR, DEP, JIT hardening, and SafeSEH—along with custom technologies like Safe Browsing, out-of-date plugin blocking, silent auto-update, and verified boot on Chrome OS. And we continue to work towards advancing the state of the art with research into areas like per-origin sandboxing and control flow integrity.
  • Transparency: We do not downplay security impact or bury vulnerabilities with silent fixes, because doing so serves users poorly. Instead, we provide users and administrators with the information they need to accurately assess risk. We publicly document our security handling process, and we disclose all vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome and its dependencies—whether discovered internally or externally. Whenever possible, we list all fixed security issues in our release notes, and make the underlying details public as soon as other affected projects have an adequate amount of time to respond. When we do not control the disclosure timeline for a security issue and cannot list it at the time of release, we make the details of the issue public as soon as disclosure occurs.
  • Community engagement: No software is perfect, and security bugs slip through even the best development and review processes. That’s why we’re grateful for the work of the independent security research community in helping us find and fix vulnerabilities. In response, we do our best to acknowledge and reward their contributions by ensuring proper attribution, paying out bounties, and sponsoring security conferences. We leverage the community to even greater extent where we can, by hiring members directly onto our team and contracting with industry leading, independent security consultancies.
  • Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics | The Daily Beast

    What I see in front of my nose is a president whose character, record, and promise remain as grotesquely underappreciated now as they were absurdly hyped in 2008. And I feel confident that sooner rather than later, the American people will come to see his first term from the same calm, sane perspective.

    This is what I continue to hope for -- that he's been working hard in the background and that he'll come out swinging with a massive list of accomplishments and plans for a second term. We'll see. But any of that would also require an explanation for several major missteps. I hope to see all of this.

    Andrew Sullivan on ObamaCare | The Daily Beast

    Yes, it crosses the Rubicon of universal access to private health care. But since federal law mandates that hospitals accept all emergency-room cases requiring treatment anyway, we already obey that socialist principle—but in the most inefficient way possible. Making 44 million current free-riders pay into the system is not fiscally reckless; it is fiscally prudent. It is, dare I say it, conservative.

    Insightful.