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It’s been four-and-a-half years since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accident. Today, a report in The New York Times notes that, in that time, nobody has died from radiation directly. Nobody’s even been “sickened.” While that seems miraculous, there were, however, 1,600 stress-related deaths in the aftermath of the meltdown https://www.inverse.com/article/6336-panic-caused-more-death-than-radiation-at-fukushima Posted from WordPress for Android →

Feeling sleepy? It’s no secret that a good night’s sleep is key to a good day. Yet, according to the Institute of Medicine, an estimated 50-70 million adults in the United States have sleep difficulties. These side effects include loss of memory, heightened anger, food cravings, hallucinations and loss of memory. Wait, did I already →

A growing pool of research indicates that those of us who dabble in the art of sarcasm are actually much better off than those who can’t take a joke. As it turns out, using sarcasm in daily conversation may mean that you are smarter, found to be more attractive in general and are even more →

Someone might attack your Linux based system. You can drop attacker IP using IPtables. However, you can use the route or ip command to null route unwanted traffic. A null route (also called as blackhole route) is a network route or kernel routing table entry that goes nowhere. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-drop-or-block-attackers-ip-with-null-routes.html Posted from WordPress for Android →

According to the philosopher Harry Frankfurt, emeritus professor at Princeton University, bullshit is something that is constructed absent of any concern for the truth. This is quite different from lying, which implies a deep concern for the truth (namely, its subversion). Bullshit is particularly pernicious since the bullshitter adopts an epistemic stance that allows for →

I recommend that we start using new term I heard at Disobey.fi event: Internet of Exploits (IoE) is to be used to describe the current and future situation of network being filled exploitable Internet of Things (IoT) and other poorly secured networked devices. We were sold the idea of Internet of Everything (IoE) and what →

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/05/why-everyone-thinks-theyre-doing-all-the-work.html Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/being-a-go-getter-is-no-fun/393863/?utm_source=SFFB Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/gut-bacteria-on-the-brain/395918/?utm_source=SFFB Posted from WordPress for Android →

Many laptops are pretty well known for having terrible audio interfaces. There are usually noise and grounding issues. This article tries to describe the reasons for those problems. Grounded power supply issues A recent post Yet Another Dell Laptop Audio Grounding Problem blog posting documents a well known and horrendous audio problem found on many →