When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything he wants, including the UI of the application … Read more
The space shuttle Columbia disintegrating in the atmosphere (Creative Commons)” data-lightbox-theme=”dark”> View fullsize The space shuttle Columbia disintegrating in the atmosphere (Creative Commons) We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously … Read more
In 1967, a woman was admitted to Baltimore City Hospital, complaining about shortness of breath, chest pains, nausea, and dizziness. She was 22-years-old. She hadn’t had health problems until just over a month earlier. Now she was extremely anxious, hyperventilating, … Read more
From the Tower of Babel story: “If now, while they are one people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they propose to do.” Genesis XI, v.6, _New … Read more
The idea that the average guy can become rich via hard work and rigorously virtuous thrift is one of the compelling myths of the American experience. But for the most part, myth it is. Two recent events are both driving … Read more
For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap it in two. Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie … Read more
Death rates are declining for more than half of the most common forms of cancer in the U.S., according to a sweeping annual analysis released Thursday. The new report — released by the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, … Read more
Alpha on Windows NT is dead. As far as NT goes, it’s an Intel world. Last week, Compaq announced that it was laying off more than 100 of its Alpha/NT employees in its DECwest facility located near the Microsoft campus. … Read more
56 Pages Posted: 21 Nov 2017 Last revised: 9 Oct 2019 See all articles by Mara Faccio Purdue University – Krannert School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); National University of Singapore (NUS) … Read more
In the IHME estimation of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths to date, we have used officially reported COVID-19 deaths for nearly all locations. As of today, we are switching to a new approach that relies on the estimation of total … Read more