From boingboing:
[Lenovo] abused the Windows installer’s anti-theft mechanism, which reads the firmware for executables at install-time, embedding a ton of crappy, insecure shovelware that would be added to your computer every time you reinstalled the OS.
Don’t buy Lenovo; don’t use Windows.
Interesting video showing an odd assortment of gears that work.
Wired poses this question? The article over states the case. Yes, of course, the results google returns can influence a voters decision. But that is the case with all media. The implicit observation is that the influence is changing. Online or “new media” has a greater influence than traditional media. But that is not really news as it has been obvious for a while.
Gautam successfully defended his Master Thesis, “Improving memory reclamation techniques in Hypervisors using Persistent Memory,” this week. Great job!
As a wannabe math geek, I loved this video explaining the Banach-Tarski Paradox, which illustrates the strange world of infinities. Infinity is a fascinating field that defies “common sense”. Infinity plus one is infinity. There are an infinite number of rational number and between every two rational numbers there are an infinity of real numbers. Strange, mind altering stuff.