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This is one incredible list of films/movies. If Peter Weyland wanted David to learn about cinema while the crew of Prometheus was still in hyper sleep, he’d probably have him go down the IMDB Top 250. This list does change infrequently, and I began the project over a month prior to November 1, 2012, so attention to my haters…Yes…I KNOW some of these movies are not on the top 250. 53 Titles to be exact (as of 11/1/12). However, none of my haters can tell me that any of these 303 titles do not exist on IMDB. ...

La sonda espacial Voyager ha cautivado al mundo con su proeza en los confines del Sistema Solar, pero su lanzamiento en 1977 sólo fue posible gracias a las ideas matemáticas y la persistencia de un estudiante de doctorado que descubrió cómo catapultar sondas al espacio. » Christopher Riley y Dallas Campbell | bbc.co.uk

¿Porqué es que fotógrafos cargados con los artefactos más extraordinarios, que inclusive usan Internet para conseguir las coordenadas exactas de G.P.S donde Jack o Ansel sacaban sus fotos, llegando hasta esas ubicaciones geográficas con la imagen en la mano para poder sacar una copia igual (ilegal por el Derecho Registral de los EE.UU. y por el sentido común), consiguen algo que puede parecer similar, pero que carece de todo el impacto y la emoción del original que creyeron copiar? ...

En este artículo vamos a ver cómo calcular la transformada de Fourier discreta (o DFT) de una señal en Python utilizando la transformada rápida de Fourier (o FFT) implementada en SciPy. El análisis de Fourier es la herramienta fundamental en procesamiento de señales y resulta útil en otras áreas como en la resolución de ecuaciones diferenciales o en el tratamiento de imágenes. » Juanlu001 | pybonacci.wordpress.com

Testers are often thought of as people who find bugs, but have you ever considered how testers actually approach testing? Do you ever wonder what testers actually do, and how they can add value to a typical technology project? I’d like to take you through the thought process of testers and discuss the types of things they consider when testing a mobile app. The intention here is to highlight their thought processes and to show the coverage and depth that testers often go to. ...

This specification defines a JavaScript interface that provides the current time in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments. » Jatinder Mann | w3.org

Django, framework de desarrollo web basado en Python ha actualizado las ramas 1.3 y 1.4 para dar solución a una vulnerabilidad que podría, mediante técnicas de envenenamiento de cabeceras (”Header poisoning”), redireccionar a un usuario a un sitio malicioso o incluso el robo de credenciales. Para realizar algunas operaciones, Django extrae el nombre del dominio de la cabecera ”Host” enviada. La vulnerabilidad (CVE-2012-4520) reside en el parser del método django.http.HttpRequest.get_host(), que extrae esta cabecera ”Host” incorrectamente. ...

When I started my on-call shifts, we had pretty little in the way of automation for day-to-day issues. Tasks like SSH’ing into our cluster, starting a Rails console, or doing a deep search through our gigantic mail directories, were either shelved away in someone’s bashrc, history log, or just ingrained into someone’s memory. This pain was also felt by a few other of my fellow programmers, and we started cobbling together a Git repo simply named ”37s shell scripts”. ...

Academic researchers have improved wireless bandwidth by an order of magnitude”not by adding base stations, tapping more spectrum, or cranking up transmitter wattage, but by using algebra to eliminate the network-clogging task of resending dropped packets of data. By providing new ways for mobile devices to solve for missing data, the technology not only eliminates this wasteful process but also can seamlessly weave data streams from Wi-Fi and LTE”a leap forward from other approaches that toggle back and forth. ”Any IP network will benefit from this technology,” says Sheau Ng, vice president for research and development at NBC Universal. ...

Linux kernel developer Theodore ”Ted” Ts’o has released a series of patches for what he has called ”a Lance Armstrong bug” in the kernel, meaning behaviour that does not trip up tests but nevertheless makes the kernel work differently than intended. A user had reported a problem that caused data loss; the kernel developers quickly narrowed this down to a fault in the ext4 implementation that was introduced with the release of Linux 3.6.2 just over a week ago. Apparently, the data corruption bug was hard to track down as it only manifests itself if a system is rebooted twice in a relatively short period of time. ...