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I regularly receive e-mail from people who want advice on how to learn more about computer security, either as a course of study in college or as an IT person considering it as a career choice. First, know that there are many subspecialties in computer security. You can be an expert in keeping systems from being hacked, or in creating unhackable software. You can be an expert in finding security problems in software, or in networks. You can be an expert in viruses, or policies, or cryptography. There are many, many opportunities for many different skill sets. You don’t have to be a coder to be a security expert. ...

Muchos de nosotros somos auténticos gamers en Android, y como buenos jugones, nos encantan los juegos de vieja escuela. Sí, ya sabéis, los clásicos: Mario Kart, Super Mario 64, cualquier juego de la Nes/Snes, etc¦ Y digo yo, con estos auténticas bestias de Android que tenemos, ¿no deberíamos poder jugar a todos ellos? Pues efectivamente, se puede. El único problema es que por razón X, a Google no le gusta mucho que hayan emuladores en el Play Store y por ello se encuentran tan pocos. Pero tranquilos que hoy os traemos una recopilación de todos los emuladores actuales a los que se puede jugar en Android ...

Ok, perhaps I jest. As a Python instructor, understanding decorators is a topic I find students consistently struggle with upon first exposure. That’s because decorators are hard to understand! Getting decorators requires understanding several functional programming concepts as well as feeling comfortable with some unique features of Python’s function definition and function calling syntax. _Using_ decorators is easy (see Section 10)! But writing them can be complicated. I can’t make decorators easy - but maybe by walking through each piece of the puzzle one step at a time I can help you feel more confident in understanding decorators[1]. Because decorators are complex this is going to be a long article - but stick with it! I promise to make each piece as simple as possible - and if you understand each piece, you’ll understand how decorators work! I’m trying to assume minimal Python knowledge but this will probably be most helpful to people who have at least a casual working exposure to Python. ...

Nick is building a universe on his computer. He’s already mapped out his first planet: an anvil-shaped world called Denthaim that is home to gnomes and gods, along with a three-gendered race known as kiman. As he tells me about his universe, Nick looks up at the ceiling, humming fragments of a melody over and over. ”I’m thinking of making magic a form of quantum physics, but I haven’t decided yet, actually,” he explains. The music of his speech is pitched high, alternately poetic and pedantic - as if the soul of an Oxford don has been awkwardly reincarnated in the body of a chubby, rosy-cheeked boy from Silicon Valley. Nick is 11 years old. ...

Autism may be associated with mathematical skills. Autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen has published studies that autism is more prevalent in the familes of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians. Unusual mathematical skills are reported in a small percentage of cases of ”classic autism.” Movies, television, and popular culture such as Rainman (1988), Mercury Rising (1998), and many other works often play up this rare association by presenting autistic characters with extreme mathematical abilities. ...

Lazy sysadmin is the best sysadmin –Anonymous System administrators job is not visible to other IT groups or end-users. Mostly they look at administrators and wonder why sysadmins don’t seem to have any work. If you see a sysadmin who is always running around, and trying to put down fire, and constantly dealing with production issues, you might think he is working very hard, and really doing his job. But in reality he is not really doing his job. ...

While you may have some idea about what bitrate is, the ”can audiophiles really tell the difference” argument has raged on for quite some time, and it’s hard to get people to drop their egos and actually explain what these things mean and whether they really matter. Here’s a bit of information on bitrate and how it applies to our practical music listening experience. » Whitson Gordon | lifehacker.com

In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing. And behold, then came a new web browser known as ”Mozilla”, being short for ”Mosaic Killer,” but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, and Netscape called itself Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), and there was more rejoicing. And Netscape supported frames, and frames became popular among the people, but Mosaic did not support frames, and so came ”user agent sniffing” and to ”Mozilla” webmasters sent frames, but to other browsers they sent not frames. ...

The code behind the Google doodle celebrating Alan Turing’s 100th birthday is now up on Google code. This animated logic puzzle game appeared on the Google homepage on June 23, 2012. If you missed it, you can still play it in the doodle archives. Our doodle for Turing’s 100th birthday showed a live action Turing Machine with twelve interactive programming puzzles. Turing Machines are theoretical objects in formal logic, not physical things, so we walked a fine line between technical accuracy and accessibility. We focused on finding a good representation for programs and choosing puzzles of appropriate complexity. We did considerable user testing and iteration, more than for any past doodle. ...

Millones de impulsos llegan al cerebro desde distintos sentidos. Millones llegan incluso desde un sentido como la vista. El cerebro tiene múltiples áreas de procesamiento. En la vista por ejemplo se procesa en centros distintos el color, la forma o el movimiento. Cada impulso recorre un camino diferente al resto. Algunos son más largos y otros son más cortos. Por lo tanto, tardan distinto tiempo en llegar al cerebro. ¿Cómo sabe el cerebro que dos impulsos que sucedieron a la vez pero llegan en distinto momento son en realidad simultáneos? ...