Things that make you go "Hmmmm…"

[kladner]

Originally Posted by jasong

Copyright infringement might not actually harm the entertainment industry. And might actually help it succeed.

I would not take bets on the industry getting the message.

[chalsall]

"Shots fired at U.S.Capitol."

Google it.

[Batalov]

Another company "rides the bus" (not yet bites the dust. The latter is reserved for their customers):
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/p...mer-alert.html

What happened?

Adobe's security team recently discovered sophisticated attacks on our network, involving the illegal access of customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products. We believe these attacks may be related. We are working diligently internally, as well as with external partners and law enforcement, to address the incident. Read the FAQ.

[only_human]

Succinct, true and funny.

The 9 kinds of physics seminar

via Vincent Knight/David Richeson on G+

The 9 kinds of physics seminar
October 3, 2013 by Matthew Rave

As a public service, I hereby present my findings on physics seminars in convenient graph form. In each case, you will see the Understanding of an Audience Member (assumed to be a run-of-the-mill PhD physicist) graphed as a function of Time Elapsed during the seminar. All talks are normalized to be of length 1 hour, although this might not be the case in reality.

The “Typical” starts innocently enough: there are a few slides introducing the topic, and the speaker will talk clearly and generally about a field of physics you’re not really familiar with. Somewhere around the 15 minute mark, though, the wheels will come off the bus. Without you realizing it, the speaker will have crossed an invisible threshold and you will lose the thread entirely. Your understanding by the end of the talk will rarely ever recover past 10%.

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[LaurV]

Very good link, thanks for sharing it!
I had few professors at the Uni who could do "poetry", 3 or 4 of them come to my mind. Brilliant people! I always loved them the most from all the other professors, and everybody loved them... Unfortunately they were so rare...

[Nick]

Attending a mathematics lecture is like walking through a thunderstorm at night. Most of the time you are lost, wet and miserable but at rare intervals there is a flash of lightening and the whole countryside is lit up. Once you realise that your plight is neither an infallible sign of your incurable stupidity nor a clear indication of the lecturer's total incompetence but simply a normal occurrence, it is clear how you should act. You should continue taking notes watching all the time for a point where the lecturer changes the subject (or finishes a proof or whatever) and you can rejoin her exposition as an active partner.

From Tom Korner:
https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/Lecture.pdf

[BudgieJane]

There's not a lot one can say about this!

https://scontent-a-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/...25584675_n.jpg

[chappy]

http://www.businessinsider.com/malal...chless-2013-10

At 14 I was concerned with beating Gannon with the wooden sword and whether I should tight-roll my jeans.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by chappy

At 14 I was concerned with beating Gannon with the wooden sword and whether I should tight-roll my jeans.

Indeed! The Force is strong with this one.

I do think she's being used a bit as a propaganda instrument -- she appears being well advised as to the "hot words", for example.

However, there is no way anyone can take away from her her sincerity, her brilliance nor her bravery!!!

[kladner]

Originally Posted by BudgieJane

There's not a lot one can say about this!

https://scontent-a-cdg.xx.fbcdn.net/...25584675_n.jpg

Nice of them to get the color scheme right! Only a small bit of work required to remove the "DO".

[chalsall]

A good friend of mine sent me this. Quite touching.

American Spitfire Pilot in WWII .