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Christopher Nerney
Member since: September 2010
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Follow Chris on Google+Chris Nerney writes about research news and the latest discoveries in the areas of science, technology, space and psychology.
Areas of Interest: technology, Science, psychology, space
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A new poll shows that most Americans think the abuse of prescribed painkillers is a bigger health concern in the U.S. than chronic pain.
5 weeks 6 days ago
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Christopher Nerney answers Re: What could cause a pop-up warning that says "files being copied...."? If you're pretty sure it's not a virus, try running Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to see if anything comes up. There's a free version you can use. I just ran it on my laptop and it flagged one infected object.
6 weeks 20 hours ago
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Christopher Nerney wrote Dinosaur scientists somehow disappointed by Hollywood's disregard for dinosaur scientific facts The fourth installment of the Jurassic Park film series comes out in June, but don't expect to see any feathery creatures.
6 weeks 1 day ago
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Want to know the difference between USB 2.0 and 3.0? How about the difference between "affected" and "effected"? Diffen can help with both and more.
6 weeks 4 days ago
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This is the topic of a detailed "SQL Prevention Cheat Sheet" by The Open Web Application Security Project, or OWASP. Here's a key excerpt:
6 weeks 4 days ago
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I found this really interesting site called Diffen that allows you to compare two things. And not just technological things (though I'll get to that): The top 5 listed on the site include "Democrat vs. Republican" and "Empathy vs. Sympathy."
6 weeks 4 days ago
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A systems image backup is "an exact copy of a drive," Microsoft explains here:
6 weeks 4 days ago
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Enough people have had your problem that Microsoft has some pages devoted to it in its Community Answers support site. Some people on this thread say the problem is with the NVIDIA graphics card.
6 weeks 4 days ago
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Diversity training in the workplace is a great idea, but sometimes it can lead to damaging misperceptions.
6 weeks 5 days ago
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Here's a video that explains it, but basically you: 1, Click on the desktop search box. 2. Click Settings. 3. Type in Device Manager 4. In the Device Manager window, click on Mouse and Other Pointing Devices
6 weeks 6 days ago
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Given Apple's notorious level of control and seeming unwillingness to ship anything before it's ready, it probably would be hard to do more than one release annually, unless the company (and, more importantly, its customer base) was willing to settle for minor tweaks between releases.
6 weeks 6 days ago
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You think it's hard to be monkey? Try being a middle manager.
6 weeks 6 days ago
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I think rtremblay pretty much nails it. I also wonder if this idea comes about two years too late for Facebook. It sure seems as if "Facebook Fatigue" is spreading as people begin to tire of countless and pointless updates and conversations with friends.
7 weeks 6 hours ago
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Want to know how the sewer lines run in Philadelphia? Well, in case you change your mind, there's a database for that.
7 weeks 1 day ago
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I'm assuming you've visited these locations. If not, that's the first thing you have to do. I recently talked with several data center managers for a white paper. As far as the physical facility, they all said it's critical to make sure the DC can't be flooded, whether it's a cardboard box in a rainstorm or a large room in a basement.
7 weeks 1 day ago
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This link to a page on "great games and websites for can-do girls" at Common Sense Media might be helpful. It lists and describes a bunch of games, broken down by age groups.
7 weeks 4 days ago
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According to many commenters at Ask SQL Server Central, if you don't have a back-up, you're going to be out of luck.
7 weeks 4 days ago
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Things might be a little crazier during March Madness, but excessive sports fandom can be found all year.
7 weeks 5 days ago
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Christopher Nerney answers Re: How can a DDoS attack on a single company slow down the entire internet? It's because the attackers worked their way upstream from the original target, as this ITworld article explains:
7 weeks 5 days ago
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I'd say no. At least not the cheap Chromebooks. Now, if you're really into screen quality and don't mind overpaying by $600 or so, the Chromebook Pixel is beautiful. But it costs $1,300.
7 weeks 5 days ago
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How long before you can buy invisibility cloaks at Old Navy?
7 weeks 6 days ago
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Microsoft has a page in its Exchange support section on mailbox moves in Exchange 2013.
8 weeks 9 hours ago
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It's brief break over, NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover gets back to its scientific exploration of the Red Planet.
8 weeks 21 hours ago
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Thunderbolt got off to a slow start after its debut in 2011, and adoption has been slow.
8 weeks 23 hours ago
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I don't know that you can see the changes in real-time or on the fly when using a program (and if anyone does know, give us a shout-out), but there are a number of tools that allow you to take before and after "snapshots" of your registry so you can determine if a particular app install made any changes.
8 weeks 23 hours ago
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Using an exclamation point to reference events is frequently more cumbersome to use than fc, but has some useful features.
21 weeks 6 days ago
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Data scientists are suddenly sexy because of the pervasiveness of big data, not the newness of the position.
22 weeks 5 days ago
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I was speaking to a group of recent college graduates who all had the good fortune of being hired into the same company's IT consulting practice and were in the process of going through an intensive introductory training program. I would like to tell you what I told them.
23 weeks 4 hours ago
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As we find ourselves hurtling toward 2013, it's a good time to think about all the things that we Unix admins would never do ... and how that keeps us out of trouble.
23 weeks 1 day ago
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ITworld is giving away 5 copies of 'Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams' to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!
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ITworld is giving away 5 copies of 'Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition' to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!
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[chunklet] U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill, July 29, 2010. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang
26 weeks 8 hours ago
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Never mind that other election that took place earlier this month.
26 weeks 4 days ago
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[chunklet] "iOS!" "No, Android!" REUTERS/Mike Segar [/chunklet]
27 weeks 6 days ago
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I enjoy helping people customize, improve, and fix up the little quirks and options of their Android phones and tablets. Heck, I wrote a book about Android that’s full of that. But sometimes there is something so wrong with an Android that it just barely works, or not at all.
28 weeks 4 hours ago
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[chunklet] If the computer can't see you, you're just as invisible as this guy.
28 weeks 1 day ago
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ITworld is giving away 5 copies of 'A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, 3rd Edition' to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!
28 weeks 4 days ago
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This is a bad time for me to write about the iOS app store review process. We've been in a constant battle with them for the past 2 months while launching an iPad application that supplements a web application for the medical industry. The source of our frustration begins and ends with our inability to reach an actual person to have a discussion with.
30 weeks 7 hours ago
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UPDATE: The contest has ended. Thank you to everyone who filled out our survey. We appreciate your feedback.
30 weeks 4 days ago
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30 weeks 4 days ago
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During San Francisco's Fleet Week, the IDG News Service got a behind-the-scenes look at what makes the Navy's first hybrid assault vessel run.
30 weeks 4 days ago
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abennett shared From Julia Child to mobile devices: How one group cooks up accessible media technology on LinkedIN The National Center for Accessible Media helps develop tools, standards and policies so people with disabilities can access new technology and content
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abennett shared Science Wednesday: Explaining the Nobel Prize for Physics in under 3 minutes on StumbleUpon In case you were confused about what the Nobel Prize winners for physics had actually done to deserve their award, the brilliant MinutePhysics YouTube channel has provided a 2-minute, 35-second animation discussing the ideas for which they won.
31 weeks 6 days ago
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[chunklet] Leah Busque of TaskRabbit and Brit Morin of Brit & Co., two women who've had startup success REUTERS/Stephen Lam
32 weeks 6 hours ago
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You know what? They're not calling us "hobbyists" anymore. It struck me this morning when I was reading up about this cool little open source operating system called Contiki, a very lightweight embedded OS designed to work well with the Internet of Things.
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[chunklet] Guess who gets to take care of this mess? ITworld/Phil Johnson [/chunklet]
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