Dueling Banjos

I really like movies. One of the movies that I like is of course Deleveriance. Some things are really bad about it. Others are not so much. So earlier today when I was out goofing off in the music store, some one decided that they were going to play on All of sudden dueling banjos started playing. I was rather impressed with the quality of the playing. Well I hope you have a most happy day.

She sort of blinded me with science

This is really good news:

 "John Ioannidis, the epidemiologist who published an infamous paper entitled 'Why most published research findings are false', has co-founded an institute dedicated to combating sloppy medical studies. The new institute is to focus on irreproducibility, waste in science and publication bias. The institute, called the Meta-Research Innovation Centre or METRICS, will, the Economist reports, 'create a "journal watch" to monitor scientific publishers' work and to shame laggards into better behaviour. And they will spread the message to policymakers, governments and other interested parties, in an effort to stop them making decisions on the basis of flaky studies. All this in the name of the centre's nerdishly valiant mission statement: "Identifying and minimising persistent threats to medical-research quality."'"

Lists

One of the things that you really need as time has been going on is the people who give us stuff like real estate agent checklist. I mean the more things I do the more I find that I like check list. At one time I made a great checklist for buying a used car. However, that list has joined the great files in the sky. I wish I could find.

 I hope you have a great day

Well this is fine.

"The implants being deployed were once reserved for a few hundred hard-to-reach targets, whose communications could not be monitored through traditional wiretaps. But the documents analyzed by The Intercept show how the NSA has aggressively accelerated its hacking initiatives in the past decade by computerizing some processes previously handled by humans. The automated system – codenamed TURBINE – is designed to 'allow the current implant network to scale to large size (millions of implants) by creating a system that does automated control implants by groups instead of individually.' In a top-secret presentation, dated August 2009, the NSA describes a pre-programmed part of the covert infrastructure called the 'Expert System,' which is designed to operate 'like the brain.' The system manages the applications and functions of the implants and 'decides' what tools they need to best extract data from infected machines."