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Native Americans gathered them and may even have served them at the first Thanksgiving. European settlers found them thriving in their cranberry bogs—places with low light, few nutrients, and bad soil. But they didn't bother domesticating them into an agricultural staple.
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The osprey, Pandion haliaetus, is a bird of character. The ancient poets knew this, and the Maryland Transportation Authority is discovering it the hard way. Last week, a pair of ospreys decided to build their nest on a platform overlooking the approach to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, where the MDTA keeps a traffic camera.
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OpenSSL is not developed by a responsible team.
Theo de Raadt
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The OpenSSL Heart Bleed issue
The recent OpenSSL "Heart Bleed" incident reminds me of a place crash. Each time one happens, people grief over how it should not have happened and what disastrous consequences it brought. Few realize that such incidents are inputs to making air transportation yet safer so that similar incidents would never happen again. It's the same with OpenSSL. A large security breach was found and was mended, so that future OpenSSL versions would be more crack-proof. Moreover, it's safe to say that non-compromised code of OpenSSL is also undergoing a strict inspection. And finally: this bug was introduced quite recently while the TLS/SSL protocol itself is a couple of decades old. Putting distrust in cryptography is hysteria, and one should avoid it. The HTTPS is NOT broken! What happened is that a recent version of OpenSSL received a piece of code where the committer forgot, that user input should never be trusted.
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A farmer may try to grow peppers from their own saved seed, but they will have to sell it on a spot market, and will not have any guarantee of price or tonnage to be purchased. Having a guaranteed customer for a predictable tonnage at an agreed-upon price is like money in the bank for a farmer. A contract in hand can be used to strengthen a farmer's position when applying for a loan. These are big benefits, and well worth the loss of mythical independence.
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Klaxon’s Surfing the Void Artwork by Mads Perch
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Haydn killed by cell phone
At a concert in Gothenburg Concert Hall on October 23, 2013, Christian Zacharias stopped playing in the middle of Haydn's Piano Concerto, after a phone went off in the audience.
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With only rats as its passengers, the Lyubov Orlova had left Canada's shores on January 23 to be towed to a scrapyard in the Dominican Republic. But a day later, the cable snapped, leaving it stranded in international waters.
Abandoned for two years and adrift in the North Atlantic, the ship has been located about 2,400 kilometers off the west coast of Ireland, according to a US intelligence agency.
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If You Want People to Think, Give Them Intent—Not Instruction
David Marquet
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