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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Seth?s most-used iPhone and iPad apps of 2011
These are Seth’s most used apps of 2011. Others have their own most used apps, but these are Seth’s. Tweetbot I’ve come to rely on Twitter for far...
Friday, December 30, 2011
Why the NFL Needs a Concussion Referee (Time.com)
The NFL has recently taken important steps to keep its players safer: from harsher penalties for helmet-to-helmet hits to stricter return-to-play guidelines, to now, the appointment of an independent athletic trainer to sit up in the press box and spot players who might be suffering the symptoms of a concussion or other injuries on the field.
These solutions are commendable. But they still fall short. To make certain that players are fully protected, the NFL should give these new trainers a referees shirt and let them make the calls that save a player down the road. (See photos of NFL players return to training after a lockout.)
During the Dec. 8 nationally televised Thursday night game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, Cleveland quarterback Colt McCoy absorbed a stinging helmet-to-helmet hit from Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison, one of the most vocal critics of new NFL safety rules. (For the McCoy hit, Harrison, who has previously been fined for other hits, was suspended for a game.) But because McCoy did not immediately show concussion symptoms, and Browns trainers and doctors were attending to other players on the sideline and claimed they did not see the violent blow, he was not tested for a concussion, and returned to the game two plays later. By the next day, McCoy was in fact diagnosed with a concussion, and he missed last week's game; he still has not been cleared to practice, and he'll sit out Cleveland's Week 16 matchup against the Baltimore Ravens.
In response to this embarrassing incident, the NFL implemented a new policy this week that places a certified athletic trainer in the press box. The trainer, who won't be affiliated with either team playing in the game, will have access to video replay to better pick out players who might be woozy or showing other concussion symptoms. This vantage point gives this trainer a huge advantage for monitoring injuries: it's hard to see everything from the sideline. This new policy also gives the trainers direct lines of communication to both sidelines, so they can advise team medical staffs.
This independent trainer, however, needs to be more than a consultant. The new NFL policy states: this individual will not diagnose or prescribe treatment, nor have any authority to direct that a player be removed from the game. But why not make these trainers a kind of concussion referee, replete with the black-and-white striped shirt and give them power to order injured players to the sideline, to at least be tested for a concussion? Let them wave the concussion flag. Aren't head injuries as serious as holding? (See the top 10 sports moments of 2011.)
Take it a step further. Once a player is ordered to the sideline, why not also have a neurologist down on the field, unaffiliated with either team, diagnosing concussion symptoms and ordering that dinged-up players be benched. And why shouldn't they also have zebra stripes to send the message: they have the authority to make the right call. One more step: Why shouldn't there be a neurologist in the press box as well? No offense to certified athletic trainers, many of whom are quite qualified to pinpoint concussion symptoms. But neurologists are specialists, and an extra set of eyes can only help.
These measures aren't a condemnation of current team medical staffs. They are doing a better job than ever of pinpointing concussed players, diagnosing the injuries and keeping players out of games in line with NFL rules. But let's be honest ? these doctors and trainers are inherently conflicted, possibly subconsciously biased, since they work with team personnel whose livelihoods depend on playing, and winning. And you would hope that under the new NFL rule on the books, team personnel will follow the recommendation of the press-box trainer to remove players. But as the McCoy incident shows, costly slipups can happen.
Such a new layer of security further reduces safety risks, and both the NFL and its players need maximum protection. On Thursday former NFL players Jamal Lewis, Dorsey Levens, Fulton Kuykendall and Ryan Stewart filed a federal lawsuit against the NFL, claiming that before last year, the NFL tried to hide the concussion problem and mislead players about concussion risks. Brain injuries, these players say, have caused postcareer medical issues. Any allegation that the NFL intentionally sought to mislead players has no merit, the NFL responded in a statement. (Read "Head Cases: NFL to Add Concussion-Only Trainers to Games.")
When asked about the possibility of a concussion ref, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello responded in an e-mail: "We will continue to review our procedures and make any changes that would be beneficial. Our medical advisors are not recommending your proposal. Our team medical staffs are removing players from games when they are diagnosed with concussions, and they are not returning to play until they are medically cleared. " Dr. Robert Cantu, co-director of Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy and one of the world's leading concussion experts, is commending the NFL on its latest step but agrees that it's not ideal. He's disappointed, according to Aiello, that the press-box trainer will not have authority to send players to the sidelines for an assessment. "If it's simply another set of eyes, it's not as a big a step as I thought," says Cantu. The NFL has done a really good job of trying to rectify weaknesses. Is this as good as a neurologist on the sideline? No. But you can understand why the NFL would be taking incremental steps.
We hope the next one comes before another Colt McCoy.
Gregory is a staff writer at TIME. Keeping Score, his sports column for TIME.com, usually appears on Friday. Follow him on Twitter at @seanmgregory. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
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IRL: Pioneer Kuro PDP-6010FD, Tonium Pacemaker and the Samsung Galaxy Note
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment.
For those of you who think all we do in IRL is wax nostalgic about gadgets we've owned for years, you'd be... mostly right. Indeed, this week we've got Mr. Ben Drawbaugh talking up the HDTV he owns (as opposed to the one he wants), and James is here to break down the limitations of his discontinued Tonium Pacemaker. We've got one happy new gadget owner, though, and that would be Zach Honig, who recently traded his iPhone 4 for a Samsung Galaxy Note. So how's that S-Pen working out for him? Head past the break to find out.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Facebook Timeline Mobile: Still Neglecting Privacy
The global rollout of the Facebook Timeline feature is now complete, and some of its features can be accessed via mobile devices. What the mobile access features do not include, however, is privacy settings.
This is not really a surprise, coming as it does from Facebook. The company seems to have an innate distaste for privacy, above and beyond its business model. But for IT professionals who deal with security, it means that Facebook will continue to be a big source of concern.
Photos Yes, Privacy No
As reported by TechCrunch, the new mobile features for Timeline are available for Android 1.8.1, and also via HTML 5 on the Facebook mobile site. These features will no doubt be appealing to regular Facebook Timeline users, allowing them to scroll through Timeline logs and browse uploaded photos. Users can also look at third-party app activity, and in some cases, open the apps.
Mobile users cannot, however, access the activity log, which is where the privacy settings are located.
The TechCrunch report does note that "mobile Timeline looks beautiful, and the interface isn't overly cluttered with controls better suited for the web." Perhaps a case could be made that "controls better suited for the web" include the activity log and privacy settings. Mobile devices are very different from desktop and even laptop computers, with less room for any control features.
But given that Facebook just recently agreed to independent privacy audits for the next 20 years, the lack of mobile access to Timeline privacy features is telling. Clearly, Facebook did not have privacy in mind when designing the Timeline mobile features and was not about to delay the release to incorporate privacy support.
A Security Hole
As we recently noted here at Infoboom, Facebook Timeline is inherently problematic when it comes to data security. It makes a user's past more easily searchable. And even the most innocuous facts about our past lives can open security holes. (For example, answers to security questions of the sort used to get around forgotten passwords.)
Mobile access to Timeline only accentuates the headache for IT professionals at small and midsize businesses (SMBs). At the heart of the problem posed by the consumerization of IT is the difficulty of securing employees' personal mobile devices.
Employees are far more possessive of their smartphones than they are of their company-issue desktop computers. They resist security measures for their smartphones that they would not blink at for a desktop.
And Facebook still seems bent on pushing your company's employees, along with other users, into living in a data fishbowl.
Source: http://www.theinfoboom.com/articles/facebook-timeline-mobile-still-neglecting-privacy/
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"A Very Merry NBA Christmas!" Episode #8 - Dec 26,2011
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
China arrests executives in insider trading crackdown (Reuters)
SHANGHAI (Reuters) ? China has arrested former executives at two brokerages on charges of insider trading, the securities watchdog said, as part of a crackdown on market malpractice that the new head of the agency has said will be one of his top priorities.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) detailed on its website four cases of market manipulation and insider trading that it has investigated, including two that led to the arrests of former executives at Southwest Securities Co Ltd (600369.SS) and Northeast Securities Co Ltd (000686.SZ).
The cases are the latest in an increasingly high-profile campaign by CSRC chief Guo Shuqing to stamp out rampant wrongdoing in the country's stock market, which has languished despite the country's nearly double-digit economic growth.
In one case, Qin Xuan, a Northeast Securities manager who advised on the restructuring of a Shenzhen-listed pharmaceutical firm, used the information he obtained in that process to trade the company's stock, and also leaked the information to a friend.
In another case, Ji Minbo, former vice president at Southwest Securities, gained 20 million yuan ($3.2 million) by using information that was not publicly disclosed to trade more than 40 stocks from 2009 to 2011, the CSRC said.
"No matter how concealed illegal practices are, inside traders will eventually be punished by law," the CSRC said in the statement that detailed Qin's case.
The other two cases on which the agency published details involved securities consultants using commentators, research reports and media to talk up stocks they own before selling the securities to make a profit.
China has been stepping up its crackdown against illegal trading activities and tightening supervision against fund managers, brokerages, consultants and executives of listed companies in a bid to build confidence in a stock market where illegal trading activities have been rampant.
In August, former stock analyst Wang Jianzhong was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined 125 million yuan, on top of having illicit earnings of the same amount confiscated, becoming China's first convicted stock market manipulator.
Guo, the former China Construction Bank chairman who became CSRC chief in late October, said in a speech in early December that the regulator would adamantly crack down on accounting fraud, insider trading and other illegal activities.
Earlier this month, the agency exposed the country's biggest-ever case of stock market manipulation that involved an investment company, Guangdong Zhonghengxin, orchestrating "pump-and-dump" schemes related to 552 stocks, out of which it made 426 million yuan.
The CSRC has also recently published rules that would require listed companies to keep records on anyone who may have access to price-sensitive information.
($1 = 6.3364 Chinese yuan)
(Reporting by Samuel Shen and Jason Subler; Editing by Kazunori Takada)
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THG Presents: 20 Great Movie Trailers of '11
A movie trailer is a bona fide big deal these days.
Such a big deal that there are even teaser trailers for the actual trailers in many cases, or different versions for some of the year's most-anticipated movie offerings.
Part advertising and part cinematic art forms in and of themselves, the best trailers whet appetites for films to come and become their own viral events.
From ridiculously cheesy to explosive and action-packed, and the hilarious to the epic, we present 20 of THG's favorite movie trailers of 2011, in no particular order:
Snow White and The Huntsman: Kristen Stewart leaves Twilight behind ...
The Hobbit: From the people who brought you Lord of the Rings ...
The Dark Knight Rises: Begins. Falls. Rises.
The Hunger Games: May the odds be forever in your favor.
Men in Black 3: Here come the galaxy defenders ... many years later!
Mission: Impossible - 4: Ethan Hunt returns ... Ghost Protocol style.
Wanderlust: Jennifer Aniston + Paul Rudd = genius.
American Reunion: Tube socks are awfully troubling.
50/50: Making cancer hilarious since 2011!
Real Steel: Rock 'em sock'em robots at their best.
Human Centipede 2: So wrong, UK theaters won't even show it!
The Debt: Engrossing drama starring the great Helen Mirren.
Titanic 3D: Your heart will go on in three dimensions.
The Ides of March: Clooney. Gosling. Enough said.
Super 8: Watch, be confused now!
X-Men First Class: Second class heroes need not apply.
In Time: Justin Timberlake becomes an action star.
Puss in Boots: The cat. The myth. The legend.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part II: It all ended.
Breaking Dawn Part I: There's still Part II to come of this one!
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/12/thg-presents-20-great-movie-trailers-of-11/
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