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It is "Nurture over Nature" approach. From wiki about Laszlo Polgar, father of Polgar sisters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r :

>He is interested in the proper method of rearing children, believing that "geniuses are made, not born".

>He home-schooled their three daughters, primarily in chess, and all three went on to become strong players. An early result was Susan's winning the Budapest Chess Championship for girls under 11 at the age of four. Also his daughter, Judit, could defeat him at chess when she was just five.

Judit became the best female chess player ever and was the youngest GM back then when she was 15.

For me the biggest problem wouldn't be noise and distraction, but the lack of privacy.

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There is an article in NYT on this subject: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/beyond-passwords-ne... , although it is mostly about hardware authentication.

BuzzFeed is notorious for STEALING content from other websites. Using pictures without permission isn't the only bad thing they are doing. They even copy/paste chunks of text verbatim into lists without attribution (For example "13 Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Movie 'Clueless" is comprised almost solely of sentences copied from the IMDB trivia page for Clueless, with no sign that they are anything but his own words.). Also their lists are rehashed from other blogs.

http://gawker.com/5922038/remix-everything-buzzfeed-and-the-...

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2013/03/buzzfeeds-ha...

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/06/...

There was similar thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204867

>This is because under the Verisign GRS, name servers for second level domains also get entries created. So, you can create a Whois entry for an arbitrarily named server, like ycombinator.com.paulgraham.have.mychildren.com, and it will show up. I haven't been involved in Whois and tld stuff in a while, but back in the day, these host Whois records were allowed because the gtld servers needed glue for domain names - after all, if your domain name is ycombinator.com and your name server is ns1.ycombinator.com, how can a resolver recurse to find that, unless te gtld servers also have an A record for that label/object? So, you could just go create arbitrary A records at the gtld level, which would cause a corresponding Whois entry to be created. Hilarity for all involved.

Why didnt OP link to original article?

This whole analysis is bad and sensationalistic. His observation is based on 1 search term. In order to make right conclusion someone should analyze at least tens of thousands (or even hundred of thousands) search terms. He also analyzed 1st page results only. He didnt even try to see what sets apart 1st page results from 2nd/3rd/4th. He points to single factor, totally disregarding other factors and their relative importance as part of whole algorithm.

They dont even rank: http://i.imgur.com/mO1DTYq.jpg

More about project: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/05/nsa...

My guess: -SSL protects only as far as the cloud; they sits after decryption and can get the clear text data

-They can hack into people's computers (using zero day) and read the data before it's ever encrypted

-SSL/TLS do not offer forward security, so the encrypted data can be stored and then cracked if/when the keys become available later

-Man-in the middle attacks that substitute fake keys to both sides and capture the data anyway. It hepls if they captured one or more certificate authorities.

-Brute-force attacks against poorly-configured keys (too short) for SSL and VPNs.

There are easter eggs, type "haveabreak" or "up up down down left right left right b a".

They have been doing that with music for a while. I bought a cd from Amazon long time ago and last year got an email from them telling me it was available to download for free.

How will that prove that they bought it from Amazon? This promo will be probably tied with Amazon account and purchase history.