Who Will Lead the Unsuspecting Lemmings Over the Cliff?

Are we lemmings going off a cliff? The case against the "interventional" pain medicine label.

We appreciate and agree with what seems to be the crux of Dr Richeimer’s editorial: “. . . we want pain medicine to be viewed as a legitimate medical specialty, with a broad knowledge base & a wide arsenal of treatments . . .”. However, we strongly disagree with his statement: “Hopefully, it is clear that the trend toward the use of the label ‘interventional pain medicine’ is very problematic f...

Using Client-Side JavaScript to Mitigate Drive-by-Downloads

The prevalence of web-based malware distribution has exploded in recent years, with malicious enterprises continuously devising new ways of exploiting vulnerabilities. Security professionals have found themselves in an arms race in an attempt to contain the spread of malware. Drive-bydownloads, as coined by Google in 2007, is a particularly insidious form of malware distribution that uses brows...

Of lemmings and snowshoe hares: the ecology of northern Canada.

Two population oscillations dominate terrestrial community dynamics in northern Canada. In the boreal forest, the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) fluctuates in cycles with an 8-10 year periodicity and in tundra regions lemmings typically fluctuate in cycles with a 3-4 year periodicity. I review 60 years of research that has uncovered many of the causes of these population cycles, outline areas...

The Lemmings Puzzle: Computational Complexity of an Approach and Identification of Difficult Instances

Artificial Intelligence can be thought of as the study of machines that are capable of solving problems that require human level intelligence. It has frequently been concerned with game playing. In this thesis we shall focus on the areas of search and complexity, with respect to single-player games. These types of games are called puzzles. Puzzles have received research attention for some decad...

The Lemmings Theory of Case