The programs listed below have compatibility problems with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, ranging from minor incompatibilities that do not affect core functions to major problems that prevent use. This list is compiled from developer statements, and where possible, we've included links to the official statements, information on expected updates, and other notes. (Some developers appear to have been caught by late Leopard changes made between the last seed release developers received and the official release available now. Developers did not have access to the official release version until October 26, the day that it became available to consumers, which delayed compatibility testing.)

For notes from MacInTouch readers on their experiences with various programs running on Leopard, including problems and possible workarounds, see our Leopard Reader Reports.

Yikes. Maybe I'll wait till after new years.

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Software Incompatibilities

Mark is a good student. Intelligent and diligent, he won a place to read modern languages at one of Britain's top 10 universities. But in the run-up to his finals this summer, with a towering pile of revision still to go, the 23-year-old decided he wasn't going to be good enough. So he went on the internet, found an online pharmacy based in Turkey, and bought a pack of modafinil. It's a prescription drug given to narcoleptics, but it has also been shown to boost alertness and mental agility in healthy users. After a week of taking a tablet a day, sleeping only four hours a night, then, thanks to the drug, waking up refreshed, Mark took his exams. He got a first. Would he have done so well without pharmaceutical help? "Unlikely," he says.

Doping on brain-boosting drugs | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Information Dynamics Laboratory, Hewlett–Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Edited by Harry L. Swinney, University of Texas, Austin, TX, and approved September 14, 2007 (received for review May 25, 2007)

The subject of collective attention is central to an information age where millions of people are inundated with daily messages. It is thus of interest to understand how attention to novel items propagates and eventually fades among large populations. We have analyzed the dynamics of collective attention among 1 million users of an interactive web site, digg.com, devoted to thousands of novel news stories. The observations can be described by a dynamical model characterized by a single novelty factor. Our measurements indicate that novelty within groups decays with a stretched-exponential law, suggesting the existence of a natural time scale over which attention fades.

Novelty and collective attention -- Wu and Huberman 104 (45): 17599 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A reader writes, "Guy working for UK Revenue burns all 25m personal records held by the department onto two CDs. Sends them to the National Audit Office, unregistered. They don't arrive. So he sends off another couple of CDs. They don't arrive either. Then the head of the department resigns just as it's about to be made public. It's the names, addresses, dates of birth and the employment and bank details of 25 million people. Who needs Russian hackers when you've got the UK government?"

Alistair Darling told the House of Commons this afternoon that two CDs bearing highly sensitive information including bank account numbers and National Insurance numbers failed to arrive after they were sent in the ordinary internal mail between government departments, in a catastrophic breach of security guidelines.

The Chancellor admitted that HMRC had made the same mistake on several occasions in the past six months...

Mr Darling's admission that "I regard this as an extremely serious failure," was met with derisive laughter from MPs. He advised every parent who claims Child Benefit to look very closely at their bank statements in the coming weeks for signs of fraud or identity theft.

UK tax-man repeatedly hemorrhages personal financial info of 25 MILLION Brits - Boing Boing

A crew of U.S. Border Patrol agents, sweating under a hot Texas sun, squared off against an array of formidable-looking frontier fences.

They swung axes at posts, used blowtorches to melt steel, tore through sheet metal with crow bars and scaled walls with ladders.

They should screw the fences. They need to make game parks... Where mexican citizen candidates test their skill and ambition through a series of deadly challenges. Like the atari game, Pitfall, only they get citizenship at the end if they win. Oh, and it should be televised.

A fence without offense - Los Angeles Times

Scientists at The University of Arizona have added another piece of the puzzle of how the brain processes memory.

Bruce McNaughton, a professor of psychology and physiology, and his colleague David Euston have shown that, during sleep, the reactivated memories of real-time experiences are processed within the brain at a higher rate of speed. That rate can be as much as six or seven times faster, and what McNaughton calls “thought speed.”

Their results are published in the Nov. 16 issue of the journal Science.

Memory stores patterns of activity in modular form in the brain’s cortex. Different modules in the cortex process different kinds of information – sounds, sights, tastes, smells, etc. The cortex sends these networks of activity to a region called the hippocampus. The hippocampus then creates and assigns a tag, a kind of temporary bar code, that is unique to every memory and sends that signal back to the cortex.

Each module in the cortex uses the tag to retrieve its own part of the activity. A memory of having lunch, for example, would involve a number of modules, each of which might record where the diner sat, what was served, the noise level in the restaurant or the financial transaction to pay for the meal.

But while an actual dining experience might have taken up an hour of actual time, replaying the memory of it would only take 8 to 10 minutes. The reason, McNaughton said, is that the speed of the consolidation process isn’t constrained by the real world physical laws that regulate activity in time and space.

The brain uses this biological trick because there is no way for all of its neurons to connect with and interact with every other neuron. It is still an expensive task for the hippocampus to make all of those connections. The retrieval tags the hippocampus generates are only temporary until the cortex can carry a given memory on its own.

So people who have poor memory are poor dreamers. There should be classes in dreaming. I'd like to get a degree in dreaming.

'Speed of Thought' Guides Brain Memory Consolidation | UANews

Ok we get it Dr. Trung, you're trying to show off Canada's supposed "first android." But did you really have to go for the jiggly bits to prove your point. If she hadn't taken a swat at your jaw, we might have. Can we get somebody to send one of those robot ethics charters up to Canada, pronto? Thanks. Video assault after the break.

Watch the video... She's paraplegic.. and sort of a prude.

Aiko: world's first sexually harassed, disabled Fembot - Engadget

Counter-terrorism officials are rethinking their approach to tackling the radicalisation of Muslim youth, abandoning what they admit has been offensive and inappropriate language. They say the term "war on terror" will no longer be heard from ministers. Instead, they will use less emotive language, emphasising the criminal nature of the plots and conspiracies. The government in future, they add, will talk of a "struggle" against extremist ideology, rather than a "battle".

Time to update the topics again? Damn people for being so fickle about the flavor of their propaganda.

Counter-terrorism officials rethink stance on Muslims | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics

Rattle wrote:

Brick Township does not "feel" safe. I can't think of another place in the US that has such a high ratio of police to people, and I work in downtown Washington, where we bathe in a sea of constant high security.. Brick is scary, because there doesn't appear to be any reason why it's necessary for it to be a police state like environment. It feels like it's unsafe as hell, because there are always cops, everywhere. There is a constant feeling that something should be going really wrong, if for no other reason than to justify why there are so many damn cops.

Exactly. In most places you have to worry about being mugged for the twenty dollar bill in your pocket. In Brick you need to worry about a hundred dollar ticket plus surcharges and insurance points. Safe is relative.

RE: Experts say 'most dangerous city' rankings twist numbers - CNN.com

DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Missouri (AP) -- Megan Meier thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.

Teen's parents say she thought she had made a friend through the social networking web site MySpace.

Megan, a 13-year-old who suffered from depression and attention deficit disorder, corresponded with Josh for more than a month before he abruptly ended their friendship, telling her he had heard she was cruel.

The next day Megan committed suicide. Her family learned later that Josh never actually existed; he was created by members of a neighborhood family that included a former friend of Megan's.

Thank you darwin.

Parents say fake online 'friend' led to girl's suicide - CNN.com