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• 15 Most Stressful Jobs in the WorldEveryone has a bad day at work now and then. But if you have one of these 15 Most Stressful Jobs in the World, even one bad day can get you or someone else killed. From EMT to Coal Miner to Ice Road...
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Reddit

• Liam Neeson > Chuck Norris submitted by lmitchell8075 to pics [link] [246 comments]
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• TIL that Alex the parrot's (A subject of a 37-year experiment) last words to his caretaker were "You be good. I love you." submitted by Superapathytime to todayilearned [link] [285 comments]
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• Hotboxingsubmitted by Armyofgod to funny [link] [81 comments]
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• Reddit, do you know this man? Let's help honor this man's dying wish. submitted by princesspool to videos [link] [221 comments]
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• Truest Mario gif ever submitted by LeeFH to gaming [link] [326 comments]
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• i'll probably catch some shit for this but i had too.. submitted by pppoe to AdviceAnimals [link] [46 comments]
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• Well done, RIAAsubmitted by drctrgenius to WTF [link] [641 comments]
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• "Ireland's Sopa" to pass without parliamentary vote.submitted by ImJulianAssange to worldnews [link] [35 comments]
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Wired

• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Documents Artist's Social Media Dissent
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• SEC Goes After Online Trading Firms That Unwittingly Helped Latvian HackerIn an effort to crack down on hacker/stock traders who hijack brokerage accounts and exploit the stock market for gain, the Securities and Exchange Commission has, in a novel move, gone after four online...
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• Apple's New iBooks Won't School College Bookstores Any Time SoonOn its face, matching iPad textbooks with college students seems almost perfect. But Apple's plans for its new iBookstore, from the way it's structured book purchases to its development strategy for...
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• Solar-Storm-Fueled Auroras Make for Awesome Backyard PhotographyThe sun is waking up. After several quiet years, it bombarded the Earth with a one-two punch of solar storms this week, which generated consecutive nights of spectacular auroras.
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• Twitter Censorship Move Sparks Backlash: Is It Justified?Internet scorn for Twitter's announcement that it would censor tweets was swift and unforgiving. But even free-speech and other experts were divided on the service's move that it might censor tweets if...
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• Simulate Daylight to Combat SAD
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• Pentagon Confused by Its Own 'Subs vs. Terrorists' PlanIt's the Pentagon dream that won't die: hitting enemy targets with missiles anywhere around the world within mere hours. (Too bad it could trigger a nuclear war.) Now that the brass swears it's got a...
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• Microsoft Kinect Could Make Its Way to LaptopsThe ability to control a Windows desktop with a simple hand gesture could become reality sooner than we once thought. The Daily got a sneak peek at two Microsoft-developed Windows 8 notebook prototypes...
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• Lark Wristband Reveals the Best Lifestyle Choices For a Good Night's SleepThe Lark isn't the first wearable device to track one's sleep patterns, but the system adds a clever coaching element that other sleep trackers don't include. It's an important addition, as competing...
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• You Aren't Tough. These Guys Are ToughIf the risk of hypothermia, burns, electrical shocks, broken bones and severely mussed hair isn't your thing, move along. There's nothing for you here at Tough Guy.
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• Documentary Meaning of Robots Unearths Droid-Porn Creator's GadgetsWhen director Matt Lenski first went to Michael Sullivan?s apartment, he probably never imagined he would be walking into a den of robot porn.
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• Game|Life Podcast: Are Used Games Doomed to Extinction?Could the Xbox 720 (or whatever Microsoft?s next game console ends up being called) take steps to kill off the market for used gaming? We discuss the possibility on this week?s Game|Life podcast.
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• Galaxy Formation on a BenchtopAstrophysicists have simulated the magnetism of newborn galaxies using carbon rods and lasers in a small laboratory setup.
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• Palms Down: Mobile Hardware Guru Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP
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• Why Popcorn Smells Like a Bearcat?s ButtSpecial glands on the rumps of binturongs, or bearcats, excrete a chemical that smells like popcorn. Laelaps blogger Brian Switek explains how the chemical concoction plays a crucial role in the animal's...
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Metafilter

• Why History Needs Software PiracyWhy History Needs Software Piracy: How copy protection and app stores could deny future generations their cultural legacy.
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• Prison ChessPhotographs of the Prison Chess series were taken in 2008 and 2009 in a maximum security facility of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton. A chess set made by a GULAG prisoner - on display in the Riga...
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• Party Rock (Anthem)Problem: There haven't been enough electronica genres clumsily co-opted by pop! Also, we need more modern interpretations of awkward '80s fashions. Solution: Party Rock Anthem. By LMFAOVEVO [NSFW], the...
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• ChatChat is Like DorMousePlay ChatChat. Description: A multiplayer game about being a cat. Instructions: Be a cat. (By Terry Cavanagh, who brought you VVVVVV).
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• "Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."Let me introduce you to Kai Davis and her poem "Truth" (NSFW); a powerful commentary, on racism and perceived intelligence, which has been quietly circulating the web since December 2011. While the poet...
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• After a long day of work, come home and simulate more work!While you may be familiar with popular video games like Skyrim, Grand Theft Auto or Call Of Duty, there is another genre of video simulation games dedicated to the more mundane, albeit vital aspects of...
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• I am the resurrectionAfter announcing their reunion, all 220,000 tickets for the first three shows of the Stone Roses 2012 world tour sold out in just 68 minutes. New dates are being posted on their facebook page as they...
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• "these little songs, and many like them, were made for the comfort of my friends, in their sorrow, doubt and suffering"An internet search, even in these days of abundant information, yields only that the pamphlets can be found in various library collections, and that they continued to be produced into the '70s. And that...
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• A Cat's Eye View Of AlienCats On Film brings us My Day, By Jonesy. What's a cat to do when all the can-openers seem to have their attention focussed on the giant hairless kitten which just burst out of one of their chests?
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• Making stuff happen with little time and energy.http://lowcommitmentprojects.com/
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• Mi-ss-i-ss-i-pp-iStateTable:  US/Canada  states, provinces,  territories and minor possessions as CSV, SQL, HTML form elements, PHP arrays, and more. All the countries in the world, as a text list, CSV and API (from...
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• No more! No more being... subtle!Take a ride through The Villages, FL, a retirement community where the Joneses are defined by... golf carts.
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• Two robots and a samplerHouse music, particularly French house, relies heavily on sampling bits of material from all kinds of audio sources (i.e disco and classic rock). Find out how it works and where the samples from dozens of...
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• Apollo 18Is Newt Gingrich's plan for a moon mine science fiction? The technolgy may be in place, but is there any reason to go?
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• Football Information Graphicson Goals Scored renders (largely English) football information into a variety of visualizations, some trivial, some striking. Test your knowledge of Premier League club crests, or identify goalscorers by...
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• No AKSomeone worked out when Ice Cube had his 'good day.'
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Newsvine

• Nuggets win 6th straight, 96-81 over TorontoRudy Fernandez scored a season-high 23 in his return from a sore Achilles as the Denver Nuggets beat the short-handed Toronto Raptors 96-81 on Friday night.
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• Screen Actors Guild votes to approve merger planThe Screen Actors Guild national board of directors has voted to approve a plan to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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• Beaubois, Odom lead Mavs past JazzRoddy Beaubois had a season-high 22 points and Lamar Odom added 19 points, his most since joining the Mavericks at the start of the season, to lead Dallas to a 116-101 victory over the Utah Jazz on Friday...
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• Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer dead at 83Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning composer who wrote scores for television and movies and worked with legendary musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, has died. He was 83.
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• James, Wade lead Heat over Knicks, 99-89LeBron James scored 31 points, Dwyane Wade scored 28 in his return from a sprained right ankle, and the Miami Heat beat the 3-point-obsessed New York Knicks 99-89 on Friday night.
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• Man rescued after vehicle ends up in Wash. creekRescuers in the south Seattle suburb of Federal Way have pulled a man from a vehicle that ran off a road, plunged down a ravine and wound up in a creek.
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• Rose has season-high 34, Bulls beat Bucks 107-100Derrick Rose scored a season-high 34 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 107-100 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night.
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• Budinger, Scola lead Rockets past WizardsChase Budinger scored a season-high 21 points and Luis Scola added 19 points to help the Houston Rockets blow out Washington 103-76 on Friday night.
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• Hornets end 9-game skid with 93-67 win over MagicCarl Landry scored 17 points and the New Orleans Hornets snapped a nine-game losing streak with a 93-67 victory over the Orlando Magic on Friday night.
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• Demps: Hornets looking to trade C KamanThe Hornets have decided to trade Chris Kaman, who won't be playing while the club looks for teams interested in making a deal for the veteran 7-foot center, general manager Dell Demps said.
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• Liston's 16 keep No. 5 Duke women perfect in ACCTricia Liston scored 16 points and Elizabeth Williams added 14 to help No. 5 Duke remain perfect in Atlantic Coast Conference play with an 81-37 victory over Clemson on Friday night.
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• Hawks stun Pistons 107-101 in OTJoe Johnson scored 28 of his 30 points after halftime, including a tying 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds left in regulation, and the Atlanta Hawks stunned the Detroit Pistons 107-101 in overtime Friday night.
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• Rubio lifts Timberwolves to 87-79 win over SpursRicky Rubio scored nine of his 18 points in the fourth quarter and dished out 10 assists to lift the Minnesota Timberwolves to an 87-79 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Friday night.
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• Williams leads Nets past Cavaliers, 99-96Deron Williams scored 27 points and the New Jersey Nets won consecutive games for the first time this season with a 99-96 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night.
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• Broncos hire Jack Del Rio as defensive coordinatorJohn Fox and Jack Del Rio are together again.
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• US women's soccer team qualifies for OlympicsIn the end, what matters is that the U.S. women's soccer team is going to the Olympics. What the players won't soon forget is how hard they had to work get there.
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NY Times

• Obama’s Theme of U.S. Resilience Finds Support in New BookWritten by an adviser to the Republican candidate Mitt Romney, the book, “The World America Made,” makes the case that the nation’s decline is a myth.
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• N.Y. Airports Account for Half of All DelaysDespite changes in procedures and airline schedules, flight delays last year in the New York area were as bad as ever, and rippled across the country.
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• Many Pardon Applicants Stressed Connection to Mississippi GovernorA look at the clemency applications of felons who were pardoned reveal that many contained personal appeals from friends of Gov. Haley Barbour and major Republican donors.
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• Political Science: For a Moon Colony, Technology Is the Easy PartCould America build a lunar base during an eight-year Newt Gingrich presidency, as Mr. Gingrich promised this week? The obstacles would lie in money and politics.
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• President, Buoyed by Rising Numbers, Seeks to Rally DemocratsPresident Obama gave House Democrats an address that inched toward a “morning in America” tone Friday.
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• No More Nice Guys: Fans Love ‘Nuclear Newt’The qualities of the bombastic, take-no-prisoners candidate are the same ones opponents cite in concluding that Newt Gingrich is too hot-headed and undisciplined to win the nomination.
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• Kevin H. White, 82, Boston Mayor During Busing Crisis, DiesMr. White served four terms as mayor, much of it during a period of economic stagnation and racial unrest over court-ordered desegregation of the city’s schools.
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• Haditha Massacre CaseThe collapse of the prosecution of a Marine for a civilian massacre in Haditha, Iraq, follows a trend by the military of an unwillingness to second-guess fighters in fog-of-war cases.
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• Wildlife Activists Follow Lone Wolf’s Trek Into CaliforniaThe young male, tracked with a GPS unit, is believed to be the first gray wolf in California in decades, raising hopes that the endangered species may once again thrive there.
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• On Religion: Cultural Conflicts, Playing Out on the Football FieldThe attention to Tim Tebow’s on-field displays of religiosity is the latest example of the way the sport reflects the culture in this country.
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• Close Ties to Goldman Enrich Romney’s Public and Private LivesGoldman Sachs, which manages Mitt Romney’s family’s fortune, is also his largest source of campaign contributions.
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• Bydureon, a Diabetes Drug from Amylin, Wins F.D.A. ApprovalThe Food and Drug Administration twice declined to approve Bydureon in 2010, with its most serious concern being that the drug might contribute to heart rhythm abnormalities.
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• Issa Voices Concerns That D.E.A. Operation Needs OversightDarrell Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is raising questions on whether operations cross the line between fighting and facilitating crime.
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Lifehacker

• Update Your Resume and Get a (Better) Job This Weekend [Weekendhacker] You've probably heard too many times to count that "in this economy, you should be happy to have any job at all." Perhaps that's true, but that doesn't...
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• PacApt Brings Arch Linux's Amazing Pacman Package Manager to Other Linux Distributions (Well, Sort Of) [Linux Downloads] It's no secret that we love Arch Linux, and one of Arch's best features is the simple, easy-to-use package manager, Pacman. Here's how to get Pacman's...
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• Remains of the Day: Twitter's Censorship Announcement Includes a Way Out [For What It's Worth] Twitter quiety offers a way past its censors, high fructose corn syrup may not just be "corn sugar," and YouTube gets a feature...
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• This Week’s Most Popular Posts: January 21-27 [Highlights] This week we learned a few simple ways to avoid the extreme negative effects of long days in your office chair, got more from the long press shortcut on...
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• Belvedere Updates, Can Now Automate Your Folders and Automatically Send Files to iTunes [Belvedere] Windows: Belvedere, our automatic file management tool for Windows, has updated with a few new features, like the ability to move folders around and add...
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• Daily App Deals: Get Mobitee Golf Assistant for iOS for Free in Today's App Deals [Deals] The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on...
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• SwitchMe Dual Boots Your Android with Multiple Profiles for Better Battery Life, Extra Privacy, and More [Android Downloads] Android (rooted): SwitchMe dual boots your Android phone in just a few taps, so you can configure different Android installations for different...
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• The Nerdist Way: A Self-Help Guide For Me (and Probably You) [Book Review] I'll start out with as strong a recommendation on The Nerdist Way, written by Chris Hardwick, as I can give: You should buy this book. Now I'm going to...
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• Tag Your Foursquare Check-Ins with #mom to Let 'Em Know You Got There Safely [Foursquare] Give simple, clever webapp #mom the phone number of that special someone who worries about you (e.g., your mom), connect it with your Foursquare account,...
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• Give Siri a Quick Command by Holding Your iPhone to Your Ear [Video] iPhone: Perhaps you've seen the the jailbreak hack that allows you to use Siri hands-free but haven't wanted to jailbreak your device. Lucky for you,...
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• How to Know When You're Wrong (and What You Can Do About It) [Mind Hacks] We've all met a person who is always right, and we know how annoying they can be because they're often wrong. There's little that's more annoying than...
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• Ask and Answer Questions About Paid Versus Open Source Software [Help Yourself] Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds...
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Boing Boing

• Twitter, partnering with Chillingeffects.org, publishes a year's worth of DMCA takedown notices (all 4,410 of them)From an article by Jake Brodkin at Ars Technica: "Twitter has taken the unusual step of making DMCA takedown notices public, in partnership with Chilling Effects, a project of the Electronic Frontier...
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• Nada Surf - "Waiting For Something" (MP3 download)Sound it Out # 15: Nada Surf "Waiting for Something" Nada Surf has been playing intelligent and catchy guitar-based rock music for two decades. Their records are lush and beautifully written, and the...
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• EFF: "What Does Twitter’s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression?"An explainer from Eva Galperin at the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Twitter's "country-based tweet takedown" news. The key point here, which has been missing in much of the initial coverage, is that...
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• Best practices for fair use in librariesPat Aufderheide sez, When is it OK for me to put copyrighted material on e-reserves for students? I've got an ancient VHS and the company that made it is defunct. Can I copy it to DVD for a prof's class?...
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• Video for "Brothers," by The War on Drugs[Video Link] Amy Seidenwurm says: "'Brothers' by The War on Drugs was possibly my favorite song of 2011. They just released a supremely creepy video for it."
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• Trailer for Ethos: the truth about the U.S. Government and its corrupt system[Video Link] Sounds like this documentary explores the same kind of mass psychological manipulation that Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays invented to convince Americans that it was a good idea to get...
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• Klaus Schulze, live Moog madness from 1977Klaus Schulze pilots his Moog spaceship through the composition "For Barry Graves" live in 1977. The track can be found on "La Vie Electronique Vol. 5." The Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series, which...
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• Here's the utterly inconsequential recording that resulted in NZ PM John Key ordering raids on the free pressJuha Saarinen sez, 2Johns2Cups by goldenturkey New Zealand media were raided by police last November just before the general election, after the incumbent centre-right Prime Minister John Key made a...
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• LA airport security scare caused by TSA mistaking insulin pump for gunAt Los Angeles International airport early this morning, TSA screeners mistook a woman's insulin pump for a gun. Screening and boarding at Terminal 4 were delayed as airport authorities searched for a...
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• Those racist, crazy 1990s Ron Paul newsletters? He signed off on every single one, associates say“It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product...He would proof it." Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Ron Paul’s company and former supporter of the...
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• The Great Hall of HamsA worker checks in a special room where the Parma hams are hung to dry in Langhirano near Parma. Prosciutto di Parma can only be produced in a very restricted area of 29 sq km (11.2 sq mile) around the...
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• Art Spiegelman exhibition in Angouleme, France[Video Link] Short video of Maus creator Art Spiegelman getting a hero's welcome in France, where a museum in Angouleme is exhibiting a retrospective of his work. (Via Potrzebie)
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• Anti-aging mouthpiece"This easy-to-use beauty and skincare product was developed by an ordinary housewife. Chikako Hirama was simply concerned about her own age and wanted an easy way to combat those telltale lines. Just try...
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• RePress: a WordPress plugin for proxying around national firewallsRePress is a new WordPress plugin that turns any WordPress site into a proxy that can be used to circumvent national firewalls, including the systems used in The Netherlands, Italy, Finland and other...
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• FBI to increase monitoring of Twitter and Facebook, seeks help building new surveillance appFrom the Guardian: "Earlier this month the FBI quietly published a request for information (RFI) looking for companies that might help it build a new social network monitoring system looking at "publicly...
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• Hubble Space Telescope power interface console on eBayIf you're working on a DIY version of the Hubble Space Telescope, this may come in handy. It's apparently the Vehicle Power Interface Console used at the Goddard Flight Center during pre-launch testing of...
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Slashdot

• Sea Water Could Cause Uranium Pollution From Nuclear Fuel Rods New submitter Required Snark writes "UC Davis researchers have found a mechanism where the sodium in sea water can cause uranium nano-particles to be released from nuclear reactor fuel rods. Normally the...
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• How Allan Scherr Hacked Around the First Computer Password New submitter MikeatWired writes "If you're like most people, you're annoyed by passwords. So who's to blame? Who invented the computer password? They probably arrived at MIT in the mid-1960s, when...
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• January 28 is Data Privacy Day An anonymous reader writes "A bit early, but just a reminder that January 28 is international Data Privacy Day in the U.S., Canada, and many European countries. Various events are being held around the...
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• Mars-Bound Probe Serves As Radiation Guinea Pig sighted writes "This week's huge solar storm will benefit future astronauts, thanks to the rover Curiosity, now on its way to Mars. The rover is equipped with an instrument that measures the radiation...
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• USPTO Declares Invalid Third of Three Critical Rambus Patents slew writes "This is a followup to this earlier story about 2 of 3 of Rambus's 'critical' patents being invalidated. Apparently now it's a hat-trick." There's something that seems unsavory and wasteful...
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• White House Chief Technology Officer Steps Down New submitter Krazy Kanuck writes "The White House is running a story on their OSTP blog that Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra is stepping down after being appointed to the post by President Obama...
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• DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer Sparrowvsrevolution writes "At the Shmoocon security conference, researcher Brendan O'Connor plans to present the F-BOMB, or Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors. Built from just...
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• North Star May Be Wasting Away sciencehabit writes "The North Star, a celestial beacon to navigators for centuries, may be slowly shrinking, according to a new analysis of more than 160 years of observations. The data suggest that the...
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• Flaw In YouTube Takedown Process Exposed New submitter BraveThumb writes "One independent rap group found it impossible to post their song on YouTube. When they tried to put up their video, they were informed that the copyright belonged to...
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• When Viruses Infect Worms An anonymous reader writes "Bitdefender reports that there exist viruses which, when they encounter other viruses, will merge and combine effects so that they create a new virus. 'A virus infects...
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• The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is At Stake & What You Can Do An anonymous reader writes "The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. and elsewhere, but it is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that has captured increasing attention...
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• Bill Gates Gives $750M To AIDS Fund redletterdave writes "Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to continue their support to save lives....
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• FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media Trailrunner7 writes "The FBI is in the early stages of developing an application that would monitor sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as various news feeds, in order to find information on...
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• Russian Rocket Fleet Grounded Again Velcroman1 writes "Failed pressure chamber tests have forced Russia to postpone two manned launches to the International Space Station — echoing a 2011 situation that left the country's space...
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• Mars Rover Opportunity Turns 8 New submitter el borak writes "Never mind all the talk about the revival of the American auto industry. What may be the greatest car the U.S. has ever built is currently a tidy 78 million miles (125m km)...
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Mixx

Now Public

• Cam Newton Pro Bowl 2012 Shoes Photo: Crazy Under Armour ShoesCam Newton Will Wear Some Crazy Under Armour Shoes at the 2012 Pro Bowl. Here is a Preview of the Cam Newton Pro Bowl Shoes If you watch the 2012 Pro Bowl on Sunday, January 29, do not adjust your set....
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• Ice to Eskimos: Nike plans to make life funIce to Eskimos. Way back when, that was the saying. If you were so good at sales that you could sell anything, you were said to be able to sell “ice to Eskimos.” Now, before I go any further, I do...
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• Sophie Monk Poses for Maxim Australia Swimsuit SpreadBringing her hotness to the Land Down Under forefront, Sophie Monk sizzles on the cover of the March2012 issue of Maxim Australia. The 32-year-old blonde beauty dons a skimpy black bikini for...
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• Is Demi Moore Dead? RIP Demi Moore Death Hoax Spreads Jan 27 2012RIP Demi Moore? Not So Fast. A Demi Moore Death Rumor Has Spread Online. It It True. Nope. It's a HoaxAw, c'mon. The Cher death hoax had barely started when all of a sudden a Demi Moore death hoax started...
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• Atheist Teen Jessica Ahlquist Makes School Remove Prayer BannerRhode Island teen Jessica Ahlquist sued her high school, Cranston High School West for a prayer banner in the school auditorium, claiming it was 'unconstitutional".A federal judge ruled in favor of...
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• Seals need a launch padThe US Navy Seals are a highly trained special force used for very difficult precision missions. It makes sense they need a launch pad that is unique for their requirements. They have had to depend upon...
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• Fran Drescher Abducted By Aliens? Nanny Star's Alien EncounterFran Drescher Claims To Have Been Visited By Aliens, According to the Huffington PostWhat's Fran Drescher been doing since The Nanny? Having close encounters with aliens, of course. The actress told the...
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• Gingrich mouths off; Romney tepidly advancesA tactic often employed by devious people is to take their own weakness and go on the offensive by attacking an opponent. Newt Gingrich has a track record of dishonesty and betrayal, so attacking Romney...
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• Ice Cube's 'Good Day': Jan 20, 1992Determined Blogger Figures Out Date for Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day" We know that, at some point in the early nineties, Ice Cube had a good day... but which day was it? Now we know. Blogger Donovan...
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• Angelica Cecora Photos: Pics of 2012 Oscar De La Hoya AccuserModel Angelica Cecora Has Accused Oscar De La Hoya of Trapping Her in a Hotel Room. Here are Some Angelica Cecora PhotosAngelica Cecora has accused retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya of allegedly trapping in...
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• The Monty Python get together for a new movieMembers of the British comedy group Monty Python will meet again for a new film, a parody of science fiction, said the former Python Terry Jones said in remarks published on Thursday. Been a long time,...
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• Alex Da Silva Rape Conviction: 10 Year SentenceSYTYCD Choreographer Alex Da Silva Sentenced for Raping, Assaulting Dance Students Alex Da Silva, a former choreographer for So You Think You Can Dance, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping...
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• Cher Fails to Prove She’s Not Dead -- Burial Set for TuesdayHollywood, California -- Former superstar Cher has fallen victim to a bogus Tweet, which announced that she had passed away last Thursday. It appears that the 65-year-old singer/actress has no way of...
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• Twitter Boycott Planned To Protest Twitter's Censorship PlanTwitterers have a message: Tomorrow, turn off the tweets. Users like us of the social media site are planning a Twitter boycott to protest the company's new ability to censor tweets on a...
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Mashable

• 15 Killer Quotes From ‘Sh*t People Say’ VideosThis meme is certainly making a strong case to be one of the biggest of 2012. Sure, the first episode of “Sh*t Girls Say” was uploaded at…
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• Photo Startup Makes It Easy to Create Albums With Friends The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…
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• Elaborate ‘It Gets Better’ Video Resembles ‘Glee’ An extensively choreographed “It Gets Better” music video — set to Lady Gaga‘s “Hair” — gained stea…
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• Meet Beckinfield, a YouTube Show With 4,000 Actors [PICS] The make-believe town of Beckinfield is the setting for the Mad Libs-style show of the same name, which uses crowd-sourced amateur actors from a…
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• Breaking Down Apple’s Billions [INFOGRAPHIC]It’s no secret Apple, one of the most valuable public companies in the world, is making major cash off today’s tech gadgets — but how mu…
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• 7 Big Privacy Concerns for New Facebook and the Open Graph It’s not always clear how Facebook apps interact with the data you share on the social network. Are they allowed to broadcast it? Sell it?…
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• Twitter Users Rally to Boycott Country-by-Country Censorship [VIDEO]Twitter‘s new approach to censoring tweets has users rallying around the hashtag #TwitterBlackout — a call to boycott the micr…
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• Sports Blogger Ousted Over False Paterno Tweet CBS has shown the door to the blogger who tweeted an erroneous report of legendary Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno’s deat…
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• Happy 2nd Birthday, iPad. What Will This Toddler Be When it Grows up? Two years ago Friday — Jan. 27, 2010 — Apple unveiled the iPad to the world. At the time, critics and analysts were quick to mock t…
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• Newly Discovered Asteroid Narrowly Misses Earth It isn’t just the sun’s radiation storm getting all up in Earth’s face this week. An asteroid the size of a school bus, disco…
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• Facebook IPO: Everything You Need to Know [VIDEO]By now you’ve probably heard the news: Facebook could be filing its papers for IPO as early as next week. A Wall Street Journal re…
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• Relax: Twitter’s New Censorship Policy Is Actually Good for Activists A lot of digital ink has been spilled about Twitter’s announcement that it can now censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. The move…
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• Angry Birds on Facebook Launching Your Way on Valentine’s DayWhat could be more romantic than playing Angry Birds on Facebook with your sweetheart or with a social network of relative strangers? The highly ant…
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• Can Regular Investors Buy a Piece of Facebook? Now that it looks like Facebook is (finally!) going to file for an IPO, plenty of potential investors want to know how they can get in on the ac…
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• Ex-Palm Chief Says Goodbye to HP, WebOS Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm and co-developer of the Apple iPod, has left Hewlett-Packard, the company confirmed to Mashable. Rubinste…
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Tech Crunch

• Ron Paul, Mitt Romney Leading On Facebook Ahead Of Florida PrimaryThe Republican presidential candidacy is still far from decided, based on the split primaries and mixed polls so far. So here's another source for trying to figure who's really pulling ahead -- the number...
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• Harvard Gets Its First VC Firm: The Experiment FundAs just about everyone should know by now, the seeds of what grew into Facebook were planted at Harvard. Might there be a bunch of mini-Zucks lurking in the dorms of Cambridge? If so, a new venture...
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• Secret Windows 8 Weapon: Kinect Built Into Your LaptopThe Windows release of Kinect is coming up in a couple days, but for most people that won't be a major event: the Kinect they have is sitting on their TV or in a drawer, waiting to be taken out for an...
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• Twitter Puts Its DMCA Takedown Requests Up For All To SeeYesterday's announcement that Twitter would be selectively censoring tweets based on country was not well-received. But part of that announcement was the assurance that the process would at least be...
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• Y Combinator Names Seasoned Entrepreneur Geoff Ralston As Its Newest PartnerY Combinator has just announced the newest partner to join the prestigious firm: Geoff Ralston. Ralston's previous credentials include founding Four11, which was acquired by Yahoo back in 1997 for $96...
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• Gillmor Gang Live 01.27.12 (TCTV)The Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls & Steve Gillmor - is recording live today at 1pm PT. Recording has concluded.
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• Flurry: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Is Already Starting To Smoke Samsung’s Galaxy TabWuh oh, Samsung — better watch your tail. While Apple might not be seeing any impact (be it positive or negative) on iPad sales from the launch of the Kindle Fire, Samsung's Galaxy Tab ought to be...
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• Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January EditionWe took a break from the Android round-up in December because, well, to be honest I was on vacation. But January gave us a few extra smartphones and the holidays are over, so we're back. What we've got...
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• Davos: BraveNewTalent Allows Job Seekers To Follow Their Future EmployersBraveNewTalent is a social recruitment platform operating in the UK and moving into the US. I caught up with CEO and founder Lucia Tarnowski at Davos. The startup is built around the idea that people...
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• Davos: Ushahidi Grows Its Global Crowd-sourcing Platform, Slams Twitter Censorship [TCTV]At Davos I managed to catch Juliana Rotich, Co-Founder of Ushahidi, the incredible crowd sourcing platform which came out of Kenya. Starting with just a handful of countries in 2009, it's main product,...
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• WSJ: Facebook Filing For IPO As Early As WednesdayThe Wall Street Journal has just reported that Facebook may file for its long-awaited IPO as soon as this Wednesday, but notes that the "timing is still being discussed", according to an anonymous source....
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The Register

• Blog blast births boffin boycott of publisher ElsevierRage over high fees and SOPA support The ongoing world protests against SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA have helped inspire a revolt among scientists over the role of academic publisher Elsevier and its business...
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• webOS daddy Jon Rubinstein exits HPEnough is enough: 'I'm gonna go for a swim, have a little lunch..." Jon Rubinstein, late of NeXT, FirePower, Apple, and Palm, has resigned from his position at HP, where he endured the mismanagement and...
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• Students busted for hacking computers, changing grades'Very bright kids' too bright for their own good Three high school juniors have been arrested after they devised a sophisticated hacking scheme to up their grades and make money selling quiz answers to...
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• First US CTO Aneesh Chopra resigns from postLogs out for possible political career The first US government chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra has announced he’s leaving the job.…
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• GaleForce control freak paints clouds KVM redSpanning more devices and hypervisors Gale Technologies, one of the many companies that wants to manage your private and public clouds, has revved up its GaleForce cloud control freak to 6.0, and is...
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• Polish lawmakers don Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTAThousands roil Polish streets – more protests planned for Friday Over 30 Polish lawmakers held up paper replicas of the Guy Fawkes mask, made famous by both Anoymous hacktivists and the Occupy movement,...
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• Quantum shares plunge after resultsTurning the corner Revenues for the third quarter of fy2012 were $173m, 2 per cent down on the $176m of a year ago. Net income was $3.94m, down from the $5.8m recorded a year ago. These earnings exceeded...
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• America abandoning DSL in favour of faster cableDash to fibre as people abandon twisted copper ADSL connections to US homes are on the slide as companies and consumers turn to cable and fibre for faster connectivity.…
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• Enterprise gets social: Twitter-style data streams, engagement 'apps'Little numbers, big software and the data deluge Open ... and Shut The winning game plan for enterprise software has long been to "play it safe."…
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• Juniper stalled by jittery service providers, product transitionsSwitch hitting Juniper Networks warned Wall Street earlier this month that the fourth quarter was going to be rough because key service provider customers are cutting back on spending at the same time...
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• Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEOIncentivising the McJobs Analysis Stephen Elop got a pretty indulgent reception from analysts, and most of the press yesterday, after delivering some shocking results. Nokia turned a profit of €2bn into...
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• Nominet puts the squeeze on rude membersScammers, speculators warned Nominet, which runs the .uk domain registry, has proposed a new code of conduct that would ban unprofessional behaviour by its members.…
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• Facebook flings clickjack spam lawsuit at ad-slingersSocial network teams up with Washington State to hound marketing firm Facebook and US state of Washington have filed lawsuits against marketing firm Adscend Media over alleged clickjacking and spam...
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• RIM slashes BlackBerry PlayBook tablet pricesUp to 58 per cent off launch cost RIM has taken an axe to the prices it charges for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the UK - again.…
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• Spotify reckons 1 in 5 freebie-gulper eventually pay upTakes pop at labels for withholding Spotify executive Ken Parks says Spotify has 3 million paying customers, and 20 per cent of people who get on to the free, ad-supported part of the service are signing...
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• US lawmakers question Google over privacy policyPoliticos ask if Chocolate Factory's new rules violate an FTC agreement Google is insisting that its new privacy policy will still give its users control, after criticism in a letter from US members of...
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Dzone

• What Are the Odds That Stats Would Be This Popular?“Most of my life I went to parties and heard a little groan when people heard what I did,” says Robert Tibshirani, a statistics professor at Stanford University. “Now they’re all excited to meet...
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• The Fixie Bike Index and hipstersPriceonomics takes the association of fixie bikes to hipsters, and creates the Fixie Bike Index. After starting with New York, they branch out to national numbers.
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• More people want to learn statisticsAt North Carolina State, an advanced analytics program lasting 10 months has, since its founding in 2006, placed over 90 percent of its students annually. The average graduate’s starting salary for an...
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• How to Download Data as a File From JavaScriptI’m currently working on an HTML/JavaScript application that allows you to author content entirely on the client. I want to let users download that content and save it locally, but without bouncing it...
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• PHP Magic Constants ExplainedLike PHP Magic Methods we have number of Constants defined in PHP. PHP team has declared 8 of the constants as Magic Constants.
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• Github Ribbons in CSSGithub has these cool ribbon images that you can use if you want to encourage forking your project on your site. They're great and I wanted to use them on a little project I am working on. However, one of...
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• Profiling JPA/HibernateA screen cast that shows the capabilities of the JPA/Hibernate probe in JProfiler. It presents the events view of the probe that shows a chronological progression of persistence operations as well as the...
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• Eclipse 2013 Release Train - Codename KeplerThe results are in....and the community chooses Kepler
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• Google, how dare you improve your serviceEver since Google’s Larry Page took the helm back in April, his message has been quite clear. He saw Google stretched out over far too many projects. With so many hands in so many pots, it was difficult...
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• Using H2 Database connection pool in SpringH2 is bundled with a built-in connection pool implementation. The following XML provides an example of using it as a Datasource bean without a need to introduce additional dependencies on DBCP or C3P0.
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• The EU Signs Controversial ACTA Treaty22 European Union states, and the EU itself, have today signed the controversial ACTA treaty, which critics say could lead to severe restrictions on freedom and civil liberties online.
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• Top 10 PHP Best Security Practices for Sys AdminsPHP is widely used for various of web development. However, misconfigured server-side scripting would create all sorts of problem. And here are php security best practices that you should aware when...
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• GigaSpaces Introduces Multi-Site Data Replication Done Simply and ReliablyThe GigaSpaces Multi-Site Data Replication technology uses GigaSpaces' in-memory data grid (IMDG) to ensure superb performance. While no disk access is involved, the data is highly available and there is...
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• Three years later, Mr. Moore is still letting us punt on database shardingThree years ago, I wrote about how improvements in technology keep allowing us to punt on sharding the Basecamp database. This is still true, only more so now.
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• Cloud Computing Fueling Global Economic Growth: London School of Economics studyThe development of cloud computing will promote economic growth, increase productivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses, according to a new study by the London School of...
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• Hadoop Use Case: A Scalable Vertical Search EngineIn this slidehow, Iván de Prado explains in some detail why you might want to consider building a scalable vertical search engine with Hadoop, showing when to use and when to avoid both simpler and more...
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