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Google white space petition: 13,000 signatures and counting (13)
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For the first time, Google has rallied consumers in support of a policy position: supporting "white spaces" broadband. More than 13,000 people have signed the petition so far as the white spaces battle turns explicitly political.Read More...Shared by BrendoMan (103) Brian Cuban (1041) cgsheldon (112) DeadRinga (32) GerardM (7) Joey Doll (3) Muhammad Saleem (215) Rami Taibah (298) Robert Cortez (9) Travis Cannon (3) warrior007 (207) Wayne (51) Will (1)Contribute comment -
Security ROI (9)
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An interesting look at security from a business/actuarial perspective, not something most techies are accustomed to, but very important to those they work for.Shared by Chris Hitchcock (27) CJ (76) Daniel (43) GerardM (7) Ishai (4) kamikyo (8) tabo (21) TJ (32) trygve (9)Contribute comment -
$6.55 Minimum Wage Worth 40 Cents Less than 10 Yrs Ago (2)
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At $6.55, the federal minimum wage is worth 40 cents less per hour, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was a decade ago.Shared by GerardM (7) rowlikeagirl (38)Contribute comment -
Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm (31)
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A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make them open source -- and give them away.Shared by Ananya Walia (524) Andrew Schott (48) Brian Cuban (1041) cc1263 (29) cgsheldon (112) christideli (13) CogDog (13) Elisa Gopin (21) Florian Fiegel (9) George Perham (4) GerardM (7) Glenn Batuyong (46) Jeff (113) Karl Stolley (5) Katie Fellows (24) Keith Achorn (14) kmohr25 (16) Krisalis78 (11) Mike Sansone (4) Myroslaw Bytz (5) Neal (4) ProfVegas (117) Reg Saddler (Zaibatsu) (176) Ross V (276) Saul (14) Sean McBride (50) Seth (6) Shane Coffey (82) Taylor (6) Timothy (284) Tipsy McStumbles (13)- Taylor said: 1) Turning a form of hard content into free digital content2) Will traditional publishers be able to switch to digital distribution?
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Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives - but keep four (4)
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A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives accepts an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four, local authorities say.Contribute comment -
Cure For Deafness Now Within Reach (2)
permalinkDeaf people could one day have their hearing restored through a groundbreaking gene therapy technique, a new study suggests. By Roger Highfield.The approach, which one day could help millions of people worldwide with deafness and inner-ear disease, is made possible by a technique that is demonstrated in the journal Nature by Dr John BrigandeShared by Drew (1) GerardM (7)Contribute comment
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Judge: 1st Amendment allows posting SSNs of state officials (23)
onA judge has ruled that a Virginia woman may continue to publish the Social Security numbers of public officials on her website as a protest against the Virginia government's failure to redact Social Security from its own public records.Read More...Shared by adam (666) Brian Cuban (1041) Casper (44) Cavorter (23) cgsheldon (112) Dave (1) Denny (3) Eugene (11) Felix Bredoteau (56) GerardM (7) guy (479) Matt (6) maxyRO (338) mr_gadget (149) Reg Saddler (Zaibatsu) (176) Ritu (398) Robert Couture (4) RyneNelson (191) Samuel F. (8) Tal Siach (373) warrior007 (207) Will Harris (3) Zak M. (349)Contribute comment
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Putin accuses U.S. of orchestrating Georgian war (4)
onRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates. Guess which one?!?Contribute comment
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Microsoft considers adding chemistry-related features to Word to support data-mining (3)
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Chem4Word is a project by Microsoft to "investigat[e]he introduction of chemistry-related features in Microsoft Office Word, including authoring and semantic annotations". (Thanks to Antony Williams.) One of the project's goals is to Store and expose chemical information in a semantically rich manner to support publishing and mining scenarios, for authors, readers, publishers, and other vendors across the broad chemical information community ...Contribute comment -
Presentation on ChemSpider for drug discovery (1)
onAntony Williams, Can a free access structure-centric community for chemists benefit drug discovery?, American Chemical Society National Meeting (Philadelphia, August 17-21, 2008). Abstract: ChemSpider is an online database of over 20 million chemical structures assembled from well over a hundred data sources including chemical and screening library vendors, publicly accessible databases and resources, commercial databases and Open Access literature articles. Such a public resource provides a rich source of ligands for the purpose of virtual ...Shared by GerardM (7)Contribute comment
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Airline lifevests go to cut costs (1)
onA regional airline in Canada is removing lifevests from all its planes to cut weight and so reduce fuel costs.Shared by GerardM (7)Contribute comment
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Mozilla Extends Lucrative Deal With Google For 3 Years (99)
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Mozilla, the organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has extended its search deal with Google for another three years. In return for setting Google as the default search engine on Firefox, Google pays Mozilla a substantial sum - in 2006 the total amounted to around $57 million, or 85% of the company’s total revenue. The deal was originally going to expire in 2006, but was later extended to 2008 and will now run through ...Shared by Aaron (5) Adam McDonald (19) Al Salmon (16) Alex (13) Alex (18) Alex France (114) angel (244) Archit T (8) AshTR (11) b3cak (7) Ben S (30) Brad Brown Jr. (18) Brandon (24) Bret Taylor (12) Bryan (8) Bryce (5) Cam (14) Chad Smith (23) cheflove (230) Chris Messina (18) Christopher W. Bown (6) Cosmin (3) Cubby Brendle (8) daniel (10) dd (6) Dean Clark (62) Doug Adams (76) Eric Chen (66) Esther Schindler (19) Florian Fiegel (9) Floyd Bogart (54) Franklin Bishop (26) G$ (3) GerardM (7) GilesVG (14) GP (36) guy (479) Hisham (21) Hoder Jensen (5) HollowMarkeD (61) IanZ (3) InformationHigh (4) Inthenameofmine (361) ionela (167) Jamie McGibbon (59) Jan (7) Jared (19) Jeff (45) Jeremiah Taylor (2) Joe Smith (1) John (1) Jon Erickson (7) Jrod (58) Keith Bloemendaal (38) Kevin Hamer (9) Kirk (2) Krazy (83) Leon Ridge-Cooke (34) Linkletter (5) Lucas Boyles (7) Luciano (9) Matt Lopez (43) Matthew (12) McBilly Wilford Sy (37) Merlin (4) mr_gadget (149) mubbashir (3) MV (22) Neal (1) Nichol (9) Oudi Antebi (0) pericles (559) Perry (8) Philip Campbell (33) Phillie Casablanca (11) Piedro Molinero (184) puzo (0) rene (16) Rich (29) Richard (18) Ryan Draga (8) Sam (0) Seppe vanden Broucke (5) Shelton (46) Sigalon (25) Spencer (14) spsneo (8) Steve Nimmons (58) Steven (6) Tal Siach (373) Thinh (133) Tibi Puiu (143) Todd Mundt (50) Tomi (8) Trevor Wermund (108) Tyson Williams (28) urbansheep (5) Uzair (121) yoshy (284)Contribute comment -
Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts? (3)
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dotne writes "Microsoft has submitted Embedded OpenType (EOT) to W3C and a slimy campaign for EOT has been launched. EOT is a DRM layer on top of normal TrueType/Opentype files; EOT ties a font file to a certain web page or site and prevents reuse by other pages/sites. Microsoft's IE has supported EOT for years, but it has largely been ignored due to the clumsiness of having to regenerate font files when a page changes. ...Contribute comment -
Mozilla Extends Lucrative Deal With Google For 3 Years (35)
onMozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has extended its search deal with Google for another three years. In return for setting Google as the default search engine on Firefox, Google pays Mozilla a substantial sum - in 2006 the total amounted to around $57 million, or 85% of the company’s total revenue. The deal was originally going to expire in 2006, but was later extended to 2008 and will now run ...Shared by Aaron (5) AJ (154) Alex (18) Alex (13) Archit T (8) b3cak (7) bhamm (1) Bret Taylor (12) CannonGod (190) Fernando (12) G$ (3) GeniusBoyWonder (21) GerardM (7) GP (36) Hisham (21) HollowMarkeD (61) IanZ (3) Joe Smith (1) John (1) Jrod (58) JUSTIN (13) Kevin Hamer (9) Kirk (2) Leon Ridge-Cooke (34) Linkletter (5) Merlin (4) MV (22) Navid (40) Neal (1) Paul Helmick (24) Phillie Casablanca (11) rene (16) Rex (67) Thinh (133) Tomi (8)Contribute comment
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"White Paper" on Character Set Standardisation for Early Cyrillic Writing after Unicode 5.1 (1)
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The Special Commission on the Computer-Supported Processing of Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts and Early Printed Books to the International Committee of Slavists has prepared a "White Paper" on Character Set Standardization for Early Cyrillic Writing after Unicode 5.1, in advance of the 14th International Congress of Slavists next month. This is in part a response to the "Proposal", with which many will be familiar, that originated at the conference held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences ...Shared by GerardM (7)Contribute comment -
Q&A: Philippe Starck on Bioplastics, Virgin Galactic, and His Impossible Chair (4)
onPhilippe Starck's latest creation — a plastic chair — earned its name on the first sketch: Mr. Impossible. The French designer said it simply couldn't be made. The challenge? The weld. Polycarbonate chairs are typically formed using a single mold, but Starck's translucent design required two: one for the legs, one for the seat. Fusing the parts using existing methods would mean an unsightly seam, so the engineers at Italian furniture maker Kartell had to ...Contribute comment
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Muppet Show to Return To TV After 27 Years (8)
onKermit the frog and friends could return in the first new Muppet Show TV series for 27 years.Shared by Andrea (8) Ernie (5) Gavin (19) GerardM (7) Jamie (32) Jorge Wagner (7) Nicholas (6) Terren (0)
- Nicholas said: Woohoo!
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Doctors Refuse Fertility Treatment to "Undesirable" Patients (1)
onFew insurance companies pick up the tab, so patients themselves decide where to spend their considerable money, and they do this largely based on a clinic’s success rate. As a result, many doctors try to game the system, producing high “live birth” success rates by cherry-picking patients. Lesbians, the disabled, and older women are often refused.Shared by GerardM (7)Contribute comment
