Plenty Of Broadband Providers Pretending They're Offering Fiber To The Home (1)
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Earlier this year, we wrote about Verizon suing Time Warner Cable over a misleading advertisement, where Time Warner Cable claims that Verizon is "catching up" to Time Warner Cable in offering fiber optics. This is misleading, at best. Verizon is installing fiber to the home with its FiOS service, providing significantly faster connections. What Time Warner Cable is claiming is that it uses fiber in its network, not to the home. It's true that TWC ...
Voters trust good-looking extremists (2)
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Trying to appear moderate is not always the best strategy for capturing votes during an election, reveals a new study. Extreme positions can build trust among an electorate, who value ideological commitment in times of uncertainty.Here is the full story, with a hat tip to Eduardo Pegurier. And here's Robin Hanson:In a TV game show, pretty contestants were not better or more cooperative players, but other contestants seemed to act as if they were.I don't ...
Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I (Android Developers Blog) (2)
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Android Developers Blog: Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I — Since we started the first Android Developer Challenge late last year, we all have been eager to see who the winners of $275,000 and $100,000 would be. All 50 applications that emerged from Round 1 of ADC I showed great promise …
The Hope We Confess (10)
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It was a deeply substantive speech, full of policy detail, full of people other than the candidate, centered overwhelmingly on domestic economic anxiety. It was a liberal speech, more unabashedly, unashamedly liberal than any Democratic acceptance speech since the great era of American liberalism. But it made the case for that liberalism - in the context of the decline of the American dream, and the rise of cynicism and the collapse of cultural unity. His ...
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Shannon said:
what he said.
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Karoli said:
Andrew said it so well, not sure what more I can add.
College Presidents Stand Up for Common Sense? I'll Drink to That - Wall Street Journal (1)
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Wall Street JournalCollege Presidents Stand Up for Common Sense? I'll Drink to ThatWall Street Journal - 4 hours agoBy COLLIN LEVY Anytime more than 100 college presidents sign their names to a document, one naturally expects to find a well-meaning but wrong-headed exercise in political correctness.Keep the drinking age at 21 San Francisco ChronicleKeep drinking age 21, official says Press & Sun-BulletinUM Maneater - The Ledger - Observer Online - The Collegianall 106 news articles
Poodle in the Park (1)
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Mad Cow: "Don't Look, Don't Find" * (1)
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* Jean Halloran, Director of the Consumer Policy Institute at Consumer's Union, in her description of the USDA's mad cow policy.Mike from comments shared these two YouTubes that I think lay bare the goings on in this country regarding mad cow disease.The first mad cow found in the US, in 2003, wasn't a downer cow. So says the gentleman who received it, Dave Louthan. You can watch him tell his story below. There are some ...
Bank Changes Man's Password After They Realize It Insults Them (6)
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Usually, when you're dealing with a bank, they encrypt your passwords so that no one else can read them. However, apparently that isn't always the case -- and this allowed an employee at Lloyds TSB to change the password of one member from "Lloyds is pants" to "no it's not". The customer actually found the story to be amusing -- but it does seem slightly troubling that the bank, for whatever reason, was reviewing and ...
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bhc3 said:
"Usually, when you're dealing with a bank, they encrypt your passwords so that no one else can read them. However, apparently that isn't always the case -- and this allowed an employee at Lloyds TSB to change the password of one member from "Lloyds is pants" to "no it's not". The customer actually found the story to be amusing -- but it does seem slightly troubling that the bank, for whatever reason, was reviewing and changing a customer's password."
The Bottom Line of the Eco Balance Sheet (2)
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It’s become clear to me that the math of greenness has become one of those endless Internet morasses, like red state-blue state, Mac-Windows, or just about anything involving digital photography.
Make-believe police in UK have power to issue on-the-spot fines (5)
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Private security workers and local government officials have police powers to stop and fine people for littering, dog crap, and other minor offenses, reports the UK Telegraph. They can even "stop vehicles for the purpose of testing." Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow home secretary, said the scheme was the latest example of the unjustified extension of surveillance powers under Labour. He said: "The public will be angered that the Home Office is seeking to take ...
The English language in 3000 AD (19)
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Here's a 2003 article by linguist Justin B Rye that looks at how the English has evolved over the centuries, and offers an example of what English could sound look in a thousand years. 2000 AD: We children beg you, teacher, that you should teach us to speak correctly, because we are ignorant and we speak corruptly... 3000 AD: *ZA kiad w'-exùn ya tijuh, da ya-gAr'-eduketan zA da wa-tAgan lidla, kaz 'ban iagnaran an wa-tAg ...
Eating local (7)
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Will Wilkinson serves up his wisdom:How far your food travels matters a lot less than what kind of food it is, or how it was produced. According to a recent study out of Carnegie Mellon University, the distance traveled by the average American's dinner rose about 25 percent from 1997 to 2004, due to increasing global trade. But carbon emissions from food transport saw only a 5 percent bump, thanks to the efficiencies of vast ...
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Geoff said:
"How far your food travels matters a lot less than what kind of food it is, or how it was produced."
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I've actually turned into a freak about my food after watching King Corn and reading The Omnivores Dilemma. I'm not advocating life changing actions, but baby steps like looking at what is in your food and where it is coming from helps!
Lowering the drinking age (4)
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Here is another reader request:There's been recent talk about what would happen if the legal drinking age were lowered to 18. Would there be a net increase or decrease in risky binge drinking, accidents, etc?New Zealand lowered its drinking age to 18 in 1999 and bad consequences followed, including a higher rate of drinking-related car crashes. Illegality, even when it can be circumvented, really does raise the price of an activity in many instances. Nonetheless ...
But Why Does Apple Wants To Take On The Role Of Content Gatekeeper? (2)
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Following the recent post we had about Apple taking down popular games from its App store, the latest buzz in on Apple denying a comic book reader entrance to its iPhone app store because the primary comic book being offered was too violent. This has created quite an uproar -- though, again, Apple has been upfront about the fact that this is a closed system from the beginning. So, it's not entirely clear why people ...
New York Times takes a look at extreme beer – the mild kind (1)
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The New York Times Dining Out section this morning (Aug. 27, 2008) has a brilliant article by Betsy Andrews on low alcohol beer – the style the English call “mild.” By all means, read the article: The Other Extreme: Low Alcohol Beer. Andrews reports that brewers across the country – well, some brewers, at least – are becoming inerested in low alcohol beer, that is – beers around 3.5 percent. One she mentions is Dupont ...
Adventures in Shilling: Limon, Miss Pearl's, Much More (1)
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Join us for another edition of Adventures in Shilling, wherein we celebrate the grossest shills from around the world wide web. As always, you too can help fight shills. It's been too long since we've checked in with the wonderful world of shilling, but we've culled a few suspects from the comments fields, Chowhound, Yelp and the rest of the internet. For today's edition, we've got a few newbies suspected of generating some extra opening ...
Can TiVo Stop Bleeding Subscribers? (10)
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Lots of people are leaving TiVo, and the total subscriber base is now down to 3.6 million.
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Emmett said:
I just signed up...doesn't that count?
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Giles D said:
Pity really. If I could get tivo + directv I'd do it. But I can't, because the vendors of broadcast media like their lockin too much. I guess youtube will eventually make this irrelevant by destroying broadcast tv though.
Blogger arrested, accused of posting 9 unreleased Guns N' Roses songs (2)
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Kevin Cogill, 27, of Culver City, who admitted to allowing public access to the songs on the Antiquiet blog, was arrested today on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws. A man accused of posting nine previously unreleased songs by the rock band Guns N' Roses on a website where they could be accessed by the public was arrested at his home early today on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws, authorities said.
