So much for abstinence-only education (1)
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I don't think the evidence is there to claim Trig is Bristol's son, as some have speculated, but a second rumor floating around Alaska circles turns out to have been true: The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child. Bristol Palin, one of Alaska ...
Reality (1)
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I’ve commented before about how some photography is about discovering reality (or things about it) and some photography is about inventing things which are similar to but not the same as reality. So it was with some amusement that I read this article about solving the problem of a past history with which you aren’t entirely satisfied. The answer, of course, is to take all the photos you have and just use photoshop to erase ...
CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security (27)
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mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on [a scheduled conference call] along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They [Mythbusters producers] were way, way outgunned and they [lawyers] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they ...
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Sean Blakey said:
If your credit card has a chip, keep it in a faraday cage.
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Wolfger said:
gotta love capitalism, legal bullying, and "security through obscurity"...
Lesson learned: MLB must enforce deadline (1)
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Eric Hosmer , the Royals' No. 1 pick, has been taken off the field , as Major League Baseball and the union prepped for their arbitration hearing about Pedro Alvarez 's signing dispute .Some more th...
Microsoft and Nikon Sign Deal (3)
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Microsoft and Nikon sign a broad PCL agreement: From arstechnica:"The deal, which gives each company access to the other's patents, was signed by representatives from both companies at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond. The contents of the agreement have not been disclosed, but it is known that Microsoft is being compensated by Nikon in some form. Both companies believe that the PCL agreement will help improve their separate consumer electronics offerings since both will be possible ...
Google Launches Super-Spycam, Google Logo Into Orbit (17)
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Google is getting a new eye in the sky -- and as a bonus, its rainbow-colored logo will be getting a ride on a rocket. Satellite company GeoEye will launch a new orbiting imager on Thursday, and Google has signed a contract making it the exclusive online mapping site to use the satellite's photos, which will appear in both Google Maps and Google Earth. The search company also got to slap its nearly-ubiquitous logo on ...
Thai Protest Stops Trains and Planes - New York Times (1)
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Times OnlineThai Protest Stops Trains and PlanesNew York Times - 1 hour agoBy THOMAS FULLER BANGKOK - Protesters in Thailand ratcheted up their campaign to oust the government on Friday, broadening their occupation to stop trains and block provincial airports, as well as waging an unsuccessful attack on police headquarters ...Thai rioters attack police station Aljazeera.netUPDATE 8-Thai protests hit police HQ, disrupt airports ReutersThe Associated Press - guardian.co.uk - United Press International - AFPall 2,313 ...
Alvarez, Manny situations a mess (1)
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Sisters IV (Photo) (1)
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Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance (17)
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KentuckyFC writes "We've long thought that nuclear decay rates are constant regardless of ambient conditions (except in a few special cases where beta decay can be influenced by powerful electric fields). So that makes it hard to explain two puzzling experiments from the 1980s that found periodic variations over many years in the decay rates of silicon-32 and radium-226. Now a new analysis of the raw data says that changes in the decay rate are ...
Viropiracy - because safeguarding ‘intellectual property’ is more important than saving lives (6)
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This is just a *face-palm* of epic proportions - welcome to the concept of “viral sovereignty“. This extremely dangerous idea comes to us courtesy of Indonesia’s minister of health, Siti Fadilah Supari, who asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations — even though they cross borders and could pose a pandemic threat to all the peoples of the world. Before anyone jumps down my throat, yes, there is a precedent for ...
Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October (11)
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JagsLive writes with this story from PC Magazine: "Comcast has confirmed that all residential customers will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit starting October 1. 'This is the same system we have in place today,' Comcast wrote in an amendment to its acceptable use policy. 'The only difference is that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted.' The cable provider insisted that 250 GB is ...
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Bryce said:
Comcast cares, eh?
Not Selling On iTunes (2)
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Isn't this how the labels got in trouble to begin with? By making customers buy an entire, overpriced CD to get the single, the only track they wanted, oftentimes the only good track on the album?Pulling acts from iTunes is akin to winning the pennant but refusing to play in the World Series because the [...]
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Bryce said:
"In other words, if you want the customer to buy complete albums, you’ve got to make better albums!"
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Jeff Schmidt said:
spot on rant from bob.
A MAYOR IN CRISIS Kilpatrick sued for unpaid legal bills - Detroit Free Press (1)
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Washington PostA MAYOR IN CRISIS Kilpatrick sued for unpaid legal billsDetroit Free Press - 43 minutes agoBY DAVID ZEMAN • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • August 28, 2008 Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick -- already in the crosshairs of prosecutors and Michigan's governor -- now faces yet another legal battle.Detroit mayor's lawyer says she's losing witnesses The Associated PressGranholm on mayor removal hearings: 'It's not a criminal case' DetNews.comUSA Today - WXYZ - New York Times ...
