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Submission + - Most Kickstarter Projects Fail to Deliver on Time 1

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: A recently conducted analysis found that out of the top 50 most-funded Kickstarter projects, a whopping 84 percent missed their target delivery dates. As it turns out, only eight of them hit their deadline. Sixteen hadn't even shipped yet, while the remaining 26 projects left the warehouse months late.
Education

Submission + - Broun: Evolution, big bang are "lies straight from the pit of hell" (onlineathens.com)

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BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: "Evolution and the big bang theory are “lies to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior,” U.S. Rep. Paul Broun (Chairman of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee for the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee), said in a recently released video.

In the video, taken from the 2012 Sportsman's Banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Broun also repeated fundamentalist Christian tenets that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and the Holy Bible is a guidebook to every aspect of life."
Education

Submission + - Broun: Evolution, big bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" (onlineathens.com)

Submitted by
BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: ""Evolution and the big bang theory are “lies to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior,” U.S. Rep. Paul Broun (Chairman of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee for the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee), said in a recently released video..

In the video, taken from the 2012 Sportsman’s Banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Broun also repeated fundamentalist Christian tenets that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and the Holy Bible is a guidebook to every aspect of life."
Government

Submission + - Broun: Evolution, big bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" (onlineathens.com) 1

Submitted by
BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: "Evolution and the big bang theory are “lies to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior,” U.S. Rep. Paul Broun said in a recently released video.

In the video, taken from the 2012 Sportsman’s Banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Broun also repeated fundamentalist Christian tenets that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and the Holy Bible is a guidebook to every aspect of life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rikEWuBrkHc"
Education

Submission + - Hacker Group Breaches Thousands of University Records to Protest Higher Educ (chronicle.com)

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BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: ""A team of hackers claims to have broken into more than 120,000 computer accounts at dozens of universities to protest what it sees as the high cost and low quality of higher education.

The group, called “Team GhostShell,” claimed responsibility on Monday for the computer attacks with a post on pastebin (http://pastebin.com/AQWhu8Ek). The post listed the universities that were the group’s targets, including Harvard University and the Universities of Cambridge and Tokyo.

Leaders of Team GhostShell called its latest attack “Project WestWind,” and they said the goal was to protest higher-education systems around the world. ""
Google

Submission + - FTC Releases Google Privacy Audit, Blacks Out The Details (securityledger.com)

Submitted by
chicksdaddy
chicksdaddy writes: "Google could tell you about its privacy practices except, well....they're private. That's the conclusion privacy advocates are drawing after the Federal Trade Commission took a black marker to an independent audit of the company's privacy practices before releasing it to the group EPIC in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Security Ledger is reporting that the FTC released a copy of a Price Waterhouse Coopers audit of Google that was mandated as part of a settlement with the FTC over complaints following a 2010 complaint by EPIC over privacy violations in Google Buzz, a now-defunct social networking experiment. However, the agency acceded to Google requests to redact descriptions of the search giant’s internal procedures and the design of its privacy program."
Education

Submission + - Univ. of Minnesota compiles database of peer-reviewed, open-access textbooks (insidehighered.com)

Submitted by
BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: "Univ. of MN is creating an online catalog of peer-reviewed, open-access textbooks and enticing Univ. of MN faculty to review the texts by offering $500 per review. Outside faculty may also submit reviews, but they will not be able to collect $500 for doing so.

This may be the first time a land-grant, public university makes this kind of resource available to faculty and students."

Submission + - Univ. of Minnesota compiles database of peer-reviewed, open-acces textbooks (insidehighered.com) 1

Submitted by
BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: "Univ. of MN is cataloging open-access textbooks and enticing faculty to review the texts by offering $500 per review. Despite the author calling the open-source rather than open-access, this may be the first time a land-grant, public university makes this kind of resource available to faculty and students."
Security

Submission + - Discover discontinues Secure Online Acct Numbers (discovercard.com)

Submitted by
BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: "This really doesn't seem like a good idea.

"Secure Online Account Number Discontinuation

Since Secure Online Account Numbers launched over a decade ago, we’ve continued to add layers of fraud detection and prevention, authentication and ID verification to protect your account information.

We have made the decision to discontinue Secure Online Account Numbers as of Sept. 8, 2011 because the above comprehensive security measures help protect your card from unauthorized use online, offline, anytime, anywhere. ""
Chrome

Submission + - Baidu trying to get rid of Android (google.com)

Submitted by
BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: "(With paraphrasing and bad translation) Baidu seems to be using Google's own strategy to take on the leader in Web search, Google, which developed the Android system for smartphones.... But the concept is also similar to another Google project, Chrome OS, which aims to evolve the web browser operating system. (link is to Google translation of Le Monde article)"
Games

Submission + - Disney purchases Wideload Games (chicagobusiness.com)

Submitted by
BigVig209
BigVig209 writes: "This just in from Enterprise City, Crain's Chicago Business small enterprise blog:

"Disney Interactive Studios on Tuesday said it agreed to acquire video game developer Wideload Games Inc. for undisclosed terms. The CEO of Chicago-based Wideload Games, Alexander Seropian, will join the company as vice-president of creative, a new position."

Seropian was a co-founder of Bungie and one of the original developers of Halo."

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