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Comment Pffft (Score 1) 1

All we really need to know is that the labor force is the smallest since 1984, and is shrinking (which is what gives the false impression the unemployment rate is dropping).

U6 is still above 16%. It was under 12% before TARP and it was under 14% when Our Great Leader was sworn in.

All our efforts to fix this have been demonstrable failures despte doubling our debt in just two years, and yet he wants us to double down.
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Iphone

Submission + - IPhone Sold Out (e-gear.com) 1

twebb72 writes: IPhone is sold out at Verizon already...

... after less than 24 hours, Verizon said late Thursday that it has stopped taking preorders of the iPhone.


Facebook

Submission + - Dating site inports 250k facebook profiles (wired.com)

mark72005 writes: How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day?

Simple.

You scrape data from Facebook.

At least, that’s the approach taken by two provocateurs who launched Lovely-Faces.com this week, with profiles — names, locations and photos — scraped from publicly accessible Facebook pages. The site categorizes these unwitting volunteers into personality types, using a facial recognition algorithm, so you can search for someone in your general area who is “easy going,” “smug” or “sly.”

Censorship

Senator Wyden Asks DHS To Explain Domain Seizures 243

An anonymous reader writes "With Homeland Security continuing to seize domain names without warning and without giving site operators a chance to respond to charges, it appears that at least some people in the US government are quite concerned about this turn of events. Techdirt has a copy of the full letter Senator Wyden has sent to both Attorney General Eric Holder and ICE director John Morton, asking a series of pointed questions concerning the domain seizures and how they impact due process, free speech and sovereign rule in foreign countries."

Comment Re:Drop in the Bucket to Be Shoved Down Our Gullet (Score 1) 246

I received an e-reader (not Kindle) as a gift, and I read a lot of print books still.

For one, I'd rather have the physical book to pass along to others for free when I'm done.

Secondly, the cost of e-books doesn't represent much (or any) savings over new paperbacks.

Third, I never buy new books - amazon itself clears jillions of used/like new books so almost all my reading is already basically free.

Comment Re:Drop in the Bucket to Be Shoved Down Our Gullet (Score 2) 246

Exactly, the issue isn't that people are unhappy with the online delivery methods that exist, it's that the ones that do exist are free.

Most people will not pay for something they can get for free, even if the pay version is just of moderately higher quality. It has to be much, much higher quality.

Since this is just plain text articles, basically - I don't see many people paying for the service when bookmarks work just as well, even on the iPad.

Comment Re:Response from Another VP (Score 1) 596

More importantly, they admittedly drive a lot of this from opt-in customer data.

Draw your own conclusions about who really opts in to help Bing, how their behavior online might differ from that of rational Bing users (or internet users as a whole), how this information is gathered, etc etc.

So the excuse is "We don't copy Google, we collect and store browsing information about our users." (as if that's better)
News

1948 Mayor To MIT: Use Flamethrowers To Melt Snow? 203

An anonymous reader writes "In 1948 Boston mayor James Curley freaked out because of the record amounts of snow. He wrote to MIT and begged for help, even suggested using flamethrowers to melt it. (Check out the original type-written letter.)"
Censorship

Submission + - Atdhe.net & Firstrow.com seized (atdhe.net) 1

mark72005 writes: ICE — Homeland Security has seized these domains, well known for years among sports fans for allowing free streaming of out-of-market events. Many would say we're surprised these sites lasted this long, not at the seizure.

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