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Submission + - Tech Firms Go Green As E-Waste Mounts

Submitted by yogaflame
yogaflame writes: This is where computers go to die a green death Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components.
Software

Submission + - Build a Fedora Live CD

Submitted by IdaAshley
IdaAshley writes: Take a step-by-step guide to creating custom Live CD's on Fedora Linux. Fedora Linux is a popular and mature Linux distribution, which released its first official Live CD in December 2006. Learn how to build your own custom and easy-to-use Live CDs using a rewrite of Pilgrim, the Fedora Live CD creation tool.
Wireless Networking

Submission + - New Report on Municipal Wireless

Submitted by
PublicNet SF Coalition
PublicNet SF Coalition writes: "New Report on Municipal Wireless
Civil Defense — a weblog by Joshua Breitbart

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has just published a new report called "Localizing the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem," arguing for municipal ownership of new wireless and fiber optic networks.

The report's author is Becca Vargo Daggett, whose presentation I'll have the pleasure of moderating at the National Conference for Media Reform.

The argument is persuasive. There is clearly a need for more aggressive public involvement in broadband deployment and the affordability of wireless is a great opportunity for that. Giving this opportunity over to private corporations is double the loss."
User Journal

Journal Journal: On Taxing Real and Virtual Goods

Journal by ThosLives

There's another article on taxation of virtual goods that caught my eye, this time from cnn.

I have been thinking about this for a while, and I think I finally have a more coherent view of my thoughts on the concept of transaction taxes.

Businesses

Submission + - Using the Web to Get the Boss to Pay More

Submitted by
Arun Jacob
Arun Jacob writes: "The NYT has an interesting article — Using the Web to Get the Boss to Pay More — on online tools that can help in salary negotiations. Link here (Free registration required).

To summarise, the article talks about the websites that provide information on standard compensation packages for your position and role. Using this information, it should be easier to negotiate your pay with a fact-based approach rather than "feelings-based" approach. The sites profiled are —
Salary.com (Data available only for US)
Payscale.com (International)"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - The Wisdom of Scientific Crowds

Submitted by
Matthew Sparkes
Matthew Sparkes writes: "ProMed Mail, an online bulletin board for emerging diseases, is attempting to use the Wisdom of Crowds to predict the final outcome of H5N1, aided by a $245,000 grant. You get notional money — Avian$ — and you buy predictions relating to the likelihood that H5N1 bird flu will turn into a human pandemic. Will the number of human cases have exceeded 300 by July? You buy a "contract" saying yes or no, based on your insider knowledge. Contract prices rise or fall accordingly, reflecting the consensus."

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