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ISoldat53 writes:
Researchers have identified a group of Africans that appear to have diverged from the H. sapiens gene pool. See the RTFA for details. We have spent years trying to find out where we as a species come from; it's interesting to speculate on where we are going.
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ISoldat53 writes:
Wired has an article about who Intel's top server processor customers are. Google comes in at fifth. Gives new meaning to "Buy Direct."
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ISoldat53 writes:
Today is towel day. Do you know where your towel is?
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ISoldat53 writes:
New brothel in Nevada to offer sex girls dressed as aliens.
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ISoldat53 writes:
The University of Washington has to turn away 4 out of 5 (500) students who want to get a CS degree because of lack of space. The state has no solution because of lack of funds to expand the school.
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ISoldat53 writes:
The Supreme Court seems poised to extend patent protection to the medical profession making scientific correlations in medical practice patentable.
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ISoldat53 writes:
Microsoft admits that the Patriot Act allows government access to data in it's cloud services even in Europe.
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ISoldat53 writes:
State government workers are unable to connect to a pro-union web site ,defendwisconsin.org, from the wifi at the state capitol.
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ISoldat53 writes:
This article describes how easy it is to publish an ebook. The author details the costs to the writer for a major publishing house to publish a book and the savings to the writer by self-publishing. He looks to make the same profit selling the book at $2.99 on amazon.com as he does going though a publisher. The book is Kindle specific for now but the author describes how it can be purchased though amazon.com and converted for other readers. No DRM.
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ISoldat53 writes:
From the Washington Post "The State Department has decided to fund a group run mainly by practitioners of Falun Gong, a Buddhist-like sect long considered Enemy No. 1 by the Chinese government, to provide software to skirt Internet censorship across the globe. " Is this because US software developers don't want to make China mad?
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ISoldat53 writes:
The Consumerist has awarded Comcast the Golden Poo award for the worst company in America.
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ISoldat53 writes:
From the Alaska AIr newsletter: By the end of 2010, Alaska plans to have all of its aircraft outfitted with inflight wireless internet access. We recently announced our plans to install Aircell's Gogo Inflight Internet system on all of our 737 aircraft. With Gogo, you will be able to check email, message friends, or surf away on your WiFi-enabled laptop or smartphone. Look for our WiFi-equipped aircraft and get ready to get online.
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ISoldat53 writes:
Ars Technica has a story asking what the ideal ISP would be like.
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ISoldat53 writes:
"The CIA, which has been monitoring foreign countries' use of electronic voting systems, has reported apparent vote-rigging schemes in Venezuela, Macedonia and Ukraine and a raft of concerns about the machines' vulnerability to tampering." mcclatchydc.com
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ISoldat53 writes:
Any reviews of Neal Stephenson's new book "Anathem?" Before investing the usual amount of time to one of Stephenson's book I'd like to know if it's worth it.
