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Submission + - Near-earth asteroid, Monday June 27 (skyandtelescope.com)

Submitted by TigerNut on Friday June 24, 2011 @03:24PM

TigerNut writes: Asteroid 2011 MD was discovered on June 22 by LINEAR, and its flight path will take it within 8000 miles (12000 km) of Earth. Orbital predictions indicate that its flight path will be significantly altered by this close approach.

Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 133

by Begossi on Friday September 24, 2010 @05:32PM (#33692498) Attached to: Google Announces Project 10^100 Winners

Khan academy should have a Day9 section.

Journal Journal: China and Brazil 3

Journal by zogger on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @07:14PM

Another example of how china is taking the west's surplus cash it ships there, and turns around and invests heavily in places to get access to their natural resources, then they turn around and sell to them, developing new markets.

The developed world is going to be the late not so great de-developing world pretty soon now. China invests in Brazil

Submission + - FTC Wants Browsers to Block Online Tracking (ecommerce-guide.com)

Submitted by storagedude on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @06:32PM

storagedude writes: The FTC wants a do-not-track mechanism that would allow Web users to opt out of online behavioral tracking, similar to the national do-not-call registry. The agency's preferred method for accomplishing this would be a browser-based tool that would give users the option of blocking data collection across the Web. The only problem is that the agency may not have the authority to require this, thanks to concerted lobbying efforts by the advertising industry. The first step may just be voluntary measures, to be released this fall.

From the article:

"It's really in the hands of the private sector," [FTC Chairman Jon] Leibowitz said. "If they want to do a better job of ... giving clear choices and have clearer notice, then I think it's in their hands to avoid legislation. I think if they don't, and if we don't see more progress, I think you're going to see probably in the next Congress a fair amount of interest in moving legislation forward to have more prescriptive rules.

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