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Submission + - A history of innovation and dysfunction at Los Alamos National Laboratory (santafenewmexican.com)

Submitted by DougDot on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @12:29PM

DougDot writes: Federal officials told Congress in December that they will put the LANL contract up for competitive bid for only the second time since the lab opened in 1943. The current LANS contract ends Sept 30, 2017.

Identifying what went wrong, and why the lab has proven so difficult to manage, will play an important role for the Department of Energy as it seeks out new managers to run the lab.

Submission + - Google is going Puritan on us (zdnet.com)

Submitted by DougDot on Friday June 28, 2013 @10:12AM

DougDot writes: In three days, Google's Blogger will begin to delete scores of blogs that have existed since 1999 on Monday under its vague new anti-sex-ad policy purge.

On Wednesday night at around 7pm PST, all Blogger blogs marked as "adult" were sent an email from Google's Blogger team.

blogger sex purge
The email told users with "adult" blogs that after Sunday, June 30, 2013, all adult blogs will be deleted if they are found to be "displaying advertisements to adult websites" — while the current Content Policy does not define what constitutes "adult" content.

To say that Twitter ignited with outrage would be an understatement. Blogger users are panicked and mad as hell at Google.

Submission + - Facebook forming a PAC (sfgate.com)

Submitted by

DougDot

on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @11:52AM

DougDot writes: "Facebook is raising it's political profile. From the article:

"Social networking giant Facebook is expanding its political footprint, confirming that it has filed the necessary paperwork to open a political action committee in advance of the 2012 elections.

The move is the latest in a series of maneuvers boosting the Palo Alto company's political profile in recent years, joining a steady rise in lobbying spending, several high-profile fundraisers and the failed statewide candidacy of one of its key officers for attorney general last year."

With 800 million users in its social network, and with very deep pockets, we will have a new, powerful Congress-influencing entity steering American politics."

Submission + - Giant Penguins May Have Roamed Peru

Submitted by

Douglas Roberts

on Monday June 25, 2007 @05:27PM

Douglas Roberts writes: "Obvious Linux fodder: From: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PVUQF81& show_article=1 WASHINGTON (AP) — Giant penguins roamed what is now Peru more than 40 million years ago, much earlier than scientists thought the flightless birds had spread to warmer climes. [...]"

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