Submission + - It's finally here.
Mostly Chrome and Android, but they are Linux. Which, considering my first Linux was RedHat 2.0 in the beige box, running the 0.95(?) kernel and FVWM, is pretty cool. It came with 2 books, a CD, and a boot floppy.
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 264 declined, 48 accepted (312 total, 15.38% accepted)
China's Baidu blanked out parts of its mapping platform. We used those locations to find a network of buildings bearing the hallmarks of prisons and internment camps in Xinjiang. Here's how we did it.
Many in the Internet community have officially called baloney [that's a technical term] on the government’s claims, and these latest apparently contradictory revelations from the government are likely to fuel speculation that the government is trying to explain away some not-so-by-the-book investigative methods.
when one Iranian e-mail address of interest got taken over by spammers. The Iranian account began sending out bogus messages to its entire address book.
... the spam that wasn't deleted by those recipients kept getting scooped up every time the NSA's gaze passed over them. And as some people had marked the Iranian account as a safe account, additional spam messages continued to stream in, and the NSA likely picked those up, too....Every day from Sept. 11, 2011 to Sept. 24, 2011, the NSA collected somewhere between 2 GB and 117 GB of data concerning this Iranian address.
The sole appeal of these lottery tickets is their randomness... it’s becoming increasingly clear that
... several of these games have been systematically broken.
Oops.
Intriguingly, across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol. We investigate whether there is a correlation between alcohol consumption and polygynous/monogamous arrangements, both over time and across cultures. Historically, we find a correlation between the shift from polygyny to monogamy and the growth of alcohol consumption. Cross-culturally we also find that monogamous societies consume more alcohol than polygynous societies in the preindustrial world. We provide a series of possible explanations to explain the positive correlation between monogamy and alcohol consumption over time and across societies.
The "No Net Brutality" campaign idea was one of the four finalists created as an assignment for a two-and-a-half week "think tank MBA" program. The other finalists were a project promoting free speech in Venezuela, one supporting education reform in Poland, and one dealing with sales taxes rates in Washington, D.C. ("No Net Brutality" came in third. The Polish reform idea won.)
You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the Titanic had paying customers.