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Google Play: No Privacy for You by Design
By Dan8267 in Boca Raton FL 33433   8 comments, latest 2 months ago:
JodyChunder says The push toward a world comprised of ether is a world of ever-diminishing returns.

Farmers team up to convert beets to ethanol
By zzyzzx in Baltimore MD 21230   3 comments, latest 2 months ago:
New Renter says So heavily subsidized ethanol is cheaper than heavily taxed gas? Sounds good to me! Pour me a tankard!

How To Block 99% Of Google
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025   16 comments, latest 2 months ago:
donjumpsuit says Patnet's Cookies = zero : )

OOP Criticism
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025   22 comments, latest 2 months ago:
Dan8267 says Patrick says I don't know enough functional programming (Lisp or whatever) to criticize it, except that while it may be terse, it's anything but clear unless you're already deep in that world. Yes,...

Bloomberg presents car that runs on air and water
By tovarichpeter in South San Francisco CA 94080   posted 2 months ago:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Middle East Business Editor Elliott Gotkine takes you for a ride in a car that is powered by air and water, giving you 1,000 miles per tank. He speaks...

Amazon CEO Recovers NASA's Apollo Engines from Ocean Deep
By zzyzzx in Baltimore MD 21230   1 comment, latest 2 months ago:
yup1 says These are the kind of world changing things we can expect from most of our multi million and billionaires.......

Another reason NOT to use Ubuntu: it spies on you
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025   17 comments, latest 2 months ago:
Patrick says mell says Always wonder who the fuck buys these e-readers except for maybe women who buy anything that's trendy. A real man reads real books made of trees and animals and whatnot while...

Clean tech now a staple of Californias economy, study finds
By tvgnus  posted 2 months ago:
http://www.centralvalleybusine Sector is diversifying, advancing •  Californias clean economy businesses are resilient Dont describe Californias clean energy sector as emerging because not only has it emerged, its now diversifying and advancing, according to a new...

Christmas Treat: A comet in December bright as the full moon
By Dan8267 in Boca Raton FL 33433   posted 2 months ago:
Astronomers are excited about a sungrazing comet discovered late in 2012. For a short time, it might become as bright as a full moon. That’ll be around the time of its perihelion – or closest...

Goodbye, Hyacinth! And good riddance
By tvgnus  posted 2 months ago:
http://www.centralvalleybusine State to begin weed eradication in Delta •  To help get rid of this floating menace They may look pretty, floating on the water with their bright flowers. But the water hyacinth is wreaking...

Teen adoption of smartphones skyrockets
By tvgnus  1 comment, latest 2 months ago:
CaptainShuddup says Best I can tell, every kid my daughters know, has a smart phone. Come to think of it, every kid I know, over the age of 10 has a cell phone of some...

Ticked off? Try rubbing crushed millipedes on yourself
By tvgnus  posted 2 months ago:
http://www.centralvalleybusine Science links animal behavior to useful natural repellents •  Youll notice the characteristic smell of cyanide A little monkey business is revealing clues about natural remedies that some animals use to protect themselves against...

Check out the comet tonight and the next few days
By Dan8267 in Boca Raton FL 33433   1 comment, latest 2 months ago:
New Renter says Yes, who doesn't love a 10 ton death rock?

Banks eye intangible assets as collateral - FT.com
By bgamall4 in Las Vegas NV 89117   9 comments, latest 2 months ago:
bgamall4 says New Renter says How about my homemade pet rock? It's one of.. um I mean IN a million! Hey, Bernanke is a witch, only he is a male. So, I am writing an...

Baby Born With HIV Apparently Cured, Say Scientists
By Dan8267 in Boca Raton FL 33433   posted 2 months ago:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ This is the second person cured of the disease.

Central Valley libraries offline on Friday
By tvgnus  1 comment, latest 3 months ago:
thomaswong.1986 says tragic.. you might actually need to pick and read a book off the shelf.

Digital divide now splits classrooms
By tvgnus  1 comment, latest 3 months ago:
CaptainShuddup says There's not a kid in Ameirca that can't get access to the internet, when they want to catch the latest internet meme.

Science Tuesday? Great video on tensors and vectors.
By Dan8267 in Boca Raton FL 33433   posted 3 months ago:
I've always viewed a Nth rank tensor in D dimensions as being a set of N overlapping D dimensional vector spaces with some interesting mathematical relationships, but this video gives a different but nice way...

Google still giving away your search text
By Dan8267 in Boca Raton FL 33433   posted 3 months ago:
Ever Google "erectile dysfunction" or "goats in dresses" and then clicked a result? If so, there's a good chance that your Google search was passed on to the site Google redirected you to. http://brian.moonspot.net/goog Sure...

Happy Asteroid Day!
By Dan8267 in Boca Raton FL 33433   11 comments, latest 3 months ago:
Dan8267 says Night of the Comet (1984), a cult classic starting the gorgeous Catherine Mary Stewart. She has such great hair. I miss 80's big hair.


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Science Friday: Why Penguins Don't Fly (sciencemag.org)
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UC Davis to study new treatments for fatal childhood diseases (centralvalleybusinesstimes.com)
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A year with out the internet... (cnn.com)
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Irresponsible Journalsim, Scientific Practice Promotes Fear. (mdpi.com)
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NASA helps measure states snow (centralvalleybusinesstimes.com)
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Believe Half Of What You See and None of What You Hear (consciouslifenews.com)
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Mars Rover draws giant penis,... (nasa.gov)
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Structure at bottom of ancient lake (cnn.com)
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Science Friday: Dancing Water and Calculus (youtube.com)
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Smartphones start getting Infrared - at long last (cnet.com)
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Android phone apps have security holes, says UC Davis researcher (centralvalleybusinesstimes.com)
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Five reasons why Windows 8 has failed (zdnet.com)
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Turbo Tax Goes Off Line Sunday Night (brevardtimes.com)
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Android App Gives Full Access to Airplane Navigation Controls (theverge.com)
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It must be Nature's way, of telling you... (cnn.com)
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California still lags in high tech says analysis (centralvalleybusinesstimes.com)
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