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Nevada economy suffers on all fronts - Feb. 3, 2012
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Great Recession has dealt Nevada a losing hand.
The Silver State, which will hold the Republican caucus on Saturday, has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in unemployment, foreclosure filings and share of homes worth less than the mortgages on them. -
A Eulogy for Google Plus - Forbes
It may not be dead, and it’s entirely possible I’m shoveling dirt on something that’s still writhing around, promising me it is in fact the next big thing, but I’m now deaf to its cries. Google Plus is a failure no matter what the numbers may say.
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You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You - Forbes
Now that the SOPA and PIPA fights have died down, and Hollywood prepares their next salvo against internet freedom with ACTA and PCIP, it’s worth pausing to consider how the war on piracy could actually be won.
It can’t, is the short answer, and one these companies do not want to hear as they put their fingers in their ears and start yelling. As technology continues to evolve, the battle between pirates and copyright holders is going to escalate, and pirates are always, always going to be one step ahead -
Mortgage Tornado Warning, Unheeded - NYTimes.com
YEARS before the housing bust — before all those home loans turned sour and millions of Americans faced foreclosure — a wealthy businessman in Florida set out to blow the whistle on the mortgage game.
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His name is Nye Lavalle, and he first came to attention not in finance but in sports and advertising. He turned heads in marketing circles by correctly predicting that Nascar and figure skating would draw huge followings in the 1990s. -
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect: Chapter 1
Her name was Caroline Frances Hubert, and she had three claims to fame.
In the first place she was the thirty-seventh oldest living human being. Caroline herself was unimpressed by this fact. To her way of thinking it was the result of an accident, nothing more. In any case she had been the thirty-seventh oldest human being for a long, long time, and it got to seem more of a bore than an accomplishment after a while. -
Object Computing, Inc. - Java News Brief - March 2009
The goal of this article is to provide a fairly comprehensive introduction to the Clojure programming language. A large number of features are covered, each in a fairly brief manner. Feel free to skip around to the sections of most interest. The section names in the table of contents are hyperlinks to make this easier when reading on-line.
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For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life – USATODAY.com
For most people, that word means something malicious — shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains who cripple websites and break into e-mail accounts.
For Facebook, though, "hacker" means something different. It's an ideal that permeates the company's culture. It explains the push to try new ideas (even if they fail), and to promote new products quickly (even if they're imperfect). The hacker approach has made Facebook one of the world's most valuable Internet companies. -
DIY science: should you try this at home? | Science | The Guardian
When Richard Handl was arrested for attempting to split the atom on his stove, he joined a growing band of home experimenters cooking up all kinds of trouble behind the kitchen door
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Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours - edw519
Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours
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Grown-Up Bacon Mac & Cheese | Carnal Dish
Holy balls. This is the perfect recipe for those of you who like to enjoy a big bowl of macaroni and cheese for dinner and absolutely nothing else. It’s beautifully flavored, creamy, cheesy, and with the smokey bite of crisp salty bacon on top?? Oh man, you guys are in for a treat — I’m not even kidding. It’s amazing.
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Smugglers allegedly used black drivers to avert suspicion at border - latimes.com
In the calculus of cross-border human smuggling, Maria Lopez-Diaz allegedly concluded that black instead of brown equals green.
The 60-year-old Compton woman, prosecutors say, tried to cash in on racial profiling by operating a human smuggling ring that hired mostly African American drivers who didn't speak a word of Spanish to ferry small groups of immigrants from Mexico to Los Angeles. -
Catholics plan counterattack on new contraception coverage - latimes.com
The Catholic Church reacted strongly Friday to a White House defense of new rules that will force many religious employers to provide contraception to their workers in government-mandated health insurance plans.
"The White House information about this is a combination of misleading and wrong," said Anthony Picarello, general counsel of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He said the bishops would "pursue every legal mandate available to them to bring an end to this mandate. That means legislation, litigation and public advocacy. All options are on the table."
The new regulations were announced last month by the Department of Health and Human Services as part of an effort to guarantee that women receive free "preventive" healthcare services, including cervical cancer screening, breast pumps — and contraception. They require employers to include those services in their employee health insurance plans by August. -
Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: One Town's War on Gay Teens
Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert, bracing for the inevitable.
"Dyke."
Pretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs.
"Whore." -
Culinary SOS: Novo Restaurant's Thai green chicken curry - latimes.com
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A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute paints a grim picture of state science standards across the United States. But it also reveals some intriguing details about exactly what’s going wrong with the way many American students are learning science.
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Bay Area groups react to Komen decision to pull breast-screening funds - San Jose Mercury News
The nation's largest and most widely recognized breast cancer advocacy organization faced a rolling avalanche of criticism and major revolt within its own ranks Thursday after a decision to eliminate all funding to Planned Parenthood.
The decision by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation to halt grants totaling $680,000 last year -- used by 19 Planned Parenthood affiliates across the nation for breast exams -- has stirred debate across country since it was announced two days ago. -
'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans (UPDATES)
WASHINGTON -- In a stunning break with First Amendment policy, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to detain a highly regarded documentary crew that was attempting to film a Wednesday hearing on a controversial natural gas procurement practice. Initial reports from sources suggested that an ABC News camera was also prevented from taping the hearing; ABC has since denied that they sent a crew to the hearing.
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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-01-30/Technology report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TECHNOLOGY REPORT
Why "Lua" is on everybody's lips, and when to expect MediaWiki 1.19 -
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Bill Gates and his frustration with Microsoft.com starts on page 3, LOL (blog.seattlepi.com)
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.... Odg~nal Message ....
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Sent: Wednesday, _fanuary 15, 2003 10’.05 AM
To: J~m Allchin
¢,c: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poote; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta
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Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame
I am quite disappointed al how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management
groups don’/drive usability issues.
Let me give you my experience from yesterday.
I decided to download Moviemake and buy the Digital Plus pack r so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a
download place so I went there.
The first 5 times I used the site it timed out whiJe trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second
delay I got it to come up
This site is so slow it is unusable.
It wasn"c in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.
These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Doouments and Settings\billgWly
Docurnents~/ly Pictures seem clear,
They are not filtered by the system I can in on and so many of the things are strange.
I tded scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in mowemaker. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. -
Viola Caon left her Italian home to find work. Now she returns to see how her former classmates are faring… and in the week that shocking figures showed how badly Europe's youth is being hit by the unemployment crisis, we also talk to hard-hit twentysomethings in Athens and Madrid
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The 50 Most Loathsome Americans
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Glencore and Xstrata close to $80bn deal - FT.com
Glencore and Xstrata are in advanced discussions over an $80bn all-share merger that could reshape the mining industry by combining the world’s largest commodities trading house with one of the biggest mining groups.
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Facebook's days of hypergrowth may be over | Rafe's Radar - CNET News
It's in character for the CEO: An odd mix of arrogant and humble.
But realistic? To think that Facebook is a fledgling is pushing it. Even if it is true that, barring catastrophe, Facebook should still be able to grow nicely for quite a while.
Facebook is solid. As I wrote out shortly before the company filed its papers to go public (Three killer reasons Facebook's IPO could be worth $100 billion), it is built on a tripod of unmatched strengths: A ton of users (reach) who access the site a lot and for long periods (dwell) and who would find it hard to leave even if they wanted to (lock-in). -
Why Nigerians are no longer content with 'suffering and smiling' - CNN.com
Editor's note: Tolu Ogunlesi works as an arts projects manager and freelance journalist in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2009 he was awarded the Arts and Culture prize in the annual CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards, as well as shortlisted for the inaugural PEN/Studzinski literary prize.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- If North Korea is the crying capital of the world, Nigeria holds the aces when it comes to smiling and laughing. It's not simply anecdotal evidence.
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Colleges need to make sure students are actually learning - latimes.com
In his State of the Union address last Tuesday, President Obama proposed several measures to lower college tuition. University leaders responded cautiously, warning that cost-cutting reforms might also cut into instructional quality.
But here's the big open secret in American higher education: Most institutions have no meaningful way to measure the quality of their instruction. And the president didn't ask us to develop one, either. -
Slain border agent's family alleges lies over ATF gun program - latimes.com
Reporting from Washington— The family of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry charged Wednesday that the top federal prosecutor in Phoenix lied to them about the guns found at the crime scene in an attempt to hide the weapons' connection to the ATF's failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
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Thousands Aim to Land Job at Foxconn Despite Harsh Conditions | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Consumer electronics manufacturer Foxconn is looking to double the size of its workforce in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou and scores of hopefuls are clamoring for a job, despite rampant reports of unsafe working conditions at the company's facilities.
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Tensions mount with arrest of Occupy D.C. protester and approach of deadline - The Washington Post
Tensions between Occupy D.C. protesters and law enforcement increased Sunday afternoon with the arrest of a demonstrator and the approach of Monday’s noon deadline to enforce a ban on overnight camping.
Tempers flared about midday after police subdued a protester in McPherson Square with an electric shock. Several protesters accused the police of using excessive force, saying the demonstrator had been handcuffed by two police officers before a third used an electronic device to stun him. -
Officials Say the Darndest Things | 30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs | NewsFeed | TIME.com
It's barely five years old, but the micro-blogging platform Tumblr already rakes in 15 billion pageviews every month. With all that buzz, we thought we'd showcase the best accounts out there (with some help from TIME's Tumblr followers, who nominated their own favorites)
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Police: Afghan Woman Killed for Having Girl - TIME
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — An Afghan woman has been strangled death, apparently by her husband, who was upset that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he had hoped for, police said Monday.
It was the latest in a series of grisly examples of subjugation of women that have made headlines in Afghanistan in the past few months — including a 15-year-old tortured and forced into prostitution by in-laws and a female rape victim who was imprisoned for adultery.
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Sketchy Skechers.com - The Daily WTF
Imagine yourself as an eager, young developer. After many long months of self-study, you’ve carefully honed your craft and have skillfully mastered virtually all development technologies from enterprisey to hipster. Your twelve-page résumé could land you a job anywhere, and as it would happen, the job you decided to take was at a highfalutin consultancy filled with like-minded developers who were almost as skilled as you.
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10 Questions with Facebook Research Engineer – Andrei Alexandrescu | Server-Side Magazine
Today we caught up with Andrei Alexandrescu for a “10 Question” interview. He is a Romanian born research engineer at Facebook living in the US, you can contact him on his website erdani.com or @incomputable.
We will talk about some of the juicy stuff that going on at Facebook, so let’s get started. -
Along with SOPA and PIPA, our government is contemplating another acronym with deplorable consequences for the free dissemination of information: RWA, the Research Works Act. This is a bill to, it says, "ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector", where the important phrase is "private sector" — it's purpose is to guarantee that for-profit corporations retain control over the publication of scientific information. Here are the restrictions it would impose:
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Nomads hunting with Golden Eagles in Western Mongolia. (i.imgur.com)
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Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay | TorrentFreak
Two large ISPs in the Netherlands have said they will not be blocking subscriber access to The Pirate Bay, as demanded by the Hollywood supported anti-piracy outfit BREIN. T-Mobile and KPN argue that blocking websites is a threat to the open Internet, and suggest that the entertainment industry focuses on new business models instead. BREIN is now expected to take the ISPs to court.
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Tabs vs Spaces vs Both (emacswiki.org)
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