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Me, myself and iPhone: Teenagers are growing more anxious and depressed(economist.com)
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Elon Musk's giant lithium ion battery completed by Tesla in South Australia(abc.net.au)
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by CPAhem 9y ago
The company in question GEMSA Pty Ltd of Australia got a patent on "Storage cabinets" on a computer. Pretty much a patent on folders or directories. Now they are suing everyone. According to the EFF: "As far as we can tell,
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by CPAhem 9y ago
Australia has some of the most draconian anti-libel laws in the English-speaking world. A judge recently sent a blogger to jail for 4 months for "libel" even though the truth of the matter was not disputed. A book on Chinese bribi
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by CPAhem 9y ago
The UK as well, as Bombardier has a big plant in Northern Ireland in the constituency of the small party that the ruling UK party needs to keep its majority. This plant employs 4,500 people. The Economist has a good overview of this fight:
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by CPAhem 9y ago
Because the i7 in your notebook is not really an i7, Intel just calls it that. It is a marketing term. Your desktop i5 is a real quad core, and can run faster and has bigger caches. Unless you have the -HQ i7 series you are limited to two c
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Nowhere to hide – Life in the age of facial recognition(economist.com)
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Purging lobbyists from Washington is harder than it looks(economist.com)
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by CPAhem 9y ago
That's globalization for you. Apple's software is based on open source BSD. They sub-contract the building of their phones to China, and they are made mostly with Korean chips and displays. Apple can import cheap indentured worker
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How Google Could Collapse(hackernoon.com)
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by CPAhem 9y ago
Also Bohm was unpopular with the US government in the early 1950's - he had to leave for Brazil because of McCarthyism and anti-communist feeling.
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by CPAhem 9y ago
Dare I say, but people should be employed for their abilities not their gender, race or value to some checklist. Those who develop greater abilities through study should find greater opportunities in work, regardless of their gender, race,
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AI Lip Syncing Creates Obama Puppet Master(hothardware.com)
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Slapp Lawsuits: Strategic lawsuit against public participation(kangaroocourtofaustralia.com)
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Chinese investors purchase $24B worth of Australian real estate each year(businessinsider.com.au)
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Minneapolis airport fails 95 percent of security tests(fox9.com)
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by CPAhem 9y ago
The odd issue is why the vibration continue after he shut down the engine? Was it an avionics issue instead? Two previous issues[1] have occurred in the same airspace (near Learmonth) with similar Airbus aircraft from Qantas. "The inci
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Why did AirAsia fly a crippled jet away from a nearby airport yesterday?(blogs.crikey.com.au)
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by CPAhem 9y ago
It reminds me of "An ancient rope-and-pulley computer is unearthed in the jungle of Apraphul," Computer Recreations, Scientific American http://robert.surton.net/cs271/apraphulian.pdf
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by CPAhem 9y ago
If you're looking for a similar tool which does have a code unravel-er look at SciTools Understand[1] for C/C++/Java My previous company used Understand on a large unfamiliar codebase, it helped greatly, but was pricey. [1]
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by CPAhem 9y ago
There is also the issue of parallel construction - basically using evidence gathered illegally to build a case, and then not submitting that evidence during the case, or using it for a plea-bargain. As Snowden said, good encryption is a par
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Australia has the most expensive energy bills(macrobusiness.com.au)
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BAE sold cyber-surveillance tools to Arab states(bbc.com)
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The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation(newscientist.com)
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China to 'score' citizens on behaviour(afr.com)
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Truth and statistics – Everybody Lies(economist.com)
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White House visitor logs help show that lobbying pays(economist.com)
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Apple accused of false and misleading conduct(smh.com.au)
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Head of US military testing slams F-35, says it's unfit to fly(theregister.co.uk)
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by CPAhem 10y ago
>Good to know I'm not alone or imagining this stuff ;) No, you just don't see it mentioned much, perhaps as it is just seen as "un-cool" in some circles to paint anything Google does as being less than perfect.

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