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At Particle Lab, a Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths(nytimes.com)
52 points by hardtke 16y ago|19 comments
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by hardtke 16y ago
"unauthorized streaming of copyrighted material become a felony". How is it possible to implement such a law and not make YouTube a felon? The decision in the Viacom vs. Youtube said that YouTube was not guilty of copyright violations bec
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by hardtke 16y ago
Apple spent millions of dollars promoting the concept that iPhone/iPad apps should not necessarily be free. How many times did you see a print ad where they showed a bunch of cool apps AND their prices? This 30% fee is simply a return on
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The hunt for neutrinos in the Antarctic | Science | The Observer(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by hardtke 16y ago|0 comments
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by hardtke 16y ago
Long term, the price of oil is capped by the cost of converting coal to diesel. Last I saw, this price is around $70-100 per barrel. Coal to diesel is horrible for the environment (twice the CO2 emissions of burning regular petroleum), bu
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by hardtke 16y ago
The problem with this study is that the tested search queries are completely different than what people type into a search engine. Besides being 30% vile, real search queries are very tailored to search engines algorithms -- two to three w
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Dilbert on Cloud Computing(dilbert.com)
77 points by hardtke 16y ago|25 comments
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by hardtke 16y ago
I use tuffmail. IMAP and web support. No problems in several years. My personal tuffmail accounts works much better with my Android phone than my work gmail account. For me, it is worth $20 per year to not have my personal life available
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by hardtke 16y ago
Not sure you are aware, but the FTC recently wiped out the whole debt settlement industry by making it such that you can't charge upfront fees for debt settlement programs. Before that, debt settlement was one of the most lucrative vertica
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Yahoo Search BOSS V2: A Paid Service with Web, Images, and News(ysearchblog.com)
1 points by hardtke 16y ago|0 comments
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by hardtke 16y ago
The problem here is that for every dollar the government currently collects, they spend two. This should be reflected.
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LHC computing grid pushes petabytes of data, beats expectations(arstechnica.com)
18 points by hardtke 16y ago|3 comments