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Federal court rules cops can warrantlessly track suspects via cellphone(arstechnica.com)
3 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 14y ago
Though "Cold Fusion" has become such a negative "career killer" term, there is definitely something interesting going on in that space with Palladium, heavy-water and non-chemical reactions. A few brave souls[1] have pretty much endangered
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How India's favorite TV show uses data to change the world(gigaom.com)
110 points by suprgeek 14y ago|14 comments
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The IT challenge of the London Olympics(blogs.hbr.org)
2 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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DB Superstar Jim Starkley touts NuoDBs new patent(gigaom.com)
16 points by suprgeek 14y ago|10 comments
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Crazy Smart: When A Rocker Designs A Mars Lander(npr.org)
4 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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Mars Curiosity's first images(mars.jpl.nasa.gov)
592 points by suprgeek 14y ago|168 comments
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Court orders TSA to justify year-long defiance of the law(arstechnica.com)
1 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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Why India Just Suffered the World's Biggest Black-Out(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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Your Smartphone Is a Spy for the Government(blogs.cio.com)
4 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 14y ago
Inspite of being the most valuable company on Earth and making an amazing profit by any metric - you still lose value (stock price) if you come in under "analyst" estimates. The relentless march of capital may be increasingly going off the
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PaaS on Hadoop YARN - Idea & Prototype(jaigak.blogspot.in)
1 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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How Google Compute Engine hopes to sidestep AWS failures(zdnet.com)
2 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 14y ago
Yes Firefox OS might not catch the momentum the expect it to. But other than using words such as "Hyper-Competitive" the author fails to provide even one cogent argument for why he is so sure that the Firefox OS will fail. Lot of developers
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by suprgeek 14y ago
I am very happy that the Firefox team has finally managed to lick this issue. When at every occasion I used to raise this issue, the typical Mozilla Evangelist would answer: "It is because of the add-ons". My counter to this was that the w
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Laziest Countries on earth(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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You Can't Do Your Job if You Don't Sleep(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 14y ago
Yes he may be out as CEO of VMWare ...but the more interesting part of the news is : Is he the new Head honcho for EMC (a sure promotion)? Is he the new leader of the (soon to be spun-off) new cloud business? Is he "out" as in "not related
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VMware plans cloud spin out to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google(gigaom.com)
2 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 14y ago
Even more exciting - He is going to go into details about the Transportation Idea (Hyperloop) that he alludes to in the video in a few weeks https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/224406502188916739 . Can't wait...
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Google Nexus 7 selling out across retail chains(reuters.com)
1 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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Nobel laureate hangs out on street corners, answering physics questions(boingboing.net)
7 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 14y ago
I think what the article is trying to say is "Buy the best quality that you can afford". Unfortunately the Author has completely conflated Quality with Price. Higher price != Better Quality (not always anyway)
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by suprgeek 14y ago
The "disconnect" rule is an excellent policy for several reasons. In addition to the ones outlined in the post - there is the concept of seeing your own work with "Fresh Eyes". I truly wish I could do this once very six months at least. I w
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AT&T Speech API Gives Developers the Power of AT&T WATSON(attinnovationspace.com)
3 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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Amazon's Kindle Smartphone Will Disrupt the Carrier Model(forbes.com)
2 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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Two studies show 'weird life' microbe can't live on arsenic(cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by suprgeek 14y ago|1 comments
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The Graph Of Programming Langauges(griffsgraphs.com)
2 points by suprgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 14y ago
I sincerely commend the EFF for taking a stand to slow down the descent along the slippery slope of a 24x7x365 survelied society. At this point however, it is probably a safe assumption: No matter what the NSA/NRO/CIA/DOJ or anyone else say
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A skeptic faces possible charges for debunking Mumbai’s miracle statue(slate.com)
57 points by suprgeek 14y ago|60 comments

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