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by suprgeek 11y ago
(Obvious Generalizations etc..) Sikhs are some of the hardest working and toughest people from the Indian Subcontinent. They also have a fearsome reputation in the military and are considered one of the toughest Regiments of the Indian army
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Will Google’s research-grade fitness band be its biomed breakthrough?(arstechnica.com)
1 points by suprgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 11y ago
<Please><Please> Abandoned alien city.
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Great article but somewhat misleading title. Young, Vegetarian... so these are qualities that take away traditional CVD risks. Add "still" to the title & it becomes much more clear. Indians consuming a traditional diet get rid
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Former red light camera CEO pleads guilty to bribery, fraud in Ohio(arstechnica.com)
1 points by suprgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Usually the EFF does a good job with these reports but you got to wonder with a company like Dropbox. - Condi Rice is on the Board of directors - an avowed supporter of NSA warantless wiretaps - Users cannot control thier Keys such that it
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by suprgeek 11y ago
>>Disney is not an IT company, and IT is not their core competency Given the crucial role IT plays in nearly all Disney enterprises (TV, Movies, theme parks, etc) they better make IT one of their core competencies.
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by suprgeek 11y ago
What Disney has done is certainly reprehensible but fully legal (given the "contractor" loophole in the H1-B program). However the backlash is focusing on the "them foreigners taking our Jobs" aspect a bit too much. What
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European court decision: Websites are liable for users’ comments(arstechnica.co.uk)
120 points by suprgeek 11y ago|78 comments
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Note that this article talks about Violent Crime & its reduction. One theory to add to the mix of all others (one that is somewhat touched upon in the article) - We are moving to more digitized, less physical (things) economy. If what y
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NSA Backdoor Searches Would End If House Amendment Survives(firstlook.org)
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Is Airtel spying on its 3G subscribers for ads? Programmer reveal codes(indianexpress.com)
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Yes the air in Delhi is a Disaster. The pollution & uncontrolled trash burning accompanied by a foggy climate with extreme heat/cold seasons all contribute. It is a very real and complex problem and the people & the Govt. of In
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Blood Test Can Detect Every Virus You’ve Ever Had(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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Single Test for All Virus Exposure Opens Doors for Researchers(nytimes.com)
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Video/Cell surveillance with a Judges order by the FBI (a NON-FISA Judge - the FISA ones are Rubber Stamps) is how the process is supposed to work. The article raises two deeply troubling points: 1) That they operate without specific J
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U.S. Senate to let NSA spy program lapse, at least for now(reuters.com)
14 points by suprgeek 11y ago|3 comments
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Very cool storyline but the excessive voice-over can be a little grating. Fight club meets Hackers meets Men in Black Here is the full episode (without the hoops) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxvvnWvffM
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Notice how they casually slip in "..and occasionally updating". This means that Twitter now has a nice list of all apps on your Mobile via the malicious Twitter app that snoops on your phone. They get to then sell this info to ad
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Whoops a creationist museum supporter stumbled upon a major fossil find(washingtonpost.com)
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Pakistani CEO arrested for selling degrees from “Barkley” and “Columbiana”(arstechnica.com)
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by suprgeek 11y ago
A Stunningly bad idea if this were ever to stand. A really idiotic move by the Whitehouse - increasing the scope of the Copyright law is probably the last thing people thought of with the whole "Hope & Change" thing. Something
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by suprgeek 11y ago
I think "shut down" means "move to collect via other means which are currently classified". Once the tiger has tasted human blood it is always a man-eater. They have ONE and ONLY one mandate "Collect all the things&
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Whenever I see a REST book I always have the same set of questions: 1) How do I call operations such as Clean, Restart etc not the regular CRUD ones? I may have to end up doing a variation of POST - is that RESTful (whatever that means)? 2)
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Your Reputation Anywhere(havekarma.com)
1 points by suprgeek 11y ago|0 comments
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Great Experiment. But they missed a crucial and very big stressor if they want to compare it to a real space stay... that of being out of reach of ANY possible help. Imagine one of them gets an aliment of somekind that gets life-threatening
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by suprgeek 11y ago
This corrupt river runs deep... There is sustained speculation that this company is a front for money laundering connected to the Pakistani ISI. Their use of lawyers & NDA's is also well known in the subcontinent. For a very simila
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by suprgeek 11y ago
We are - all of us - the slowly boiling frogs of the story. Google, Netflix, Amazon, Uber & AirBnb - What you search for & e-mail about, What you watch, What you buy, Where you travel to & from & Where you stay - perfect tra
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Please please test battery life impact while implementing the Multi-process stuff. I had to move away from Chrome just on the battery life issue. I suspect (but cannot conclusively prove) that the multi-process crap that Chrome has just dra
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by suprgeek 11y ago
Both the Government's "Seal Team Six - Fuck yeah!" version and Hersh's more pedestrian "ISI insider sold him down the river & it was a hit job" version have exactly the same corroboration - ZERO, NONE. We h

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