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| NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 09: People walk past an advertisement for the Nokia Lumia 900 phone, which runs on a Windows platform, in the window of an AT&T store on April 9, 2012 in New York City. The marketing of the new phone has been criticized as it officially went on sale on Easter day when stores of it's exclusive carrier AT&T were closed. The Lumia 900, which costs around $100 with a one year contract, includes an 8 megapixel camera, and optics from German lens specialist Carl Zeiss. The phone which is focused to rival the Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphones is powered by a 1.4-GHz Snapdragon processor and also has a front-facing camera for videoconferencing. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
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| SANTA MONICA, CA - SEPTEMBER 6: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demonstrates the image quality of new Kindle reading devices during a press conference on September 6, 2012 in Santa Monica, California. Amazon unveiled the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire HD in 7 and 8.9-inch sizes. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
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| GARDNER, ND - APRIL 10: A rural church is surrounded by flood water April 10, 2011 near Gardner, North Dakota. The Red River crested yesterday about 25 miles south of Gardner in Fargo, North Dakota at 38.5 feet, well below the anticipated 41 feet and the record crest 40.84 feet experienced in 2009. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
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| English: Sunflowers in Traill County, North Dakota Category:Images of North Dakota (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Farm road in Champaign County, Illinois Español: Camino de granjas en Champaign County, Illinois (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 02: President of Energy and Oil Pipelines of TransCanada Corporation Alex Pourbaix (L) talks to Director of the Construction Department of Laborers' International Union of North America Brent Booker (2nd L) prior to a hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce December 2, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The subcommittee held the hearing on 'Expediting the Keystone XL Pipeline: Energy Security and Jobs.' (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
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Russia snubs Google for Android-style tablet
Lucy Kinder The Russian government has built a tablet computer using an Android-style operating system but deliberately avoids Google. Russia is wary of Google's operating system, reportedly believing that data collected and stored in Google databases could find its way into the hands of the US government.( With the F.B.I. entrenched in their offices, this is not merely a reasonable suspicion, but a virtual certainty ) The project has been run out of a military research facility but is privately funded.
"Android-style"
The Telegraph once against fails to understand the basics of technology. This is an Android tablet. Simple. It's not a Google device.
There is nothing "Android-style" about it. Android is an open-source project. Anybody can take the code and do what they like with it. As it's open-source anybody (including the Russians) can submit their code changes upstream.
Plenty, and I mean plenty, of existing phones and tablets on the market already don't use Google. The Amazon Kindle Fire, Archos tabs, and so on.
Tip taken as anon - FB
( The note doesn't say so - but this is the nature of the site of Deepwater Horizon - the unprecedented blowout that again pollutes the Gulf of Mexico )
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the Republican chairman of the panel, delivered that warning bluntly. "If I were an American company today -- and I'll tell you this as the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence -- and you are looking at Huawei, I would find another vendor if you care about your intellectual property, if you care about your consumers' privacy, and you care about the national security of the United States of America,"
The Telegraph once against fails to understand the basics of technology. This is an Android tablet. Simple. It's not a Google device.
There is nothing "Android-style" about it. Android is an open-source project. Anybody can take the code and do what they like with it. As it's open-source anybody (including the Russians) can submit their code changes upstream.
Plenty, and I mean plenty, of existing phones and tablets on the market already don't use Google. The Amazon Kindle Fire, Archos tabs, and so on.
Saturday, October 13 at 12:00pm in PDT at The comfort of your own home
Isn't it interesting how all news reporting on the Jill Meagher case has ceased, despite completely failing to provide:
1) evidence linking the suspect to the victim
2) a confession
3) explanation of how the police found the body
4) evidence of criminal past of the suspect
and despite:
1) widespread dissimenation of the name of the suspect
2) rumour and gossip leaked to social media about the suspect
3) photos of the suspect leaked to social media
Now the media is complaing that social media is the problem, when it
was the media which led the charge in violating the rights of the
accused.
Despite all of this noise, we actually know nothing
substantive about the case. If the suspect (now on remand under maximum
security) confesses between now and January we will never get any facts
at all (as with the Martin Bryant conviction), other than journalistic
spin and hyperbole, and appeals to emotion.
This is the way the CRIMINAL justice system works in Australia.
Perpetrators are guilty by decree, while the media spins the illusion of due process and the presumption of innocence.
Smirking Chimp added a new photo.
Tip taken as anon - FB
Isn't it interesting how all news reporting on the Jill Meagher case has ceased, despite completely failing to provide:
1) evidence linking the suspect to the victim
2) a confession
3) explanation of how the police found the body
1) evidence linking the suspect to the victim
2) a confession
3) explanation of how the police found the body
4) evidence of criminal past of the suspect
and despite:
1) widespread dissimenation of the name of the suspect
2) rumour and gossip leaked to social media about the suspect
3) photos of the suspect leaked to social media
Now the media is complaing that social media is the problem, when it was the media which led the charge in violating the rights of the accused.
Despite all of this noise, we actually know nothing substantive about the case. If the suspect (now on remand under maximum security) confesses between now and January we will never get any facts at all (as with the Martin Bryant conviction), other than journalistic spin and hyperbole, and appeals to emotion.
This is the way the CRIMINAL justice system works in Australia.
Perpetrators are guilty by decree, while the media spins the illusion of due process and the presumption of innocence.
and despite:
1) widespread dissimenation of the name of the suspect
2) rumour and gossip leaked to social media about the suspect
3) photos of the suspect leaked to social media
Now the media is complaing that social media is the problem, when it was the media which led the charge in violating the rights of the accused.
Despite all of this noise, we actually know nothing substantive about the case. If the suspect (now on remand under maximum security) confesses between now and January we will never get any facts at all (as with the Martin Bryant conviction), other than journalistic spin and hyperbole, and appeals to emotion.
This is the way the CRIMINAL justice system works in Australia.
Perpetrators are guilty by decree, while the media spins the illusion of due process and the presumption of innocence.
Smirking Chimp added a new photo.
freethoughtblogs.comFor a while now I’ve been taking part in the free Coursera online units (in fact, quite a few – check out the Writing in the Sciences and Think Again: How to Reason and Argue!). I’ve also enjoyed reading the (not-for-free) resources created by Dr Steve Novella over on The Great Courses. Now I’ve...
ESTEE'S SKY WATCH IN VICTORIA B.C. shared Es-tee R. Miller's photo.
ESTEE'S SKY WATCH IN VICTORIA B.C. and Es-tee R. Miller shared a link.
Huawei, Controversial Chinese Tech Firm That Once Partnered With Bain Capital, Slammed By GOP
The House intelligence committee on Monday will release a damning investigation into the Chinese telecom firm Huawei Technologies, according to a "60 Minutes" investigation that aired Sunday night.
A principal aim of the two-track media and political onslaught is to warn U.S. companies not to do business with Huawei, arguing that its close relationship with the Chinese government creates unacceptable security risks.Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the Republican chairman of the panel, delivered that warning bluntly. "If I were an American company today -- and I'll tell you this as the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence -- and you are looking at Huawei, I would find another vendor if you care about your intellectual property, if you care about your consumers' privacy, and you care about the national security of the United States of America,"
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Dioxins – Causing generations of damage
A
new study out this week shows how exposure to environmental pollutants
can cause genetic mutations. Now epigeneticists found that some
exposures can change how genes are expressed and then are passed on for
generations. “Not only does the individual exposed get the disease, but
it’s transmitted to great-grandchildren with no exposure,” says Michael
Skinner, Washington State University. Published Wednesday, September 26,
in the journal PLoS One: When Washington State University researchers
exposed pregnant rats to low-levels of dioxin, the first…
Monsanto fails at attempt to explain away tumors caused by GM corn
Posted on October 6, 2012 | 3 CommentsMonsanto’s efforts to dismiss new evidence linking its genetically modified (GM) corn to tumors has been thoroughly debunked in a public briefing by the food sustainability nonprofit Earth Open Source. “NK603 must be immediately withdrawn from the market and all GMOs must be subjected to long-term testing,” the briefing concludes. In a two-year study, a team of French researchers led by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini found that rats fed Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” corn developed significantly more tumors...
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Transient electronics – devices that disappear after serving purpose
Researchers have developed biocompatible electronic devices able to serve as conventional electronics but unlike them, these can harmlessly dissolve into fluids. This characteristic opens up a complete array of possible applications like bioresorbable (can be broken down by the body, doesn’t require removal) medical implants, degradable environmental monitors and compostable consumer devices. Incorporating silicon from conventional circuits, magnesium as a conductor and silk protein for encapsulation of circuit, researchers created these thin electronic devices which can be dissolved into fluids in a programmed manner, called transient electronics….
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One
of the things that bugs me most about some of my fellow
environmentalists, aside from the patchouli, is the near-religious
adherence — even among those enviros who eschew religion — to the notion
that natural ecological systems have an innate and emergent
self-repairing property. It’s a...
Real Coastal Warriors shared a link.
The
first major snowfall of the year in the U.S. has manifested itself in
an area near northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota, but
the flurries could threaten harvests in the Midwest. Farmers in the
area, who recently suffered through the one of the worst droughts in
years, are still harvesting corn and soybean crops, and agriculturalists
are waiting to see what effect the weather could have on the plants.
freethoughtblogs.com
In
my last post, I looked at the problem of purpose: when you say that
suffering has a divine purpose, you create confusion as to whether or
not it’s ok to oppose that suffering, since doing so risks opposing God.
But there are other problems as well. Today I’d like to look at the
paradox [...]...
Tiffani Webb, New York High School Counselor, Fired For Modeling Past, Racy Photos Taken 17 Years Ago
Halas and Webb are among a number of educators caught in the
crossfire of a nationwide debate on teachers' rights beyond campus. About 20 percent of teachers are moonlighting in second jobs as their salaries have taken a hit due to massive budget cuts. That figure is up from about 11 percent in 1981.
Educators are increasingly trolling "help wanted" ads and are taking
on second jobs as bartenders, waitresses, school bus drivers and the
like. And teachers say they do it because they need the money.
Gabriel Lerner: Los Angeles School District Continues To Languish Under Unending Budget Crisis
The future never looked so bleak
for California children enrolled in public school. What would John Deasy
say, circa 2003?
Adam Levin: A National Service Corps Can Solve the Student Loan Crisis
People need to stop thinking of
college as something they borrow for, and start thinking of it as
something they work and save for. A National Service Corps could be the
catalyst we need.
Tiffani Webb, New York High School Counselor, Fired For Modeling Past, Racy Photos Taken 17 Years Ago
Halas and Webb are among a number of educators caught in the crossfire of a nationwide debate on teachers' rights beyond campus. About 20 percent of teachers are moonlighting in second jobs as their salaries have taken a hit due to massive budget cuts. That figure is up from about 11 percent in 1981.Educators are increasingly trolling "help wanted" ads and are taking on second jobs as bartenders, waitresses, school bus drivers and the like. And teachers say they do it because they need the money.
Gabriel Lerner: Los Angeles School District Continues To Languish Under Unending Budget Crisis
The future never looked so bleak
for California children enrolled in public school. What would John Deasy
say, circa 2003?
Adam Levin: A National Service Corps Can Solve the Student Loan Crisis
People need to stop thinking of
college as something they borrow for, and start thinking of it as
something they work and save for. A National Service Corps could be the
catalyst we need.
( Interesting. When the U.S. decided - without evidence - to spread the story that al Qaeda ... a CIA manufactured entity ... was responsible for an event in which perpetrators, victims and evidence were destroyed and not subjected to forensic analysis as required by law...the FBI never listed bin Laden as responsible. Nor was Taleban - Afghan government - request for legal documentation to further an extradition request for a Saudi prince who was paymaster for the revolutionary forces which finally drove out the USSR in 'Charlie Wilson's War ' ever dealt with. But here is a convenience in line with policies unilaterally decreed by U.S. authorities in line with 'Sanctions' : confiscation and theft of foreign assets. )
Occupy Monsanto added a new photo.
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