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“The report says the nuclear indus­try, under cur­rent poli­cies and financ­ing, won’t be able to build enough new reac­tors to make a dif­fer­ence in cli­mate in the next 20 years.” I’m not surprised.

“National Secu­rity Let­ters, a con­tro­ver­sial tool that lets inves­ti­ga­tors obtain records with­out a court order, has come under fire from civil lib­er­tar­i­ans, courts, and the government’s own watch­dogs. Now law­mak­ers have revived a pro­posal to rein in NSLs, the use of which has exploded under the PATRIOT Act.” The sad part of NSls is that even the Jus­tice Depart­ment admits it’s been overused.

A con­tent slider that is actu­ally valid.

Ahh xkcd once again makes my day.

Umm no morons.

An argu­ment for Mother to Mature Nature account rules.

HTML5, an ever mov­ing target.

“Based on the 1967 Katz v. United States Supreme Court deci­sion, this test actu­ally has two parts. First, the government’s action can’t con­tra­vene an individual’s sub­jec­tive expec­ta­tion of pri­vacy; and sec­ond, that expec­ta­tion of pri­vacy must be one that soci­ety in gen­eral rec­og­nizes as rea­son­able. That sec­ond part isn’t based on any­thing like polling data; it is more of a nor­ma­tive idea of what level of pri­vacy peo­ple should be allowed to expect, given the com­pet­ing impor­tance of per­sonal pri­vacy on one hand and the government’s inter­est in pub­lic safety on the other. The prob­lem is, in today’s infor­ma­tion soci­ety, that def­i­n­i­tion test will rapidly leave us with no pri­vacy at all.” Inter­est­ing read.

How did eBay solve their scal­a­bil­ity issues?

“Jacek Utko is an extra­or­di­nary Pol­ish news­pa­per designer whose redesigns for papers in East­ern Europe not only win awards, but increase cir­cu­la­tion by up to 100%. He asks, Can good design save the news­pa­per? It just might.” Really good TED talk.

Cre­ate your own per­sonal lifestream. Pretty cool app.

Not only is the Authors Guild in the wrong, but so is Amazon.

“The US Supreme Court has dis­missed an appeal by cig­a­rette maker Philip Mor­ris over a $79.5m (£56m) award to the widow of a long-time Ore­gon smoker.” Final award amount is $145 million.

Design those back­grounds people.

“The debate on global warm­ing and energy pol­icy accel­er­ated on Tues­day as two senior House Democ­rats unveiled a far-reaching bill to cap heat-trapping gases and quicken the country’s move away from depen­dence on coal and oil.”

Now we have adver­tis­ing on our roads.

“The right les­son to learn from open source soft­ware, I think, is that it may be darned hard to achieve mod­u­lar­ity in soft­ware devel­op­ment, but it can be worth it to reap the ben­e­fits of large-scale collaboration.”

“The World Bank says the world econ­omy will con­tract by 1.7% this year, the first decline since World War II.”

Just adding more servers doesn’t make your web­site more reliable.

Dojo is pretty freak­ing fast JS library.

Good to read for any­one with mis­con­cep­tions about what athe­ism means.

Good news from EA on their most recent run in with DRM.

I was so miss­ing my spam.

“Pres­i­dent Obama plans to begin nego­ti­a­tions on Wednes­day to draft a new arms con­trol treaty that could slash the Amer­i­can and Russ­ian strate­gic nuclear arse­nals by about a third and pos­si­bly lead to even deeper reduc­tions, accord­ing to admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials.” Good, how many nukes do we really need, that and it would save us money.

“On green phi­los­o­phy, there is lit­er­ally no place on earth for mankind.” Ah yes, lib­er­tar­i­ans have no con­cept of bal­ance, it’s either all or nothing.

Your job is to reg­is­ter domains not reg­u­late morality.

“Unsur­pris­ingly, Google says it elim­i­nated the video ads because of poor per­for­mance. It is dif­fi­cult to fig­ure out a sus­tain­able ad model for video, which is why pre-rolls remain more common.”

“In fact, adults are exposed to screens — TVs, cell­phones, even G.P.S. devices — for about 8.5 hours on any given day, accord­ing to a study released by the Coun­cil for Research Excel­lence on Thurs­day.” I’m not surprised.

Some­times it’s right, some­times it’s not.

“The bill will expand the num­ber of vol­un­teer slots to 250,000 from 75,000, increas­ing the ranks of the exist­ing Ameri­Corps pro­gram, and estab­lish­ing new cadres of vol­un­teers focused on health care, edu­ca­tion, renew­able energy and veterans.”

“Wyoming [NJ] County Dis­trict Attor­ney George Sku­man­ick Jr. can­not charge three teenage girls who appeared in pho­tographs semi­nude traded by class­mates last year, a judge ruled Mon­day. US Dis­trict Judge James M. Mun­ley granted a request by the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union to tem­porar­ily stop Mr. Sku­man­ick from fil­ing felony charges against the Tunkhan­nock Area School Dis­trict stu­dents.” Good news on a fol­low from an ear­lier story I posted here.

When cre­at­ing a design remem­ber to design the sys­tem you want peo­ple to inter­act with, the com­ments for a blog.

To make it in social media you need peo­ple there ready to inter­act with the cus­tomer or the cus­tomer them self for other cus­tomers to see/interact with.

Way to go Pittsburgh.

“Sum­mary: Fox News’ William La Jeunesse asserted that “our cor­po­rate tax rate is sec­ond high­est in the world,” ignor­ing the effec­tive tax rate, which is lower for cor­po­ra­tions in the U.S. than for cor­po­ra­tions in sev­eral other coun­tries.” The effec­tive tax rate and the tax rate are two very dif­fer­ent things.

“The Free Flow of Infor­ma­tion Act man­dates fed­eral court over­sight of sub­poe­nas that would force jour­nal­ists to reveal infor­ma­tion gleaned from con­fi­den­tial sources. How­ever, in order to gain the pro­tec­tion of the bill, a reporter must engage in jour­nal­ism “reg­u­larly” and must do so “for a sub­stan­tial por­tion of [his or her] liveli­hood or for sub­stan­tial finan­cial gain.” The Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union sup­ported the bill’s pas­sage but noted that it would have pre­ferred stronger pro­tec­tions for those reporters who aren’t engaged in jour­nal­ism reg­u­larly or those who do so with­out com­pen­sa­tion.” Not bad.

“Sum­mary: Numer­ous media out­lets and per­son­al­i­ties have claimed or sug­gested that given the size of the cur­rent and pro­jected U.S. fed­eral debt, the Obama administration’s health-care reform pro­posal is unten­able, but did not address the administration’s argu­ment that health-care reform is essen­tial to the long-term eco­nomic health of the coun­try.” It’s so hard respond­ing to other side, more fun to just make stuff up.

Please who wants to write a social app in ActionScript?

“The Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion, once a place where astro­nauts would share food and facil­i­ties, is said to be embroiled in a Cold War-like stand-off.” Seriously?

One of the first meet­ings between the cur­rent admin­is­tra­tion and Iran, also it was appar­ently unplanned.

I would do it too if I had a cruddy car and could get more than it was worth.

“What the Obama team is propos­ing is dis­con­cert­ingly sim­i­lar to the actions of Japan­ese Prime Min­is­ters Hashimoti, Obuchi, and Mori in 1995 and 1998: Rather than ask the leg­is­la­ture for straight­for­ward recap­i­tal­iza­tion money, you have the polit­i­cal lead­er­ship pre­fer­ring to risk over­pay­ing cur­rent own­ers of toxic assets rather than forc­ing sales. For all of Japan’s sup­posed inter­ven­tion in mar­kets, its gov­ern­ment still lacked the stom­ach for tak­ing over banks, let alone clos­ing them.” Interesting.

It seems silly this is even a ques­tion, “nope don’t need a chaplain”.

“Kim Kar­dashian posted a pre-photoshopped pic­ture of her­self from her Com­plex Mag­a­zine pho­to­shoot to her blog say­ing she is aware she has cel­lulite and ‘which curvy girl doesn’t?’” Good to read.

“A US marine has gone on trial accused of killing an unarmed cap­tive in Iraq, in a case sparked by his own alleged con­fes­sion dur­ing a lie-detector test. The court-martial in Cal­i­for­nia heard that when Sgt Ryan Weemer applied for a Secret Ser­vice job, he said he had killed some­one in Iraq in 2004.” Tough case but con­sid­er­ing he essen­tially con­fessed, well you know.

Stack Over­flow had an out­age, due to raid controllers.

Smash­ing Mag­a­zine gets in on the fun of April Fool’s.

“US house prices fell by a record 19% in Jan­u­ary com­pared with a year ear­lier, accord­ing to a closely-watched index.” Wow.

Bye, Wkia search.

“Face­book CFO Gideon Yu (pic­tured here) is leav­ing Face­book, as the com­pany announced inter­nally today that it was replac­ing him and search­ing for a new CFO on the path to an even­tual IPO.” Interesting.

“Microsoft last week lost Euro­pean browser mar­ket lead­er­ship for the first time in years, when Mozilla’s Fire­fox 3 took the top spot from Inter­net Explorer 7, Web ana­lyt­ics firm Stat­Counter said on Tues­day.” Roughly a third for each Fire­fox and IE7.

“The Obama admin­is­tra­tion has reversed another pol­icy from the Bush era by seek­ing a seat for the US on the UN’s Human Rights Council.”

Just in case you want on I guess?

Ran­dom but the same.