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Is There Anyone Out There That Still Believes In Wikipedia?

December 28th, 2009 · Comments Off

From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post:

All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William) Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the [...]

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Tags: Censorship · Global Warming · Internet · Media · Technology · The Left · World

U.S. jobs more expensive than foreign jobs?

June 12th, 2009 · Comments Off

From Bloomberg:

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world’s largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama’s plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign profits.
“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them [...]

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Tags: Government · Money · Taxes · Technology · The US

End Of The World Tonight

September 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments

From FOX News:

The clock is ticking.
At 12:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, scientists on the Franco-Swiss border will flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile underground ring where subatomic particles will be accelerated to astonishing speeds and then smashed into each other.
It’ll be months before any usable data comes out from the experiments, but [...]

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Tags: Science · Technology

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3

June 18th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Mozilla:

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 17, 2008 – Mozilla today released Firefox® 3, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser. Firefox 3 is the culmination of three years of efforts from thousands of developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and testers from around the globe.
Available today in [...]

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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology

The Left vs. The Right vs. Oil Prices

June 16th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Power Line via The Rottweiler:

For several decades, the Democratic Party has pursued policies designed to drive up the cost of petroleum, and therefore gas at the pump. Remarkably, the Democrats don’t seem to have taken much of a political hit from the current spike in gas prices. Probably that’s because most people don’t realize [...]

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Tags: Energy · Government · Technology · The Left · The Right · The US

Husband Carrying/Delivering Child For Wife?

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

From The Advocate:

To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are — a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was nothing [...]

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Tags: Health · Science · Technology · The US

What Is Considered “Breaking” A Ceasefire?

April 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

At what point do Palestinian terror and missile attacks constitute a breach of a “ceasefire”?

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Tags: Hamas · Islamofascism · Israel · Media · Muslim/Islam · Palestine · Technology

In Case You’re Keeping Score

July 30th, 2006 · Comments Off

A Hezbollah missile, manufactured by Iran, is fired into Israel every 11 minutes.

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Tags: Iran · Islamofascism · Israel · Lebanon · Muslim/Islam · Technology

SiteAdvisor

March 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

SiteAdvisor has pioneered a new approach to Web safety by alerting you of spyware infections, identity theft scams, and sites which send excessive e-mail.

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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology

Hotmail + Blog = Sabeer Bhatia

March 12th, 2006 · Comments Off

Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh, India. After a brief two year stint at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, he transferred to the California Institute of Technology where he received his Bachelor’s degree, and then went on to receive his Master’s degree from Stanford University.
He launched the web-based email service Hotmail [...]

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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology

Ma Bell, Forceably Broken Apart In The 1980s, Is Rising From The Ashes.

March 6th, 2006 · Comments Off

For decades, the nation had a heavily regulated, highly profitable national phone company run by AT&T and known as Ma Bell. The market is now knitting the pieces back together – for better or worse.

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Tags: Money · Technology

To All You Mozila Users Out There

February 8th, 2006 · Comments Off

Several vulnerabilities have been reported in the Mozilla web browser.

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Tags: Technology

Google Your Cell Phone

February 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off

Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to send queries as text messages over your mobile phone.

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Tags: Technology