Monday, May 20, 2013

Content-Centric Networking - P2P Foundation

http://p2pfoundation.net/Content-Centric_Networking


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Edge.org

http://edge.org/response-detail/23799


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Eu research view, iof

http://www.internet-of-things-research.eu/pdf/IoT_Cluster_Strategic_Research_Agenda_2011.pdf


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The Internet of Things: In action - The Next Web

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/19/the-internet-of-things-in-action/?fromcat=all


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Skepticblog » Consensus on Climate Change

by STEVEN NOVELLA, May 20 2013

A recent review finds that over 97% of scientists believe that human activity is contributing to climate change. That is a very solid consensus of scientific opinion.


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Rationally Speaking


: (a) The contingency of the circumstances that give rise to relationships makes them deeply a-rational (so long, Kant!); (b) They derive from chance priority of acquaintance, pheromone compatibility, genetic fatality, transference, and habit (i.e., they have many causes); and (c) None of the above mentioned factors count as reasons. The distinction between causes and reasons in philosophy in general, and in the philosophy of human action in particular, has a long and complex history. 

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iQ by Intel - Intel ISEF 2013: A World of Winning Ideas

http://iq.intel.com/iq/32966491/intel-isef-2013-a-world-of-winning-ideas


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Slate: What’s the Matter With Portland?



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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Slashdot: Intel Rolls Out "Beacon Mountain" Android Dev Platform For Atom

http://m.slashdot.org/story/186275


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Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong

Noriko: Wow, you must have a real knack for it!

Kazumi: That's not it, Miss Takaya! It takes hard work in order to achieve that.

Noriko: Hard work? You must have a knack for hard work, then!



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How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/17/4340274/how-google-beat-apple-to-a-streaming-music-service
Spotify is the top music subscription service. The company has
attracted more than 6 million paying subscribers by enabling them to
listen to any song in its library anytime they want for $9.99 a month.
Over at Pandora, the online radio service plays songs randomly and
relies on ad sales to pay the bills. But neither of these companies
have come close to generating profits; the top record companies hope
that Apple and Google can wade in and do a better job of that.

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Microsoft Word - Boan report.doc

After reviewing interviews of the Iron Brotherhood members conducted by the Department of Public Safety Special Investigations Unit, reviewing videos from Hooligan's and Moctezuma's bars, reviewing an audio recording made by Prescott Police and interviewing Deputy Mark Boan, I have made the following conclusions and findings 


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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Article: The IRS Tea Party Scandal, Explained

Does this mess have any connection to all that "dark money" you guys write about?Yes. Before this scandal broke, 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups were already making headlines for their political spending. Secretive nonprofits like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, the Koch-fundedAmericans for Prosperity, and the American Action Network spent huge sums of money to influence the 2012 elections. Campaign watchdogs say those groups have flouted the law, which says 501(c)(4) groups can't make politics their "primary purpose." Watchdogs have demanded that the IRS and the Federal Election Commission crack down on these nonprofits for spending too much time and money on politics.

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501(c) exemption, what they can do,

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopicm95.pdf


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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown - Telegraph


The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as "His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack." They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash like a rocket.

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Friday, May 10, 2013

Mom Delays Taking Gunshot-Wounded Son to Hospital to Check WebMD First

Mom Delays Taking Gunshot-Wounded Son to Hospital to Check WebMD First: "WebMd, the hypochondriac's wet dream turned digital, is notorious for convincing invalid-hopefuls that their pounding headache is actually just a tricky little combination of diabetes and cyanide poisoning."

The Republicans’ Benghazi Obsession - NYTimes.com


Before Wednesday's hearing on the attack in Benghazi, Libya, Republicans in Congress promised explosive new details about the administration's mishandling of the episode. Instead, the hearing showed, yet again, that sober fact-finding is not their mission. Common sense and good judgment have long given way to conspiracy-mongering and a relentless effort to discredit President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Thursday, May 09, 2013

Magellan's Log: Tasteless Limericks

The naughty old bishop of Birmingham
Buggered two boys whilst confirming 'em.
   As they knelt before God
   He pulled out his rod
And pumped his Episcopal sperm in 'em.



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Scandal

The moral degeneracy of GOP Congress critters continues to drag 4 dead Americans thru political muck.

Perhaps Republicans should learn to be as faithful to their wives as they are to made-up scandal.



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Benghazi

Sad that the GOP congress critter continue to drag 4 dead Americans thru political muck.
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Goodreads | Quote by Salman Rushdie: The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great ...


The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women's rights, pluralism, secularism, short skits, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex. There are tyrants, not Muslims.

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13 Benghazis That Occurred on Bush’s Watch Without a Peep from Fox News | The Daily Banter

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/05/13-benghazis-that-occurred-on-bushs-watch-without-a-peep-from-fox-news/


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Article: What Dick Cheney's Benghazi Criticism Misses



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Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it's up, says study - latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-gun-crimes-pew-report-20130507,0,3022693.story


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Pain and Gain | Movie Reviews | Rolling Stone

Pain and Gain | Movie Reviews | Rolling Stone: "The four words that can chill this movie critic to the bone are: Directed by Michael Bay. Remember, this is the guy who depicted the attack on Pearl Harbor from the point of view of the bomb. Maybe that's why I wasn't invited to any early screenings of Bay's latest, Pain and Gain. A studio rep informed me that the filmmaker "did not opt for a Rolling Stone review." Ha. Like that's his decision.

So, heading to my local multiplex, I laid down 12 bucks for a ticket. For a second, I worried that Bay might have sent Optimus Prime to the box office on orders to crush me, but that's too Hollywood even for Bay.

Confession: I harbored a mad hope that Pain and Gain, made for a scant $26 million (the snack budget on his Transformers films), might actually show a different side to this filmmaker. He once claimed he wanted to make a small, personal film that would reveal the real Bay. And, I'm here to report, that Pain and Gain is that film. It's dumb, shallow, deeply cynical and and creatively bereft."

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Antonia Larroux Obituary: View Antonia Larroux's Obituary by New York Times


JWaffle House lost a loyal customer on April 30, 2013. Antonia W. "Toni" Larroux died after a battle with multiple illnesses: lupus, rickets, scurvy, kidney disease and feline leukemia. She had previously conquered polio as a child contributing to her unusually petite ankles and the nickname "polio legs" given to her by her ex-husband, Jean F. Larroux, Jr. It should not be difficult to imagine the multiple reasons for their divorce 35+ years ago. Two children resulted from that marriage: Hayden Hoffman and Jean F. Larroux, III. Due to multiple, anonymous Mother's Day cards which arrived each May, the children suspect there were other siblings but that has never been verified.
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Running On Air: Breathing Technique | Runner's World

http://www.runnersworld.com/running-tips/running-air-breathing-technique

Let's start with a 5-count or 3:2 pattern of rhythmic breathing, which
will apply to most of your running. Inhale for three steps and exhale
for two

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Article: Oceans of Ore: How an Undersea Caldera Eruption Created Jerome, Arizona



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Saturday, May 04, 2013

Ali A. Rizvi: An Atheist Muslim's Perspective on the 'Root Causes' of Islamist Jihadism and the Politics of Islamophobia


In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings and the foiled al Qaeda-backed plot in Toronto, the "anything but jihad" brigade is out in full force again. If the perpetrators of such attacks say they were influenced by politics, nationalism, money, video games or hip-hop, we take their answers at face value. But when they repeatedly and consistently cite their religious beliefs as their central motivation, we back off, stroke our chins and suspect that there has to be something deeper at play, a "root cause."

The taboo against criticizing religion is still so astonishingly pervasive that centuries of hard lessons haven't yet opened our eyes to what has been apparent all along: It is often religion itself, not the "distortion," "hijacking," "misrepresentation" or "politicization" of religion, that is the root cause.

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A Most Profound Math Problem : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/a-most-profound-math-problem.html


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Non-Muslims Carried Out More than 90% of All Terrorist Attacks in America | Global Research

http://www.globalresearch.ca/non-muslims-carried-out-more-than-90-of-all-terrorist-attacks-in-america/5333619


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Uncensored John Simon


religion, which has nothing whatsoever to do with logic, comes in with its meddling where it does not belong. Genuine life predicates the cognizance of mortality. Even an infant knows the difference between being suckled and being throttled; an embryo does not. To a world burdened with overpopulation (Malthus is revolving in his grave), abortion provides at least some amelioration. The alternative mode, war or revolution or suicide bombing, is clearly less desirable.

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Why is Reuters puzzled by global warming's acceleration? | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/apr/24/reuters-puzzled-global-warming-acceleration


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Thursday, May 02, 2013

Mitt Romney's Advice to College Grads: Start Having Babies as Soon as Possible | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/mitt-romney-quiverfull-fundamentalist-family-planning-advice

Thank Zesus we avoided this loony tune

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Intel dubs Haswell IGP 'Iris,' promises 2-3X performance increase - The Tech Report

http://techreport.com/news/24749/intel-dubs-haswell-igp-iris-promises-2-3x-performance-increase


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Article: The Real Reason ARM Will Menace Intel in the Data Center


The Real Reason ARM Will Menace Intel in the Data Center
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/hp-arm-memcached-chip-paper/

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Article: Intel's next CEO: Manufacturing chief Brian Krzanich | Business Tech - CNET News



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Rifle used by Ky. boy in sister's death made for kids

True NRA gun nuts.  I guess it is evolution in action if they only shoot members of their (no doubt inbreed) family while leaving the rest of us unharmed.

Rifle used by Ky. boy in sister's death made for kids

http://usat.ly/ZoTFeW


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