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9 years ago+11 11 0In Prisons, Sky-High Phone Rates and Money Transfer Fees
Inside the razor wire on Eagle Crest Way, in rural Clallam Bay, Wash., telephone calls start at $3.15. Emails out, beyond the security fence, run 33 cents. Money transfers in, to what pass for bank accounts, cost $4.95.
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9 years ago0 2 2Obama Tried To Get This Country To Bomb ISIS, But It Just Told Him To Shove It In A Big Way
Turkey recently decided to bomb anti-ISIS Kurds located near Daglica, a place in Turkey near the border with Syria. The PKK, the Kurdish militant group that was bombed, accused Turkey of violating a two year cease fire with the group
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9 years ago+16 16 0Dropbox wasn’t hacked
Recent news articles claiming that Dropbox was hacked aren’t true. Your stuff is safe. The usernames and passwords referenced in these articles were stolen from unrelated services, not Dropbox. Attackers then used these stolen credentials to try to l ...
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9 years ago+11 11 0“Complete Acquiesence”: Bob Lutz Reveals How the Pontiac Aztek Happened
How do bad cars happen? How, for instance, did Pontiac’s Aztek—the greatest failed model in recent history—get all the way from flawed design to ugly product? We asked Bob Lutz, our industry expert and man-about-town, if he knew anything. Turns out, ...
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9 years ago+14 14 0The NYPD paid over $428 million in settlements over the last five years
As part of an ongoing investigation, MuckRock's Todd Feathers asked the NYPD for a list of all civil rights lawsuits brought against the department. To his surprise, what he got was every case brought against the NYPD since 2009, and how much th ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0 x 124 EASY Hi-Tech Halloween Costumes for 2014
Here are 24 easy costume ideas that will make you the most awesome person at your Halloween Party this year!
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9 years ago+13 14 1Tesla just announced a supercar
It's called the Model S P85D. It comfortably seats four, more if you're willing to squeeze in a kid or two. If your frame of reference for automobiles ended somewhere around the year 2000, the performance of Elon Musk's hottest all-ele ...
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9 years ago+15 15 0Daniel Ellsberg: United States Nearly Used Nukes During Vietnam War
We came dangerously close to nuclear war when the United States was fighting in Vietnam, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg told a reunion of the Stanford anti-Vietnam War movement in May 2014. He said that in 1965, the Joint Chiefs of Sta ...
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9 years ago+22 22 0 x 1The most powerful Swede in the world
He doesn’t need a media house, an agent, or sponsors. Right now, there are no filters between him and the 30 million YouTube viewers who choose to watch his videos every day. That’s power on an enormous scale. How did he achieve it? What does he do w ...
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9 years ago+12 13 1This bizarre bendable phone wears like a shirtsleeve
A California startup is crowdfunding a flexible phablet that you strap to your arm and it might not be totally ridiculous. Maybe.
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9 years ago+18 18 0The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors
Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare.
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9 years ago+12 12 0Split Screen Video of Wal-Mart Shooting w/Audio
In this video you can clearly hear the 911 caller was foolishly feeding the 911 operator a bunch of bullshit that heightened the perceived level of threat the police would encounter. That's not to say there is any shortage of fools in this video ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0An Early Investor Offers Some Lessons From Alibaba’s Evolution
GGV Capital co-founders Thomas Ng and Joel Kellman got to know Jack Ma in 1999, in the early days of Alibaba when the company was just starting up in a small apartment in Hangzhou, China.
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9 years ago+1 2 1The Death that Could Kill Lethal Injection
The horrific execution of Clayton Lockett by lethal injection this spring in Oklahoma took an astonishing 43 minutes to complete. Together with other botched killings, the incident has focused attention on the inexperience and incompetence that now a ...
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9 years ago+5 6 1 x 1Inside The Secret World Of Games Journalism
Evidence has mounted that gaming journalists from key publications like Kotaku, Ars Technica and Polygon have been colluding with one another to control industry-wide news coverage, adding further credence to the widespread belief that biased agenda- ...
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9 years ago+22 22 0Destiny: The Official Dorkly Review
Destiny is one of the most anticipated releases of the past few years, let alone 2014. Prior to this, Bungie had spent nearly 15 years enmeshed in the world of Halo and nothing else. This is their big gamble - their chance to move past the world of M ...
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9 years ago+23 23 0 x 1This Marijuana-Infused Frozen Pizza Is Every Lazy Stoner's Dream Come True
Earlier this year, a pizzeria in Vancouver began offering pies with pot baked into them. Genius, yes, but what about the people who want to enjoy special pizza without having to leave their homes? What about them?
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9 years ago+15 15 0Germany can't crack 'CIA double agent' laptop
An alleged CIA double agent secured his laptop so well that German secret services have failed to crack it since he was arrested in July, according to reports.
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9 years ago+21 21 0Artificial spleen cleans up blood
Researchers have developed a high-tech method to rid the body of infections — even those caused by unknown pathogens. A device inspired by the spleen can quickly clean blood of everything from Escherichia coli to Ebola, researchers report on 14 Septe ...
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9 years ago+20 20 0China urges central Asian neighbors to step up extremism fight
China's President Xi Jinping urged Central Asian states to step up the fight against religious extremism and cyber terrorism, state media said, as Beijing reaches for help across its borders in addressing security concerns in its restive Xinjian ...