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Comment weekendhoboLock him up and throw away the key.
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8 hours ago
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125 Days: Donald Trump Makes One Last Try To Patch Things Up With Comey
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3 days ago
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Google and Facebook lobbyists try to stop new online privacy protections
Lobbyists for Google, Facebook, and other websites are trying to stop the implementation of a proposed law that would strengthen consumer privacy protections online. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) last week proposed a bill that would require broadband providers and websites to obtain users' opt-in consent before they use Web browsing history and application usage history for advertising and other purposes or before they share that information with other entities.
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12 days ago
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Cable lobby conducts survey, finds that Americans want net neutrality
As US cable companies push to eliminate or change net neutrality rules, the industry's primary lobby group today released the results of a survey that it says shows "strong bipartisan consensus that the government should let the Internet flourish without imposing burdensome regulations." But proponents of keeping the current rules can find plenty to like in the survey conducted by NCTA—The Internet & Television Association.
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3 weeks ago
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Brexit-backing hedge fund manager loses £125m because of Brexit
A Brexit-backing hedge fund manager personally lost £125m last year as his pessimistic bets on the UK economy went wrong. Crispin Odey was one of the most prominent supporters of the Leave campaign, donating more than £870,000 to pro-Brexit groups. He also bet huge amounts of money on the UK economy tanking in the aftermath of a Leave vote. So far, it has held up better than expected.
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3 weeks ago
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Rape Charges Dropped in Rockville High School Case
Rape and sexual assault charges have been dropped against two teenagers accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom of a high school in Rockville, Maryland, prosecutors say. The reported crime horrified local parents and became national news after the White House called it an example of why President Donald Trump is cracking down on illegal immigration.
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3 weeks ago
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The Magic of the Ugliest and Most Hated Porsche 911
The more and more automotive journalists and PR people you talk to, the clearer it becomes that half of them already have some sort a Porsche 911, with the other half wanting to have one, often quite badly. The enthusiasts' love for these stubbornly rear-engined sports cars knows no bounds, except perhaps when it comes to the 996 generation, built from 1997 to 2005.
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3 weeks ago
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'Oldest human' dies in Indonesia 'aged 146'
The Indonesian man who claimed to be 146 years old - the longest living human ever - has died in his village in Central Java. According to his papers, Sodimedjo, also known as Mbah Ghoto (grandpa Ghoto), was born in December 1870. But Indonesia only started recording births in 1900 - and there have been mistakes before. Yet officials told the BBC his papers were valid, based on documents he provided and interviews with him.
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3 weeks ago
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We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership
IT’S OFFICIAL: JOHN Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway. In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delusion, John Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors. Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for...
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3 weeks ago
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Remote security exploit in all 2008+ Intel platforms
Every Intel platform from Nehalem to Kaby Lake has a remotely exploitable security hole. SemiAccurate has been begging Intel to fix this issue for literally years and it looks like they finally listened.
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1 month ago
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Apple fanboys cited as Merriam-Webster herds ‘sheeple’ into dictionary
“Wake up!” the good folks a Merriam-Webster just tweeted. “Sheeple is in the dictionary now.” And while the induction of such casual slang is sure to offend some, none will likely take great umbrage than Apple zealots, whose zealotry is cited by the dictionary as an example of the proper use of the word. First the definition from Merriam-Webster’s website: “people who are docile, compliant, or easily influenced: people likened to sheep.” And the second of two examples...
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1 month ago
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Palantir’s Relationship With America’s Spies Has Been Worse Than You’d Think
Palantir Technologies, the Silicon Valley data company co-founded by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, has developed an almost mythical reputation for its work building tools for the U.S. intelligence community. But Palantir has had a far rockier relationship with the nation’s top spy agencies than its image would let on, BuzzFeed News has learned. As of summer 2015, the Central Intelligence Agency, a signature client, was “recalcitrant” and didn’t “like us,” while Palantir’s relat...
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1 month ago
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German-Russian man 'carried out Dortmund attack to make money on stocks then blamed Muslims'
Police have arrested a German-Russian citizen on Friday morning on suspicion of carrying out the attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus last Tuesday, with prosecutors alleging that the bombing was motivated by financial greed.
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1 month ago
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Don't Buy Animal Abuse: Boycott These Tourist Attractions
Be kind to animals by avoiding these wildlife tourist attractions. Sometimes animal and wildlife tourist attractions are disguised as natural, helpful, or worse - as conservation, when in reality they're just masked exploitation and mistreatment, and even animal-loving tourists may not be aware of the underlying misery involved, and unknowingly pay for and support cruel practices.
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1 month ago
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HAL Laboratory developed various parts of Switch
HAL Laboratory isn’t traditionally associated with working directly on Nintendo hardware. Fans are likely more aware of the company for having worked on the Kirby and Smash Bros. franchises, among many other titles. For Switch though, HAL was directly involved with the hardware’s creation. They developed the following parts of the system...
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1 month ago
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Oregon set to double recycling rate to 10 cents a can
Oregon's first-in-the-nation bottle recycling program will now double the payout for used soda cans and glass bottles, and frugal residents have been stockpiling for months in anticipation. With other recycling options now commonplace, this eco-trailblazing Pacific Northwest state is hoping to revamp the program with the increase from 5 to 10 cents for bottled and canned water, soda, beer and malt beverages — regardless what their labels say.
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2 months ago
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Which 2017 Amazon Pilots Should You Watch? We've Reviewed Them All
Amazon pilot season is here again, which means it’s time for you to help the streaming service decide which shows to order to full season by rating and reviewing their pilots. As always, this year’s batch of series premieres are rather eclectic and includes a period piece from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, an intriguing sci-fi show from the Bridge of Spies creator, Amazon‘s first adult animated comedy, a superhero series, and a pot comedy — yes, a pot comedy.
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2 months ago
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Man accused of posing as dentist allegedly cooked meth in office
A California man is accused of practicing dentistry without a license in an unsanitary office where he allegedly cooked meth. Joseph Hirsch, of Redwood City, is being held in San Mateo County jail on $500,000 bail after authorities received a tip about his alleged crimes, Mercy News reported. Hirsch, 59, is accused of possessing and manufacturing controlled substances, possessing brass knuckles and possessing ammunition as a felon, the report said. Authorities said it was unclear if any patients...
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2 months ago
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Airstrike on Syrian mosque 'war crime'
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on Friday condemned the bombing of a mosque in northern Syria as a “war crime”. An airstrike on a mosque in the village of Al-Jina, located west of Aleppo city towards the border with Idlib province, killed 58 people on Thursday night. “This is a crime against humanity, this is a war crime,” Kurtulmus told reporters in the northwestern province of Canakkale. “Bombing civilians, people in the mosque, and a house of worship is unacceptable.”
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2 months ago
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Ford's new room-sized 3D printer upends additive manufacturing as we know it
Like nearly every automaker, Ford is keen to figure out how 3D printing can improve its ability to develop and build new cars. Additive manufacturing holds the promise of shorter lead times, increased customization and lighter weight parts, among other efficiencies. Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of blue-sky thinking out there, and still not a ton of actionable data. But that's changing, including at the Ford Motor Company, which has an impressive new tool in its arsenal, the Stratasys ...
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2 months ago
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Canadian volunteers denied entry to U.S. so they wouldn't 'steal American jobs'
A group of church volunteers from Hamilton heading south to do relief work were denied entry to the U.S. for fear they would take American construction jobs, said a spokesperson for the church. The 12-person contingent from Hamilton's Rehoboth United Reformed Church was travelling by road on the morning of Saturday, March 11, to New Jersey. Erik Hoeksema, the church's outreach director who was travelling with the group, said they intended to spend March break cleaning up and rehabilit...
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2 months ago
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Ticket touts face unlimited fines for using 'bots' to buy in bulk
Touts who use computer software to harvest concert tickets in bulk and resell them at vast mark-ups face unlimited fines as part of a crackdown on highly profitable resale sites such as Viagogo, StubHub and GetMeIn. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport will announce a package of measures to curb the growing power of the so-called “secondary ticketing” industry, which now regularly offers tickets at huge mark-ups, even before they are available to the general public.