Author: jedreynolds
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Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Young minds understand coding and logical deduction easily. The fact that young children can manage such elaborate tasks should be no great surprise, given what we know about their knack for acquiring languages. Five-year-olds trump their elders at learning Spanish or Mandarin because young brains are better (so the theory goes) at formulating “procedural” memories—that…
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Upper Limit On Emissions Likely To Be Exceeded Within Decades – Slashdot
And no one should be surprised at this. We are all complacent and complicit with our daily use of petrol burning vehicles. Upper Limit On Emissions Likely To Be Exceeded Within Decades – Slashdot.
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A Few Power Supply Wattage Calculators
When building your computer from components, these can help you size the power supply for the machine. This is especially useful if you want to build a solar powered computer. ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Recommended Power Supply Wattage Calculator PSU Wattage Calculator Newegg Power Supply Calculator
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With XP’s End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs – Slashdot
With XP’s End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs – Slashdot. This is a great idea. Bellingham should consider this (that is, not just Bellingham library, but BLUG, too.)
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wait but why: Putting Time In Perspective
I love nested time bars. This goes from interesting to strangely perverse. wait but why: Putting Time In Perspective.
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Quick analysis of Linux’s use of RDRAND. // Pastebin.com
In the presence of the NSA’s aggressive campaign to weaken or break encryption, reducing the actual randomness provided by Intel processors is entirely within their budget. Also consider that is is possible to double-mask a processor and add secertly doped regions underneath the silicon to pull down gates. This kind of secret logic is also…
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Verizon’s Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View – Slashdot
Verizon is Evil, and is trying to take away the Internet. Verizon’s Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View – Slashdot.
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Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam – Slashdot
This sounds like a lot of sci-fi meets science. Foam riders? Foam surfers? Black hole foam silver surfers v. Dr. Doom? Eat Galactic Bran Flakes on your Spacetime Foam! Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam – Slashdot.
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Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets – Slashdot
So–ever heard of The Singularity? Ray Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge have written about the creation of artificial intelligences…as our species last creation. Keep a lookout for large scale behaviors that are an expression of the hive intelligence of the Internet. Trading robots are the modern financial weapon that could rule/ruin our retirement savings. Consider that…
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Declassified files detail blatant violations, abuse of NSA domestic spying program — RT USA
Of course this is to be expected: The documents show that between 2006 and 2009 the NSA violated the court restrictions by spying on telephone calls and lying to judges about how the data was deployed. via Declassified files detail blatant violations, abuse of NSA domestic spying program — RT USA.
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