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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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New X Prize Quest: Sensors To Probe Oceanic Acid Levels – Slashdot
New X Prize Quest: Sensors To Probe Oceanic Acid Levels – Slashdot. Oceanic acidity not only affects oxygen/carbon levels, it determines whether regions of the ocean can be carbon-sinks and bind carbon into calcite structures such as coral. When we see anoxic regions of the ocean like off the coast of Oregon, that spells big…
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Evidence of 100,000-Year-Old Life Found In Antarctic Subglacial Lake – Slashdot
Evidence of 100,000-Year-Old Life Found In Antarctic Subglacial Lake – Slashdot. As the son of a paleontologist, I relate to this on many levels. I’m most excited by the fact that we can still discover ancient–living–life on our planet.
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Ghosts of Venice
Originally posted on visual journey: Gandoliers at dusk, Venice, long exposure from San Marco Vaporetto Stop with Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute as backdrop rumor has it that ”ghostly’ gondolas and gandoliers frequent this part of Venice . Their ‘ghostly’ presence can only be acknowledged if captured on a camera sensor (not any camera –…
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2013-09-01 Padilla Bay Oxbow
2013-09-01 Padilla Bay Oxbow This was a bit of a challenge to cook up. I ended up with four layers in Gimp: a desaturated bw as a hard-light layer, a ND layer over the sky, and a color-enhanced layer to bring the sky color into the foreground ponding. This was surprising done on my lappie,…
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