Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? (Saturday 20th of March 2010 08:45:01 PM)
NotesSensei writes "My kids are eduction Chinese in school. While the grammar is drop-dead
simple, writing is a expostulate since there is no sibling between sound and shape of the
characters. I would like to know if there good techniques (using applied ...
(more)iriver Story e-reader hands-on (Saturday 09th of January 2010 03:02:00 AM)
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(more)Google Apps Not the DC Success Many Believe? (Tuesday 08th of September 2009 07:15:01 AM)
Theodp writes "Google touts its organization with the locality of america government,
presenting it as quite the Google Apps success story. So as part of his indemnity of last
week's Gmail outage, nextgov's Gautham Nagesh called the DC government, but ...
(more)Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Worries Researchers (Sunday 30th of August 2009 06:30:01 PM)
NeverVotedBush writes with an update to a story we discussed early this month about an third
edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003
amassment of garbage and plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean, a million-dollar ...
(more)Banks Urge Businesses To Lock Down Online Banking (Wednesday 26th of August 2009 02:45:01 PM)
Tsu doh nimh writes "Organized cyber-gangs in Eastern Europe are increasingly preying on small
and mid-size companies in the US, setting off a multimillion-dollar online crime wave that has
begun to worry the nation's largest budgeting institutions, The ...
(more)Real-Time Keyloggers (Monday 24th of August 2009 12:15:01 PM)
The NY Times has a story and a blog backgrounder focusing on a weapon now being wielded by bad
guys (most likely in Eastern Europe, by the book to the Times): Trojan horse keyloggers that
report back in real-time. The wherewithal
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(more)Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US (Sunday 23rd of August 2009 10:00:02 AM)
Ink slinger* alerts to a story up at the Wall Street Journal on the increasing prevalance in
the US of third edition by the editors of the red white and blue banner heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 rare, 3rd-world diseases such as toxocariasis, ...
(more)Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm (Saturday 22nd of August 2009 08:45:01 AM)
Theodp writes "A Bloomberg report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs proposal a at all illegal truce
with Palm against poaching their respective employees is sure to pique the interest of the US
ward of Justice, which already is investigating whether Google, Yahoo, ...
(more)Is the Federal Government the Most Interesting Tech Startup For 2009? (Tuesday 18th of August 2009 01:30:01 AM)
With all of the recent focus on scientific know-how and the promises to pick up "getting stuff
done" by the US government, Techdirt's Masnick suggests that they might just be the most
interesting tech startup to watch this year. "But, of course, talk ...
(more)The Biochemistry of Searching the Internet (Sunday 16th of August 2009 11:15:24 PM)
Slate is running a story about how studious the www
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keeping up with events through instant wavelength can fulfill biochemical needs within our
brains. exploration has shown that anticipation and simply "wanting" ...
(more)The Outing of Pranknet (Monday 10th of August 2009 02:15:01 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "The Smoking Gun lately published a story on their gander and outing
of Pranknet, an online cabal that aims to take pranks to the next level. Their legacy includes
thousands of dollars of damage, and many harassed souls. Many ...
(more)Prehistoric Gene Reawakened To Battle HIV (Saturday 08th of August 2009 12:45:01 PM)
Linuss points out delving published in PLoS Biology that demonstrates the reawakening of latent
human cells' ability to manufacture an HIV defense. A group of scientists led by Nitya
Venkataraman began with the science that Old World monkeys have a constituent ...
(more)Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion (Sunday 02nd of August 2009 03:16:43 AM)
Katarn writes "General Fusion is a startup proposing they can create commercially viable fusion
using acoustic shock waves, triggered by 220 precisely drug pneumatic pistons. Their nearness
is based on a US Naval fishing expedition* concept called 'Linus' ...
(more)Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts (Tuesday 28th of July 2009 09:30:01 PM)
Gbulmash sends in a classic Streisand Effect story of a Chicago landlord suing a tenant over a
tweet querulous of mold in her apartment. The landlord claims that the tweet caused $50,000
damage to their reputation. If it didn't, then the fallout from ...
(more)Which Game Series Would You Reboot? (Tuesday 28th of July 2009 09:30:01 PM)
Ballot reboots are all the rage these days in Hollywood, and the trend is open gate to creep
into the games crowd as well. The Guardian's games blog is running a story discussing a few
examples and entranced likely applicants for future reboots. Quoting: ...
(more)District 9 Rises From the Ashes of Halo (Monday 27th of July 2009 08:15:01 PM)
JohnSmedley sent in a story about what might be the last SciFi film worth caring about this
summer. He writes "Wired has an interesting piece up on the llc.cite this source roget's ii:
the new thesaurus vicinage 9 release. section 9 rose from the ashes ...
(more)Amazon UK Refunds Windows License Fee, With Little Hassle (Friday 24th of July 2009 05:30:01 PM)
Christian.einfeldt writes "Alan Lord, a FOSS compatible maven based in the UK, has announced
that Amazon UK honored his request for a refund of the Microsoft license fee portion of the
cost of a new Asus netbook PC that came with Microsoft Windows XP. ...
(more)Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit (Sunday 19th of July 2009 12:30:01 PM)
Tiger4 writes "A group of black shrewd shyster police cabinet have filed a lawsuit against the
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lexico printing group and the city, alleging a hostile work setting ...
(more)Three Arrested For Conspiring To Violate the DMCA (Friday 17th of July 2009 10:00:11 AM)
Jtcm writes "Three men have been charged with conspiring to violate the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act after federal board found that they allegedly offered a cracker more than
$250,000 to assist with second-story work Dish Network's partisan TV encryption ...
(more)A Look At Google's Email Spam Prevention (Monday 06th of July 2009 06:30:01 PM)
CNet has a story about the armament measures Google employs to protect their email systems and
fight the never-ending war on spam. Their Postini team, std immune deficiency disordered two
years ago, has a variety of monitoring tools and automated retroaction ...
(more)The Essentials of RPG Design (Friday 03rd of July 2009 01:45:02 PM)
Simoniker writes "As the latest in his Game Design essentials series for Gamasutra, writer
John Harris examines 10 games from the Western analog RPG (CRPG) folk story and 10 from the
steam room console RPG (JRPG) tradition, to figure out what exactly ...
(more)The Battle Between Google and Facebook (Sunday 28th of June 2009 10:30:01 AM)
A story at Wired delves into the ongoing rivalry between Google and Facebook to seat their
competing visions for the future of the internet. "For the last decade or so, the Web has been
defined by Google's algorithms — rigorous and productive equations ...
(more)Alternative Energy Policies a Boon For Inflatable Electric Car (Sunday 28th of June 2009 10:30:01 AM)
Brian Stretch writes with a story about the Mini Utility Vehicle forerunner from XP Vehicles,
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(more)Rod Beckstrom Named New ICANN CEO (Saturday 27th of June 2009 08:15:01 AM)
Netczar writes "Former US cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom has been selected as the new ICANN
presidium and CEO. The decision was publicly announced during ICANN's 35th meeting in Sydney,
Australia on Friday. Beckstrom will be replacing Dr. Paul Twomey, ...
(more)Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger (Wednesday 24th of June 2009 01:00:05 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times has a story on the culture of secrecy at Apple (registration
could be required). Secrecy is not just the prevalent communications strategy; it is baked into
the amalgamated culture that had its origin in the release of ...
(more)Print Subscribers Cry Foul Over WP's Online-Only Story (Tuesday 23rd of June 2009 12:45:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The decision by the polity Post to publish an article exclusively online
has angered many readers who still pay for the print edition of the fish wrapper and
highlighted the thorny issues extra editors still face in serving both print ...
(more)Researchers Find Gaps In Iranian Filtering (Monday 22nd of June 2009 12:15:03 AM)
I Don't Believe in ideal capital writes "With all the turmoil and arpanet censorship in Iran
making it tough to get an precise picture of what's going, safety researchers have found a way
to locate gaps in Iran's filtering by analyzing traffic exiting ...
(more)Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet (Sunday 21st of June 2009 12:00:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens was one of several readers to let us know that, proper to a NY Times story, the
89-year-old Ray Bradbury hates the Internet. But he loves libraries, and is helping raise
$280,000 to keep libraries in Ventura County open. "Among Mr. Bradbury's ...
(more)Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law (Monday 15th of June 2009 07:15:02 PM)
The command Post is running a story on the Obama Administration's attempt to get a scaled-back
version of Bush's Real ID program passed and implemented. We've been discussing the Real ID
program from its earliest days up through the states' contest to ...
(more)Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? (Monday 15th of June 2009 07:15:02 PM)
Suraj.sun alerts us to an anonymous-source story up at the NY Post, not what we would naturally
esteem a leading source of tech news, claiming that Microsoft's introduction of Bing has
alarmed Google. "...co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch ...
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