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How Science, Politics, the Media and Laypeople Interact
This editorial has been a long time coming. It's been so long since I wanted to do a piece on the relationships and interactions that determine our perception of what's really going on around us, especially in science. For this purpose, I will be looking at four actors and four different types of truth, which change and interact with each ot...
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Practical Guide: How to Identify Fake ?Work from Home? Jobs
Every Internet user is aware of the fact that the web is flooded with advertisements for “work from home” or “make easy money” jobs. While many of these offers are phony, there are some jobs that are 100% legitimate and represent a great way for certain individuals to make rent money and maybe even more.
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Practical Guide: Teaching Seniors How to Surf the Web Safely
In 2009, studies revealed that there were 17.5 million Internet users that were aged 65 or more. Since then the number most likely increased considerably and continues to do so, especially with the rise of social media networks and other sites that may present an interest to senior citizens. While many people try to teach t...
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Children of the Mind
Preamble
Before we go any further, there are some things you need to know. I am a philosopher at heart, and enjoy wondering about abstract concepts and ideas to the point where they become real scenarios in my head. The idea for writing this came shortly after I've finished readings Orson Scott Card's Children of the Mind, the last book in his fascinating Ender...
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Hardware Market in Peril: The Horrors of Ubisoft DRM
Like much of the rest of the world, we tried to resign ourselves to waiting, seeing and reporting what has been going on with the DRM policies of game makers, but things seem to be going more than a bit overboard. One would think that widespread discontent and even bouts of sheer outrage would be enough to make game developers ...
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If You're Not Sure What to Get for Christmas, Buy RAM
Due to an only partially-foreseeable string of events, it so happens that, this year, random access memory (RAM) is the most convenient of purchases on the consumer tech market. The winter holiday shopping season is more or less upon us already, so, naturally, people are trying to decide how to make the best of it.
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Nokia Goes Official with Its First Windows Phones
Today, Nokia made an important step in its evolution as a mobile phone maker by making official its first two handsets that will arrive on shelves with Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system on board, namely the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710. Both running under the Windows Phone Mango OS flavor, these devices are exp...
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Buy This Satellite: Help Others Help Themselves
“We are entering the age of connectedness,” A Human Right organization says of its latest campaign, Buy This Satellite. If you ever wondered about the little you can do thanks to your access to the Internet, now is the time to act. Just hours ago, we were covering a story on Marc Anthony opening up about his divorce fro...
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Michael Jackson the Victim: The Untold Truth
On June 25, 2009, the final chapter in one of the most controversial histories of present times ended: Michael Jackson died from an overdose of the anesthetic Propofol, as his autopsy would later reveal. Two years after the shocking but, for many fans who’ve always believed in his innocence, perhaps not that unexpected, event, we have begun to c...
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Life Is Possible Throughout the Universe
I personally find it a bit peculiar that, lately, a lot of talk has been going on in the international astronomical community about the possible existence of life in other places in the Universe. Those rumors are about to get a new boost, as experts announce the discovery of what could very well be the fingerprint of large organic molecules in two galaxi...
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Top 12 Amazing Animals of 2010
Since everyone makes 'Top Tens' on 2010 on everything, here is a top twelve of this year's coolest animals, based on information provided by New Scientist.To avoid all 'discrimination' and to keep everyone happy, the order of the animals is alphabetical.The Bone skipperThis little fly was believed to be extinct for 160, so when ...
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Report Shows WordPress Dominance Amongst CMSs
The water & stone Agency has released a report about the usage of content management systems (CMS) in 2010. While the top 3 was the same as last year, this year WordPress seriously out-performed Drupal and Joomla.Compiled after a thorough market survey answered by 5000 individuals, with around 2800 answering each question, the report ranks content management systems by brand strength and market share.The study was includes statistics about 20 CMSs as they follow: WordPr...
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Developer Tools Keeping Pace with Mobile Web
The mobile Web has moved away from being a niche on the Web, and if you think the contrary, then you're stuck in 2004, my friend.Not only did it break out of a niche sector, but it is now a mainstream current in all that the Web stands for.According to the annual dotMobi “Mobile Web Progress” report issued late Oct...
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Constructing an Orbital Base for Space Exploration
For the past decade or so, governments around the world have been working together on building the International Space Station (ISS), a science facility meant to boost cooperation and to advance space studies. But many voices call for the next step, the construction of a structure dedicated to space exploration. I personally believe...
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Autonomous Vehicles Are Probably Google's Most Ambitions Project to Date
Google announcement that it has a team working on testing autonomous vehicles came as quite a surprise for most people, but, while some praised the company for such a bold move, others have asked why would Google do something like this in the first place since it's unlikely to wield it any monetary results in the foreseeab...
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Science and Stagnation: A Possibility
I was thinking the other day about the mockery now going on in the United States, as some interest groups are attempting to place a ban on federal funding for stem cells. Then I thought about a trend I noticed in people, and in how they perceive science and technology today. Sadly enough, it would appear that we are currently facing a very real r...
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How Not to Get Attacked by a Dog
This might not be news for people that are used to dogs or even have one as a pet, but the world is large and surely there must be some people that are a bit scared at the thought that if they meet a dog, it will probably attack them.Now, what everyone should know is that dogs never attack without a reason, and if you follow some simple behavior rul...
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Media Scaremongering in the Google Wi-Fi Blunder
Google’s Wi-Fi data-collection blunder couldn’t have come at a worse time. The company is already under scrutiny over its business and privacy practices largely due to it becoming one of the biggest web companies in the world. So, revealing that it has been collecting publicly available but potentially personal info from unprotected w...
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For Those Who Love Music
Music has been with us since the earliest days. Ever since the first tribesmen decided to gather in larger groups, ritualistic dances have been accompanied by some form of music, ranging from drum beats only to voice-based tunes and then various combinations of other instruments. Given this rich history that we share with this art form, I think that it must have some po...
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Hobbies and You
I recently developed a new hobby. It was obviously something that I didn’t plan for, and how could I have? It's not like you suddenly wake up one morning and decide you want to pick up knitting. Well, I suppose maybe you could, but then again maybe it's just pushing your limits, in the sense that, if it's planned, then it's not really something that came from within. I am ...
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A Police State Is the Answer to Piracy, Big Media Believes
Big businesses using every means they can to ensure their revenue and profitability haven’t been news for at least several decades and probably a lot more. There’s always been a group, or more, trying to bend the laws, or make new ones, to get what they want. The most recent example is the big media companies that have been c...
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Google?s Chinese Perestroika, Microsoft and the New Search Cold War
Google has apparently had a lot of digging, years’ worth in fact, under libraries of Marxist-Leninist philosophy, and under tomes of proletarian guidelines for wannabe red companies, to find an old, dusty self-policy manual on which the mantra “don’t be evil” had faded almost entirely. Of course, it took ...
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Social Contracts and a Redistribution Theory
As I was browsing through my old college notes yesterday, I stumbled upon some lectures that dealt with various theories on the redistribution of wealth in societies. This is not such a complex subject as it may first appear. Its main area of interest is proposing, and arguing for, various ways of using the money a society generates, and redistributi...
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The Ape-Man Within by L. Sprague de Camp ? Book Review
I must say, after reading a number of books on anthropology and the human mind, I thought I knew what to expect of such literature. I mean this in the sense that, after a while, you kind of get used to various styles of writing, and start seeing the point authors are trying to make even before they finish their phrases. This was completely unt...
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Git Gains Advantage over Subversion
Code development has its negative and positive sides, but anything that brings more relief and gains time in a project is the developer's best friend. CVS was for a long time the best solution for version control, adopted by all programmers in major projects. While CVS has slowly evolved into other more successful concurrent version systems like Subversion, ...
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Capitalism, Science and Innovation
In the modern world, words such as incentives, profit, entrepreneurship, competition, innovation, and economic growth have become clear indicators of capitalism, and of a Western lifestyle. This economic system has become so widespread and rooted in the collective consciousness, that people have been conditioned to think a civilized society equals an open marke...
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How Global-Warming 'Skeptics' Distort the Truth
With the release of the climate-related email stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), and the discovery of minor errors in a report produced by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), many critics to global warming believe they have uncovered some sort of conspiracy. I have ...
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Windows Phone OS 7.0 and the Promise of Change
Next generation Windows Phones are within the reach of our hands, Redmond-based software company Microsoft stated on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona when unveiling to the world the Windows Phone 7 Series and Windows Phone OS 7.0. What the announcement promises is a new beginning, a new experience, and a set of new smartphones that...
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20 Years of Adobe Photoshop
The most popular image editor in the world turns twenty years old at the start of February 2010. First released under Adobe in 1990, Photoshop has obtained cultural status in numerous domains. From web design to digital photography, from the print industry to art schools, its adoption was complete and without any regrets.While in many cases, proprietary s...
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Utilizing the GPU to Handle JavaScript Code
Personal computers are a relatively new development, yet the pace at which things change in this space make the computers and software of even 10 years ago look antiquated. CPU speed, memory size, everything that has to do with hardware is several times faster and the software has, for the most part, evolved to take advantage of the new capabilities....
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