"As temperatures dropped below zero across much of Europe, the Russian prime minister instructed the head of Gazprom: "Cut it - starting today." The cut was ordered to punish neighbouring Ukraine, which Russia accuses of topping up its own gas supply by siphoning off energy meant for European consumers and sent through its pipelines." - Colide81 (James)
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Isn't he just following the golden rule? "He who has the gold, rules." - Mark VandenBerg
I've long suspected that Putin is a Hitler wannabe. He's going to wind up causing all kinds of death and destruction before he's done. - Dawn
"Turkey was holding a suspicious shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran because it contained lab equipment capable of producing explosives, a customs official said Tuesday. Suleyman Tosun, a customs official at the Mediterranean port of Mersin, said military experts were asked to examine the material, which was seized last month, and decide whether to let the shipment to go to Venezuela." - Colide81 (James)
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I've found my new favorite technews website, thanks to Scoble. They even have a section just for tech news from friendfeed! - Colide81 (James)
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"A Vogue cover girl is suing Google in an attempt to unmask the blogger who trashed her as a "skank" and an "old hag." Liskula Cohen, a blond beauty who has modeled for Giorgio Armani and Versace, made headlines last year when a doorman at a Manhattan hot spot was jailed after smashing her in the face with a vodka bottle." - Colide81 (James)
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"While looking at the bottles in the L'Occitane store, I wondered: could it be that the world is shifting from physical to digital? At first glance it is impossible, because we live in a physical world. But increasingly, we are surrounded by all sorts of software that fundamentally works differently from hardware. In this post, we'll look at the interplay between physical and digital and argue that we are, in fact, heading towards a world dominated by digital." - Colide81 (James)
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This is something I often wonder about. I think we are heading in that direction but hard to say what it will be like. - Colide81 (James)
"President-elect Barack Obama is naming Leon Panetta, a former congressman from California and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, to be CIA director. Obama also has picked retired Navy Admiral Dennis Blair to be director of national intelligence, overseeing all the nation's spy agencies, a Democratic official said." - Colide81 (James)
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"Just Tweet It is like an online phone book for Twitter users. With Just Tweet It, you can either view Twitter users by directory, or add yourself to a category that you see fit. The site, which is just a custom tweak of Wordpress and similar in function to Twellow, could prove to be a handy alternative to Chris Brogan’s Twitter Packs wiki directory." - Colide81 (James)
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"Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman, state officials said on Sunday. But Coleman, the incumbent, has asked Minnesota's supreme court to require that a few hundred additional absentee ballots be included in the recount -- and he could then ask the court to investigate the contest all over again." - Colide81 (James)
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"The Internet stings police consider key to protecting minors from sexual predators may lose some of their power after two recent Court of Appeals rulings. The use of undercover investigators as bait in Internet chats has become routine in Central Indiana. But the attraction for law enforcement -- the lack of an actual victim -- also became the basis for the reversal of two convictions against a Shelbyville man Wednesday by the Indiana Court of Appeals. That leaves in place a third related conviction." - Colide81 (James)
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This is a good thing, though many will cringe about it. The right to be free of entrapment is central to our liberty - and even though the crime in question is vile trading that liberty to (in theory) prevent it is a bad plan. - Soulhuntre
That is a good point. Though any one stupid enough to meet a 16 year old girl for sex, or even a 9 year old boy or girl for sex should be locked up. I mean they should know where the lines are and you do not cross those lines under any circumstances. - Colide81 (James)
At next week's Consumer Electronics Show, Blaupunkt and miRoamer will announce the first in-dash Internet radio receiver. The press release we received says the radios will be offered as "built-in original equipment" but doesn't go into detail about what automakers will offer the system or even how the radios receive the data. - Colide81 (James)
"Just when you thought you could scratch bird flu off your list of things to worry about in 2009, the deadly H5N1 virus has resurfaced in poultry in Hong Kong for the first time in six years, reinforcing warnings that the threat of a human pandemic isn't over. India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and mainland China also experienced new outbreaks in December. During the same period, four new human cases -- in Egypt, Cambodia and Indonesia -- were reported to the World Health Organization. A 16-year-old girl in Egypt and a 2-year-old girl in Indonesia have died." - Colide81 (James)
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In my early 50's youth when I was delivering afternoon newspapers in somewhat remote Saskatoon, Saskatchewan I always tried to be at one customer's home at 4:30. Why? At that time the only television viewable came via high rooftop antennae from transmitters far away (~400 miles) near Minot, North Dakota. If atmospheric conditions were favorable my customer would let me watch half an hour of a kid's program (probably Howdy Doody); most of the time we got to watch it masked by a snowy blizzard of faint reception. Getting any type of television reception at that time and location was, at best, a challenge and an adventure. - Colide81 (James)
"A recent launch suggests that the web’s love affair with paid dating sites may be coming to an end. DowntoEarth is a new, completely free dating site with an interesting pedigree: according to DowntoEarth’s Privacy Policy, this new, free entrant is “part of the IAC/InterActiveCorp family of businesses.” IAC, of course, acquired Match.com in 1999, and is also behind Match.com’s spin-off site Chemistry.com. Despite its success with paid dating, then, IAC is testing the waters with a free model." - Colide81 (James)
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Personally I think yes they are died. They have been dieing for years now. This is one more sign of their falling apart. - Colide81 (James)
I'll be happy to never see that Dr. from eHarmony on TV again - Shawn Farner
"It seems like every day there’s at least five new Twitter apps popping up. The news of a shiny new Twitter toy gets dispersed through Twitter streams everywhere, hits critical mass, news dries up a bit, and then, if you’re like me, you forget about it completely." - Colide81 (James)
So, here's an interesting take. ABI Research is forecasting that the amount of online programs watched on the TV (as in, not on the computer monitor) will grow from 563 million viewers in 2008 to 941 million by 2013. - Colide81 (James)
...I want to find tech news that doent come from the main stream. I wanna find stuff from blogs and sites you'll never see posted on TechMeme. - Colide81 (James)
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google blog search? http://blogsearch.google.com/ You could also use a service like filtrbox to regularly search the web for smart keyword matches - Zach Landes
"Pretty much every product that Google works on has to go through gatekeeper Marissa Mayer, who decides whether it's ready to be released or needs more work. She even approves every single Google Doodle that adorns the search giant's homepages around the world. From being hired as the first female engineer nine and a half years ago to becoming one of the key decision makers at Google, she's come a long way." - Colide81 (James)
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Reading about Google engineers always makes me feel like such an underachiever. - Robert Haas
@Robert, lol then don't work around engineers, you will feel really bad. I have friends and people I work around who are engineers and its hard to deal with. - Colide81 (James)
I work around plenty of engineers and doctors of many persuasions, it's just that Google engineers all acheived at 25 what these guys acheived at 40 and 50. - Robert Haas
"If this rumor proves to be true, we’re going to be a little disappointed in AT&T. Word is big blue has been quietly reallocating its EDGE service to its weaker 1900MHz band, which translates into much weaker coverage." - Colide81 (James)
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Man you guys are quick I just posted this only a few minutes ago. But about AT&T, I am happy with my reception, but they really need to improve their customer service. Does anyone know if they have a representive on twitter? - Colide81 (James)
"According to data from market research firm Net Applications, Microsoft’s web browser market share has dropped below 70 percent in the month of November." - Colide81 (James)
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"A team of scientists at the University of Glasgow just came into all sorts of cash, and they'll be using it to advance imaging." - Colide81 (James)
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"Russia's military leaders approved a plan by the navy on Sunday to station warships permanently in friendly ports across the globe. Underfunded since the 1991 break up of the Soviet Union , the Russian navy has been reasserting itself over the last year by chasing Somali pirates around the coast of east Africa and steaming across the Atlantic to visit allies in South America. "The General Staff has given its position on this issue and it fully supports the position of the (Navy's) main committee," deputy chief of staff Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn told RIA Novosti news agency." - Colide81 (James)
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"THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws." - Colide81 (James)
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Sunday at 9:25 am
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"Since the humbling results of the November election came in, the conservative movement has been scrambling to assess what happened—and to figure out how to prevent it from happening again. Much of this effort, in light of the Obama campaign's much ballyhooed online operation, has focused on closing the technology gap with the left, and getting conservative candidates and activists to make better use of new media. Hence we see sites like Top Conservatives on Twitter, meant to publicize co-partisans on the popular microblogging service and encourage others to sign up." - Colide81 (James)
"A perfect storm of high winds against a disposed Christmas tree, launched the tree into the front grill of a passing Ford, say police. On Dec. 30, police were called to the area of 122 Post Road at 12:48 p.m., for a report of a "single car accident involving a Christmas tree," according to the town's public police log." - Colide81 (James)
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