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Despite having over 2.6 million followers on his Twitter account, @BarackObama admitted to a Chinese audience that he has never used the service. “I have never used Twitter, but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting Internet access," Obama told an audience of Shanghai youth on Sunday. "My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone," the president added. Then what the heck is he doing on that Blackberry all the time? Playing tetris?
The company said it will publically release the code for their new Frontier Election System in November. “I think Sequoia is recognizing that it won’t do anymore to just urge people to trust them,” said Princeton University computer scientist Ed Felten, “and that people want to know that the code that controls these machines is open and that experts have had a Continue reading Voting Machine Company Sequoia to Publish Source Code The site’s been stagnant for over a week now, an unfortunate side effect of a sole contributor who has a pesky thing like a day job. Fortunately, the past week has been kinda slow. John McCain, of all people, introduced a bill to block net neutrality. If you haven’t seen it, here’s John Stewart’s take on it: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Daily Show
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Duke University and the University of Michigan performed a joint study showing that the testosterone levels of male John McCain and Bob Barr supporters plummeted after the results of the 2008 election. Females and Obama supporters did not show a change in hormone levels. "This is a pretty powerful result," said Duke neuroscientist Kevin LaBar. "Voters are physiologically affected by having their candidate win or lose an election." The tests were performed on 183 college-aged men and women on election night. They each chewed a piece of Continue reading McCain, Barr Supporters Lost Testosterone After Obama Election
The Geography of Jobs paints a frightening picture of job growth and loss between 2004 and today. Near the middle of 2008, it starts looking more like a game of DEFCON than a job map.
The Wall Street Journal reports that ISPs are looking at metered internet connections in response to calls for net neutrality.
Dampier helped force the end of Time Warner Continue reading With Neutrality Looming, ISPs Eye Metered Internet The Atomic Archive has created an interactive Google Map of the over 2,000 nuclear testing sites between 1945 and 2008.
You probably can’t even access it yet, and those in the loop aren’t even sure what it does or how it works. Well Adam Frucci over at Gizmodo has figured out Wave’s true purpose: Conquering the entire world.
So http://recovery.gov gets “shortened” to…http://go.usa.gov/liO. Wait, that’s not shorter at all, it’s two characters longer! YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Granted, this isn’t a bad idea…in theory. First, who knows how long any Continue reading Bureaucratix: U.S. Government Launches Its Own URL Shortener, Epic Fail Ensues
Cloud computing is the technology behind many popular web services, such as Gmail and Twitter. As opposed to traditional server technologies that only use one server, a cloud uses many, both real and virtualized, as one unit. The advantage is that it is scalable, meaning that a user only uses as much as he needs, and that it is (usually) redundant, meaning that Continue reading U.S. Department of Energy to Invest $32 Million in Cloud Computing |
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