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What you get without network neutrality
quink has provided us with an illustration of what happens if network neutrality disappears (reddit discussion): click here for full-size image Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:Planning,...
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Is legalese identical or similar to statistics? A Texas constitutional amendment from 2005 which says SECTION 1. Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by adding Section 32 to read as follows: Sec....
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TV Math
Are percentages really that hard? Now, journalism has a reputation for misreporting scientific studies, what with all that complicated mathematics, statistics, probability, and the drawing of logical...
View ArticleJudge Bans Microsoft from Selling Word …
… or at least that’s what the headlines say. Gets your attention doesn’t it? Being such a fan of Microsoft, I couldn’t help but get a little buzz when I read that. Actually, Microsoft is banned from...
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Miscellaneous Links 2009-12-30
Some random things I’ve run across the last few days: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity A quote from the commentary on the third law: Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money...
View ArticlePixelated Dreams
Lately my dreams, or at least the rapidly evaporating-on-waking memories of them, seem more realistic. Most are brief snippets, but some are lengthy detailed stories. Earlier times, if I remembered...
View ArticleWrong. Wrong. Wrong.
One weekend home from college, I told my mother I had become a Satanist. That was so outside the scope of what she could accept that it really didn’t faze her. “Just kidding”, I said, “actually, I’ve...
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Fire Safe Cigarettes
I first noticed “fire safe” cigarettes (FSC) a couple months ago. At first I thought I’d bought a contaminated pack. In a sense, that’s true — FSCs have bands of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) spaced...
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This is why I keep a PostIt over the lens of built-in cameras. Cory Doctorow says: According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to...
View ArticleOne hand clapping
If I asked you to “listen” silently to this page for 4’33″, would that be a copyright violation? What if I attached a 4’33″ long mp3 of silence? If I recorded it myself, would that be a forgery or a...
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