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  Ted Gould: Bazaar Power Management
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When I saw Robert's interesting and fun Bazaar search plug-in I had a few thoughts: Wow, that's cool! It would sure be awesome if I could say that I've written as many Bazaar plugins as Robert this month. That sounds like work. Perhaps I can do this with, like, 6 lines of Python. I've now written a plug-in to provide...

  EBay Abandons Plans For PayPal Monopoly
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An anonymous reader writes "eBay's has lost its fight to ban all payment methods except PayPal. When Paypal originally announced the scheme it was to be global, but they began with a dry run in Australia to test the reaction of government and consumer authorities. In the public slanging match that followed between eBay and...

  Thomas Thurman: Sous les pavés, la plage.
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I’ve been working at the new job for a week now, and I’m enjoying it a good deal. The coworkers are friendly and the work has a lot of new challenges. I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to blog about. I’ll find out. I spent a good while playing Packrat cooperatively with Fin this evening. I have started microblogging over...

  Einstein's Theory Passes Strict New Test
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FiReaNGeL writes with an excerpt from a story at e! Science News: "Taking advantage of a unique cosmic configuration, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein"s theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a pair of superdense neutron stars. Essentially, the famed physicist"s 93-year...

  What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop?
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akutz writes "I've had the flu since Tuesday afternoon. My wife picked me up from work with a temperature of 103.6 and it finally broke at 98.7 around 3am this morning. Yay. The problem is that I used my laptop during my periods of feverish deliriousness, contaminating my shiny 15" MacBook Pro with the icky influenza virus....

  Thomas Vander Stichele: giving thanks
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Good accidents hide in small corners. A while ago I did something I never did before - I asked a guy on the subway whether he was interested in a job at Fluendo. I know, it sounds weird. But the guy in question was actually reading a paper on pipeline-based multimedia processing, IIRC. I was dead tired as I had just flown...

  An App to Boil Down Online User Reviews
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An anonymous reader writes "Is this a glimpse at the future of the Semantic Web? A new startup named Pluribo has developed a technology that can auto-summarize user reviews on the internet. It is a Firefox extension that can take a webpage filled with reviews and condense it down into a couple of sentences. Currently, it...

  Francisco Figueiredo: Finally post my PGCon2008 pictures!!
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Hi all,I finally post my pictures from PGCon2008.You can see them on my picasa web album.

  12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports
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kthejoker writes "Apparently companies are even worse about losing our data than we suspected. From the article:'According to a study of 106 major U.S. airports and 800 business travelers published by the Ponemon Institute and Dell Computer, about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports each week. Only 30 percent of travelers...

  Judge grants Viacom 12TB of YouTube user records
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Google's privacy comeuppance In the ongoing $1bn legal spat between Google and Viacom, a federal judge has ordered the search giant to turn over all existing records of every video viewed on YouTube. That includes user account names and IP addresses.…

  
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