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04 JAN 10
Slate Magazine - In 2010, We Will Live on the Moon SAVE
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I bought a few issues of this as a 12 or 13 year-old baby geek, back when the future was cool.TAGS
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30 DEC 09
Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com SAVE
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Must-read Bruce Schneier article on realistic and reasonable responses to terror threats.TAGS
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28 DEC 09
Parallel BZIP2 (PBZIP2) SAVE
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“PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.”TAGS
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FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror SAVE
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“These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles. That means there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 mles flown. This distance is equivalent to 1,459,664 trips around the diameter of the Earth, 24,218 round trips to the Moon, or two round trips to Neptune.”TAGS
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27 DEC 09
Inside The Lives Of Amazon.com Warehouse Employees: Long Hours, Long Walks, And Heavy Lifting (PHOTOS) SAVE
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More evidence that the ultimate result of demanding unreasonably low prices and cheap Chinese crap for everyone is mainland China work, living, and wage standards worldwide.TAGS
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Schneier on Security: Separating Explosives from the Detonator SAVE
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“I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first class and giving them free drinks.”TAGS