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I'll begin:Afterlife: Making Rotten Food Beautifulhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ ... ting-food/

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Secret Sqrrl: NSA “spin-off” company releases data mining tool...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/secret-sqrrl-nsa-spin-off-company-releases-data-mining-tool/

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Bitcoin: What do you know about it?

Title says it all.

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Stand with Edward Snowden, save him from being treated as a criminal for...

Hi all,This 29 year-old analyst just gave up his whole life -- his girlfriend, his job, and his home -- to blow the whistle on the US government's shocking PRISM program -- which has been reading and...

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Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program:

Pass it on:-http://prism-break.org/

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We just sustained a massive spam bot-net attack!

Just to let you guys know, I had to delete over 1000 (sorry guys, that meme isn't getting played today) accounts or so manually from the database because of the simply massive swarm of new sign-ups...

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Anonymous - release secret NSA documents - spying on the world:

_ / \ _ __ ___ _ __ _ _ _ __ ___ ___ _ _ ___ / _ \ | '_ \ / _ \| '_ \| | | | '_ ` _ \ / _ \| | | / __| / ___ \| | | | (_) | | | | |_| | | | | | | (_) | |_| \__ \ /_/ \_\_| |_|\___/|_| |_|\__, |_| |_|...

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US army blocks access to Guardian website

US army blocks access to Guardian website to preserve 'network hygiene'Military admits to filtering reports and content relating to government surveillance programs for thousands of personnel The US...

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Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits

Hmmm... Interesting! :DEcuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits"Ecuador's leftist government thumbed its nose at Washington on Thursday by renouncing U.S. trade benefits and offering to...

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Sho' Yo' Desktop Bling! (aka, the desktop screenshot thread)

Funny that I am the one to start this thread since I rarely show off my desktop, but this is just a killer theme I have set up and I thought I would share it. And yes, I am back on OpenSUSE 11.3 and...

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The corporatisation of GNU/Linux, :( OR Where'd my freedom of choice go?

We need to know about this stuff & spread the knowledge around, as only by our choices can we have an effect on maintaining a future with as much freedom of choice as possible.This is a quote from...

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KDE to move to a 3-month release cycle, maybe

source: http://community.kde.org/KDE_Core/ReleasesProposalIn a move to up the ante and deliver more content faster, KDE has proposed that they move from a six month long development cycle to only three...

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a simple random password generator

So a week ago or so I decided to do a little scripting since I have tried many times to program but really haven't had much success. This time I decided that perhaps the reason is because I start out...

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Urine powered CEL phones:

http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/news.aspx?id=2598This is the best news I have heard for some time. :D

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Ubuntuforums hacked!

Ouch!"There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums. The Canonical IS team is working hard as we speak to restore normal operations. [...]Unfortunately the attackers have gotten every user's...

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Discourse - evolution in forum software.

You all here might have guessed that we here at Spiralinear love our forum software, but there is little debate that social websites have begun to creep into web forum territory and quite frankly the...

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The effects of Wi-Fi devices

http://www.waldorftoday.com/2013/07/student-science-experiment-finds-plants-wont-grow-near-wi-fi-router/So Wi-Fi seems to have an effect on plant growth according to a study by 9th graders. They also...

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Installed Squid on my machine:

It is setup in paranoid mode which gives my machine a user agent string like so (asterisk courtesy of me):Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; G**g1ebot/2.1; +http://www.g**gle.com/bot.html)I just ran through the...

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Documentaries

I don't know about the rest of the crowd around here, but I love to watch documentaries. Whether its educational documentaries, conspiracy documentaries, theoretical documentaries, just for fun...

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FSF launches fundraising program for Replicant

FSF launches fundraising program for Replicant, the fully free Android-based mobile OSBOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, July 25, 2013 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched a...

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HTTPS and VPN encryption cracked by the NSA?

XKeyscore: The NSA program that collects ‘nearly everything’ that you do on the internet"What is surprising is that the slides seem to suggest that VPNs and encrypted links may not be secure. “Show me...

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Lavabit shut down

"My Fellow Users,I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit....

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Clay Tablets and the Mortality of Knowledge: A Short Note.

I thought I would share this note I made on Facebook that developed out of a comment I made on G+ today about technology, writing, and ancient history. In many ways I have no doubt that mankind did not...

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Groklaw shutting down due to U.S. governments anti-privacy policy:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

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1912 Eighth-Grade Exam Stumps 21st-Century Test-Takers

"Are you smarter than an eighth grader? How about an eighth grader who graduated in 1912? A copy of an eighth-grade exam from that year shows test-taking wasn't so easy for those early-20th-century...

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"A Long List of What We Know Thanks to Private Manning"

What exactly do we know from the documents Manning leaked? Read it here: http://www.thenation.com/blog/175879/long-list-what-we-know-thanks-private-manning

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Ubuntu to build own display server, Unity To Switch Back to Qt/QML

Massive changes coming to Ubuntu land!http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/canonical-announce-custom-display-server-mir-not-wayland-not-xhttp://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/unity-next-project-announcedSee...

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Manjaro Repositories removed.

Some bad news for Manjaro users that are pulling from our repositories. Earlier today, you may have noticed that Spiralinear went down for several hours. This was due to the fact that our Manjaro...

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Bittorrent Chat

This looks *really* promising, guys! Just what the world needs right now, from a privacy point of view, of course! ;-)http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/bittorrent-chat.html

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"Inside Avaaz – can online activism really change the world?"

Inside Avaaz – can online activism really change the world?There are so many causes. This is forcibly brought home to me outside the Houses of Parliament one day, back in July 2013, where I am trying...

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