For NASA Employees, It's "Spacebook" Not Facebook - 0 views
Facebook - 0 views
ResearchGATE - scientific network - 0 views
Facebook Spaces - 1 views
Facebook does Go - 3 views
Healthier blueberries, thanks to a blast of purple plasma - 0 views
Infinite Stupidity | Conversation | Edge - 0 views
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amusing take on innovation A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we've seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What's happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we're being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We're being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. Because innovation is extraordinarily hard. My worry is that we could be moving in that direction, towards becoming more and more sort of docile copiers.
The drawbacks of open office - 1 views
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The natural multitaskers are profited the least from this configuration. And then there is Thijs
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haha :) "The psychologist Nick Perham, who studies the effect of sound on how we think, has found that office commotion impairs workers' ability to recall information, and even to do basic arithmetic. Listening to music to block out the office intrusion doesn't help: even that, Perham found, impairs our mental acuity." Actually, I grew up studying my homework in my parents shop downstairs. No noise whatsoever drives me insane :)
The World's Fair 2014 - Isaac Asimov's predictions 40 years ago - 3 views
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saac Asimov's predictions of the year 2014 back in 1964.. Truly amazing to read how close his sharp mind turned out to be at that time (cold war, Yuri Gagarin just went into space and Fortran first appeared 7 years before). The last prediction also came true I think, however the solution was not psychiatry.. instead we invented Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
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Also, he predicted that solar power stations would power the places on earth where solar power nor fission (?) would be available... Not there yet
How I became a Foursquare cyberstalker | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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Foursquare is now being widely touted as the app which will, after years of anticipation and prediction, mark the beginning of "life as a game" computing. Whatever you do, wherever you go, you will be scoring points, earning "medals", and be in, at the very least, social competition with other users around you.
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Privacy seems to be very low down their priorities. In theory, if every user knows the risks, this is fine. But they just don't. It's being targeted at 18 to 25-year-olds. Facebook was forced in the end to change its default privacy settings due to public concerns. Foursquare should do the same. Some people are even checking in when they're at home. Think of the implications. It's crazy
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Recruitment is a form of stalking, I suppose. But I can now see the negative implications of Foursquare in the real world.
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Another Facebook for Scientists... - 3 views
volunteering for hilarious privacy/security issues - 2 views
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lets you link your account to a credit card and then publish whatever you just bought and what you paid for it to your facebook status/twitter feed/etc.
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looks like a joke: "Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone is buying." TIME :"Made me want to spend more"" where is our world going to?
Diaspora: Personally Controlled, Do-It-All, Distributed Open-Source Social Network - 3 views
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but so far only an announcement ... they want to be ready in autumn only ... :-(
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yes, but already 172000 dollars of donation (!!) and plenty of guys offered their service for the coding ! this is something a lot of people is waiting for !
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Anything that can has a chance to save us from the Facebook abomination is welcome...
ESA's Flickr Photostream - 0 views
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Did you know it exists? You can also check http://flickriver.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/popular-interesting/ for their shots sorted by popularity. Is ESA already on Facebook too? ;-)
Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen - 10 views
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After month of research and discovery, we’ve learned the following:1. Bitcoin is a technologically sound project.2. Bitcoin is unstoppable without end-user prosecution.3. Bitcoin is the most dangerous open-source project ever created.4. Bitcoin may be the most dangerous technological project since the internet itself.5. Bitcoin is a political statement by technotarians (technological libertarians).*6. Bitcoins will change the world unless governments ban them with harsh penalties.
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The benefits of a currency like this:a) Your coins can’t be frozen (like a Paypal account can be)b) Your coins can’t be trackedc) Your coins can’t be taxedd) Transaction costs are extremely low (sorry credit card companies)
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An individual with the name -- or perhaps handle -- of Satoshi Nakamoto first wrote about bitcoins in a paper called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.
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Sounds good!
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well of course money is trust, and even more loans and credit and even more stock and bond markets. It all represents trust and expectations. However since the first banks 500 years ago and the first loans etc. etc., and as well the fact that bonds and currencies bring down whole countries (Greece lately), and are mainly controlled by large financial centres and (central) banks, banks have always been on the winning side no matter what and that isn't going to change easily. So if you are talking about these new currencies it would be a new era, not just a new currency. So should Greece convert its debt to bitcoins ;P ?
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well, from 1936 to 1993 the central bank of france was owned by the state and was supposed to serve the general interest...
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