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Meet The Man Who Paid A Record $335,000 For Virtual Property - Oliver Chiang - SelectSt... - 7 views

blogs.forbes.com/...rd-335000-for-virtual-property fun INF
shared by LeopoldS on 30 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 30 Nov 10
     
    does he also have to pay property tax?
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  • LeopoldS on 30 Nov 10
     
    "He says he made the purchase partly because he wants to be able to spend more time in the virtual world. Before, he was averaging 10 to 20 hours per week. He wants to be able to spend about 40 to 60 hours a week now, basically making running the virtual asteroid a full-time job. (He'll also be cutting back on the time he spends developing software in real life.)"
  • andreiaries on 30 Nov 10
     
    From what I remember when I visited the developer/producer company HQ, he wouldn't have to pay any taxes. If he has a virtual business he might have to pay them a license fee. If you want to start a virtual bank, you would need to buy a banking license. The money thing is quite regulated in this enviroment, so probably that's why property prices can be quite high.
  • Joris _ on 30 Nov 10
  • LeopoldS on 01 Dec 10
     
    Remember the study but have completely zapped that this was with this company ... GSP rules :-)
  • LeopoldS on 01 Dec 10
     
    so how does that state get his money from this type of economy? where is the VAT in there?
  • andreiaries on 01 Dec 10
     
    Last time I checked the "state" was still loosing money. But their main income is the sale of resources. Mostly new land, but I believe at some point they wanted to sell their initial planet too.
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Cyber Experts Have Proof That China Has Hijacked U.S.-Based Internet Traffic: UPDATED -... - 0 views

www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/...Post.aspx INF
shared by Joris _ on 25 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic
  • The telephone giants of the world work on a system based on trust,
  • They also trust that this system won’t be abused.
  • Joris _ on 25 Nov 10
     
    Some issues with internet. Let's invent the future internet ...
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Gigapixel-Dresden.de - Large Size Panoramas - 4 views

www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/dresden26GP fun
shared by Francesco Biscani on 18 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes.
  • Ma Ru on 18 Feb 10
     
    "With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world. (stand December 2009)" Daring statement... I'm not quite sure, but I'd quess microscopic images used in medicine can easily reach terapixels... What a waste of pixels anyway... they weren't able to find a bit more interesing city?
  • pacome delva on 23 Feb 10
     
    yeah... like Leiden !
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Augmented Hyper-reality - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch
shared by Eduardo Martin Moraud on 16 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Eduardo Martin Moraud on 16 Feb 10
     
    Check it out: How hyper-reality might change our vision of the world in the future. Pretty cool
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World Fertility Patterns 2009 - 1 views

www.un.org/...worldfertility2009.htm
shared by Luzi Bergamin on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Luzi Bergamin on 09 Mar 10
     
    fertility world_population
  • Luzi Bergamin on 09 Mar 10
     
    Perhaps Mister Burkeman should have read this first...
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Galileo space navigation system to be ready in 2014 | Business | Deutsche Welle | 07.01... - 1 views

www.dw-world.de/...0,,5096845,00.html MAD GPS
shared by Joris _ on 07 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Joris _ on 07 Jan 10
     
    6 years later ...
  • Nicholas Lan on 08 Jan 10
     
    seems optimistic
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Extrasolar planets: Water world larger than Earth : Article : Nature - 1 views

www.nature.com/...462853a.html exoplanets habitability
shared by Nina Nadine Ridder on 17 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 17 Dec 09
     
    discovery of a planet only 2.7 times larger than Earth
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Russians will save the planet!!! - 3 views

www.space.com/...0-russia-asteroid-apophis.html space apophis NEO CCCP Russia
shared by Ma Ru on 30 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 30 Dec 09
     
    Damn I should have thought about it before!!! Just launch anything that manages to hit Apophis and the title of the Redeemer of the World is yours!!! Howdys to our Comrades for the idea!
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BBC News - Newsnight - UK warns world about useless 'bomb detectors' - 2 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8481774.stm technology
shared by andreiaries on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • andreiaries on 28 Jan 10
     
    Can we use this for space?
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Riding the strangest rocket in the world - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...-the-strangest-rocket-in.shtml space science technology operations launchers
shared by Ma Ru on 19 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 19 Mar 10
     
    Interesting article about your Cryosat. Don't miss the Dniepr launch videos and the story about Kazakh surgeon fixing the satellite :)
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volunteering for hilarious privacy/security issues - 2 views

blippy.com web fun
shared by Nicholas Lan on 23 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 23 Mar 10
     
    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.
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Mar 10
     
    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?
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The Canadian insect collector who eats his specimens - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8596627.stm fun bio
shared by Ma Ru on 05 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 05 Apr 10
     
    Dedicated to Tobias...
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Hewlett-Packard Unveils Real-World Memristor, Chip of the Future | Popular Science - 3 views

www.popsci.com/...d-unveils-first-ever-memristor technology electronic
shared by Joris _ on 12 Apr 10 - Cached
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  • they allow the same device to serve as the processor and the memory
  • a memristor system would work far faster, and with far less energy, than a traditional computer.
  • Second, memristors can be much smaller than transistors.
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  • Lastly, unlike transistors, which only work linearly, memristors can form three-dimensional networks
  • pacome delva on 15 Apr 10
     
    wow, looks pretty cool! I wonder what is "a ridiculous amount of memory on a chip"...? giga, tera, peta, exa, ... ?
  • Ma Ru on 15 Apr 10
     
    Looks cool indeed, but as with all those technology "breakthroughs" my enthusiasm will be limited until this actually makes it to my laptop...
  • LeopoldS on 15 Apr 10
     
    what a phrase: "this advance could increase the power and memory of computers to nearly unimaginable proportions within only a couple of years." ... sure ....
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Physicists study how moral behaviour evolved - 2 views

physicsworld.com/...42540 phy ia cooperation
shared by pacome delva on 07 May 10 - Cached
  • A statistical-physics-based model may shed light on the age-old question "how can morality take root in a world where everyone is out for themselves?" Computer simulations by an international team of scientists suggest that the answer lies in how people interact with their closest neighbours rather than with the population as a whole.
  • pacome delva on 07 May 10
     
    Reminds me something... :)
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 07 May 10
     
    I check diigo for the first time since I left and my spirit is still there yeah !
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Malagasy Spiders Spin the World's Toughest Biological Material - ScienceNOW - 0 views

news.sciencemag.org/...y-spiders-spin-the-worlds.html bio biomaterials spiders
shared by pacome delva on 04 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Like an engineer accounting for a skyscraper swaying in the wind, Madagascar's Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) spins enormous, river-spanning webs that stretch and contract as the trees to which they're anchored bend this way and that. A new study finds that this spider's silk is the toughest biomaterial yet discovered.
  • The spiders' colossal orb webs can span up to 2.8 square meters and are anchored by threads as long as 25 meters.
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Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2010 - 3 views

physicsworld.com/...44618 phy
shared by pacome delva on 22 Dec 10 - No Cached
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  • pacome delva on 22 Dec 10
     
    BECs and Clocks, 6th and 7th place, metamaterials 4th place :)
  • LeopoldS on 22 Dec 10
     
    nice list! thanks Pacome!
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