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"Linux is at a major tipping point, yet it faces being undermined from within. Jack Wallen calls for the Linux community to end the fighting between the Linux camps. By Jack Wallen | in Linux and Open Source, June 3, 2013, 1:01 AM PST"

"First systematic analysis of its kind even proposes reasons for the negative correlation. by Akshat Rathi - Aug 12 2013, 12:30am CEST"

"By Joel Lee on 1st February, 2013 | Technology Explained, Web Culture | 25 Comments "Open source" is a term that's thrown around a lot these days. You may know that certain things are open source, like Linux and Android, but do you know what it entails?"

"By Joel Lee on 1st February, 2013 | Technology Explained, Web Culture | 25 Comments "Open source" is a term that's thrown around a lot these days. You may know that certain things are open source, like Linux and Android, but do you know what it entails?"

"Amazon is working on a 'Spotify killer'. Sound familiar? Apple Music was hailed as such by basically everyone. Google's All Access was called the same, back in 2013. Even Tidal got the label. And now it's Amazon's turn. As first "

"Amazon is working on a 'Spotify killer'. Sound familiar? Apple Music was hailed as such by basically everyone. Google's All Access was called the same, back in 2013. Even Tidal got the label. And now it's Amazon's turn. As first "

"On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff's deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist's report of human remains outside of town. They identified the partially bleached skull of a child, and later discovered the remains of the McStay family who had been missing for the past three years. Joseph, 40, his wife Summer, 43, Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3, had been bludgeoned to death and buried in shallow graves in the desert."

"VIKTORIA DENDRINOU, The Wall Street Journal BRUSELAS (EFE Dow Jones)--La decisión de Reino Unido de abandonar la Unión Europea ha arrojado más dudas sobre el futuro de un tratado comercial de gran alcance entre la UE y Estados Unidos. Los dos mayores bloques económicos del mundo han estado negociando la Asociación Transatlántica para el Comercio y la Inversión --o TTIP por sus siglas en inglés-- desde 2013, y todavía dicen que esperan finalizar las negociaciones antes de que finalice el mandato de la Administración Obama en enero."

"Matrixology: fact vs. fiction Sep2 by Jon Rappoport Matrixology: fact vs. fiction by Jon Rappoport September 2, 2013 www.nomorefakenews.com I've made this point several times: fiction is often a better way than fact to gain insight into the Matrix. With some people, this notion turns over in the mind about as compellingly as the engine of a 1947 Buick in a junkyard."

"We need a worldwide struggle to preserve the global commons. July 5, 2013 | With wrenching tragedies only a few miles away, and still worse catastrophes perhaps not far removed, it may seem wrong, perhaps even cruel, to shift attention to other prospects that, although abstract and uncertain, might offer a path to a better world - and not in the remote future. "

"Según comentó el CTO de Intel durante la LinuxCon, la era de Linux ya ha llegado. Un cambio de paradigma que llega gracias al empuje de proyectos como Android y Chromebook que han popularizado el uso de Linux 19-09-2013 - En estos días se ha estado celebrando en Nueva Orleans la LinuxCon North America, uno de los eventos de referencia para la comunidad de desarrolladores que trabajan en el proyecto Linux en Norteamérica. El evento ha tenido ponentes de la talla de Chris DiBona o el mismísimo Linus Torvalds y empresas como Red Hat, Samsung, OpenStack o Canonical. Intel también participó en el evento con una keynote que corrió a cargo de Dirk Hohndel, CTO de Intel y desarrollador del proyecto del kernel de Linux; una ponencia en la que lanzó una interesante predicción: Linux liderará el segmento de sistemas operativos orientados a usuario y, por tanto, la era de Linux ya ha llegado. "

"It means wars. It means famines. It means raging forest fires and the death of grasslands. September 26, 2013 | Three quarters of a billion people is a lot of people. And that's how many people, within the next 22 years, will almost certainly run low on water - a necessity of life - in just the regions whose rivers are supplied with water from the glaciers in the Himalayas. "

"The Project Gutenberg EBook of History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science, by John William Draper This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science Author: John William Draper Release Date: February, 1998 [EBook #1185] Last Updated: January 25, 2013 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT *** Produced by Charles Keller, and David Widger HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE By John William Draper, M. D., LL. D. PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE, HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, AND OF MANY EXPERIMENTAL MEMOIRS ON CHEMICAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS CONTENTS PREFACE. HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. PREFACE. WHOEVER has had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the mental condition of the intelligent classes in Europe and America, must have perceived that there is a great and rapidly-increasing departure from the public religious faith, and that, while among the more frank this divergence is not concealed, there is a far more extensive and far more dangerous secession, private and unacknowledged. "

"by Monica Thunder on March 26, 2015 Combine the number of overdose deaths caused by heroin and cocaine, and you still haven't matched the number of deaths caused by pharmaceutical prescription medications each year in the United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, pharmaceutical abuse was responsible for about 23,000 deaths in 2013 - that's more than half of the overdose deaths in the U.S. that year."

Our kids are being prepared for passive obedience, not creative, independent lives. By Noam Chomsky / AlterNet March 8, 2013

"Developers, like everyone else, often struggle with mental health issues. And like everyone else, these struggles are often left unspoken. In 2013, Ed Finkler decided to change that. Finker started the Open Sourcing Mental Illness campaign to bring the issue to light and prompt discussion."

"Posted by Gary Newell | at 20:51 3 comments Introduction For the past couple of years I have been producing analysis guides for the top 10 Linux distributions as listed on Distrowatch. Click here for the guide for 2013 Click here for the guide for 2014 The point of this article is to look at the top 10 Linux distributions as listed on Distrowatch for the year 2015 and analyse their suitability for the average Joe. The criteria for an Everyday Linux distribution is as follows: Must be relatively easy to install Must have an intuitive desktop environment Must be easy to use Must have a standard set of applications pre-installed (i.e. web browser, audio player, media player) Must have a decent package manager in order to install further software Must be ready to use from the get go"

"Durante años la industria musical ha arremetido contra la piratería digital alegando que vulnera sus intereses y los derechos de autor de los artistas. Pero un nuevo informe indica todo lo contrario: la piratería podría estar de hecho estimulando las ventas.l No es el primer estudio que deja entrever esta realidad, pero en esta ocasión quien lo dice es el Instituto de Prospectiva Tecnológica (IPTS, por sus siglas en inglés), que forma parte del Centro Común de Investigación de la Comisión Europea."

"Durante años la industria musical ha arremetido contra la piratería digital alegando que vulnera sus intereses y los derechos de autor de los artistas. Pero un nuevo informe indica todo lo contrario: la piratería podría estar de hecho estimulando las ventas. No es el primer estudio que deja entrever esta realidad, pero en esta ocasión quien lo dice es el Instituto de Prospectiva Tecnológica (IPTS, por sus siglas en inglés), que forma parte del Centro Común de Investigación de la Comisión Europea."

"16.02.2015 - 05:00 H. Si las dietas de la cúpula de la SGAE generan un culebrón en forma de capítulos mensuales, no menos discutidos son los salarios de los presidentes. Quién cobra más que quién y cómo hacerlo con una sociedad deficitaria, inmersa en la Operación Saga y con necesidad de ajustar sus cuentas y mostrarse transparente. Las actas de 2012 y 2013 a las que ha tenido acceso El Confidencial recogen las retribuciones de los dos últimos presidentes de la SGAE: Antón Reixa y José Luis Acosta. Y sus polémicas."

[In the days since the tragedy of Aaron Swartz's suicide, many academics have been posting open-access PDFs of their research. It's an act of solidarity with Swartz's crusade to liberate (in most cases publicly funded) knowledge for all to read. ...]

*Collective Intelligence" ~ Open Knowledge

[... El mensaje de Reich es así de simple: "La desigualdad nos ha llevado a un callejón sin salida. El 70% de la economía depende del gasto de los consumidores. Pero la clase media no gasta por la pérdida de empleo y de poder adquisitivo. Y las empresas no contratan porque no tiene clientes. Entre tanto, los Gobiernos han caído en la trampa de la austeridad y hacen que se contraiga aún más de la demanda. Simultáneamente, permiten que el 1% de los más ricos se hagan con más y más riqueza". ...]

Let's Push, though Common Sense, The Human Equality.