If you see some question about what the future holds the ideas outlined in the WFS Outlook 2013 will stimulate. Even if you have found teh answer it will still feed you brain. Enjoy it. http://www.wfs.org/futurist/november-december-2012-vol-46-no-6/outlook-2013 Outlook 2013 INTRODUCTION Human actions could become more accurately predictable, thanks to neuroscience. Nano-sized robots will deliver cancer-fighting …
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Asturix – linux and the logo
I’ve only looked at the home page so far, but I like the logo. And it sounds a bit like Asterix, one of my heroes … Some say it is easy, quick and light (on hardware). Another linux distribution worth a glance. It looks a bit Gnome/Ubuntu ish which is not my prefered GUI. I’ve …
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The front line of politics.
Many people are unhappy with the effectiveness of the political process, but just accept government by corrupt elected officials and inflexible, antiquated bureaucracy. Others are trying to change the way we do things. Like marches for civil rights, they facilitate speech on the internet when strong arm tactics are trying to quite the voices of …
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Scroogled!
Very sad to see that Scroogle.org has been brought down. The little “Don’t Be Evil” graphic wouldn’t load on our home page so we investigated. I loved Google back in 1998. Its colours were cool and it worked. But then I found out that they are not straight and have many conflicts of interest at …
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ACTA is more dangerous than PIPA or SOPA
ACTA — a global treaty — could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties – even prison sentences – against …
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Protest US “anti-piracy” moves
The US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) are proposed to be debated by Congress in a week. The legislation would allow the Justice Department and content owners to seek court orders requiring search engines to block results associated with piracy. The bill is too broad and so badly written …
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LibreOffice, OpenOffice and Oracle
Once upon a time OpenOffice, or Ooo (OpenOffice.Org) as it became known was the leader in open source office productivity software. I loved it. It was loved. Then one day a cunning suitor, Oracle, offered to give gold to the very attractive, but not rich, Ooo. Ooo agreed to become part of Oracle. But Oracle …
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Facebook has joined Microsoft and Google: ogres of the internet
A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this because Facebook is based in the EU in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then Facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files. What …
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Skype on x64 linux
From http://albertopassalacqua.com/?p=641 Before installing the Skype RPM you find on Skype website, you have to install the following packages, if not already present on your system: * libasound2-32bit * xorg-x11-libXv-32bit * xorg-x11-libs-32bit * libqt4-32bit * libqt4-x11-32bit * libpng12-0-32bit
Yahoo.src for seamonkey
Seamonkey users might find this useful till 2.1 comes out. Copy the text below to a text editor and save as yahoo.src in searchplugins in your profile directory. Restart seamonkey. # Yahoo Search Plug-in for Mozilla # # Created by Robert Fernandes (e-mail address removed by casey1992), Matthew A. McGuigan (e-mail address removed by casey1992), …
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