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Climategate ruling: FOIA requests cover backup servers too
Data seekers win a victory Last June, Keiler won a FOIA victory by obliging CRU to disclose the data set Jones had sent to Georgia Tech to anyone who asked for it. But CRU still refused to disclosed some information – specifically, any instructions accompanying the release of data to Georgia Tech. The University of [...]
SF Sheriff Mirkarimi caught in gun control net he helped cast
“Although San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was a strong advocate of gun control while on the Board of Supervisors, he surrendered 3 handguns when police recently booked him on misdemeanor domestic violence charges,” KCBS reports. Mirkarimi apparently owned them while sponsoring legislation last summer to bolster San Francisco gun control laws against a lawsuit by [...]
Solar Flare
UPDATE: They now say the proton pulse should hit Earth tomorrow morning … We’ll see. The solar storm, according to SpaceWeather.com, ranks S3 – “Strong” – on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Scale. NOAA identifies the storm as being the strongest since May 2005. The solar flare spat out late Sunday, [...]
Ann Romney tries damage control pre-tax release
There’s no doubt Mitt Romney is shaking in his Clarks at the thought of how he’ll be perceived when he publicly discloses his tax returns Tuesday. It might turn out that he’s richer than everyone thought. Or, maybe it‘ll appear as if he’s not paying his “fair share” in taxes (he saidhe’s “closer to the [...]
Florida’s Personal Injury Protection Law: How a Government Mandate is Bankrupting the Sunshine State
No-fault/Personal Injury Protection (PIP) laws are a prime example of the danger posed by the substitution of free market mechanisms for government mandates. In states with PIP laws on the books, the costs of insurance premiums are skyrocketing and rampant fraud and abuse of the system is to blame. PIP laws were put in place [...]
Polaroid introduces Android camera
This isn’t your grandma’s digital camera. The camera modules in smartphones continually improve, and these days there are phones like theiPhone 4S and the Nokia N9 who can take snapshots as good — and sometimes better — than point-and-shoots. Polaroid’s known for making cameras, but its newest device, a rebrand of the Aigo A8 we saw at CES last year, [...]
Finnish analyst hits fermented reindeer milk
A Finnish analyst has got together some facts and figures which he thinks proves that Android will kill off PCs. Horace Dediu said that iOS and Android devices are considered to be substitutes for personal computers and the PC market is going to collapse. Dediu runs Asymco which sells software development and consulting services for companies interested in deploying [...]
Cree Introduces The Next Generation Of Lighting-Class LEDs
Driving the next generation of mainstream LED lighting adoption, Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE – News) introduces the breakthrough XLamp® XB-D LED. The first LED based on an innovative new Cree technology platform, the XLamp XB-D LED ushers in a new era of price-performance for lighting-class LEDs. This LED can further simplify designs, ultimately removing a [...]
What Causes — The Several Causes of Neuropathy!
Today, most people with neuropathy (nerve damage) are only treating the symptoms and not getting to the root of the problem. For diabetics, neuropathy is caused by one or both of the following: a diet that is too high in carbohydrates, and incorrect nutrition. Furthermore, many medications given to people with neuropathy or diabetes actually [...]
