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POPSIs There a Privacy Risk in Google Flu Trends? From the article: "But he insisted that, by highlighting the unresolved problem, Google Flu Trends made things worse. “I think this does change the game,” he said. “Google is inviting public health officials to make more of search information. In doing so, it has heightened the privacy risk to people who search for health information online.” Or perhaps it has just let people know that if they are concerned about the privacy of those searches, they should use a computer at their local library or some other place where tracking them would be harder." Maybe, it is our notion of privacy that is ought to change? after all whenever we use a new technology it bounds to use the user as well..
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POPSSweden's Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center
When asked the motivation behind Pionen, Jon Karlung, CEO of Bahnhof said “Rather than just concentrating on technical hardware we decided to put humans in focus. Of course, the security, power, cooling, network, etc, are all top notch, but the people designing data centers often (always!) forget about the humans that are supposed to work with the stuff.” “Since we got hold of this unique nuclear bunker in central Stockholm deep below the rock, we just couldn't’t build it like a traditional – more boring – hosting center,” he said. “We wanted to make something different. The place itself needed something far out in design and science fiction was the natural source of inspiration in this case – plus of course some solid experience from having been a hosting provider for more than a decade.” Regarding the design of the facility, he said “I’m personally a big fan of old science fiction movies. Especially ones from the 70s like Logan’s Run, Silent Running, Star Wars...
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POPS'Mother of all suicide bombers' warns of rise in attacks The necessity of killing these women will only gain the world's sympathy for their cause. Who is ready and up to this task? How does one combat this kind of fanaticism? Look at those pitiful eyes and can you have sympathy for those who exploit these poor women? That "Mother" needs to be silenced so she can *breed* no more children.
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POPSNuclear Fusion Will Become Reality by 2011 In its National Ignition Facility (NIF), LLNL will have a laser capable of heating plasma to the absurdly-high temperatures needed for nuclear fusion. The completion of the device is scheduled for 2009, whereas the first test will begin in 2010. Researchers at the lab are confident that, by 2011, they could obtain sustainable and entirely controllable fusion. The year of 2020 was set as a marker for the construction of the first commercial power plant, to employ the new technology. If their endeavors are successful, then the world could see a major transformation, as far as energy production goes. Having a reliable and perfectly safe source of power will virtually eliminate the need for fossil-fuel power plants, and even wind and solar farms will become obsolete. In order for this to happen, governments worldwide will have to make a huge financial effort, to install these energy-producing plants across their territories.
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POPSMini nuclear power plants for sale continues: 'Deal claims to have more than 100 firm orders, largely from the oil and electricity industries, but says the company is also targeting developing countries and isolated communities. 'It's leapfrog technology,' he said.The company plans to set up three factories to produce 4,000 plants between 2013 and 2023. 'We already have a pipeline for 100 reactors, and we are taking our time to tool up to mass-produce this reactor.'The first confirmed order came from TES, a Czech infrastructure company specialising in water plants and power plants. 'They ordered six units and optioned a further 12. We are very sure of their capability to purchase,' said Deal.
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POPSinteresting two minute video on destroying these weapons The headline is quite misleading. The biggest cluster bomb users aren't signing the treaty. The US has used them in every recent war: Yugoslavia in 1999, Afghanistan, and Iraq and has not renounced their continued use. Obama voted for an amendment that would have prevented the use of such weapons against civilians, but if these weapons are used in war, they inevitably will kill civilians. The only sure way to stop killing civilians with cluster bombs is to eliminate them. A Google search for "cluster bombs" on Obama's website came up empty; I didn't find any indication of what Obama intends to do about them. If Bill Clinton were back in office, you can bet he'd find a way to continue to use these God-forsaken devices, even as he convinced everyone of the opposite. We'll see if Obama is a president in the Clinton mold.
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POPSHead Trip I had a crush on Davy, but he looks kinda fem so go figure . . .
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POPSMini Nuclear Plants ~ On The Market Within Five Years The company plans to set up three factories to produce 4,000 plants between 2013 and 2023. 'We already have a pipeline for 100 reactors, and we are taking our time to tool up to mass-produce this reactor.' The first confirmed order came from TES, a Czech infrastructure company specialising in water plants and power plants. 'They ordered six units and optioned a further 12. We are very sure of their capability to purchase,' said Deal. The first one, he said, would be installed in Romania. 'We now have a six-year waiting list. We are in talks with developers in the Cayman Islands, Panama and the Bahamas.' The reactors, only a few metres in diameter, will be delivered on the back of a lorry to be buried underground. They must be refuelled every 7 to 10 years. An application to build the plants will be submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission next year.
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POPSHanoi Jane Who can ever forget this! how does she feel now when she looks upon the Wall and see's those names.Soldier's that died horrible death's all alone and afraid with this memory in the back of their minds.
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POPSSubterranean Fortress # The perfect home theatre room. # A music studio # Artist /craft space # Kids space/noise proof space # Day Care Center # The Best Halloween Haunted House Ever # Huge wine cellar # Party/Rec. room/pool table/wetbar # Dark room # Meditation spaces # Fitness area # Unique home business space # Do tours to cover expenses # Meeting room/conference room # Build fireman’s pole down Man Hole for quick entrance into the “Big Room” # Actually use it as a “Bomb Shelter”, can hold up to 300 people for 1-2 weeks, or one-two families for a few years. # Office Space with full working phone/internet capabilities. # Would make great Hollywood house for filming movies in.
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POPS If Iraqis Could Vote It Would Be For McCain Iraqi men watch a repeat of the final US presidential debate between candidates Barack Obama and John McCain as they smoke waterpaipes at a coffee shop in Baghdad on October 16, 2008. Iraqis in the Baghdad neighbourhood near Rasheed Street say if they could vote in the US election they would choose McCain.
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POPSJoe the Plumber Agrees: Obama would "bring Death to Israel."
This is just another sample of the hostile and extreme inflammatory language that has been a sick part of the anti-Obama campaign Obama the terrorist. Obama the Muslim Obama the member of a Black 'hate church,' Obama the socialist, the communist, and now: Obama the imminent cause of "The Death of Israel." AIPAC, other Jewish lobbying groups, Isreali leadership and others also feel the same way: Quite an oh so dramatic claim. Like the false claims and distortions of Israel and the Jewish lobby keep saying Iran wants to "Wash Israel into the Sea." Their feelings are so intense that if you rationally try to point out actual policy positions many Jews react as if you're a personal friend of Hitler, or something. (Even though your family fought against Hitler...it makes no difference). Even though Obama went to Jerusalem, put on a skullcap, visited the Holocaust Museum, spoke directly to AIPAC and promised Israel everything they want OTOH McCain does want to bomb Iran, t
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