Category Archives: geek

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“A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said.” (CNN)
Since I’ve spent the day battling table mutation errors I thought I’d post this link to ‘PL/SQL’s Top Annoyances‘.

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“A machine that can make anything sounds like the stuff of the distant future, but a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) program is making personal fabrication a reality.
Around the world, MIT is helping to build Fabrication, or “Fab” Labs, and they are reaping results.” (BBC)

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Is Google the new Microsoft? “Trust is a precious commodity and almost impossible to regain once lost. Google’s instinctive reactions to several controversies to date have been marked by na

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“Google has refused to speak to reporters at CNET’s online news site after it ran a story that used Google’s chief executive to illustrate how easily the company’s search engine finds personal information.
Google told News.com, the online tech news service of CNET Networks, last week that it would not speak to any of its reporters for a year, according to News.com’s editor.
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The crux of Mills’ story was about the vast amounts of information Google collects that is unavailable to the public. For example, Google software scans user emails to learn what kind of advertising might appeal to the user.
Mills wrote in her story that “hackers, zealous government investigators, or even a Google insider who falls short of the company’s ethics standards could abuse that information.”” (Age)

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“A human version of the classic arcade game Pacman, superimposing the virtual 3D game world on to city streets and buildings, is being developed by researchers at Singapore.
Players equipped with a wearable computer, headset and goggles can physically enter a real world game space by choosing to play the role of Pacman or one of the Ghosts.” (BBC)