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2013-05-17 17:29:19 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

“It is not even remotely possible that all this was an accident, a mistake... [...] that only one IRS office was involved, [...] that the actions were the work of just a few agents, [...] that nobody in the IRS knew what was going on until very recently.” -- Noonan really gets the gravity of these events.

#irsgate #InternalRevengeService  

2013-05-16 22:17:42 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

If this is legit, it calls for a complete suspension of agency authority until a civilian oversight board with teeth can be put in place. Any tax crimes this institution alleges should have to be referred to the police for investigation and prosecution through normal channels for obtaining warrants, etc.

2013-05-16 13:20:10 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." - Ian Fleming

2013-05-16 01:34:17 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)

SMS phishing Google accounts? - I've never seen this before, but I just received this obvious phishing text message: "Message #27194: Your GoogIe Account has been hacked. Text back VERIFY to take a call to reactivate your account" from phone number 9312019826.

2013-05-15 20:52:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

IRS - Whitehouse Smoking Gun? -- This might be big; hard to know at this point. The Executive Office of the President and the IRS seem to have simultaneously been scouring the website of a government watchdog agency who had been critical of the administration.

2013-05-14 22:36:33 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-05-13 13:39:31 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

I wonder if people will, by-and-large, just be obedient and compliant with this new encroachment, or if many will draw a line in the sand and say “no”:

2013-05-10 14:51:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-05-10 03:43:27 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Yes! Go #Audi !

2013-05-10 00:36:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-09 23:04:29 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 4 +1s)

International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux, for improved reliability 

“We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”

"It’s worth noting that the ISS laptops used to run Windows XP, and we know they’ve been infected by at least one virus in their lifetime: in 2008, a Russian cosmonaut brought a laptop aboard with the W32.Gammima..AG worm, which quickly spread to the other laptops on board. Switching to Linux will essentially immunize the ISS against future infections."

2013-05-09 18:44:29 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

I'm not sure which is worse: this story, or that "separately, the New York Times reported Tuesday evening that the Obama administration may embrace the FBI's proposal for a federal law mandating that tech companies build in backdoors for surveillance."

2013-05-09 01:49:13 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

This dude is a hero, an example, and I hope he likes the song that's immortalized him in a meme...

2013-05-08 22:34:57 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it's up
"Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center."

2013-05-08 22:29:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Eat #bacon for your health!

2013-05-07 13:54:18 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The Onion's Twitter account hacked? If so, how bizarre.

2013-05-07 13:42:47 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Is this for real?

2013-05-06 23:34:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-04 00:08:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-03 03:45:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hip Hop Abs is straight up dope, yo. Or so I've been told.

2013-05-02 21:58:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

The H.P. Lovecraft Bronze Bust Project will erect a life size tribute to the iconic author in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island. A $250 contribution gets you the below-pictured 9-inch bust of Cthulhu.

2013-05-02 13:21:56 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This site is amazing; push and pull data and hook events in hundreds of popular Cloud apps like Jira, Salesforce, Autotask, Basecamp, and on and on. Their UI is stupendous; practically zero learning curve. Check out some of their training videos... in minutes, it's readily apparent what the service does & how to use it.

2013-05-01 13:12:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This is a really well-done spot for petsaddlife.org.

2013-04-30 11:20:52 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-04-29 20:05:22 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Grooveshark: What would it take to get a Flash-based uploader instead of needing to install a gaping security risk like the Java plugin?

2013-04-29 13:07:09 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Tribbles `n´ Bits... I have a feeling these are pure trouble.

2013-04-28 20:40:21 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Most Rapid Risers (update)

We have seen (http://goo.gl/wpV8b) that there is something going on in the way Google+ is suggesting new people. I'm not talking about the SUL or "Find People" since we don't know yet what exactly is going on ;)

Today we have an update, where we have compared the follower growth between these two periods:
- Period A: 20/03/2013 - 27/03/2013
- Period A: 20/04/2013 - 27/04/2013

► Top 100 Profiles
http://www.circlecount.com/risersprofiles/

► Top 100 Pages
http://www.circlecount.com/riserspages/

This time I would also like to mention the first 20 people on the list, since the last time many rapid risers were happy to get in their posts a link to this one.
Advanced users tip: if you have installed our Chrome Extension[1] you can get very easy (with just one click in thehov... more »

2013-04-27 07:30:27 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Holy excrement... I think I just lost a large sum of money... 

2013-04-27 07:06:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Dear Facebook,

I want to search for that comment my friend John Doe made on my comment on his post the other week, and I know it included the word (e.g.) "nosferatu." Your new advanced graph search doesn't even touch that problem. I wish the conversation had happened on Google+, where I would have found it in seconds.

-Me

2013-04-27 02:23:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-25 14:40:38 (9 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

A simplification perhaps, but not too far off the mark...

2013-04-25 14:39:33 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

#ThomasSowell  is so pithy...

2013-04-25 05:34:30 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

I guess I just missed #Wednesday , but whatevs...

2013-04-25 03:57:13 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 4 +1s)

Of course they will. The surest sign that a law is perverse and counterproductive is when congress decides that their own legislation is bad for them. 

2013-04-25 03:02:15 (16 comments, 21 reshares, 62 +1s)

This perfectly sums up why the entertainment industry as it exists today is going to die off so rapidly...

2013-04-25 02:41:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I was just wondering when this would happen: #bitcoin via derivatives markets...

2013-04-25 02:30:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It used to be that businesses only had to collect sales tax on purchases from states where they had a physical presence. This is indeed a new tax.

2013-04-25 02:27:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Would the president sign a privacy-enhancing bill like this even if both houses actually agreed on the details & passed the legislation?

2013-04-24 21:50:59 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 2 +1s)

Robert Heinlein's predictions from 1949 for the year 2000 -- we're a bit behind schedule on most of them, but not all, and we're getting close on a few.

2013-04-24 21:43:08 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The budget would "limit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in individual retirement accounts and other tax-preferred retirement accounts. That would cap an individual's total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per year in retirement, equal to about $3 million this year."

2013-04-24 14:55:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

See, Slaughter actually had two hits!

2013-04-24 14:22:32 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

This sounds like a pretty resilient architecture...

2013-04-24 03:36:50 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#beer Hop Czar one-word review: meh.

2013-04-23 23:49:06 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

I don't understand the whole rationale behind sequestration requiring an FAA worker furlough. Don't we pay all kinds of airport use taxes that are supposed to fund this stuff.? I kind of wonder if this isn't the kind of budget politicking Thomas Sowell talks about:

"Back in my teaching days, many years ago, one of the things I liked to ask the class to consider was this: Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2) providing life-saving medications to children. If this agency's budget were cut, what would it do?

The answer, of course, is that it would cut back on the medications for children. Why? Because that would be what was most likely to get the budget cuts restored. If they cut back on building statues of Benedict Arnold, people might ask why they were building statues of Benedict Arnold in the first place.

2013-04-22 23:42:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-22 20:50:51 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Desperate money and power grabs seem to be escalating these days...

2013-04-21 00:05:53 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

I for one welcome our new avian overlords...

2013-04-20 21:55:38 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This falls into the category, I will believe it when I see it. A Linux laptop that works out of the box. It connects to wireless networks without screwing with configuration files, and hooking up to external monitors is a breeze.

Personally I would love to move over to Linux, but getting hardware to work with it is always a hassle. Becoming a Linux guru is not one of my ambitions in life. For me computers are just a tool, they should work out of the box without special knowledge. This is the thing that Linux developers need to learn. In order for Linux to become the desktop of choice, it needs to be hassle free and simple to configure.

#Linux   #Dell   #windowssucks   #bluescreenofdeath  

2013-04-20 17:02:55 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What on earth is going on with Google+? 2,400 new followers in the last 10 days, and I've really been in a lull as far as participating here, so no idea where the influx is coming from. Is Plus spiking in general, or is there a new spam wave or something?

2013-04-20 15:55:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

If you're going to filibuster, might as well tell everyone your ideas for future Star Wars plots...