April 2010
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Homeward Bound - Ben Kweller -...
MIT Spectrum » Spring 2010 » Changing the World... →
“Being in a situation where you’re not comfortable is a great spur to creativity,” Susnowitz says. “It heightens intellectual awareness that leads to inventive solutions.”
Publishers, Collective Rights Ask Congress To... →
“An analysis by the Institute for Policy Innovation concludes that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year, 71,060 U.S. jobs lost, a loss of $2.7 billion in workers’ earnings, and a loss of $422 million in tax revenues, $291 million in personal income tax and $131 million in lost corporate income and production taxes. According to the Bureau of Labor...
New York’s Mayor, but Bermuda Shares Custody -... →
Mr. Bloomberg does not. His aides know better than to schedule public events after Friday mornings, allowing the mayor to make his getaways to Bermuda on Friday afternoon and be back in New York by Sunday evening. (Of the 17 Fridays since Dec. 31, the mayor had no public events scheduled after 10 a.m. on 13 of them.)
Marginal Revolution: Ed Glaeser on historic... →
The real question is whether these vast districts should ever have been created and whether they should remain protected ground in the years ahead. No living city’s future should become a prisoner to its past.
SPACE.com -- What Will NASA Do With the Retired... →
Discovery, the oldest of NASA’s shuttles, has already been promised to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., leaving Atlantis and Endeavour available for other institutions.
SIP Phones and Voice In The Cloud →
Contrast this to the experience of getting a phone line provisioned from Verizon or any other traditional phone company. That requires talking to someone, getting a tech to come out and provision the line, and then running wires around the house or office.
Attorneys sue Sparta over DWI,
New Jersey Herald →
The suit also claims the Sparta police are generally overzealous with their road patrols, including the drunken-driving tests, and in “overcharging” motorists with infractions once they’re at the side of the road. For example, Ward getting a “careless driving” summons from the incident, which was quickly thrown out of court for lack of evidence.
Princeton University Details iPad Wireless... →
The malfunction we see is that the iPad uses DHCP to obtain a lease, renews the lease zero or more times (as expected), but then continues using the IP address without renewing the lease further. The iPad allows the DHCP lease to expire, but it continues using the IP address after allowing the lease to expire. The incident continues for some time (typically hours); usually it ends when the iPad...
2 years after Picatinny shell blasts through... →
JEFFERSON — The softball-sized hole left in Cassie Gadow’s bedroom ceiling by an errant chunk of exploded ordnance from Picatinny Arsenal exists today just as it did two years ago.
