Tidal power gets a stormy birth

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Scot­land’s lat­est bid for tidal power

Glad to see turbine makers involved in the tidal power business. One tidal windmill’s max rating is 1 MW. If it were 10 MW that would make for a ton of power production in a very small geographic area.

Why IT Departments Should Let Employees Use Their Own Devices Matt McLarty, mashable.com Matt McLar­ty is the vice pres­i­dent of client solu­tions for Layer 7 Tech­nolo­gies, a provider of API man­age­ment solu­tions. Prior to Layer 7, Matt led tech­ni­cal sales for and worked exten­sive­ly as an enter­prise archi­tect in the… BYOD: Because it makes sense!

Why IT Departments Should Let Employees Use Their Own Devices
Matt McLarty, mashable.com

Matt McLar­ty is the vice pres­i­dent of client solu­tions for Layer 7 Tech­nolo­gies, a provider of API man­age­ment solu­tions. Prior to Layer 7, Matt led tech­ni­cal sales for and worked exten­sive­ly as an enter­prise archi­tect in the…

BYOD: Because it makes sense!

Chrome 19 Launches, Now Features Built-In Tab Syncing Frederic Lardinois, techcrunch.com Google today launched ver­sion 19 of its Chrome brows­er for Win­dows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame to its main­stream sta­ble release chan­nel. Besides the usual bug fixes and per­for­mance improve­ments, the high­light of today’s release is the… I would love to have selective tab syncing based off my location (work vs not at work).

Chrome 19 Launches, Now Features Built-In Tab Syncing
Frederic Lardinois, techcrunch.com

Google today launched ver­sion 19 of its Chrome brows­er for Win­dows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame to its main­stream sta­ble release chan­nel. Besides the usual bug fixes and per­for­mance improve­ments, the high­light of today’s release is the…

I would love to have selective tab syncing based off my location (work vs not at work).

London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic Committee’s favor By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com A Van­i­ty Fair arti­cle pro­fil­ing the polit­i­cal jour­ney that Britain took to secure the 2012 Olympics reports that the bid com­mit­tee went as far as mess­ing with traf­fic sig­nals to ensure that the Inter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­… Big Brother watched over the IOC in London.

London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic Committee’s favor
By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com

A Van­i­ty Fair arti­cle pro­fil­ing the polit­i­cal jour­ney that Britain took to secure the 2012 Olympics reports that the bid com­mit­tee went as far as mess­ing with traf­fic sig­nals to ensure that the Inter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­…

Big Brother watched over the IOC in London.

Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy By David Kravets, wired.com A fed­er­al appeals court on Fri­day upheld the Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Agency’s deci­sion to with­hold from the pub­lic doc­u­ments con­firm­ing or deny­ing any rela­tion­ship it has with Google con­cern­ing encryp­tion and cyber­se­cu­ri­ty.That… Interesting that Google isn’t saying anything either.

Court Upholds Google-NSA Relationship Secrecy
By David Kravets, wired.com

A fed­er­al appeals court on Fri­day upheld the Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Agency’s deci­sion to with­hold from the pub­lic doc­u­ments con­firm­ing or deny­ing any rela­tion­ship it has with Google con­cern­ing encryp­tion and cyber­se­cu­ri­ty.

That…

Interesting that Google isn’t saying anything either.

How to save the space program? Build the Starship ‘Enterprise’ By Adi Robertson, theverge.com There’s no short­age of ideas on how we can revi­tal­ize our flag­ging space endeav­ors. Neil deGrasse Tyson says we should invest in NASA. Plan­e­tary Resources plans to mine aster­oids. And one sys­tems and elec­tri­cal engi­neer wants us to bui…

How to save the space program? Build the Starship ‘Enterprise’
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

There’s no short­age of ideas on how we can revi­tal­ize our flag­ging space endeav­ors. Neil deGrasse Tyson says we should invest in NASA. Plan­e­tary Resources plans to mine aster­oids. And one sys­tems and elec­tri­cal engi­neer wants us to bui…

This 121-Megapixel Photo of Earth Will Make Your Jaw Drop Stan Schroeder, mashable.com Need some­thing to put things into per­spec­tive on a Mon­day morn­ing? Our sug­ges­tion: The largest single-shot photo of Earth ever taken.Eclips­ing NASA’s updat­ed “Blue Mar­ble” shot, which is a com­pos­ite of many satel­lite images, this… 121 megapixel cameras available on earth any time soon?

This 121-Megapixel Photo of Earth Will Make Your Jaw Drop
Stan Schroeder, mashable.com

Need some­thing to put things into per­spec­tive on a Mon­day morn­ing? Our sug­ges­tion: The largest single-shot photo of Earth ever taken.

Eclips­ing NASA’s updat­ed “Blue Mar­ble” shot, which is a com­pos­ite of many satel­lite images, this…

121 megapixel cameras available on earth any time soon?

Greece on the Brink of Financial Abyss as Syriza Party Weighs Default By John Psaropoulos, thedailybeast.com A political impasse has Athens’s struggling parties seriously considering the unthinkable: defaulting on its debts. Why a population squeezed by austerity measures may go for it.Greece’s polit­i­cal party lead­ers have come to the end of a… Greece will burn.

Greece on the Brink of Financial Abyss as Syriza Party Weighs Default
By John Psaropoulos, thedailybeast.com

A political impasse has Athens’s struggling parties seriously considering the unthinkable: defaulting on its debts. Why a population squeezed by austerity measures may go for it.

Greece’s polit­i­cal party lead­ers have come to the end of a…

Greece will burn.

Report: Foxconn Chief Reveals Details About Apple ‘iTV’ Set Keith Wagstaff, time.com It looks like we might final­ly have some solid intel on Apple’s iTV and not from some anony­mous “peo­ple with famil­iar with the matter.” This news appears to come direct­ly from Fox­conn chief Terry Gou, the man whose fac­to­ries actu­al­ly bui… Everyone’s next overpriced TV?

Report: Foxconn Chief Reveals Details About Apple ‘iTV’ Set
Keith Wagstaff, time.com

It looks like we might final­ly have some solid intel on Apple’s iTV and not from some anony­mous “peo­ple with famil­iar with the matter.” This news appears to come direct­ly from Fox­conn chief Terry Gou, the man whose fac­to­ries actu­al­ly bui…

Everyone’s next overpriced TV?

The Pirate Bay shames Anonymous attacks on Virgin, says DDoS is ‘a form of censorship’ By Joshua Kopstein, theverge.com Crit­i­cism of a recent Anony­mous DDoS offen­sive that hit Vir­gin Media after the ISP blocked The Pirate Bay is com­ing from an unusu­al source: The Pirate Bay. The renowned tor­rent track­ing ser­vice, while dis­agree­ing with the actions, is… DDoS = Censorship according to The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay shames Anonymous attacks on Virgin, says DDoS is ‘a form of censorship’
By Joshua Kopstein, theverge.com

Crit­i­cism of a recent Anony­mous DDoS offen­sive that hit Vir­gin Media after the ISP blocked The Pirate Bay is com­ing from an unusu­al source: The Pirate Bay. The renowned tor­rent track­ing ser­vice, while dis­agree­ing with the actions, is…

DDoS = Censorship according to The Pirate Bay