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You Are Not Your Brain | Think Tank | Big Think :  "Just as love does not live inside the heart, consciousness is not contained in a finite space  -- it's something that arises, something that occurs: a verb rather than a noun."  ~~  Alva Noë .. .ero .

INL cybersecurity researcher operates a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System inside the lab’s Information Operations Research Center. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) CISPA Rushed to Passage - Blog - OpenCongress :  "Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a “cybersecurity crime”. Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatened—again, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government’s power." .. .ero .

Fireball lights up sky, rattles eardrums in Sierra Nevadas | The Chronicle Herald : "“If you hear a sonic boom or loud explosion, that’s a good indication that some fragments may have reached the ground," Lunsford told The Associated Press. “We’ll have to get some people to work on it to pinpoint where it broke up and see if anything can be found on the ground."" .. .ero .

Landline rules frustrate telecoms - The Washington Post :  "“For many, landlines are their lifeline,” said Coralette Hannon, a senior legislative staffer at AARP, which has been fighting the legislative proposals. “In rural areas, wireless service can be spotty or expensive and not at all a real option.”" .. .ero .

The Mitchell and Webb Look - Bronze Age Orientation Day - YouTube : " " .. .ero .

Red Pinterest logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Česky: Logo Facebooku English: Facebook logo Español: Logotipo de Facebook Français : Logo de Facebook Tiếng Việt: Logo Facebook (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Do you love Instagram, but think to yourself, "If only it could suck ..." Well, good news! (Photo credit: rholliday? )   Facebook's 'Gutsy' Instagram Deal Seen as Hedge Against Pinterest | CIO Today :  "What Facebook needed was a hedge against Pinterest going into the IPO to assure a strong one," Enderle asserted. "Instagram on paper gives them that hedge -- underneath both [Pinterest and Instagram] are photo indexing sites, just going about it differently." {after several attempts to get invited to an Pinterest account, i've pretty much given up hope.  :-( as for Instagram, well i DO have an account an i've successfully used it to post to both Facebook and Google+ , but i get the feeling that i...

Science Buddies (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Science Buddies Blog :  Wiggly worms perform important tasks that are critical to the health and survival of other organisms. Chiefly, many worms are " decomposers ." By eating dead plants, worms process the debris and return important nutrients to the soil . At the same time, by tunneling their way through soil, they keep the soil aerated, which allows water and air to enter. Thanks to worms, your plants and vegetables have a better chance of success! .. .ero . Related articles A Watershed Moment: Anybody Want Some Worms? Earthworms ruin nutrients, moisture on forest floor, say researchers Recycling Manuscripts, Part 2 - Worm Composting I have Worms!! Yes, you read that right. Scotts Snap Spreader System Review Global Worming: How To Save The World (steinalive.wordpress.com) Soil blocks: how to transplant seedlings without going potty (milkwood.net) Worms (thegardenaffair.wordpress.com)

Five People Are Charged In China After Boy Sells Kidney For An iPhone | Cult of Mac :  Five people in southern China have been charged with intentional injury after a Chinese teenager sold his kidney to purchase an iPhone and an iPad last April. The group includes the surgeon who removed the kidney from the 17-year-old, who now suffers from renal deficiency. . .ero .

AT&T, Verizon try to put end to landline telephone era -- Decoder - YouTube : " " .. .ero .

Barack Obama - NDAA Legacy (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey ) Anonymous joins forces with OWS against NDAA-supporting politicians — RT :  “Elected officials serve one purpose — to represent their constituents, the people who voted them into office,” reads a statement posted to the website. “Last year, many of our elected officials let us down by giving in to deep-pocketed lobbyists and passing laws meant to boost corporate profits at the expense of individual liberty.” .. .ero . Related articles Anonymous joins forces with OWS against NDAA-supporting politicians - RT (cosmicconnection.wordpress.com) Letter: Elected officials should not be prejudging results of Martin inquiry (tcpalm.com) Anonymous and Occupy Join Forces to Launch 'Our Polls': Occupy the Vote 2012 (blippitt.com) Letter: Put honesty and credibility back into elected officials (tcpalm.com) Letter: Elect those who support term limits, and take control of local, U.S. government (tcpalm.com) Let...

Who still uses a pay phone? This victim did - seattlepi.com :  According to the most recent FCC data, there are about 270 million wireless phone subscribers in the U.S. It's much more likely in today's world that a witness to a crime would reach for a cell phone rather than look for a phone booth. But as the American Public Communications Council, a pay phone industry group, notes, low-income people and the homeless are most affected by the dwindling numbers of pay phones in public areas. And pay phones can still be handy when a disaster like a hurricane disables cell towers. Public safety is among the reasons that some states enacted public interest laws a few years ago to preserve pay phones areas where phones companies planned to disconnect them.

Tester Pushes For Broadband In Rural America - News Story - NBCMontana NBC Montana : WHITEFISH, Mont. -- US Senator Jon Tester is asking the Federal Communications Commission to slow down on changes to their National Broadband Plan. The plan would reduce the amount of resources available to broadband internet provides for investing in rural telecommunications.

Bill Levis of Colorado consumer office to join FCC advisory panel - The Denver Post : The Federal Communications Commission has appointed Bill Levis, director of the Colorado Office of Consumer Counsel, as the consumer advocate on the seven-member Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service.

Wi-Fi Signal logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) mobile phone text message (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Social Media To Cost Wireless Operators $23B in SMS Revenue : There is a proven proliferation of social messaging apps on smartphones that are often connecting over Wi-Fi rather than the 3G or 4G cellular network . Messaging through these apps often include push notifications, so the user is alerted whenever a new message comes in, just like when a text message comes through. The cumulative effect of these realities is a comparable user experience between social messaging and texting, but a definite cost-savings for the consumer. Meanwhile, operators can't monetize the Wi-Fi-based traffic through mobile broadband usage charges, and are losing out on text charges. .. .ero .

A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney - NYTimes.com :  "THE recent remark by Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom that upon clinching the Republican nomination Mr. Romney could change his political views “like an Etch A Sketch” has already become notorious. The comment seemed all too apt, an apparent admission by a campaign insider of two widely held suspicions about Mitt Romney: that he is a) utterly devoid of any ideological convictions and b) filled with aluminum powder." .. .ero .

Red Tape - Pricey 'stingray' gadget lets cops track cellphones without telco help :  "Why would the well-heeled suburb of Gilbert, Ariz., spend a quarter of a million dollars on a futuristic spy gadget that sounds more at home in a prime-time drama than a local police department?" .. .ero .

In an unprecedented move to justify tripling his salary two months after taking office as CEO, Loadsmell McAnals has unveiled a technological marvel aimed at confusing would-be tone-hackers. this new desk-set (soon available as a wall-set) emits a series of indistinguishable clicks when a number is dialed so that hackers listening for tones cannot decipher phone numbers or passwords entered through the set. it is thought that this set, along with Loadsmell's recent invention of pay-per-view movies will revolutionize the telecommunications industry far beyond anything the old Ma Bell model ever discovered. "take those transistors and shove 'em"! says Loadsmell. .. .ero .

Verizon Building in New York City (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Lost Verizon (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Verizon's CEO has a plan for wireless pay-TV, if the government will allow it -- Engadget : "Verizon CEO Lowell C. McAdam doesn't quite have all of those SpectrumCo AWS licenses in his pocket just yet, but if he does get them he has a decidedly old school idea of what to flood the airwaves with: TV. "  { Lowell, Lowell, Lowell . . . triple your salary and what do we get for it?  more of the vast wasteland ? and of course Big G. will allow it . . . you pay taxes don't you? uh, er, uhm . . . never mind.}[ero] 

Verizon: Plans for a wireless video service by year-end - :: Future of Journalism :  "Wall Street Journal :: Verizon Communications Chief Executive Lowell C. McAdam said the company could have a wireless video service by year-end that lets pay-TV subscribers see some content on their mobile devices if regulators approve a proposed cable partnership" .. .ero .