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Of murder rates and death penalties…
2008/9: 648 – “20 year low” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/murder-rate-hits-20year-low-1748627.html 2009/10: 619 – “lowest for 12 years” (Huh?) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/20/murder-rate-lowest-12-years Stats for 2010/11 do not seem to be out at the moment. Analysing claims that “the murder rate has doubled since the end of the death penalty” http://fullfact.org/blog/murder_rate_doubled_death_penalty_abolished-2924 Short version: the stats aren’t available for like-to-like comparison, maybe it’s…
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#WhatsApp is being educated in full-disclosure
The first lesson is always the hardest… via WhatsApp Status Changer. Since a while there are rumors about leaks in the ‘amazing’ and free-to-use app WhatsApp. The engineers of WhatsApp are telling their customers that they will fix it as soon as possible while it’s been a long time now. So on this website we…
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iPhone 4S Users Consume Double the Mobile Data of iPhone 4 – Tech Europe – WSJ
How service providers see the people to whom they provide service: WSJ: 1% of users are consuming 50% of data In tackling the demands on their network—and in the absence of additional spectrum to carry the data, or more efficient technologies such as next-generation LTE which allow more data to be carried over existing frequencies,…
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Nokia and Microsoft to “spend a fortune on marketing” HT: @TheTechEye # why this will not work
Via @TheTechEye Rumours that Microsoft and Nokia are set to spend over $100 million on marketing Windows 8 tablets and smartphones are rubbish, according to veteran vole-watcher Paul Thurrott, who claims that they are going to spend a lot more. Thurrott said that he has been given the real marketing figure and it is a…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-06
New: #Airzound – A New Toy! #cycling #mtb http://t.co/q4LKP9x3 # @dc4420 Is there a meeting on the 17th ? Got speakers ? # New: Falling off a cycle has never been so much fun… http://t.co/DHluGniI # New: How many vendors have 'celebrated' the 'death' of their software? #ie6 http://t.co/GUnxlJYr http://t.co/ABDvkKlr # :: Why you might…
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NASA go open-source
No, really. I have no idea what this will achieve, but given what they have aegis over it is bound to be interesting…
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So it seems that with the takeover of TweetDeck comes the death of RTs that propagate to Facebook.
Bummer. We shall have to take other measures…
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This is what happens then you sand a macbook…
http://www.reddit.com/tb/o48iv Like, but… no.
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Do not taunt the frog…
It’s been blogged everywhere, but just in case you missed it: http://youtu.be/WlEzvdlYRes
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Why you might like to read Foreign Affairs magazine this month…
tl;dr – read this link, all of it. I used to read The Economist – until I economised. I’d subscribed on the personal recommendation of ESR who said it was some of the best writing I’d find in a news journal; and then later – as a consultant – I kept it up because as…
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How many vendors have ‘celebrated’ the ‘death’ of their software? #ie6 http://goo.gl/9pSBh
Microsoft celebrates IE6 death as Google downranks Chrome Microsoft could not be happier to see the back of IE6 The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet surfers. …it’s still rather popular in UK Government circles, at least as-of mid 2010.…
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Falling off a cycle has never been so much fun…
So for a few years I’ve had a Ridgeback Quest 29″ MTB and it’s never been quite right – incremental improvements have, um, improved it, but the biggest issue for me was always going to be that the steerer had been cut for an average British shortarse rather than someone for whom the adjective lumbering…