Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Holder: Some Banks Too Big to Prosecute
March 7th, 2013Via: New York Magazine: GRASSLEY: OK. On the issue of bank prosecution, I’m concerned that we have a mentality of too-big-to-jail in the financial sector of spreading from fraud cases to terrorist financing and money laundering cases — and I cite HSBC. So I think we’re on a slippery slope. So then that’s background for […]
Tighten It Until It Strips, Then Back It Off a Quarter Turn: Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights for Office 2013
March 7th, 2013Via: ZDnet: As part of its shift to a subscription model, Microsoft introduced a controversial “no transfer” restriction with Office 2013. Now, after an intense outcry from customers, the company has reversed course and agreed to allow users to transfer retail Office licenses between devices. Great Free Alternative: LibreOffice
China: Concept for Cairn-Shaped Farmscrapers
March 6th, 2013While I definitely wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for any of these to be built, my guess is that you would be hard pressed to find a better gallery of sci-fi cityscapes to look at while you waste time at work. Via: Vincent Callebaut Architectures: Related: Secret Organic Gardens for China’s Elite China Acknowledges ‘Cancer […]
Micro 3-D Printer
March 6th, 2013Via: MIT Technology Review: Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today. “If something took one hour to make, it now takes less than one minute,” says Michael Thiel, chief scientific officer at Nanoscribe. […]
Pirate Bay Now Running Out of North Korea [???]
March 4th, 2013Update: Probably Still in Europe This post purports to explain what’s happening. You’ll need more propellers in your beanie than I have in mine if you plan on understanding this: The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake. (P2) — Still Routes Through Europe I’m not really sure what’s going on here. nslookup […]
Spain: Homeless People Take Over Vacant Apartment Buildings
March 4th, 2013Via: Guardian: “Life changes when you lose everything,” says Manoli Cortés. “There was a time when I was happy just to work and look after my home. Now, at the age of 65, I have suddenly become an activist.” She is sitting in a typical Spanish living room: immaculately clean, filled with family photographs and […]
K-12 Student Database Will Share Information with ‘Private Companies Selling Educational Products and Services’
March 4th, 2013You’ll love this. Check out the part in bold to see who’s behind this database. Via: Reuters: An education technology conference this week in Austin, Texas, will clang with bells and whistles as startups eagerly show off their latest wares. But the most influential new product may be the least flashy: a $100 million database […]
Processed Foods Sold to Americans Contain Ingredients Banned in Other Countries
March 4th, 2013Via: 100 Days of Real Food: It is appalling to witness the examples I am about to share with you. The U.S. food corporations are unnecessarily feeding us chemicals – while leaving out almost all questionable ingredients in our friends’ products overseas. The point is the food industry has already formulated safer, better products, but […]
Serbian Man Has Lived in a Grave for 15 Years: ‘I am More Afraid of the Living than of the Dead’
March 4th, 2013Via: Daily Mail: A homeless man has told how he began sleeping with the dead when he moved into a cemetery 15 years ago. Bratislav Stojanovic, 43, has shared the burial plot with the ashes of a a family who died out more than 100 years ago in Nis, Serbia. But after giving the grave […]
Hipster Job Market: 22-22-22
March 3rd, 2013Via: New York Times: Ms. McIntyre is just one 20-something — a population historically exploitable as cheap labor — learning that long hours and low pay go hand in hand in the creative class. The recession has been no friend to entry-level positions, where hundreds of applicants vie for unpaid internships at which they are […]
