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30 Mar 2009 22:37

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Tech: This battery is as big as a garbage can and can power a hospital

It uses awesome technology that scales up and can handle large amounts of green power like wind or solar energy. Neat. source
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30 Mar 2009 22:30

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U.S.: Judge: You can’t get in trouble for sexting yourself

  • Gah! We still hate the term “sexting.” Anyway, a U.S. judge ruled today that a Pennsylvania prosecutor can’t charge three teen girls with child porn for sending nude photos of themselves with their cell phones. Because that would be just lame. On a side note, this stat gave us pause: 20% of all teens have sent sexually suggestive nude photos of themselves with their cell phones or online. WHOA. *jaw drop* source
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30 Mar 2009 22:20

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Tech: Got an iPhone? Lacking morals & money? Try out app piracy

  • A quarter of the App Store’s 25,000 programs have been cracked to run for free. source
  • A single 5.4-gigabyte torrent file includes 808 cracked apps for you to use. source
  • The maker of one popular pay app, BeeJive, says 60% of its users have a pirated version. source
  • Users of cracked apps say they do it because you can’t try the apps first. source
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30 Mar 2009 21:29

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Biz, U.S.: Now that Rick Wagoner’s resigning, he’s retiring like a bandit

  • $20 million size of the bailout, a.k.a. retirement, that Rick Wagoner’s getting source
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30 Mar 2009 10:56

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Biz, U.S.: To the Detroit papers: Fingers crossed today

  • The papers – The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News – will stop delivering to homes most days of the week and will become a product that focuses mainly on box sales and online content. source
  • They’re two of many papers to make a change like this lately, but this one at least seems to be an effort to keep the products alive – the entire editorial staff for both papers is staying put for now. source
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30 Mar 2009 10:50

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Tech: The Pirate Bay makes stealing copyrighted stuff even easier!

  • Facebook + Torrents = Lawsuit waiting to happen. Not that you couldn’t search for stuff on The Pirate Bay easily before, but the Swedish dudes who like tweaking authority have made it even easier, by allowing you to share torrent links on your Facebook profile. If you click the link in Facebook, you download the torrent directly. If only buying software was this easy. source
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30 Mar 2009 10:43

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Biz, U.S.: Stocks are down! Time for a photo of a fretting investor!

As you might imagine, they really didn’t like the GM/Chrysler auto bailout news. So, now they’re fretting. source
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30 Mar 2009 10:35

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Music: Uh, why is Green Day making an “American Idiot” play?

  • It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but that’s what I love about it. When people see it, it’s going to be my wildest dream.
  • Billie Joe Armstrong • On making “American Idiot,” Green Day’s most popular and ambitious album, into a play. It’ll initially show at a theater in Berkeley, Calif. starting in September with the goal of going bigger places in the long run. Wake us up when September ends. • source
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30 Mar 2009 10:30

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World: This attack on a Pakistani police academy sounds insane

  • 19 people died in the incident, including eight police, three civilians and eight militants; 90 were wounded in the attacks source
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30 Mar 2009 10:21

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U.S.: The Manson “family” – are they really a danger anymore?

  • Model prisoners Charles Manson’s followers in the late 1960s – the ones who killed Sharon Tate and numerous others – appear to no longer be a danger to society. They all have spotless prison records; they all seem to show remorse and personal responsibility for their crimes. Yet, Susan Atkins (who’s terminally ill), Charles “Tex” Watson (who’s a minister), Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten probably will never be let out of prison. source
  • Model prisoners Charles Manson’s followers in the late 1960s – the ones who killed Sharon Tate and numerous others – appear to no longer be a danger to society. They all have spotless prison records; they all seem to show remorse and personal responsibility for their crimes. Yet, Susan Atkins (who’s terminally ill), Charles “Tex” Watson (who’s a minister), Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten probably will never be let out of prison.
  • No shot at parole? Despite the records, what’s working against them is the sensationalism of their crimes. They keep going up to parole boards, only to get shunned. There are reasons it makes sense to let them go: Prisons are expensive. California’s broke. But it may not be enough. For the record, Tate’s sister doesn’t want them paroled, saying the slayings were “so vicious, so inhumane, so depraved, that there is no turning back.” source
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