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Bentley To Reveal New Continental GT Online
Bentley will reveal the car next month with a unique Internet reveal at 1500 British Summer Time (7a PDT, 10a EDT) on Tuesday, September 7 .
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10 Inspiring Website Designs
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PS3 3.42 software update reportedly patches jailbreak, hates fun
Sony just released its 3.42 software update for PlayStation 3 owners. As a mandatory update, owners other must accept it if they want to continue accessing the PlayStation Network or PlayStation Store. While Sony's American mouthpiece isn't saying much about the release, Sony Japan says that it fixes a "hardware security issue," and that's it. Sounds like a patch for PSJailbreak and its open-source variants to us.PS3 3.42 software update reportedly patches jailbreak, hates fun originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | PlayStation Japan [translated] | Email this | Comments
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Company of Heroes designer sacrifices life for wife and unborn child
The first thing Erin Wood wants her baby to know is that Dad, Brian, died to save their lives.
“. . . In his final act he did the only thing that would save us,” said Wood, 31.
With an out-of-control Chevy Blazer bearing down on him, the 33-year old North Vancouver man braked and swerved his Subaru wagon so that he would take the force of the head-on collision, saving his wife of five years, pregnant with their first baby..
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Environmental approval granted for coal gas processor - Care2 News Network
The Federal Government has granted environmental approval for what's expected to be the world's biggest coal gasification and storage facility.
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Should children be forced to show affection?
Your little ones aren't big huggers, which some family members take as a slight. Should you force your kids to show affection?
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SF Homeless Protest McDonald's Dollar-Menu Price Increase
What would seemingly be an issue of capitalism and supply and demand in any other city, or any other neighborhood in San Francisco, has instead morphed into another battle between merchants and the homeless in the...
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BP May Be Preparing More Asset Sales
Several media have reported that BP will increase its target for asset sales to as high as $40 billion. This almost certainly mean disposing of its aging oil field holdings in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, which may be worth as much as $20 billion.
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BP May Be Preparing More Asset Sales originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:30:00.
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New SSC Supercar Leaked, Reveal Coming Later This Month
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has once again put the Volkswagen Group's French marque back at the top of the fastest production car charts with its recent 268-mph record, but within days Shelby Supercars (SSC) announced it would be once again gunning to top Bugatti. We already know that SSC's new...
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'Magic mushrooms' ingredient may ease end-of-life anxiety - CNN.com
Terminally ill cancer patients struggling with anxiety may get some relief from a guided "trip" on the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, a new study suggests.
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Astronaut Douglas Wheelock’s 30 Coolest Twitpics of Earth from Space
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Mashable Readers Say Craigslist Should Not Be Censored
Over the weekend, we noticed Craiglist had replaced a certain notorious section of its site with a black bar reading censored.A longtime and well-known digital resource for prostitutes and the people who engage their services, Craigslist has come under fire many times over the past few years for its erotic/adult classified ads. Craigslist has stated it does everything it can to comply with government and legal stipulations and has an attorney manually screen all of its Adult Services ads. The company once said that 700,000 ads were manually rejected in just one year.Still, this hasnt stopped sex trafficking on the site, nor has it stopped the site from coming under harsh criticism for its business.In a recent poll, we asked if you thought Craigslists Adult Services section should be censored. Here are the results.Our readers are surprisingly liberal-minded about the Adult Services section. The vast majority of you (71.37%) said you thought the site should not be censored for a variety of reasons:Among our readers who thought the site should be censored, two-thirds found the Adult Services section objectionable because they felt it allowed Craigslist to profit indirectly from prostitution.Of those who thought the site and the adult sections should remain uncensored, almost half of you (46.15%) felt the censorship was unwarranted because prostitution should not be illegal in the first place. These broad-minded folks comprise almost 33% of everyone who voted in the poll.Others who were against the censorship in this case thought that Craigslists anti-prostitution policies were sufficient or stated another reason for opposing Adult Services censorship.As of this moment, were not sure if or when the sites adult section will be back online or why it was taken down in the first place. While prostitution isnt likely to become legal in the U.S. any time soon, well keep you posted on Craigslists dilemma as more details become available.More About: censorship, craigslist, prostitution, sexFor more Social Media coverage:Follow Mashable Social Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Media channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad
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The 5 Dumbest Comic Story-lines
Comics are known to sometimes be nothing more than soap operas with thought bubbles, but sometimes the stories can get seriously dumb.
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ACLU: Obama Is Embracing Abusive Bush Policies
For disillusioned Obama supporters, the ACLU's July report "Establishing the New Normal" is not a heartening read.
After being voted into office on promises that included undoing abuses carried out under the Bush administration - promises to protect privacy, to end government-sanctioned torture and rendition programs and to end the use of military commissions for non-enemy combatants - President Obama's administration is proving it is far easier to tow the line than buck a trend.
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Army Vet, 80, Busted In Pot Raid; Had Given Names To Plants
An 80-year-old Minnesota man is facing felony charges after a marijuana raid, with police claiming he is the leader of a what they called a "large-scale grow operation." Welcome to the world of American drug enforcement, where an old man tending a few plants -- at least some of which he had apparently given names -- passes through the Drug War looking glass and becomes magically transformed into a major grow-op.
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MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts
Oh, sure -- a few people have called Google's Nexus One a "superphone," but suddenly, that nickname has taken on a whole new level of meaning. A team of talent from MIT has put its head down in order to concoct a new Android application that can come darn close to solving complex computational problems in just a fraction of the time that it'd take a bona fide supercomputer. The goal here is to let researchers and scientists convert to Google's mobile OS, but if you aren't falling for that one, it's also designed to "let engineers perform complicated calculations in the field, and to better control systems for vehicles or robotic systems." Of course, the models that are hosted on the phone do require a supercomputer to create, but once certain formulas are embedded, the app can then compute approximations in mere seconds rather than hours. Best of all, rbAPPmit is available for download as well speak in the source link below, but we'd probably wait for the (presumably thick) user guide to surface before diving in headfirst.
[Thanks, Alasdair]MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | MIT, rbAPPmit download |Email this|Comments
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When Did Bureaucrats Become Legislators?
A memo surfaced from Homeland Security suggesting ways to circumvent existing law to allow several categories of illegal immigrants to avoid deportation and, indeed, for some to be granted permanent residency. Regardless of your feelings on the issue, administrators administer the law, they don't change it. That's the legislators' job.
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