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Financial Reform a success! New Goldman Sach’s MBA hires take oath not to screw us.

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May 20th, 2010 at 10:17 am

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“He said the margin of error was about 20 percent, making the spill between 76,000 and 104,000 barrels a day.”

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May 20th, 2010 at 9:59 am

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“”The idea that we’ll be able to close down an institution like Goldman [Sachs] in an orderly way — a business that operates in nearly a hundred countries — is absurd.”"

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May 19th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

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“Data.Medicare.Gov has been created to allow users to access data in an interactive format. Within each dataset, a user can sort and filter with multiple criteria and share the information using various web sources.”

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May 18th, 2010 at 10:50 am

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Bring Tim to your meetings!

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May 17th, 2010 at 8:17 pm

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“Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors over the past three years[.]“

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May 17th, 2010 at 6:59 pm

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“During his tenure at the Gulf regional office in Louisiana for the MMS, Chris Oynes played a central role in an offshore leasing foul-up that cost taxpayers an estimated $10 billion in lost revenue.”

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May 17th, 2010 at 6:46 pm

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8 out of 10 browsers have trackable signatures right to the computer you are using right now.

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May 17th, 2010 at 5:15 pm

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“Any time “public information” is referenced now, Facebook is talking about your: name, profile picture, current city, gender, networks, complete list of your friends, and your complete list of connections (formerly the list of pages that you were a “fan” of, but now including profile information like your hometown, education, work, activities, likes and interests, and, in some cases, your likes and recommendations from non-Facebook pages around the web).”

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May 17th, 2010 at 5:12 pm

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“He trips no alarm, and then, to prevent another clever invader from exploiting the same weakness, he repairs the broken lock and seals the portal shut behind him.”

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May 16th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

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“The suck-and-salvage technique was developed in desperation across the Arabian Gulf following a spill of mammoth proportions — 700 million gallons — that has until now gone unreported, as Saudi Arabia is a closed society[.]“

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May 15th, 2010 at 9:30 am

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“Waddell & Reed executed several trading strategies, including index futures contracts, as part of the normal operation of our flexible portfolio funds” & the market had it’s most ginormous drop ever.

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May 15th, 2010 at 8:54 am

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Mashable’s graphic about stuff you didn’t know about FB

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May 14th, 2010 at 11:52 pm

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“Google did collect publicly broadcast SSID information (the WiFi network name) and MAC addresses (the unique number given to a device like a WiFi router) using Street View cars, we did not collect payload data (information sent over the network). But it’s now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products.”

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May 14th, 2010 at 11:45 pm

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“”The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume,” he said.”

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May 14th, 2010 at 11:17 am

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Crowd sourcing investigative reporting

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May 14th, 2010 at 10:34 am

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“Because a groove is a terrible thing to waste…” Bootsy Collins Funk School

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May 14th, 2010 at 10:00 am

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“But sophisticated scientific analysis of seafloor video made available Wednesday by the oil company BP shows that the true figure is closer to 70,000 barrels a day.”

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May 13th, 2010 at 9:44 pm

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“Paul Bach-y-Rita, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, has invented an apparatus that gathers visual information with a camera attached to your forehead and then changes this information into the physical stimulation of your tongue.”

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May 13th, 2010 at 1:27 pm

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“Today, FixCongressFirst.org is launching an effort to build the biggest lobby in the history of American politics — one that will beat out…”

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May 12th, 2010 at 11:56 am

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Archive for May, 2010

Financial Reform a success! New Goldman Sach’s MBA hires take oath not to screw us.

“He said the margin of error was about 20 percent, making the spill between 76,000 and 104,000 barrels a day.”

“”The idea that we’ll be able to close down an institution like Goldman [Sachs] in an orderly way — a business that operates in nearly a hundred countries — is absurd.”"

“Data.Medicare.Gov has been created to allow users to access data in an interactive format. Within each dataset, a user can sort and filter with multiple criteria and share the information using various web sources.”

Bring Tim to your meetings!

“Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors over the past three years[.]“

“During his tenure at the Gulf regional office in Louisiana for the MMS, Chris Oynes played a central role in an offshore leasing foul-up that cost taxpayers an estimated $10 billion in lost revenue.”

8 out of 10 browsers have trackable signatures right to the computer you are using right now.

“He trips no alarm, and then, to prevent another clever invader from exploiting the same weakness, he repairs the broken lock and seals the portal shut behind him.”

“The suck-and-salvage technique was developed in desperation across the Arabian Gulf following a spill of mammoth proportions — 700 million gallons — that has until now gone unreported, as Saudi Arabia is a closed society[.]“

“Waddell & Reed executed several trading strategies, including index futures contracts, as part of the normal operation of our flexible portfolio funds” & the market had it’s most ginormous drop ever.

Mashable’s graphic about stuff you didn’t know about FB

“”The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume,” he said.”

Crowd sourcing investigative reporting

“Because a groove is a terrible thing to waste…” Bootsy Collins Funk School

“But sophisticated scientific analysis of seafloor video made available Wednesday by the oil company BP shows that the true figure is closer to 70,000 barrels a day.”

“Paul Bach-y-Rita, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, has invented an apparatus that gathers visual information with a camera attached to your forehead and then changes this information into the physical stimulation of your tongue.”

“Today, FixCongressFirst.org is launching an effort to build the biggest lobby in the history of American politics — one that will beat out…”

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