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junktest··on Am I hacked? Oh, it's just Vodafone
http://www.medianama.com/2015/06/223-airtel-says-it-had-noth...
junktest··on Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA
Yaniv Erlich and Arvind Narayanan "Routes for breaching and protecting genetic privacy" http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v15/n6/abs/nrg3723.html
junktest··on The Great and Beautiful Lost Kingdoms of India
http://www.thebetterindia.com/22545/my-story-7-months-in-ind...
junktest··on Internet.org will finish internet the way we know it, hurt India’s growth
Probably start a petition/campaign and collaborate with Centre for Internet and Society in India http://cis-india.org/internet-governance for raising the issue
junktest··on ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit
Per aspera ad astra !
junktest··on Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041)
is android kitkat 4.4.x safe from this bug regardless of whether chrome browser exists (not installed or uninstalled) in the phone or not? please enlighten. thanks.
junktest··on Firefox 26 is released
On Debian and Ubuntu, you can try using ubuntuzilla's firefox builds http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?...
junktest··on An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia
Sad reality-check - Genome Technology magazine March 2011 cover story page 38 "The Crowd of PhDs - ...whether they will have somewhere to go"
junktest··on Founders' Accents
"Traveling With an Accent" - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/travel/traveling-with-an-...
junktest··on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia
Zite too seems to be working in the same space of ML-aided personalized news magazines.
junktest··on Elsevier charges authors to make items "Open Access", then charges to read them.
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-i...

http://thecostofknowledge.com/

junktest··on Show HN: Set NASA APOD as Ubuntu Desktop Background
http://cad.cx/blog/2008/03/27/howto-astronomy-picture-of-the...
junktest··on Shouldn't Robots Be Doing My Taxes By Now?
Again, one more instance of the unhealthy trend in giving for-profit, 3rd-party companies your sensitive personal info, that the US Govt should be handling and be responsible for directly in the first place, making identity-theft and such nefarious activities easier.
junktest··on What it takes to build great machine learning products
Probably try PCA (principal components analysis) to help select the most important features of data, first, before going further in modeling it.
junktest··on Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox
Great idea. Opera browser made this a long time ago. The innovator that everybody else copies.
junktest··on "Lighten up"
Let me add some more. People here being called "african-american", "asian-american", "japanese-american", "indian-american" (different from the "Indians" who are the original (native) Americans) and so on. This shows the inherent racist bigotry prevalent and the sense of entitlement felt by the WASPy americans. Why not call all Americans (whether by birth or naturalized) as Americans instead of differentiating? On the same lines, I'd suggest calling white americans from Europe as "white caucasian americans", "italian-americans", "irish-americans", "british-americans" etc. Oh, and one more, China != Asia. Asia consists of a LOT many countries, not just China. A very relevant editorial cartoon last year by Steve Kelly of the Times-Picayune on the immigrant issue, too.
junktest··on Chrome connects to three random domains at startup
chrome://net-internals/#dns
junktest··on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted for TSA Body Scanners
@jchrisa, If you don't mind, please could you let know how to politely convey the subtext etc.? Thanks.
junktest··on DuckDuckGo included in Opera
Hey, what's the point of DuckDuckGo when you have the NOTORIOUS FACEBOOK TRACKING CRAP in the page http://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-in-opera and the forums ? see http://nikcub.appspot.com/facebook-re-enables-controversial-... and http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201 http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html

defeats the intent and reputation of DuckDuckGo.