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10 May 15:38
The Summers Family Tree
by brianbendis
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10 May 06:14
Debian + Openbox = CrunchBang Linux (Video)
by Roblimo
firehoseI've liked #! for a long time. There's not much to it, mostly Openbox customizations on a fairly vanilla Debian--but that's kinda all I want from most distros. And the community is way more focused on getting people up and running so they can learn the system than Debian's (more focused on dev and sysadmin, which is sensible) and Ubuntu (more focused on "lol where power buton", by necessity).
"CrunchBang Linux is a Debian based distro with the Openbox window manager on top of it. So it is Debian under the hood with Openbox on the surface," says distro supporter Larry Cafiero. A glance through the #! (CrunchBang) forums showed an exceptionally fast response rate to problems posted there, so even if you haven't heard of #! (it's not in the DistroWatch Top 10), it has a strong and dedicated user community -- which is one of the major keys to success for any open source project. In order to learn more about #! Linux (and to share what he learned), Timothy Lord pointed his camcorder at Larry during LinuxFest Northwest and made this video record of their conversation. 
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
10 May 05:57
California accuses JPMorgan of fraud in credit-card-debt collection - CNNMoney
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California accuses JPMorgan of fraud in credit-card-debt collection
CNNMoney California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a lawsuit against JPMorgan on Thursday, alleging that the bank "engaged in fraudulent and unlawful debt-collection practices against tens of thousands of Californians." Harris says that from January ... and more » |
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10 May 05:44
The Trailer for Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity Will Turn Your Knuckles White
by Annalee Newitz
firehosehard sci-fi nightmare fuel
We've been dying to share a first glimpse of Gravity with you ever since we saw this intense footage at CinemaCon. It's visually stunning, and absolutely terrifying. Cuarón directed Children of Men, so you can expect great things from this movie.
    
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10 May 03:48
Nearly everything in Gaijin Games' esteemed Bit.Trip series has been marked down on Steam, from now until Monday, May 20.
For instance: Bit.Trip Collection, which includes Bit.Trip Beat, Bit.Trip Runner, Bit.Trip Core and Bit.Trip Void, has had its price cut by 75% and is now just $11.98. Likewise, all of those games can be purchased individually at a discounted price of $2.49. Even last year's gorgeous Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien has had its price dropped to less than $12 - we recommend gettin' while the gettin's good, as our very southern mom would say.
Bit.Trip games 25-to-75% off on Steam until May 20
by Jordan Mallory
Nearly everything in Gaijin Games' esteemed Bit.Trip series has been marked down on Steam, from now until Monday, May 20.For instance: Bit.Trip Collection, which includes Bit.Trip Beat, Bit.Trip Runner, Bit.Trip Core and Bit.Trip Void, has had its price cut by 75% and is now just $11.98. Likewise, all of those games can be purchased individually at a discounted price of $2.49. Even last year's gorgeous Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien has had its price dropped to less than $12 - we recommend gettin' while the gettin's good, as our very southern mom would say.
Bit.Trip games 25-to-75% off on Steam until May 20 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 09 May 2013 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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10 May 03:34
Owning a Pet Can Help You Live Longer, says American Heart Association - Headlines & Global News
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Owning a Pet Can Help You Live Longer, says American Heart Association
Headlines & Global News According to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, owning a dog may lead to better heart health. (Photo : REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel). Wanna live longer? Get a pet. A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association says ... How pets may lower your risk of heart disease - EmaxhealtheMaxHealth Owning a Dog Is Linked to Reduced Heart RiskNew York Times (blog) all 21 news articles » |
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10 May 02:34
R Kelly cut - Swede Mason
by swedemason
firehoseseriously, why not more views
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Remix of R Kelly's Later Live performance of 'When a Woman Loves'.
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10 May 02:34
Could You Have Refused To Let Police Enter Your Home During The Boston Lockdown?
firehose"- Remember, residences were entered to sweep, not to search. There is a significant legal difference. As an officer, if I had suspicion that someone was hiding in a residence that I had gained lawful entry into, I could conduct a sweep to ensure I wouldn't be ambushed by a hidden subject. However, the scope of this sweep was limited to looking for a person, and limited to areas in which a person could reasonably be expected to hide. Thus, I could look in closets and under beds, but not in nightstand drawers or medicine cabinets. What canvassing units were doing during the lockdown was a sweep, not a search; how this distinction relates to Fourth Amendment issues is a bridge too far as far as my expertise goes. I'll defer to more competent legal minds there. However, I will note that, despite varying legal opinions here, it's likely ensuring a terrorist wasn't passed over and allowed to get behind perimeter lines would be considered "reasonable" by many interpreters of law (definitely not all, though, hence the controversy). This would be less a matter of "throwing the law aside" and more one of operating based on exceptions which have withstood judicial and other scrutinies over time.
- If warrants were deemed required, they could be had quickly. I was first on scene to a grisly three-car accident instigated by a drunk driver. Our point DWI officer attempted to get a breath sample from him on scene, but he had prior DWI convictions and refused. The DWI officer said, "That's fine, pal. I'll have a needle in your arm within the hour." Officer calls a prosecutor at home, who prints a boilerplate blood warrant in his home office while the officer whisks himself to the prosecutor's house. While he's coming, prosecutor calls the on-call circuit judge and asks if they can get a warrant signed for an emergency DWI blood draw. Having gotten a green light, officer picks prosecutor up and heads to the judge's house with completed form warrant in hand. Judge signs the warrant on his front porch, and officer is off to the hospital. With the warrant, hospital staff has legal clearance to draw blood specifically for the criminal investigation, and they do so. Time from breath-test refusal on the accident scene to venipuncture at the hospital? All of 42 minutes. If the FBI's legal counsel deemed it necessary to secure a warrant in the wake of entry refusals, they could have them in a fraction of this time."
This one's a tangled mess of legal and practical issues.
10 May 02:32
The Anne Frank Fund On The Anne Frank Foundation: They’re Acting Like Nazis
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A war of words has broken out between two rival charities bearing the name of the diarist Anne Frank, with one of the foundations accusing the other of acting like Nazis.
10 May 02:26
A bag of flour and a bucket of water - Swede Mason
by swedemason
firehosenew Swede Mason
it's in the Bible
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Baking - you bake bread people buy it. A remix of John the Baker from the documentary 'Greggs;More than meats the pie'.
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10 May 02:13
Twitter / SirPatStew: Self portrait with candy floss ...
firehosewhimsy chaser
walking away from the internet for a while
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10 May 02:09
Cleveland captive Michelle Knight was gang-raped while in junior high - NY Daily News
firehoseevery single story that comes out of this is worse than the last story that came out of this
Cleveland captive Michelle Knight was gang-raped while in junior high - NY Daily News:
Michelle Knight bore a child as a result of the sex attack, which happened roughly a year before she was abducted in August 2002. The boy, who she named Joey, was later taken from her and placed in foster care.
While fellow captives Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were quickly reunited with their families, it took police several hours to track down Michelle Knight’s twin brother, Freddie, the first member of her family police were able to reach.
Freddie Knight — who in earlier interviews said he wasn’t even aware his sister had been kidnapped because he was kicked out of the family’s home at age 14 — said “she looked white as a ghost.”
After enduring so much torment, cruelty and isolation, Knight is now eager to make up for the decade she lost, and wants her son, who is 13, back.
10 May 02:04
App.net Passport for iOS is now available | App.net
App.net Passport for iOS is now available | App.net:
An additional benefit of the Passport app for 3rd-party developers is a new Authentication SDK which makes it easy to seamlessly integrate App.net login/signup functionality into any app.
App.net quietly rolls out an authentication platform.
10 May 02:03
Whole Foods mixes up chicken, vegan salads
firehosevia Russian Sledges
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Whole Foods Market Inc. says labels on a chicken salad and those on a vegan version of the salad were reversed at some of its cold food bars in the Northeast.
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10 May 02:03
http://www.microaggressions.com/2013/04/5673/
by davidzhou
firehosevia Russian Sledges
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My close friend is Armenian, and her father has friends in the Armenian community in Watertown, much of which is located on Franklin. In these last 24 or so hours, one of his friends have received calls, threatening or yelling at him just for being Armenian. Allegedly, these calls have blamed Armenians for helping the Russians, though this man did not help the suspects at all. Like everyone else, he was only trying to lay low and stay safe. He has received at least 5 of such calls.
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10 May 01:32
Assisted suicide in Vermont moves step closer toward legalization - NY Daily News
firehose#onepersoninvermont
Assisted suicide in Vermont moves step closer toward legalization - NY Daily News:
A bill to permit physician-assisted suicide, modeled after Oregon’s Death with Dignity law, has passed the Vermont Senate. The Vermont House, which already passed a version of the legislation, will take up the new bill.
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10 May 01:31
Man who helped free missing Cleveland women Berry, DeJesus and Knight: 'I did what had to be done'
firehoseCordero and Tejeda aren't English speakers, so nobody interviewed them, so nobody knows they were there
Man who helped free missing Cleveland women Berry, DeJesus and Knight: 'I did what had to be done':
“Ramsey arrived after she was outside with the girl,” Cordero said. “But the truth who arrived there, who crossed the street, who came and broke the door, it was me.” Wintel Tejeda, who lives across the street from the suspect’s house, said others helped and when Berry came out, they gave her a phone. “She was able to call police from my house,” Tejeda said in Spanish. Now with Ramsey’s interview making headlines, both men said they’re not jealous. “I did what had to be done. I helped her,” Cordero said. “They have their daughter, daughters are safe over there.”
10 May 01:23
→ “Don’t Buy A $600 Camera If You’re Just Going To Put A Cheap Lens On It”
firehoselol at the rage
Cheap != inexpensive, which was exactly his point: don't buy a SLR if you're just going to use a cheap lens. Get a good lens. That's what the headline says. That's what he says in the story: "you shouldn’t buy an SLR if you only ever plan to use its kit lens or an inexpensive zoom lens."
Yeah, "cheap" is a loaded word. This isn't an awful use of it. http://i.imgur.com/eGInc.gif
This is how Business Insider re-titled my kit-lens post. This is why people who write opinions online get so much unnecessary shit from people: they read these inflammatory headlines that other people write, then they get unfairly angry at the original posts’ authors.
I didn’t say don’t put a “cheap lens” on your SLR. I said don’t use the kit lens — specifically, the 18–55mm lens that comes with most Canon SLRs for about a $150 premium over getting the body alone. Instead, I recommended getting the EF 40mm f/2.8 prime, which retails for… $150.
Their headline turned my argument about quality and value into elitist-sounding flamebait.
But I shouldn’t be surprised, because Business Insider knows nothing about quality and value.
10 May 01:15
The Fury Over Mark Zuckerberg's Political Committee Is Getting Louder By The Second - Yahoo! Finance
firehoseall tech execs are conservative regardless of how they act or what they say beat
The Fury Over Mark Zuckerberg's Political Committee Is Getting Louder By The Second - Yahoo! Finance:
[Fwd.Us] has bankrolled television ads endorsing the conservative stands taken by three lawmakers, prompting an outcry from liberal groups and a call to withhold advertisements from Facebook.
What this means is that, Fwd.Us is telling conservatives to vote with the group on immigration and it will throw up ads back in the home states of the representatives saying how great they are for supporting conservative initiatives.
10 May 01:15
mortalityplays: HUAGHLAGHLAGHLAG original
by 3liza
firehosevia multitasksuicide
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10 May 01:12
Korn Enter the Studio for New Album - Video | Rolling Stone
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Korn Enter the Studio for New Album - Video | Rolling Stone:
Korn dipped into dubstep for their 2011 album Path to Totality, but on their followup, they’re shifting back to a guitar-based onslaught with the help of returning guitarist and original band member Brian “Head” Welch.
10 May 01:09
Russian Billionaire Plans On Becoming Immortal By 2045
firehoseCybermen
Dmitry Itskov wants to live forever. The 32-year-old Russian billionaire and media mogul thinks he can do this by building himself (and everyone) an android body by the year 2045.
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10 May 01:08
Research Data Confirms Your Rich Friends Don't Really Want To See You In Person
They say email can't replace face-to-face communication. Tell that to the rich, though.
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10 May 01:07
This Is What One Half Second Of High Speed Trading Looks Like
The New York Stock Exchange is built on incredibly quick trades. Here's what just a short moment looks like.
10 May 01:07
The Creepiest Social Network
The primary reasons LinkedIn is the mustached, trench coat and wire frame glasses wearing mouth breather of the internet are the “People You May Know” and “People Also Viewed” features.
10 May 01:07
The Everyday Lives Of Reddit's Amateur Porn Stars
These are the ladies of r/gonewild, an amateur porn community where “normal” women upload nude or sexually explicit photos of themselves for a grateful, complimentary (and occasionally rude) online audience.
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10 May 01:06
Why Isn't Cocaine As Good As Exercise?
firehosetl;dr: heart rate increases in exercise is a measurable more than a goal; also, cocaine can stop your heart in ways exercise can't
Cocaine and cardiovascular exercise raise the heart rate to similar BPM for similar amounts of time, so why should you bother going to the gym?