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Airbnb's argument against tax doesn't fly — Special pleading is “a form of spurious argumentation,” Wikipedia explains, by “someone attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc.” — For example, San Francisco's Airbnb, the online …
An anonymous reader writes "The Next Web is reporting that Google Drive, the search giant's long anticipated cloud storage service, is set to launch next week . From the article: 'What's interesting though is that Google is planning to start everyone with 5 GB of storage. Of course you can buy more, but that trumps Dropbox's 2 GB that is included with every account. Dropbox does make it easy to get more space, including 23 GB of potential upgrades for HTC users. What's also interesting is the wording related to how the system will work.
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We've heard recently of CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act , a bill currently making its way through Congress that many are calling the latest incarnation of SOPA. Reader SolKeshNaranek points out an article at Techdirt explaining exactly why this bill is bad , and how its backers are trying to deflect criticism by using language that's different and rather vague.
Angry Birds publisher Rovio Entertainment has acquired its fellow Finnish game development house, Futuremark Games Studio, in order to get some new talent.
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This is a guest post by Siddharth Anand , a senior member of LinkedIn's Distributed Data Systems team.
C11 specifies many security features that require minimal changes to existing code. They greatly reduce unexpected behavior and prevent many kinds of common attacks. - C/C++ If you are building a new database management system or simply want to write better database applications, you should be aware of the extensible architecture of operating systems and database managers. - Database The Annual Award for Best Testing Products - Jolt Awards If Oracle prevails in its claim that APIs can be copyrighted, nearly every aspect of programming will be changed for the worse. - JVM Languages
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Ivan Sutherland elaborates on the idea of a “prison” defined by sequential computers that work with sequential character strings making communication expensive and obstructing concurrency.TechCrunch
SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman , the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about web luminaries like:
Tech Sometimes, you may just want to listen to your music in peace, without being interrupted by passers-by or visually intrusive ads, technology and surrounding events.
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Разработчики наручных часов Pebble собрали через сайт Kickstarter 3,46 миллиона долларов США пожертвований на воплощение своего проекта, сообщает блог TechCrunch. Pebble - это наручные часы, которые могут подключаться через Bluetooth к смартфону. На экране часов может отображаться не только время, но и SMS и уведомления с телефона. 17.04.2012
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