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Pakistan and India: A rivalry that threatens the world. OUTSIDERS, especially Indians, have expressed dismay ever since Osama bin Laden was killed this month in Abbottabad, a prim military town in Pakistan.
Here is a state that both fights, and protects, Islamic fanatics. Even when Pakistanis themselves are the main victims of attack by jihadis, the state fails to act. On May 13th suicide-bombers sent by an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, the Pakistani Taliban, killed 80, mostly young army cadets, in Shabqadar, a town in the north-west. The murky reality behind UPA’s Big Bang Friday reforms. THE MARUTI WAY. Visualizing the possibility of intelligent life in the Milky Way. The Kyoto Connection / Creative Commons Music. Einstein's Riddle. Erik Olsen/The New York Times Who owns the fish?
The following classic, which has appeared in a variety of incarnations over the years, was supposedly given its original form by Albert Einstein. The puzzle is often accompanied by a claim that only 2 percent of the world’s population can solve it. Are you a 2 percenter? Give it a try and find out. Einstein’s Riddle On a certain road there are five adjacent houses. The question: Who owns the fish? The following conditions apply. Recap: Boys and Girls Two weeks ago we took on the family planning conundrum Girls and Boys. The puzzle: What is the ratio of females to males in a country where couples have children until one is a girl? The solution: 50/50.
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The ABCs of Apple v. Samsung. The trial that could reshape the market for mobile phones is about to come to some kind of closure.
There's one more day of legal house cleaning before closing arguments begin in Apple v. Samsung, the patent dispute between two of the biggest players in smartphones. In a lawsuit filed last year, Apple accused Samsung of stealing some of the ideas and technology behind the iPhone and iPad. Samsung countersued and alleged Apple violated some of its patents. Feds to Break Up Tech's Investor Party. Security and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro.
Photo: Evan Vucci/AP A federal regulatory meeting Wednesday is expected to shed light on how aggressively startups can solicit investments and thus reach beyond venture capitalists and other established investors. “It’s expected to have enormous repercussions in Silicon Valley — it rewrites the venture capital rules.” The investment community is particularly keen to see the proposed rules because they will mark the first major chunk of the JOBS Act to be interpreted by the SEC. The rules will also undermine a key advantage of Silicon Valley venture capitalists and “super angel” investors: Dealflow. “It’s expected to have enormous repercussions here in Silicon Valley,” says Robert Bartlett, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley who has followed the issue closely.
The One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn't Win. Whenever Ayn Rand met someone new—an acolyte who’d traveled cross-country to study at her feet, an editor hoping to publish her next novel—she would open the conversation with a line that seems destined to go down as one of history’s all-time classic icebreakers: “Tell me your premises.”
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If you're watching superhero movies for financial advice, you're probably in trouble. If you're watching The Dark Knight Rises for financial advice, you're probably in worse trouble. World's friendliest countries. You've travelled for adventure, romance and culture, so why not to make some friends?
Taken from Lonely Planet's 1000 Ultimate Experiences, here's a list of places where the welcome is always warm. Ireland. Russia's Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals. Eugene Kaspersky, Soviet officer turned software tycoon.Photo: Stephen Voss It’s early February in Cancun, Mexico.
A group of 60 or so financial analysts, reporters, diplomats, and cybersecurity specialists shake off the previous night’s tequila and file into a ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale? Photo: Gregg Segal Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997, he decided that a shipping company wasn’t delivering spare parts fast enough.
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Ways To Project Positivity. How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young rebuilt her own brain. It's the kind of memory that stays with you. When she was in first grade, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young's Ontario primary school teacher told her mother – in her presence – that she had some kind of "mental block", and would never be able to learn. Now that she has helped more than 4,000 learning-disabled children overcome precisely that kind of diagnosis, of course, she can laugh at it. But she didn't at the time. Listen Songs Online: Listen to Free Music Online. Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers.
Even Linux Has A Greater Smartphone Market Share Than Windows Phone. Facebook Camera App: This Is Why Instagram was Worth $1 Billion. Tom's Hardware US. Code-named Llano, AMD’s first desktop-class APU arrives today. This single-chip combination of the Stars CPU architecture and Radeon graphics brings unique strengths (and weaknesses) to the table, and we’re here to compare them to Intel's Sandy Bridge. Just after the turn of the century, AMD took a big gamble on K8—better known as Athlon 64—and gave up the pursuit of clock speed in the interest of successfully executing more instructions per clock, in addition to introducing native 64-bit extensions.
Meanwhile, Intel leveraged its manufacturing superiority to push the NetBurst architecture as fast as possible. The Victorian Hugos: 1891. Most Popular Repurposing Tricks of 2011. Build a Gaming PC for Under $1000. Jobs & Job Search Advice, Employment & Careers. Videos of the latest tech, gadgets and research direct from Tokyo. Budget Battleground. Grub2. GRUB 2 is the default boot loader and manager for Ubuntu since version 9.10 (Karmic Koala).
As the computer starts, GRUB 2 either presents a menu and awaits user input or automatically transfers control to an operating system kernel. Crydev.net. Create a Windows 7 Theme Pack From Scratch. Windows customization isn’t anything new, but with Windows 7, customization got a lot easier with theme packs. What Amazon's ebook strategy means. It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don't really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry.
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