Elon Musk angles to keep his ex and ‘420’ Twitter drama out of lawsuit TechCrunch

Jan 042019
 

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is looking to keep his ex-girlfriend Grimes and alleged acquaintance Azealia Banks out of the official record of a lawsuit concerning his “420” “joke” that brought the SEC down on him. An attempt to subpoena both Grimes and Banks was met with stiff opposition by Musk’s lawyer, who accused the plaintiffs of attempting to sensationalize the case. As you may remember — though it seems so long ago now — Musk…

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It’s Time to Start Eating Roadkill CityLab | All Articles

Jan 042019
 

This story originally appeared on High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.My mother texts me four photos of a dead moose the week I leave Alaska. It is freshly hit. The pebbled pink brains fanning across the pavement have not yet grayed in the brisk autumn air. The animal will not go to waste. For the past 50 years, Alaska has been the only state where virtually every…

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Big Pharma ushers in new year with price hikes on hundreds of drugs Ars Technica

Jan 022019
 

Enlarge / Ian Read, chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc. spoke with President Trump last July about pausing drug price hikes. Pfizer now plans to increase prices of 41 of its drugs later this month. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) More than three dozen drug companies welcomed the new year with sweeping price hikes on hundreds of medicines, according to a new analysis from Rx Savings Solutions, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.…

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Bruce Momjian: The Future of Major Version Upgrades Planet PostgreSQL

Jan 012019
 

Pg_upgrade has matured to become a popular method to perform major version upgrades. This email thread considers what better upgrades would look like. Options include: Migrating analyze statistics Logical replication (requires double the disk space, managing schema changes) Multi-master replication (similar to previous, but also requires conflict resolution) Allowing the new server to read the old server’s data files Upgrade improvements have to be either significantly better in one of these measurements: faster, easier, more…

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35C3: Safe And Secure Drivers In High-Level Languages Hackaday

Jan 012019
 

Writing device drivers is always a good start for a journey into the Linux kernel code. Of course, the kernel is a highly complex piece of software, and if you mess up your code properly, you might take down the entire system with you. User-space drivers on the other hand might not look as good on your CV, but they can help to work around some of the dangers and complexity of the kernel space.…

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Symbolics “MacIvory”: PCB Photographs. Loper OS

Dec 292018
 

This post concerns the “MacIvory” Model 3 Lisp Machine. It is of interest strictly to bolixologists. Click on a photo to see detailed version. Machine chassis: The Ivory NuBus Board Set (i.e. the LispM itself, the Mac Quadra is otherwise ordinary): “Ivory” NuBus board, component-side: What’s under the labels? Bolix Label Part Notes 115999-B PLUS20L8 PAL, 14 inputs, 8 outputs, no registers 116000-B PAL22V10-10P PAL, 12 inputs, 10 macrocells, can have registers 116001-B PAL22V10-10P PAL,…

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Science says your cat’s tongue is ideally suited for grooming fur Ars Technica

Dec 292018
 

That sandpaper-like texture of your cat’s tiny pink tongue is what makes it ideal for grooming fur. The secret: hundreds of hollow, rigid spines lining the surface of the tongue, according to a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This is just the latest bit of colorful research from David Hu, who runs a biolocomotion laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying how various creatures move. He is…

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Metal Band Bans Photographer After Copyright Clash TorrentFreak

Dec 292018
 

When piracy hits the mainstream news, it’s often in relation to books, games, music, TV-shows and movies. These industries grab headlines because of the major players that are involved, but they are not the only ones dealing with piracy. In the age of social media, photographers are arguably the most pirated creators of all. Many people don’t even consider ‘copyright’ when sharing an image they find online. That can be quite frustrating for people whose…

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How Vaping Giant Juul Explains Everything That’s Wrong With Our World The Intercept

Dec 272018
 

Twelve years ago, e-cigarettes couldn’t be found in America. Three years ago, Juul didn’t exist. But last Friday, Marlboro manufacturer Altria bought a 35 percent stake in the vaping juggernaut for $12.8 billion. The deal values Juul at $38 billion, a similar market capitalization to that of Target, MetLife, Delta Air Lines, and Ford. Fifteen hundred Juul employees split a $2 billion dividend as a result, becoming instant millionaires overnight. Juul was an inviting target for…

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Victories in the State Legislatures: 2018 In Review Deeplinks

Dec 272018
 

States are often the “laboratories of democracy,” to borrow a phrase from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. They lead the way to react quickly to technological advances, establish important rights, and sometimes pass laws that serve as a template for others across the country. This year, EFF worked—and fought—alongside state legislators in California and across the country to pass legislation that promotes innovation and digital freedoms. Increased Transparency into Local Law Enforcement Thanks to…

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IPv6 Christmas Display Uses 75 Internet’s Worth of Addresses Hackaday

Dec 252018
 

We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more spectacularly demonstrated than at jinglepings.com. The live video stream shows an Internet-connected Christmas tree and an LED display wall that you can control by sending IPv6 ICMP echo request messages, more commonly known as pings. Reading the page, you quickly parse the fact…

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FSF Blogs: Some losses from 2018 What’s New at GNU

Dec 252018
 

When I look back on 2018, of course I see successes for user freedom across the world: the appeal in Christoph Hellwig’s GPL compliance case against VMWare is moving forward; Google employees are rallying against Dragonfly, the authoritarian search engine being built for the Chinese government; the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) home state of Massachusetts is taking steps for the Right to Repair; and people all over the world shared their tips and tricks to…

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Some losses from 2018 What’s New at GNU

Dec 252018
 

When I look back on 2018, of course I see successes for user freedom across the world: the appeal in Christoph Hellwig’s GPL compliance case against VMWare is moving forward; Google employees are rallying against Dragonfly, the authoritarian search engine being built for the Chinese government; the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) home state of Massachusetts is taking steps for the Right to Repair; and people all over the world shared their tips and tricks to…

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New Bar in [Town] jwz

Dec 242018
 

Who else is excited for the new cocktail bar?It’s a new venture by [notable local restaurateur], the owner of [famous upscale bar], [spin-off of famous upscale bar], and [spin-off of the spin-off] — so you know it’s going to be good. The bar will feature inventive cocktails with a local twist, including hand-made [ingredient] from [local boutique food business]. There will also be a limited food menu of “small bites”, including such delights as [unexpected…

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Free software and the revolt against transactionality Stories by Rococo Modem Basilisk on Medium

Dec 222018
 

In 1994, the electronic pop band KLF burned a million pounds — money they had earned by following instructions laid out in a book they wrote called “The Manual”. To this day, they deny having a conscious justification for that powerful act. One possible interpretation is to see The Manual & the Burning as two sides of a single central thesis: a rejection of the connection between labor-value and price-value implied by money, through a violation of…

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Critics Say Bernie Sanders Is Too Old, Too White, and Too Socialist to Run for President in 2020. They’re Wrong. The Intercept

Dec 202018
 

Sen. Bernie Sanders gives a speech at a “get out the vote” campaign event with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist on Nov. 4, 2018 in Burlington, Vt. Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Who will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 2020? Will it be Sen. Bernie Sanders, who came second in 2016? A growing number of voices, both liberal and conservative, loudly disagree. “I think his moment is passing,” says Daily…

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