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Cutting Off Pirates

“People who persistently download illegal content will be cut off from the net, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has announced.” I suspect these are the same people who generate a lot of wealth using the global platform. Also suspect they’ll find, … Continue reading →

28. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Modern Warfare 2 Pulls a Mumbai

The game opens with the player executing a Mumbai-style assault upon an airport. . Update: Video is now embedded here: -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

27. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Review: Tracked.com

Pretty cool presentation of structured data. Right now, Tracked is focusing on a social component that lets people share that dead data. It has live (read social) stuff but crammed into a box on the bottom right. Not good enough. … Continue reading →

22. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Undergraduate Degree for $4,000

CLEP. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

22. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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McChrystal: Logical Conclusion of Maximal Goals

Nils nails it. In other words, the goal is to turn the most socially and politically devastated country on earth, one rife with hostile religious fanatics, into a kind of Asian Switzerland. No duh that’s going to take a lot … Continue reading →

21. October 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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