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Syrian Electronic Army Leaves Its Mark on the Financial Times

Arik Hesseldahl in News, May 17, 2013 at 7:52 am PT

Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA

Anton Troianovski and Siobhan Gorman, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Social, May 17, 2013 at 5:00 am PT

( SoTT reported Twitter being used to try and steer Iranian elections for the Green Revolution - NATO interference in domestic Iranian politics like BBC broadcasts running their spin in Iran....but not letting Iran do the same in the West...support for 'terrorism' don't cha know...by nuclear disarmament proponents penalized by owners of WMD from Hell for daring to certify their non military use of nuke tech via the NPT / IAEA they co-sponsored . So they are made unable to pay via sanctions and confiscation of banking assets based on their unwillingness to follow the wishes of the UN...while busy complying with a signed treaty so that their arbiter becomes a stooge for the only payer available...who bitches about the imposition of costs while sitting on Iranian funds. )

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto

Sanctions Programs and Country Information

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2013 OFAC Recent Actions - Department of the Treasury

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Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN)

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OFAC FAQs: Question Index - Department of the Treasury

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10, What countries do I need to worry about in terms of U.S. sanctions? 11, Who must ... OFAC has told us that these accounts cannot be operated. Does this ...
Office of Foreign Assets Control - Sanctions Programs and Information

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Apr 18, 2013 – The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions ...

The NPT and the Nuclear Power TRAP - Transcend

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India has fallen into NPT trap: BJP - Economic Times

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Sep 6, 2008 – NEW DELHI: Reacting to the NSG waiver, BJP on Saturday alleged that the country has fallen into the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) "trap" and ...

Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To ...

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Mar 15, 2011 – ... jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was so flawed it could lead to ...

Ex-Regulator Says Nuclear Reactors in United States Are Flawed ...

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Apr 8, 2013 – All 104 nuclear power reactors now in operation in the United States have a safety problem that cannot be fixed and should be replaced with ...

Tesla Has a Fresh $1 Billion — And Lots of Ways to Spend It

Joseph B. White, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 17 at 12:55 pm PT

Tesla Motors Inc. just raised about $1 billion in new capital, riding a remarkable burst of investor exuberance. New Tesla shareholders will now get to see just how fast the auto business gobbles up money.

Next Up to Investigate Google’s Competitive Practices: Canada

Liz Gannes in News on May 17 at 6:03 pm PT

Here’s some late-on-a-Friday regulatory news for you: Canada’s Competition Bureau will investigate Google’s Canadian business operations, according to the Financial Post. Google confirmed the investigation, while Canada declined comment. Earlier this year, Google was largely cleared in a U.S. antitrust examination, and it is currently testing remedies in Europe.

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Accounting Predictions

May 16, 2013 in Metrics / Statistics by Ezra S F | No comments

In my Prediction Accountability, I ranted on how no one really knows whether predictions are accurate and ended with it really does not matter because no one is going to really stop using these services because they are usually wrong. Basically, I thought it futile to even try. In retrospect that is probably the perfect reason to do it.

Prediction Accountability

May 15, 2013 in Metrics / Statistics by Ezra S F | 2 comments

The technology buzzword standard for prediction appears to be Netflix and Amazon. Everyone wants to get to where they make recommendations customers will buy. But are these predictions any good?

Alienating Friends Through Correcting Misinformation

May 8, 2013 in Social by Ezra S F | 3 comments

Snopes is your friend. Even if you cannot remember the site, searching for a sentence of a text probably will pull up a hoax clarification site.

Unfriendly Connect For Feedly

unsubscribing in Friend Connect did not really do it. (At least through a logout and login.) When Feedly pulled the data from Reader again, the unsubscribed feed came back.
( Unsubscribing Blogger Following/Google Reader is a pain )

Dashboard vs Feed

May 2, 2013 in Metrics / Statistics by Ezra S F | No comments

John Pavlus in Ghost’s Blogging Dashboard Doesn’t Need to Exist fell hook line and sinker for Anil Dash’s All Dashboards Should Be Feeds false dichotomy. The better argument is dashboards only tell the past with all the noise where the more useful information is an accurate future. People ultimately want to know what is going to happen. The feeds would do that.
However, to accomplish that feeds take the same data, apply criteria, and report a prediction of value to the user. That’s fantastic stuff. You know… Fantasy.
Someone has to decide how to produce the signal out of all the noise. Probably that is a quant or a wannabe who teases out of the data the important predictions. So unless you are beholden to someone like Anil, you want to be able to manipulate the data by looking at something like a dashboard to build feeds.
I’ve never had a problem taking dashboard data and projecting from them trends. A good one, like Yaketystats will even graph the prediction lines for me

TED Talk: Risking Redefinition

April 30, 2013 in Social by Ezra S F | No comments

This is the first TED Talk I get to post because I know the speaker rather than just know of them. Rebeka was originally a new employee in training who really did not need it. Over the past few years we’ve followed each other through social media, so I was aware of the elements of this story. So I am glad she got the opportunity to put it all together through a venue like TEDx.

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