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Re:Music to Let you Concentrate on Thursday June 13, 2013 @02:38AM (#5872633)
Boards of Canada pandora, gradually tuned for minor key ambient electronica.

That's my work soundtrack of choice.

Re:Stellar Wind (code name) on Thursday June 06, 2013 @07:27PM (#5835967)
Been to Arizona lately?
Re:Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem? on Thursday May 16, 2013 @09:45AM (#5718570)
The escorts definitely didn't miss the opportunity.
Re:Google Buys a Quantum Computer on Thursday May 16, 2013 @09:07AM (#5718400)
Just wait until Google self driving tech is installed into a majority of new cars in 20 years. Or less.
Re:24 year old Ogilvy China employee dies from 'overwork' on Thursday May 16, 2013 @07:50AM (#5718051)
Any statistics on US deaths like this? I couldn't seem to find anything particularly useful.

I just mean to say that China is an enormous country, and statistically these things are bound to happen. Does anyone else perceive this type of media coverage as part of a greater strategy of propagandizing or is the oversturation of news outlets just hungry for enything sensationalist to grab eyeballs? Both?

Re:Send money with Gmail on Thursday May 16, 2013 @07:44AM (#5718024)
Didn't Google already buy up a ton of dark fiber backbone? GFiber may be closer to disrupting the national ISP market than we think
So the implication of the article is that Microsoft deliberately made a YT app that they knew Google would be forced to C&D just so they could use that as a cog in a PR campaign? Seems penny wise pound foolish if true.
Re:Google Buys a Quantum Computer on Thursday May 16, 2013 @06:34AM (#5717796)
Singularity draws ever closer...