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Emblazoned on a long, tall, concrete barrier in the midst of a rocky Middle Eastern landscape is this spray-painted message: "Mirror, mirror on the wall. When will this senseless object fall?" It’s one of more than 900 graffiti messages that have been spray-painted by Palestinians on the controversial wall that separates Israel and the West Bank.
Forget the widely unloved redesign. Facebook has committed a greater offense
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— In these scary economic times, older workers are putting off their retirement and hanging on to a paycheck. Some retirees struggling to make ends meet are scanning help-wanted ads for the first time in years.
The rules are set in stone and so the eagerly watching British media sputtered when the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, briefly put her hand on the back of the Queen Elizabeth II as the two chatted at a reception.
The business of having online sites with content created by amateurs to be viewed by other amateurs never had a reasonable chance of making money. The fact that at one point Facebook had a $15 billion valuation, that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought MySpace, and that Google bought YouTube only proves the “greater fool” theory. YouTube was started in 2005 and MySpace in 2003
Headlines proclaiming that G-20 activists and police are following each others’ activities on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites may give one the impression that a new age of surveillance and political activism has dawned. But activists’ use of technology is nothing new. Though Twitter and Facebook might be today’s must-have gadgets in campaigners’ toolboxes, some say they’re simply the latest chapter in a long tradition of activists’ use of technology to champion change.
Here’s something to think about: NEW YORK (CNN) — Here’s something to think about: How many police officers and sheriff’s deputies are involved in investigating and solving crimes involving illegal drugs And arresting and transporting and interrogating and jailing the suspects How many prosecutors and their staffs spend time prosecuting drug cases How many defense lawyers spend their time defending drug suspects How many hours of courtroom time are devoted to drug trials How many judges, bailiffs, courtroom security officers, stenographers, etc., spend their time on drug trials How many prison cells are filled with drug offenders And how many corrections officers does it take to guard them How much food do these convicts consume And when they get out, how many parole and probation officers does it take to supervise their release And how many ex-offenders turn right around and do it again So how’s this war on drugs going Someone described insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time. That’s a perfect description of the war on drugs.
Computer experts waited early Wednesday to see what impact — if any — the worm known as Conficker.c will have on the world’s computers.
David Bill isn’t annoyed when Twitter gets so bogged down with traffic that he can’t post a message. That’s because in the moment when frustration would hit, he’s greeted on the popular Web site by a cartoonish image he loves: a giant whale being lifted out of an ocean by a small flock of tweeting birds. The icon — which Twitter users call it the “fail whale” because the creature appears only when the site has failed to load — has gained a cult following as the social media site grows at breakneck pace.