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BitTorrent Doesn’t Need More Funding, It Needs A Business Model

By now, many sites have all reported that BitTorrent has raised another round of funding, this time totaling $17 million and putting their total raised to date close to $50 million. You really have to wonder what these VCs are…


Stock Market Meltdowns – Why they will happen again and again and again

There is one major problem on Wall Street, that until solved, will result in meltown after meltdown in future years. I can’t say if the meltdown monkey will hit every 2,3, 5 or 10 years. But I can say with certainty that it will happen again. Why ?


Cablevision: Heck Yeah, We’re Doing Network DVRs

Cablevision, which recently claimed a legal victory when a court ruled that its network DVR does not infringe on copyright, says it will be taking the service to market “early next year,” reports Light Reading. Speaking at a Merrill Lynch Conferenc…


4DEMs, 4GOPs: CHANGE we (all) can push for

Earmarks petition|Lobbyist petition
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So long, and Thanks For All The Fish: Hadron Collider Turns On Tomorrow

38 Second dramatization of the end of the world, scheduled for sometime Wednesday

We noted in a previous post that some people are worried that when they turn on the Large Hadron Collider it will create a black hole that will turn the earth into a “shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter” a…


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