"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." - Mark Twain

Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving. Many children have told me that they cannot show me anyone who does not have this capacity. Some people allow it to develop, and some do not, but everyone has it. This capacity of waking up, of being aware of what is going on in your feelings, in your body, in your perceptions, in the world, is called Buddha nature, the capacity of understanding and loving. Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thich_Nhat_Hanh

Word of the Day : Profligate

Security News

FTC issues guidelines on facial recognition technology

Watching them, watching you

• 'Deceptive' web tracker settles with FTC over personal data slurp
  Compete had been charged with sneakily grabbing names, credit card numbers
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  The way you'll get pwned next

Software News

Windows 8: An awful lot of change for a single release

Windows 1.0, Windows 95, Windows NT - the road to Windows 8

• Five go wild with the Administration Tools Pack
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• Microsoft: Welcome back to PCs, ARM. Sorry about the 1990s
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Science News

While sea ice grows, Antarctica sheds land ice

The airstrip is MELLLLTING!

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  Baikonur blastoff boosts Soyuz to station
• Black hole spews out 2-million-light-year-long stream of WTF
  Boffins spot X-ray blasting, star-stopping cosmic jet
• WHITE WHALE spent 4 years trying to tell us something, then stopped
  Startled diver 'given orders in English,' say boffins
• Oldest unreadable alphabet yields to 'tablet' computer
  Translation breakthrough close, thanks to camera-in-LED-dome boffinry

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