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mercredi 5 juin 2019, 18:19
Patronscan is the leading provider of ID-scanning/verification services to bars and restaurants, and one of its selling points is that it allows its customers to create shared blacklists of undesirable customers who can then be denied services at every other establishment...
Due to a mistranslation of the Dutch source material, the publish-now-edit-later nature of modern newsmedia, and perhaps a smidgen of hand-rubbing over the practice of euthanasia, everyone is falsely reporting today that a Dutch teenager was put to death with the consent of...
The UK Ministry of Defense has confirmed the authenticity of a leaked copy of its 2017 leaflet, 'Extreme Right Wing (XRW) Indicators & Warnings,' provided to senior defense staff to help them identify and root out far-right extremists in the ranks. The leaflet identifies...
I wear a Helite inflatable vest, which is similar but not integrated into a beautiful jacket.
A hiker got into trouble out in the Arizona scrub and needed a lift out. They ended up being treated for 'dizziness and nausea' first. Cliff Castle Chopper footage shows a helicopter rescue of injured hiker from Piestewa Peak in Phoenix. NBC News reported that the spinning...
A police officer in Decatur identified himself as 'Fuck You is my name' when asked by the innocent, handcuffed black man he was getting angry with. Dizzy Dez writes about the cops turning up outside his home: [Another officer] immediately started to place me in handcuffs...
In 1830 Joseph Palmer created an odd controversy in Fitchburg, Massachusetts: He wore a beard when beards were out of fashion. For this social sin he was shunned, attacked, and ultimately jailed. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of a ...
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In case it wasn't evident from the link that brought you here, digital ads are everywhere. And someone's got to write them. In print or on the web, writing lives by the same first commandment whether it's ad copy, fiction or essay: Don't lose the audience. Still here? Whew....
YouTube admitted Tuesday that videos posted by a notoriously homophobic star violated its policy against 'hurtful' language. But it said it wouldn't be removing them, instead carving a policy exception for a prominent conservative voice. Last week, Vox journalist Carlos Maza ...
In Online Tracking and Publishers’ Revenues: An Empirical Analysis, a trio of researchers from U Minnesota, UC Irvine and CMU report out their findings from a wide-ranging (millions of data-points) study of the additional revenues generated by behaviorally targeted ads (of ...
The administration of President Donald Trump is today reported to be considering a plan to detain separated migrant children at Fort Benning, a military base in the state of Georgia. NBC News was first to report the new concentration camp plans, and cited a Department of...
Watch this new trailer for that upcoming Martin Scorsese Netflix feature on Bob Dylan. ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY BY MARTIN SCORSESE streams starting June 12, and features appearances by Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Sam Shepard, and Sharon Stone. (Photo via...
A Texas high school teacher may lose her job after tweeting to President Donald Trump that her school had been 'taken over' by 'illegal students from Mexico.' Georgia Clark worked as an English teacher for Carter-Riverside High School, and wrote tweets to Trump saying that...
mardi 4 juin 2019, 23:46
Donald Trump's administration approved the transfer of sensitive nuclear technology to the government of Saudi Arabia on two separate occasions after Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, an NBC News report finds, citing “information...
Tom Frieden, who was formerly the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, admitted to groping a longtime family friend in New York, but managed to avoid a single day of jail time. Frieden also previously served as New York City's health commissioner,...
After a New York Times news report showed that YouTube's content recommendation algorithm was pushing children's videos to sexual predators, YouTube says it will take additional steps to protect kids on the video platform, including no live-streaming video from kids without...
Device Orchestra's first attempt at a classic video game theme. Other highlights from the channel include Spice Girls on 5 toothbrushes, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on a Ladyshave and The Imperial March on a toaster.
Austria has incredibly broad libel laws -- so broad that they prohibit disgruntled voters from calling politicians 'oafs' or 'fascists.' Predictably, this gave rise to a legal dispute between an Austrian politician and Facebook, when the former ordered the latter to remove a ...
Microsoft and Unilever's Lynx brand have partnered on a line of Xbox personal hygiene products including deodorant, body spray, and shower gel. Whatever gets them to use it, I say. Unfortunately for now, the products will only be available in Australia and New Zealand. From...
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