tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-180390162012-05-27T17:11:00.216-04:00An Aussie's view of life in America with a geek's perspective.Dean Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08222027015133305237noreply@blogger.comBlogger1826125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18039016.post-31572238554241938672012-05-27T15:04:00.002-04:002012-05-27T17:11:00.219-04:00

Dont know why i did this but i noticed that Powerball is up to $94m for the jackpot and had to work out some of the lottery math. So as you can see here are the odds on winning with fixed prizes for everything except for the jackpot which increases each week if no one wins. So if you were to take $2000 and play 1,000 games at $2 each - you would most likely win $138 based on all possible

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Seriously it has to be said, using Instagram is like shooting with a SLR and then going back to Polaroid...oooh look at me I'm a hipster.... WTF people?

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I'm sure Facebook were planning to turn this feature on eventually anyway but because they have gotten off to such a rocky start listing on the NASDAQ the word has probably come down from upon high to start cranking up the revenues now. Forget what the street says, buy Facebook NOW. I bet you they are going to want to hit it out of the park in this first Qtr with their "new" revenue streams. I

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Too cool. (lol pun not intended) - http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/new_region.html Voyager tells us now that we're in a stagnation region in the outermost layer of the bubble around our solar system," said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "Voyager is showing that what is outside is pushing back. We shouldn't have long to wait to find out

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Happy Friday everyone. Some new tracks in the Mood Music box. Listening to the Chisel making me feel all nostalgic :) -make sure to turn this one up LOUD.

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Good article in FastCompany today about the upcoming court case for Aereo http://www.fastcompany.com/1838490/a-tv-platform-so-disruptive-everyones-suing-it We chat with Chet Kanojia of Aereo, the new TV-where-and-when-you-want-it service that has a few legal troubles. Could Aereo finally disrupt the loathed cable bundle--and TV altogether? Will be interesting to see how this shakes out and

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Just watched - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/civilization-west-and-rest Was one of the best 2 hours I’ve seen on tv forever. Interesting to note at the end that it was funded by Peter Thiel amongst others. NY Times review of the tv show here Lots of lessons for founders in studying the rise and fall of empires. Just noticed he has a book covering this in more detail, just ordered a copy from

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http://qrmedia.us/google-uses-qr-codes-for-login-key/ Google’s newest QR Code is the key to secure logins on public computers! Dumb, its just a sms initiation QR code they are displaying. Google could have easily just have achieved it by sending sms to a users mobile phone and needing you to reply to login, at least then they wouldn't have the issue of someone faking your handset DID

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WOW http://mashable.com/2012/05/20/ecommerce-china/ "China has an estimated 193 million online shoppers, Alibaba-owned Taobao, is estimated to account for half of all packages shipped in China". Can this be real?

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lol love this use of YouTube - the internet..... the great leveler :) Who needs a tv platform like Ellen has when you have YouTube and a video camera. Branding Firm Appeals to Ellen in JC Penney Dustup JC Penney's fair-and-square mantra doesn't extend to its vendors, according to a disgruntled branding firm. Hudson & Broad, a New York-based visual merchandising and branding firm, is suing the

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Everyone seems to want a bite of the Big Apple AUSTRALIANS are pouring into New York at a rate of almost 1500 a day and are the Big Apple's third-biggest overseas spenders, spurred on by the favourable exchange rate and new work opportunities. Figures show 800,000 Australians travelled to the United States last year, 17 per cent more than the previous year and more than double the number in

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any thoughts on this? - http://www2.wrbl.com/news/2012/may/17/billionare-warren-buffett-buys-media-general-newsp-ar-3811030 "Keepers"-- that’s what business tycoon Warren Buffet calls the 63 local newspapers he just bought for $ 142 million from WRBL’s parent company, Media General. Media General announced Thursday that it has signed agreements with Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. to sell nearly all

Dean Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08222027015133305237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18039016.post-53848315152691241982012-05-18T18:11:00.003-04:002012-05-18T18:11:39.228-04:00

Wow when did this start? " Twitter About Tailored Suggestions " - https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169421# I'm not sure people understand the ramifications of this, basically any website you go to where signing in via Twitter is an option they are going to be tracking you and how often you visit etc. Is this the kind of service you want Twitter providing? (it just appeared

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Sweet    :)

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This is getting out of controlhttp://www.businessinsider.com/banned-from-the-usa-billionaire-facebook-cofounder-could-be-barred-from-america-after-renouncing-citizenship-2012-5 The number of people running offshore trusts or investment vehicles is pretty common, the fact that this one made the IT tech press and the reaction from the PAYE readers is surprising, dont they know they've been

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I was watching #CNBC tonight (was watching Trash Inc ) when they commented on Bejing having a population of 17m (wikipedia says 19m) curious i googled the population of Manhattan 1.5m and New York City 8.1m...you need to go up to population of New York State 19.4m in order to equal Beijings 40kl x 100kl city population.wow.

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lol the irony about Sail copying Squares user agreement ...in an article http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/16/verifone-sail-rips-off-square/ copying pretty much another article   http://gigaom.com/2012/05/16/verifones-sail-caught-copying-rival-squares-user-agreement adding pretty much little or no additional value.Personally i think it makes total sense for boiler plate legalese.

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http://gigaom.com/broadband/wil-wheaton-net-neutrality-bittorrent Actor, author and celebrity geek Wil Wheaton is pleading with ISPs not to degrade or downright block BitTorrent traffic Sorry but last time i checked Wil Wheaton was not a studio and wasn’t funding (nor profiting apart from acting contract) on the financial success failure to return ROI on the costs of creating a movie/series with

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via Hilary Mason from bitlyhttp://thedailyviz.com/2012/05/12/how-common-is-your-birthday   I've often wondered about this would have been cooler with a percentage option to show the percentage for that day of the year. Now what i really want to know is if it is a direct opposite for the southern hemisphere (the winter reference)

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Quantum entanglement blows my mind - http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/11/1830216/chinese-physicists-achieve-quantum-teleportation-over-60-miles No matter how much i read about it i just cant get over how freaky this is. Whats interesting here is that by extending the photon pairing to 100k's you now reach the magic number where a satellite can beam information to a receiver on the ground

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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/11/facebook-co-founder-renounces-citizenship-to-dodge-tax-on-ipo-billions/ Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who made billions off the world’s most popular social network, stands to rake in about $3.84 billion from his 4 percent share of Facebook, Bloomberg reported. Saverin will have to pay millions in taxes on the money he makes -- so he chose

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Lol Google has revealed it expects to pay just $74,000 in corporate income tax for the 2011 calendar year in Australia, off claimed local revenues of $201 million http://delimiter.com.au/2012/05/03/google-australia-1bn-in-revenue-74k-in-tax Putting it into perspective, google paid more in fines to the Aust govt for illegal practices etc than they did in tax.

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Came across this article this morning - cant stress how much i agree with this. - http://www.jefclaes.be/2012/05/why-i-will-always-love-rss.html BTW I've talked about Netvibes before and cant recommend them enough as a RSS reader, if you want to see what i'm reading via RSS (or suggest some other feeds back) you can download my OPML feed from here http://www.Collins.net.pr/deancollins.opml

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lol - http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/t8g2l/going_to_australia/ they forgot to mention Cassowarys :) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA58sS3x2Oo&feature=youtu.be&t=15s

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