Status People Fake Follower Check — Social Media Management Platform for Business statuspeople.com http://flpbd.it/9tryc Related articles I Bought 10,000 Fake Twitter Followers. Why Didn’t Klout, Kred (or Others) Notice? (ignitesocialmedia.com) Twitter followers available on the open market (cbc.ca) How Do Those Fake Tweeple Hurt (insideview.ie) Want that Twitter verification badge?…
Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes Dan Goodin, arstechnica.com More than 15 percent of Mitt Romney’s Twitter followers may be generated by paid services that use fake accounts to artificially inflate the number of people subscribed to the presumptive Republican nominee for US President,… http://flpbd.it/BNd2F Related articles Mitt in…
Apple’s case that Samsung copied the iPhone and iPad—in pictures Jon Brodkin, arstechnica.com With the Apple v. Samsung patent trial underway, Apple is making its case that Samsung’s phones and tablets are ripoffs of the iPhone and iPad. We’ve had extensive coverage of the testimony from our reporter in the courthouse, a… http://flpbd.it/tLwVj Related articles…
Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval Monya Baker, nature.com Personal genetics company 23andMe announced Monday that it was seeking FDA approval for an initial batch of seven health-related tests with scores more to follow. 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California, markets genetics test… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe’s Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million…
Recently I’ve become aware of more and more concern about the electromagnetic soup we are embedded in from all of our various gadgets. While Europe has taken a much more cautious approach on this, the USA as always, has let free enterprise rule. Here is a fairly balanced Wiki article on this topic. Needless to…
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For years, other countries have been far more cautious about the impacts of electromagnetic radiation on human health than in the US and far too little is known about this as we increasingly expose ourselves to these fields. In parts of Europe for example there are much stricter regulations on exposure to EMFs than in…
As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management. Social scientists have…
A scientific ethics of code : Effect Measure. Related articles With Morality Seemingly in Decline, the In View with Larry King TV Series Announces Plans for A New Series on Business Ethics (prweb.com) Male Scientists More Likely to Commit Research Misconduct than Females (sci-news.com) Men more likely than women to commit scientific fraud (eurekalert.org)
Book Review – ‘The Accidental Guerrilla,’ by David Kilcullen – NYTimes.com. Anthropologist David Kilcullen is a former officer in the Australian Army, a strategist and a scholar. He is also an expert on counterinsurgency, or how to combat a rebellion, and one of the few brave souls who had the ear of people in the…