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Berners-Lee Dreams Impossible Dream
2014-03-13 18:32:21| TechNewsWorld
Tim Berners-Lee, known as the "father of the Internet," has called for an online bill of rights. Twenty-five years ago, Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for what would become the Internet as we know it today, making the case that it needed to move toward a decentralized, open architecture and away from the proprietary linear structure that was emerging at the time.
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The Amazing Promise of HP's Impossible Turnaround
2014-03-10 14:00:24| TechNewsWorld
HP has made incredible progress over the last few years with Meg Whitman at the helm, which was evident at its annual analyst meeting last week. It has made major progress in the cloud, in devices, and in how the company is run. The result should be an increasingly interesting set of products and services uniquely differentiated in the market. This effort was far from easy.
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United Kingdom: Flooding: wet ground in worst-hit areas making burials impossible
2014-02-18 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The flood crisis is causing further anguish for bereaved families as wet ground is making burials impossible in the worst-hit areas. Authorities say there is little they can do about weather-related funeral delays that have been described as "absolutely abnormal". While families face the possibility of extra distress, the floods have created dangerous conditions for gravediggers. Crematoriums have not been immune from the issue either, with one having to close for about two months due to...
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Protecting farms or front rooms? The impossible dilemma that climate change forces upon us
2014-02-04 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Statesman: At last, someone has said it. Chris Smith, chair of the Environment Agency, wrote in the Telegraph of the impossible dilemma facing Britain as climate change leads to ever-worsening flooding: "...This involves tricky issues of policy and priority: town or country, front rooms or farmland? Flood defences cost money; and how much should the taxpayer be prepared to spend on different places, communities and livelihoods -- in Somerset, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, or East Anglia? There's no bottomless...
Emissions impossible: Did spies sink key climate deal?
2014-02-04 01:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The revelations of the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, are an ongoing embarrassment for the US government. From Angry Birds to the mobile phone of Angela Merkel to the banal conversations of millions of people, the scale of the National Secutiry Agency's spying activities knew few boundaries. But can the world's inability to fix the problem of global warming also be laid at the spooks' door? Wind your mind back to December 2009, when world leaders converged on Copenhagen to cook up a global...
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