Which US state receives the most spam?
er wondered which US state receives the most spam? According to Symantec’s MessageLabs, it’s Idaho, where 93.8 percent of all email is spam, followed by Kentucky, New Jersey, Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Massachussetts, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Maryland. Don’t get us wrong, there’s spam everywhere; the global spam rate for September 2009 is 86.4 percent. But Idaho’s eerily high rate is also a surprise because it jumped 43 spots since 2008; back then it was ranked the 44th most spammed state. We…
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Who owns my garbage?
your trash is still on your property, nobody but the trash collector can come in and paw through it. However, most jurisdictions consider possessions abandoned once you set them out at the curb, in the alley, etc. Some specifics: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled police don't need a warrant to search trash left at the curb (in legal terms, "outside the curtilage" — i.e., outside your private domain, sometimes but not always denoted by the property line). Police…
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Malcolm Gladwell, modern problems, and the analytics age:
alcolm Gladwell) spoke about problem solving and the fact that our problems today are different from those of the recent past. Our former problems were usually solved by digging up and revealing the right information. He used Watergate as an example, pointing out that key information was hidden, and the problem was solved when Washington Post journalists Woodward and Bernstein were finally able to uncover this information that had been concealed. Modern problems, on the other hand, are not the…
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Are you happy?
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The Economist – Americans watch twice as much TV as any other country:
SPITE an increase in entertainment choices, watching television remains as popular as ever, according to data from the OECD's Communications Outlook report. American households watch the box for over eight hours a day on average, twice as long as anyone else. Viewing has fallen in some countries. Turks reportedly watched an hour's less television per day in 2007 than they did only two years earlier, when the country was America's nearest rival as couch-potato king. via economist.com Join over 320,000…
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Link found between facial appearance and aggression:
a BPS Research Digest The participants' estimates of the men's aggression correlated with the men's actual aggression as revealed in the lab task. Carre's team think the participants were using the width-to-height ratio of the men's faces as a cue to their aggression. The wider a man's face relative to its length, the more aggressive the participants tended to think he was. In turn, and consistent with prior research, the width-to-height ratio of the men's faces correlated with their levels of…
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The contiguous United States, visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s:
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Slate Magazine – How mean are drill sergeants in real life?:
resa L. King took command of the Army's drill sergeant school on Tuesday—the first woman ever to do so. The New York Times article on King notes that she's "ever vigilant for busted rules"—which seems in keeping with the fear-inspiring, speak-up-you-maggot taskmasters of the popular imagination, such as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, who gently explains to his recruits, "You are pukes. You're the lowest form of life on earth." Are drill sergeants really that mean? Not anymore.…
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