En man i 60-årsåldern från Sundsvall togs av polis redan för nio år sedan då man hittat över 200 000 barnporrbilder i mannens dator.

Fyra personer skadades när de föll av ett bilflak i samband med en fest i Alnarp utanför Malmö på torsdagskvällen.

First time accepted submitter strangeintp (892348) writes "The first legislation aimed specifically at curbing US surveillance abuses revealed by Edward Snowden passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, with a majority of both Republicans and Democrats. But last-minute efforts by intelligence community loyalists to weaken key language in the USA Freedom Act led to a larger-than-expected rebellion by members of Congress, with the measure passing by 303 votes to 121. The bill's authors concede it was watered down significantly in recent days but insist it will still outlaw the practice of bulk collection of US telephone metadata by the NSA first revealed by Snowden."

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First time accepted submitter strangeintp (892348) writes "The first legislation aimed specifically at curbing US surveillance abuses revealed by Edward Snowden passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, with a majority of both Republicans and Democrats. But last-minute efforts by intelligence community loyalists to weaken key language in the USA Freedom Act led to a larger-than-expected rebellion by members of Congress, with the measure passing by 303 votes to 121. The bill's authors concede it was watered down significantly in recent days but insist it will still outlaw the practice of bulk collection of US telephone metadata by the NSA first revealed by Snowden."

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Unless the schedule changes (still possible, I suppose), I’ll be speaking Monday June 2 at 2:45 at AltConf. It’ll be about why we decided to build our own syncing for Vesper and how we did it.

My co-Q Dave Wiskus’s talk is right after mine, at 3:15. Convenient. That’s two-thirds of the branch in just one hour.

The entire speakers list is awesome, by the way. I would hate to have to choose between this and WWDC itself. (Well, I suppose I did choose, by not even attempting to get a WWDC ticket.)

Unless the schedule changes (still possible, I suppose), I’ll be speaking Monday June 2 at 2:45 at AltConf. It’ll be about why we decided to build our own syncing for Vesper and how we did it.

My co-Q Dave Wiskus’s talk is right after mine, at 3:15. Convenient. That’s two-thirds of the branch in just one hour.

The entire speakers list is awesome, by the way. I would hate to have to choose between this and WWDC itself. (Well, I suppose I did choose, by not even attempting to get a WWDC ticket.)

Karolinska institutet och Handelshögskolan i Stockholm får – igen – högsta betyg i Sveriges universitetsranking (Urank). Men topplaceringen är i viss mån ”oförtjänt”, enligt Uranks egna utredare.

Karolinska institutet och Handelshögskolan i Stockholm får – igen – högsta betyg i Sveriges universitetsranking (Urank). Men topplaceringen är i viss mån ”oförtjänt”, enligt Uranks egna utredare.

Sverigedemokraterna (SD) och Feministiskt initiativ (FI) gör debut i Europaparlamentet om resultaten i SvD/Sifos väljarbarometer speglar verkligheten. Med 8,6 respektive 4,3 procent skulle SD få två mandat och FI ett mandat.

Sverigedemokraterna (SD) och Feministiskt initiativ (FI) gör debut i Europaparlamentet om resultaten i SvD/Sifos väljarbarometer speglar verkligheten. Med 8,6 respektive 4,3 procent skulle SD få två mandat och FI ett mandat.

When I bumped into Abram Thau at Metrix Createspace in Seattle's Capitol Hill, he showed me a few printed figurines, including a Storm Trooper (of the Star Wars variety), and I thought at first that he had printed them as duplicates of similar-sized commercial products. Not so: It turns out these are made-from-life, specifically from cos-players who have stood on Abram's human-suitable turntable (powered by a chicken rotisserie motor hooked to a 3-D printed pulley) while he scanned them in. Thau's apartment is practically shouting distance from Metrix, but that pulley was made on a large Deltabot filament printer in the corner of his living room. (A living room usefully cluttered with tools, bottles of resin, projectors in various states of repair, and more printed objects.) More interesting still, Thau's figurines are produced with a home-built resin printer. Resin is messier to work with than the filament feedstock of RepRap/Makerbot style printers (and the resin itself has a slight odor), but it allows different results. Overhanging pieces are possible without requiring elaborate support pieces built into the mesh, and the resulting product can be noticeably smoother than typical filament printing, though all 3-D printing techniques are getting better. Thau didn't buy one of the commercially available resin printers, though (like FormLabs's), but instead decided to build his own out of scavenged and off-the-shelf components. Budget concerns and improvisation rule the day (Thau is also a grad student, studying to be a middle school teacher): That means there's a book holding up the projector which is vital to curing the resin, and the printer's case is recycled from a previous one. The results look as good as the affordable commercial ones I've seen, and he's excited to teach others to make their own. Third-party resin makers and a robust market in used projectors mean that other hobbyists can follow his lead and turn their friends into figurines. (Alternate video link)

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When I bumped into Abram Thau at Metrix Createspace in Seattle's Capitol Hill, he showed me a few printed figurines, including a Storm Trooper (of the Star Wars variety), and I thought at first that he had printed them as duplicates of similar-sized commercial products. Not so: It turns out these are made-from-life, specifically from cos-players who have stood on Abram's human-suitable turntable (powered by a chicken rotisserie motor hooked to a 3-D printed pulley) while he scanned them in. Thau's apartment is practically shouting distance from Metrix, but that pulley was made on a large Deltabot filament printer in the corner of his living room. (A living room usefully cluttered with tools, bottles of resin, projectors in various states of repair, and more printed objects.) More interesting still, Thau's figurines are produced with a home-built resin printer. Resin is messier to work with than the filament feedstock of RepRap/Makerbot style printers (and the resin itself has a slight odor), but it allows different results. Overhanging pieces are possible without requiring elaborate support pieces built into the mesh, and the resulting product can be noticeably smoother than typical filament printing, though all 3-D printing techniques are getting better. Thau didn't buy one of the commercially available resin printers, though (like FormLabs's), but instead decided to build his own out of scavenged and off-the-shelf components. Budget concerns and improvisation rule the day (Thau is also a grad student, studying to be a middle school teacher): That means there's a book holding up the projector which is vital to curing the resin, and the printer's case is recycled from a previous one. The results look as good as the affordable commercial ones I've seen, and he's excited to teach others to make their own. Third-party resin makers and a robust market in used projectors mean that other hobbyists can follow his lead and turn their friends into figurines. (Alternate video link)

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A study shows that fruit flies take extra time over difficult decisions and a set of 200 neurons, marked out by a particular gene, may be crucial.