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North American First: Ontario Bans Coal-Fired Power
2013-11-22 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Thursday, Environmental Defence hosted Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and former U.S. Vice-President and Chairman of the Climate Reality Project, Al Gore, at an event to announce the elimination of coal-fired electricity in Ontario. The largest coal plant in North America--Nanticoke Generating Station on the north shore of Lake Erie--will stop burning coal this year. As global climate talks enter the final hours in Europe, Ontario is proving that meaningful action on climate change is possible....
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Hawaii's Big Island bans biotech companies, GMO crops
2013-11-21 07:19:18| Airlines - Topix.net
The governing council for Hawaii Island Tuesday banned biotech companies from operating on the island while barring growth of genetically modified organisms.
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GitHub bans weak passwords after brute-force attack results in compromised accounts
2013-11-20 16:48:15| InfoWorld: Top News
Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. "We sent an email to users with compromised accounts letting them know what to do," GitHub security engineer Shawn Davenport said in a blog post. "Their passwords have been reset and personal access tokens, OAuth authorizations, and SSH keys have all been revoked."
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Auto Companies Recognize Same Sex Marriages, Regardless of State Bans
2013-11-14 02:53:51| Automakers - Topix.net
When Bill Huffaker and his husband Darin Severns moved from San Franscisco to the Detroit area a year ago, they gave up the legal recognition of their marriage by the state.
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auto
companies
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Google bans Windows Chrome extensions found outside the Chrome Web Store
2013-11-08 12:58:53| InfoWorld: Top News
The sad march towards tribal fiefdoms continued Thursday, as Google announced that it will only allow Chrome for Windows users to download extensions hosted by Google's own Chrome Web Store starting in January.Google says the decision to transform Chrome into a gated community stems from security concerns, in an echo of the official reason that Microsoft moved to the Windows Store model to distribute modern UI apps. Google engineering director Erik Kay points the finger at the damage caused by rogue extensions in a blog post detailing the lock-down.
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