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Submission + - Greenpeace Hates the Cloud (allvoices.com)

Submitted by nathanielinbrazil
nathanielinbrazil writes: A report released this morning from Greenpeace claims that Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are bad for the environment. Their data farms have a heavy reliance on coal-fired energy plants, causing substantial greenhouse gas impact on the environment. (Fifth largest contributor behind japan) "The last thing we need is for more cloud infrastructure to be built in places where it increases demand for dirty coal-fired power," said a Greenpeace spokesperson.
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Submission + - Touchless Screens, The Next Touchscreen (allvoices.com)

Submitted by forgot_my_username
forgot_my_username writes: A report on Allvoices mentions that the MIT media lab. is developing a motion screen computer. It looks back at you. It measures light, and gestures and uses those. “Imagine every pixel on your LCD screen emitting light could also be receiving light,” said Ramesh Rakar, an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab. They even mention the health benefits of not touching displays.... do you know where your display has been?
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Submission + - Suicide Bombers Wreak Havoc in Moscow (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by reporter
reporter writes: About four hours ago, two women wearing belts loaded with explosives walked into two subway stations — the Lubyanka station and the Park Kultury station — in Moscow and detonated the belts. Twenty-two people died at the former station, and 12 died at the latter. Both stations are near the heardquarters of the Federal Security Service, the successor to the K.G.B. "Moscow's red Sokolnicheskaya line, where the first explosion occurred, is used by members of Russia's security service to get to work."

The news wires are lighting up with this story. See the reports at "Times Online", "The New York Times", "Telegraph.co.uk", and "guardian.co.uk"
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Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW* 91

Posted by samzenpus from the putting-on-your-history-goggles dept.
Amazingly accurate for someone so plastered. I think all history should be taught at this level of intoxication.

Comment F*&(ing FARMVILLE! (Score 1) 270

by forgot_my_username (#31613340) Attached to: Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain
Great,
I blame farmville, all that trading about of farm animals.

It used to be that a man's sheep where a man's sheep... and you did not touch another man's sheep.

But, there you go... all this willy nilly trading of farm animals was bound to have a bad end!


Spurious link:siRNA and protein synthesis video with stupid article I wrote attached
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Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain 270

Posted by samzenpus from the friends-and-really-good-friends dept.
ectotherm writes "According to Professor Peter Kelly, a director of Public Health in Great Britain: 'There has been a four-fold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected.' Why the increase? People meeting up for casual sex through Facebook. According to the article, 'Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex. There is a rise in syphilis because people are having more sexual partners than 20 years ago and often do not use condoms.'"

Comment Re:Too small a sample size (Score 1) 260

by forgot_my_username (#31606314) Attached to: First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success
It may be a small sample size, but man this is cool stuff.
From TFA, the siRNA can stop any mRNA produced protein.
Eventually, this could be huge for treatments of diseases and conditions associated with mutated proteins.
Before, they had the siRNA, but no real way to deliver them.
So, this is a double wammy!


There is a story with a video about this and siRNA

In fairness, I wrote the story, and found the video... but it I think it is very cool.

Submission + - Global Cybercrime with Corporate Cover and Benefit 2

Submitted by nathanielinbrazil
nathanielinbrazil writes: An article on allvoices details a sophisticated corporate environment provided the look and cover of legitimacy. The operation employed hackers and gave them great salaries, benefits and bonuses in a cube farm. The Kiev, Ukraine operation, called International Marketing Ukraine or IMU has been dismantled by the United States Federal Trade Commission, but its money-maker scareware lingers.

Comment Re:Single payer system (Score 1) 2044

by forgot_my_username (#31535476) Attached to: Health Care Reform
WOW!

How do you get that? I am Greek, and our health system is kind of messed up... but, the US system is a disaster.
The problems with Greece have to do, at least in a large part, with the Government futzing around so that they can be and remain part of the EU
Picking out Greece and saying the US shouldn't have a single payer system because Greece has one, and is suffering is like
saying that drinking causes lung cancer. There is an association, but it is only because drinkers have a higher percentage of smokers than
non-smokers.
Pick another example please... like how messed up it is in France, Germany, England, Italy.... oh wait, it actually sort of works in those places,
at least it works better than it does in the states.

Comment Re:Everything old is new again (Score 1) 97

by forgot_my_username (#31495418) Attached to: Golden Nanocages To Put the Heat On Cancer Cells
Doctors do use metals, and silver does have antibiotic effeects....
There have not been enough good studies done, so doctors are not allowed to perscribe it.
Gold and iron are used as well as chromium, and other minerals.
In fact minerals are essential to life and if you don't get enough it is as bad as getting too much.

Does silver work... MAYBE.
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