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Comment Re:News of the Hour (Score 1) 199

by jordan_robot (#35485630) Attached to: How AT&T Totally Flubbed 4G

This is the real downfall of society. We have so little care for the truth that we now take as a given that any business offer is a lie.

You're blaming the people for not trusting business offers. I blame the businesses for constantly lying and taking advantage of the consumer at every turn.
Medicine

Submission + - Skin-cell Gun helps heal burns in days instead of (geek.com)

Submitted by 4phun
4phun writes: Feb. 5, 2011 — What looks like a contraption out of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Skin-cell Gun is more like an airbrush gun that holds healthy stem cells that were donated from a burn victim’s own healthy skin. Using the device, these healthy stem cells are sprayed onto the burned area of a patient’s body and what happens next is truly amazing. Instead of a burn wound that normally takes weeks to heal, the same wound can be cured in as little as a few days.
Censorship

Submission + - US Gov Pushing News Through China's Great Firewall (foxnews.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: The United States government's Broadcasting Board of Governors has revealed in a completed FOIA request the development, testing and planned use of Feed Over E-mail (FOE) to push news through China's firewall. This FOIA request (PDF) indicates that the United States government is interested in making sure that Chinese people receive up to date news and wants to expand the arsenal of anti-censorship tools (for news at least). The FOE project is GPLv3 and maintained by Sho Ho of BBG.
Sony

Submission + - Sony’s hunting down more hackers (jailbreakscene.com)

Submitted by xstahsie
xstahsie writes: Thought Sony’s done looking for hackers? Nope! The company is now looking for other hackers involved, which includes Cantero, Peter, Bushing, Segher, hermesEOL, kmeaw, Waninkoko, grafchokolo and Kakaroto. They will subpoena various websites including YouTube, Twitter, PayPal, and Slashdot to find these hackers. New court documents are made available below.
Medicine

Submission + - Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children

Submitted by Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: CNN has an interesting interview with Bill Gates who says that unbelievable progress is being made in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them that could cut the number of children who die every year from about 9 million to half that. But Gates has harsh words for those who engage in anti-vaccine efforts especially Dr. Andrew Wakefield who falsified data to "prove" a fraudulent link between vaccines and autism. "It's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids" says Gates. "Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today."
Space

Submission + - Record asteroid flyby - 0.85 Earth radii (nasa.gov) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday (February the 4th), a small 4.5M space rock called 2011 CQ1 passed within a record-breaking 5480KM of Earth — that's 0.85 times the radius of our planet! The rock skimmed above the pacific, and was visible to large amateur telescopes. The asteroid passed so close, that Earth's gravity altered its course by a massive 60 degrees, flinging it out of its original path. This is scary, considering the fact that the near-impactor was only discovered on the same day of the flyby — February the 4th, and its original pass distance was expected to be much further, at around 28,000KM. More info can be found here: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/

I also have some links on the homepage of my site at http://gkastro.tk/.
Space

Submission + - European Space Agency's Big Decision (esa.int)

Submitted by arisvega
arisvega writes: Leading space scientists gathered in Paris this week to discuss how to spend more than a billion euros. The options? Well, try to choose between these three:
(1) a 20m-long telescope called IXO that could see the very "edge" of a black hole; or (2) a trio of satellites collectively known as LISA which might be able to detect the ripples in space-time left by the moment of creation itself; or (3) a pair of spacecraft that would visit two of the most promising locations for life beyond Earth in our Solar System.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please place your bets now.
Businesses

Submission + - Retail Channel Will Be Key to Tablet Success

Submitted by Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: Michelle Maisto writes in eWeek that with iPad competitors now set to launch from the industry's biggest players — among them Research In Motion, Motorola and PC-market-leader Hewlett-Packard, copying the success of the iPad will take more than just cool hardware and tablet-optimized software. Part of the problem will be technical support, with customers unsure of whether to contact the carrier, the device maker or even the operating system company. "If [the answer is] the carrier, there are questions around how well equipped they are to solve the problem," says analyst Richard Shim. "Carrier tech support is essentially trained to tell the user to turn off the device and turn it back on as a fix." Google, with its Nexus One, tried selling its device directly, instead of through its carrier partner, T-Mobile — which, notoriously, was a disaster. The bottom line is that so far only one company has found the successful recipe for selling these devices. "Apple's iPad is selling well in retail — its own retail — but no one else is replicating the Apple store experience," says Shim. "If others are to come close to Apple’s success, they will have to create a compelling sales channel."

Submission + - UnXis Group Acquires SCO (h-online.com)

Submitted by Evil-G
Evil-G writes: In an email, SCO yesterday (Friday) informed its partners that UnXis Inc. was chosen as the successful bidder for SCO's Unix software business on 26 January. The slightly convoluted phrasing is probably due to SCO's current reorganisation under Chapter 11. On 16 February, the transaction is to be submitted for approval to the bankruptcy court where SCO's case is pending. There is a press release on the SCO website.
Cellphones

Submission + - "SMS of Death" Could Crash Many Mobile Phones (technologyreview.com) 1

Submitted by space_in_your_face
space_in_your_face writes: A research presented at a conference in Germany last week shows that phones don't even have to be smart to be vulnerable to hackers. Using only Short Message Service (SMS) communications a pair of security researchers were able to force low-end phones to shut down abruptly and knock them off a cellular network. The trick works for handsets made by Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Micromax, a popular Indian cell-phone manufacturer.
Security

Hackers Find New Way To Cheat On Wall Street 271

Posted by timothy from the just-downstream dept.
GMGruman writes "The high-speed trading exchanges that conduct the business of buying and selling stocks and mutual funds are so fast that hackers can introduce delays of a few microseconds completely unnoticed by today's network monitoring technology — and manipulate prices in the process to reap millions of dollars to the detriment of everyone else, InfoWorld's Bill Snyder reports. This kind of activity creates new reason to distrust Wall Street and shows how the computer networks we all rely on for conducting business and moving information are ripe for undetectable hacking."

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