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Comment Re:Last Time (Score 1) 354

by Crispin Cowan (#21795258) Attached to: Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks
I have found this trend quite puzzling. I have bought several major items from Circuit City, and I'm quite happy with the price and the service I received. OTOH, I have bought some items from Best Buy, always felt like I had been slimed, and it is quite clear from the parent's links that Best Buy engages in lots of sleazy marketing tactics. So why is it that America likes to shop at Best Buy, and not at Circuit City?
Windows

Submission + - Windows XP driver support begins to end (blorge.com) 3

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thefickler
thefickler writes: "It's official, manufacturers are starting to dump Windows XP support entirely and some new models won't even have Windows XP drivers or any kind of support available, anywhere. One reader, "Mark" contacted TECH.BLORGE regarding installing Windows XP on his HP V6610 (Australian) laptop which is the V6620 in the US. "Mark" said when he went to the HP driver/downloads section that very few Windows XP drivers were available for it and he was right, there were almost no useful drivers for the laptop there. His call to HP support didn't get very far as "HP is no longer supporting Windows XP on the newer PCs.""
Education

Submission + - 'More sex needed' to boost sperm (fun-on.com)

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tapiros
tapiros writes: "Some men should have sex every day to maximise the chances of getting their partner pregnant, researchers say. It is known for couples with fertility problems to abstain from sex for several days to boost sperm numbers before trying to conceive. However, the Sydney University team, addressing the American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference, said this could mean poorer quality sperm. One UK expert said daily sex might be better for men with damaged sperm. The Australian scientists studied 42 men whose sperm had been found to be an abnormal shape when examined under the microscope. They were told to ejaculate daily for seven days, and these samples were compared with those taken from them after three days' abstinence. All but five of the men had less sperm damage in their daily samples compared with the post-abstention sample. Fertility myth Dr Allan Pacey, the secretary of the British Fertility Society, said that while not having sex allowed the numbers of sperm to build up, there was a "trade-off" between quality and quantity. "This research shows that when you put people on a daily ejaculation regime, it reduces the figure for DNA damage. "If you can go from 30% to 20% that is quite a big shift and that should have some implications for fertility. "There are men out there who think, or whose partners think, that limiting ejaculation will make them more fertile. "I remember one couple in which the woman would only let the man ejaculate when she was in her fertile period, so the poor chap was going without for almost a month at a time." that if a couple was initially trying to get pregnant, an interval of two to three days was probably advisable — whereas a man with high DNA damage and a "decent" sperm count should try more often."
Mars

Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars 184

Posted by Soulskill from the flying-rocks-that-will-not-kill-us dept.
Multiple users have written to tell us of an LA Times report that an asteroid may hit Mars on January 30th. The asteroid is roughly 160 feet across, and JPL-based researchers say that it will have a 1-in-75 chance of striking Mars. Those odds are very high for this type of event, and scientists are hoping to witness an impact of a similar scope to the Tunguska disaster. From the LA Times: "Because scientists have never observed an asteroid impact -- the closest thing being the 1994 collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy with Jupiter -- such a collision on Mars would produce a 'scientific bonanza,' Chesley said."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Vulnerability Numerology: Defective by Design?

Submitted by rdmreader
rdmreader writes: RDM has a point by point disassembly of why the security vulnerability story George Ou of ZDnet regularly rehashes is wrong. Ou condemns Linux and Mac OS X by tallying up reported flaws and comparing them against Microsoft's. What he doesn't note is that his source, Secunia, only lists what vendors and researchers report, selectively includes or excludes component software seemingly at random, and backhandedly claimed its data is evidence of what it now tells journalists they shouldn't report. Is Secunia presenting slanted information with the expectation it will be misused, or is it just bad journalism at ZDnet?

Feed Science Daily: Genome Mapping Yields Clues About Cattle Disease (sciencedaily.com)

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Researchers are developing a biological map of how three tiny pathogens cause big losses for cattle producers each year. Using a newly developed technique called proteogenomic mapping, they have overcome the limitations inherent in computer modeling. They are using mass spectrometers to identify protein amino acid sequences and map them back onto the genome DNA sequences.
Social Networks

Submission + - OpenSocialNetwork: Social Network Of Open Source (opensocialnetwork.es)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: OpenSocialNetwork is a project established at SourceForge to create a social network of open source between all users and developers. Want compete with other social networks popular and has important features as have several social networks (e.g. Professional, Family, Friends, etc...) Currently are looking for developers and habitual users of social networks to complete the features of the project.

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