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Submission + - Windows Store apps do not launch on Windows 10 having multiple user accounts (thewindowsclub.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Windows 10 user, especially those who may have bought new devices have been reporting that their Windows Store apps do not launch or open. This issue is being specifically noticed on those Windows 10 installations that have multiple User Accounts created. Among others who are facing this issue are some Windows Insiders as well as those who have not installed some Cumulative Updates

Submission + - Vaccines made from aborted fetal cells (amazonaws.com)

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: It has been an open secret that aborted human fetal tissue have been used in the production of vaccines

Traces of DNA from this tissue can persist in the final product and the DNA can include both genetic damage and markers of autism

"It is possible that these contaminating fragments could be incorporated into a child's genome and disrupt normal gene function, leading to autistic phenotypes," wrote Dr. Deisher in a paper titled "Spontaneous Integration of Human DNA Fragments into Host Genome"

With over 19 years of experience in biotechnology and vaccine development, Dr. Deisher knows what she's talking about when it comes to vaccine science

Dr. Deisher is anything but the mindless anti-vaccine caricature so often mocked by the skeptics crowd. Her extensive research into the matter clearly proves otherwise, showing that aborted human fetal cells are highly problematic both in terms of brain development and normal cellular function. Not only do vaccines made from these cell lines pose an autism risk, but they also increase one's risk of cancer

Specifically with regard to MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), varicella (chickenpox) and hepatitis A vaccines, a statistical analysis compiled by Dr. Deisher reveals that vaccines made from human fetal cell lines

"Not only are the human fetal contaminated vaccines associated with autistic disorder throughout the world, but also with epidemic childhood leukemia and lymphomas," she added

Not surprisingly, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has known for decades that aborted human fetal cell DNA causes genetic mutations in humans when injected via vaccines. But the agency, which is supposed to be looking out for human health, has done nothing to withdraw these deadly jabs from the market

n fact, when the agency came to the realization that such DNA is deadly to humans, it decided to regulate it rather than ban it. Legally speaking, the maximum amount of residual fetal cell fragments allowed in vaccines is 10 nanograms, according to the FDA, and the agency admits that even this amount is harmful

Dr. Deisher's research, however, revealed that some vaccines currently on the market contain much more than this. She wrote that fetal DNA levels ranged from 142 ng to upwards of 2,000 ng per dose, or as much as 200 times the legal limit!

"The MMR II and chickenpox vaccines and indeed all vaccines that were propagated or manufactured using the fetal cell line WI-38 are contaminated with [HERV, or human endogenous retrovirus]" wrote Dr. Deisher, noting that this retrovirus is associated with causing childhood lymphoma

http://www.naturalnews.com/053...

Submission + - Why BART is Falling Apart

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Matthias Gafni writes in the San Jose Mercury News that the engineers who built BART, the rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area that started operation in 1972, used principles developed for the aerospace industry rather than tried-and-true rail standards. And that's the trouble. "Back when BART was created, (the designers) were absolutely determined to establish a new product, and they intended to export it around the world," says Rod Diridon. "They may have gotten a little ahead of themselves using new technology. Although it worked, it was extremely complex for the time period, and they never did export the equipment because it was so difficult for other countries to install and maintain." The Space Age innovations have made it more challenging for the transit agency to maintain the BART system from the beginning. Plus, the aging system was designed to move 100,000 people per week and now carries 430,000 a day, so the loss of even a single car gets magnified with crowded commutes, delays and bus bridges. For example, rather than stick to the standard rail track width of 4 feet, 8.5 inches, BART engineers debuted a 5-foot, 6-inch width track, a gauge that remains to this day almost exclusive to the system. Industry experts say the unique track width necessitates custom-made wheel sets, brake assemblies and track repair vehicles.

Another problem is the dearth of readily available replacement parts for BART's one-of-a-kind systems. Maintenance crews often scavenge parts from old, out-of-service cars to avoid lengthy waits for orders to come in; sometimes mechanics are forced to manufacture the equipment themselves. "Imagine a computer produced in 1972," says David Hardt. "No one is supporting that old equipment any longer, but those same microprocessors are what we have controlling our logic systems." Right now BART needs 100 thyristors at a total cost of $100,000. BART engineers said it could take 22 weeks to ship them to the San Francisco Bay Area to replace in BART’s "C" cars, which make up the older cars in the fleet. Right now, the agency has none. Nick Josefowitz says it makes no sense to dwell on design decisions made a half-century ago. "I think we need to use what we have today and build off that, rather than fantasize what could have been done in the past. The BART system was state of the art when it was built, and now it's technologically obsolete and coming to the end of its useful life."

Submission + - Law Enforcement Investigators Seek Out Private DNA Databases (sandiegouniontribune.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Private companies are now receiving demands for genetic information in their DNA databases from law enforcement. Ancestry.com and 23andme report a total of five requests from law agencies for the genetic material of six individuals in their growing databases of hundreds of thousands of individuals. For example, Ancestry.com sent data belonging to a person being investigated for the murder and rape of an 18-year-old woman in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The other four court orders belonged to 23andme, which was able to persuade investigators to withdraw the requests. Even though these requests are considered rare, many experts in the field are concerned DNA turned over for medical, family history research or other highly personal reasons could be misused by investigators, and that this could be the start of a trend.

Submission + - Tycoons plan base on moon by 2026 (thesundaytimes.co.uk)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Humans could be living on the moon within a decade for a total cost of just £6.5bn, a fraction of what it cost to get there originally, say a group of Silicon Valley billionaires and Nasa scientists.

They have pinpointed the most desirable area on the moon, which receives the maximum amount of sunlight. This means that the site, beside Peary crater at the lunar north pole, is ideal for generating the solar power vital for any such base.

The scientists are planning a base holding up to 10 people who would use solar panels to exploit the rich deposits of water and minerals also found around the crater, which add to its value.

Comment Re:Forbes blocks browsers... and... this is absurd (Score 2) 330

by TexNex (#51228953) Attached to: The Three Possible Classes of Interstellar Travel

The stars call to us through the ages, with each and every one holding the promise of a future for humanity beyond Earth

No. They don't. Humans evolved to live here, on Planet Earth. Not on our own star, or on any other star, and humanity's future is right here where we have an entire planet we were built for... not on a foreign star.

How CRAZY would we think it of MONKEYS who want to live underwater?

Ever heard of a SEA monkey?!

Comment Re: Key question (Score 1) 276

by TexNex (#51043249) Attached to: Arkansas Has a Growing Population of "Climate Change Refugees"

A great deal like Mexicans unfortunately. Their system of government is riddled with corruption & nepotism while the people suffer high taxes and bad diets (diabetes kills a good %). Each atoll has their own monarchy with the federal stuff handled in Majuro. They get enough money from the US to make some real improvements but, funds that doesn't slip into someone's pocket seem to be used ineffectively.
So while your statement was in jest, you are quite correct in many respects.

Comment Re:Soylent Yellow (Score 1) 381

by TexNex (#50960751) Attached to: Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive

Here ya go: Cricket Flour from Amazon -- http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B...
I had it and it wasn't bad...kind of nutty if any flavor could be described. It mostly takes on the flavor of what its cooked with.
One theater served a bunch of "cricket bars" at their Snowpiercer showing and didn't really advertise the ingredients till after the movie (they told you it was made with cricket flour & fruit). Hit Central America or Asia and you'll find a plethora of insect dishes. The key is to fry the buggers, if not, you get the wet dirt taste.

Submission + - Laser that is powered by one electron at a time (princeton.edu) 1

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: Princeton University researchers have built a rice grain-sized laser powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots. The tiny microwave laser, or "maser," is a demonstration of the fundamental interactions between light and moving electrons

The researchers built the device — which uses about one-billionth the electric current needed to power a hair dryer — while exploring how to use quantum dots, which are bits of semiconductor material that act like single atoms, as components for quantum computers

The device demonstrates a major step forward for efforts to build quantum-computing systems out of semiconductor materials, according to co-author and collaborator Jacob Taylor, an adjunct assistant professor at the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland-National Institute of Standards and Technology. "I consider this to be a really important result for our long-term goal, which is entanglement between quantum bits in semiconductor-based devices" Taylor said

The researchers fabricated the double quantum dots from extremely thin nanowires (about 50 nanometers, or a billionth of a meter, in diameter) made of a semiconductor material called indium arsenide. They patterned the indium arsenide wires over other even smaller metal wires that act as gate electrodes, which control the energy levels in the dots

To construct the maser, they placed the two double dots about 6 millimeters apart in a cavity made of a superconducting material, niobium "This is the first time that the team at Princeton has demonstrated that there is a connection between two double quantum dots separated by nearly a centimeter, a substantial distance" Taylor said

When the device was switched on, electrons flowed single-file through each double quantum dot, causing them to emit photons in the microwave region of the spectrum. These photons then bounced off mirrors at each end of the cavity to build into a coherent beam of microwave light

One advantage of the new maser is that the energy levels inside the dots can be fine-tuned to produce light at other frequencies, which cannot be done with other semiconductor lasers in which the frequency is fixed during manufacturing, Petta said. The larger the energy difference between the two levels, the higher the frequency of light emitted

"In this paper the researchers dig down deep into the fundamental interaction between light and the moving electron" Gmachl said. "The double quantum dot allows them full control over the motion of even a single electron, and in return they show how the coherent microwave field is created and amplified. Learning to control these fundamental light-matter interaction processes will help in the future development of light sources"

Submission + - Winston Churchill's Scientists

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Nicola Davis writes at The Guardian that a new exhibition at London’s Science Museum tiitled Churchill’s Scientists aims to explore how a climate that mingled necessity with ambition spurred British scientists to forge ahead in fields as diverse as drug-discovery and operational research, paving the way for a further flurry of postwar progress in disciplines from neurology to radio astronomy. Churchill "was very unusual in that he was a politician from a grand Victorian family who was also interested in new technology and science,” says Andrew Nahum. “That was quite remarkable at the time.” An avid reader of Charles Darwin and HG Wells, Churchill also wrote science-inspired articles himself and fostered an environment where the brightest scientists could build ground-breaking machines, such as the Bernard Lovell telescope, and make world-changing discoveries, in molecular genetics, radio astronomy, nuclear power, nerve and brain function and robotics. “During the war the question was never, 'How much will it cost?’ It was, 'Can we do it and how soon can we have it?’ This left a heritage of extreme ambition and a lot of talented people who were keen to see what it could provide."

According to Cambridge Historian Richard Toye, Churchill was a “closet science-fiction fan” who borrowed the lines for one of his most famous speeches from H. G. Wells — to depict the rise of Hitler's Germany. "It's a bit like Tony Blair borrowing phrases from Star Trek or Doctor Who," says Toye. A close friend of Wells, Churchill said that The Time Machine was “one of the books I would like to take with me to Purgatory”. Wells and Churchill met in 1902 and several times thereafter, and kept in touch in person and by letter until Wells' death in 1946. "We need to remember that there was a time when Churchill was a radical liberal who believed these things," Toye adds. "Wells is often seen as a socialist, but he also saw himself as a liberal, and he saw Churchill as someone whose views were moving in the right direction."

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