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Comment Consider the Source (Score 4, Insightful) 520

When the pictures come from The National Enquirer, you really need to consider the source. Also, the doctor making this prognosis was doing so based on the pictures. Didn't we all jump on the idiot in Congress a few years ago for diagnosing that woman in Florida using a short video clip?

Let's take this to a conspiracy level and say people are putting out this news to get the stock price to drop a bit so they can snap it up and wait for the retraction of the article and the stock goes back up, they make a pretty penny.

Comment The Source is Suspect (Score 1) 1

So let me get this straight. Pictures published in The National Enquirer, likely next to ones of Elvis boarding a UFO, given to a doctor to make a determination of his remaining time here among the living. Didn't that doctor in Congress get his ass handed to him for making a diagnosis over a video link for the vegetable girl in Florida? Are we sure this is the least bit credible? Even if the photos are real and current, I find the doctor's assessment this way to be woefully inappropriate.

The Almighty Buck

Submission + - DMCA means you cannot delete files on your own PC (wired.com)

DragonHawk writes: "According to Wired, John Stottlemire found a way to print duplicate coupons from Coupons.com by deleting some files and registry entires on his PC. Now he's being sued for a DMCA violation. He says, "All I did was erase files or registry keys." Says a lawyer: "It may cover this. I think it does give companies a lot of leverage and a lot of power." So now the copyright cartels are saying that not only can we not copy things on our computers, but we cannot delete things on our computers. Time to buy stock in Seagate."
Biotech

Submission + - Fungi Make Biodiesel at Room Temperature

SoyChemist writes: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology have used pellets made from the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae to produce biodiesel at room temperature. Usually, biodiesel is made by brewing vegetable oil with methanol and lye at high temperatures. That wastes a lot of energy, and thus partially defeats the point of making an alternative fuel. The researchers in Hyderabad mixed sunflower oil with methanol and trickled it through a glass column filled with fungus pellets. A lipase enzyme in the fungus converted the brew into biodiesel with a yield as high as 85 percent. Considering that the U.S. Department of Energy and BP are have pumped tons of money into synthetic biology for making alternative fuels, it is amazing to see what an apparently underfunded lab can do with natural organisms.
Windows

Submission + - Bug in ATI driver throws Vista wide open (com.com)

Marvintm writes: "Paul Mah: "Microsoft is currently working with AMD to fix a bug in an ATI driver that ships preinstalled on millions of laptops. In effect, this bug leaves the kernel of Vista wide open via the loading of unsigned drivers. ... Fancy starting a Monday morning to find the 500 PCs on your corporate network down with the screen flashing a "Video Driver Error" message? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-news/?p=103 5&tag=nl.e019"

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