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Submission + - Magma May Be Melting Greenland Ice? (yahoo.com)

Submitted by dnormant on Thursday December 13, 2007 @12:30PM

dnormant writes: "In recent years, Greenland's ice has been melting more and flowing faster into the sea — a record amount of ice melted from the frozen mass this summer, according to recently released data — and Earth's rising temperatures are suspected to be the main culprit.

But, clues to a new natural contribution to the melt arose when scientists discovered a thin spot in the Earth's crust under the northeast corner of the Greenland Ice Sheet where heat from Earth's insides could seep through, scientists will report here this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union."

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Submission + - Verizon Wireless selects LTE for 4G network (rcrnews.com)

Submitted by jdrew77 on Thursday November 29, 2007 @02:57PM

jdrew77 writes: Verizon Wireless announced it will use Long Term Evolution technology for its fourth generation network. The carrier said that it and parent company Vodafone Group plc will begin testing LTE technology next year with equipment suppliers Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Motorola Inc., Nokia- Siemens, and Nortel Networks Ltd.

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Submission + - Science and the Cascade Effect of Groupthink (nytimes.com)

Submitted by VeriTea on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @09:06AM

VeriTea writes: The New York Times has this nice writeup recounting the history of how low-fat diets became the overwhelming scientific consensus. The problem is that the science never supported the claim. Only a few scientists were willing to speak truth to people like Senator McGovern. McGovern once questioned Dr. Edward H. Ahrens Jr., a lipids researcher who spoke out against the McGovern committee report that recommended a low-fat diet. Mr. McGovern asked him at a hearing to reconcile his skepticism with a survey showing that the low-fat recommendations were endorsed by 92 percent of "the world's leading doctors."

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Submission + - :-) Turns 25 (cnn.com)

Submitted by Nitack on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @11:10AM

Nitack writes: It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.

:-)

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message.

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Submission + - Movie pirates put price on DVD "sniffer dogs&#

Submitted by frdmfghtr on Thursday March 22, 2007 @09:59AM

frdmfghtr writes: As a follow-up to a recent story, CNN is reporting that Movie pirates have placed a bounty on the heads of two DVD-sniffing dogs. FTA:

The New Straits Times said syndicate bosses had offered an unspecified reward for the killing of the two dogs. "As a result of the extent of loss to the pirate syndicate, we have information from the domestic trade ministry that the Johor syndicate is intent on killing Lucky and Flo," said Neil Gane, an official of the Motion Picture Association.

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Journal Journal: Background of VeriTea

Journal by VeriTea on Saturday July 10, 2004 @03:06PM

I finally broke down and got a login name. I have been reading and posting Anonymously since the winter of 1998 when I was introduced to Slashdot by a friend in college. When the login system was implemented lots of Slashdotters protested and refused to get logins. I was one of them. That was eons ago in net time. Since then I've become more accustomed to having logins all over the place on the web.

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