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Biggest Study On Cellphone Health Effects Launched in Europe 109

Posted by timothy from the pay-extra-to-be-in-the-control-group dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The biggest study to date into the effects of cellphone usage on long-term health was launched today, aiming to track at least a quarter of a million of people in five European countries for up to 30 years. The Cohort Study on Mobile Communications (COSMOS) differs from previous attempts to examine links between mobile phone use and diseases such as cancer and neurological disorders in that it will follow users' behaviour in real time. Most other large-scale studies have centred around asking people already suffering from cancer or other diseases about their previous cellphone use. Researchers said long-term monitoring will provide more time for diseases to develop, since many cancers take 10 or 15 years for symptoms to appear."
PlayStation (Games)

Final Fight Brings Restrictive DRM To the PS3 240

Posted by Soulskill from the let's-blame-ubisoft dept.
Channard writes "As reported by Joystiq, the PS3/PlayStation Network version of Final Fight Double Impact features a rather restrictive piece of digital rights management. In order to launch the game, you have to be logged into the PlayStation Network and if you're not, the game refuses to launch. This could be written off as a bug of some kind except for the fact that the error message that crops up tells you to sign in, suggesting Sony/Capcom intentionally included this 'feature.' Granted, you do have to log into the PlayStation Network to buy the title but as one commentator pointed out, logging in once does not mean you'll be logged in all the time. Curiously, the 360 version has no such restrictions, so you can play the game whether you're online or offline. But annoying as this feature may be, there may be method in Sony's madness. "

Comment If it's already cross-platform, why the grief? (Score 2, Insightful) 307

by MichaelCrawford (#31894568) Attached to: Cross With the Platform
I think JWZ's crucial mistake was in expecting the Mac OS X source to just work out of the box on the iPhone. Apple never made that claim. It's the wrong approach to take.

While there are many conceptual similarities between the two operating systems, they are different enough that they really should have been considered separate platforms from the very start.

I've been doing cross-platform development for twenty years. Don't Even Get Me Started.

Comment Re:More nonsense use to justify immoral action (Score 1) 201

by NeutronCowboy (#31878476) Attached to: UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo

I have only mentioned the deliberate destruction of an embryo.

What does the destruction of an embryo have to do with a story that deals with the manipulation of unfertilized eggs? I assumed your terminology didn't reflect your intent. I stand corrected - you did not misspeak, you were completely off-topic.

There are such things as objective truths

Now we're getting somewhere - you subscribe to the idea that there are objective truths that are knowable to us. Good luck with that. Every attempt by minds far greater than yours to identify those got stuck in a morass of conflicting definitions.

Comment Re:More nonsense use to justify immoral action (Score 1) 201

by NeutronCowboy (#31875008) Attached to: UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo

Because you still haven't explained how destroying an unfertilized egg is immoral in the scope of rule-set deontology. Your parent poster was giving an example of the many paradoxes to which deontologists open themselves up. Yes, that particular example is easy to dismiss - but others aren't. And unless you describe in more detail which rule-sets you subscribe to as part of your deontologic philosphy, it is impossible to understand how you initial assessment is anything more than an "I don't like this" with big words.
Transportation

Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Booster 197

Posted by timothy from the yeah-well-I-get-better-mileage dept.
MikeChino writes "Porsche has just unveiled its 911 GT3 R Hybrid, a 480 horsepower track vehicle ready to rock the 24-hour Nurburgring race this May. Porsche's latest supercar will use the same 911 production platform available to consumers today, with a few race-ready features including front-wheel hybrid drive and an innovative flywheel system that stores kinetic energy from braking and then uses it to provide a 160 horsepower burst of speed. The setup is sure to offer an advantage when powering out of turns and passing by other racers."

Comment Re:What is the purpose of the ipad? (Score 1) 671

by tclgeek (#31074756) Attached to: The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer

Imagine Joe Sixpack accidentally closing the iPhone-UI, and then being confused? Confusion and complexity are the things Apple wanted to avoid!

Like I said I'm sure Apple can do this an elegant way. Apple is skilled at putting complexity in the hands of Joe Sixpack.

And indeed they have. The called it the iPad. The thing that Apple realizes that most geeks don't is, you generally improve usability by removing features. Sure, they could put OSX on a tablet. And they could get decent battery life. And they could add a keyboard. And bootcamp. And an SD card reader. And .... it would cost twice as much and nobody would buy it. Hard to believe, but Apple's goal was almost certainly not "let's cram as many features as we can into a tablet". It was more along the lines of "Tablets suck. How can we fix that?". _Did_ they fix it? Only time will tell. I applaud them for trying. All other manufactuers seem to have the "lets add more features" mindset which is generally in opposition to making something useable for the average consumer.

Comment Re:This is not science. (Score 1) 505

by Znork (#31074728) Attached to: Call For Scientific Research Code To Be Released

CRU was trolled by FOIA requests. They are nuisance to deal with, as far as I was told.

Such requests are easy to deal with: publish all the data, code and any other relevant material on a public site and there is no longer any need for FOIA requests, and there certainly isn't any difficulty dealing with any that come anyway.

Of course, FOIA requests may be a nuisance to deal with if you'd rather not disclose the data. Which is the actual problem here.

Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 671

by Raffaello (#31074700) Attached to: The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer

* I'm not saying the stupid law is anything but a stupid law, but when you buy locked hardware you're buying Communism.

A capitalist corporation locking down the hardware they sell in order to maximize profit for investors is communism?

Communsim would be if the state appropriated Apple's intellectual property and made it freely available to the public.

Apple's behavior is classic capitalism, and very, very far from communism.

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