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Feed Gene Mutation That Causes Infertility In Male Mice Discovered, Gives Promise Of (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @05:52PM

Up to 15 percent of couples of childbearing age struggle with the heartache of infertility. Now there is the promise of new hope with Cornell researchers' identification of a mutation in a gene that causes male infertility in mice.

Feed Is AMD in Trouble? (pheedo.com)

From feed by thfeed on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @05:52PM

More bad news for AMD: The company has surrendered the lead in the U.S. desktop retail market. Plus, sources indicated that Intel is in for a "vicious" performance battle with AMD.

Bookmark Debian 4.0 secures packages (theregister.co.uk)

by Virgil Tibbs on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @05:21PM

Submission + - Gas-Powered Boots Were Made for Runnin'

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @07:46PM

theodp writes: "Are you ready boots? Start walkin'. 22 mph. Classified as a Russian military secret until 1994, CNET has the scoop on a pair of gasoline-powered boots that the non-risk adverse can strap to their shins to hit speeds of up to 22 mph."

Submission + - strange attractor [butterfly effect] visualized

Submitted by Anomalyst on Saturday March 17, 2007 @06:59PM

Anomalyst writes: Browsing the POVray.org site led me there. Fascinating images. The math as way beyond me, the introduction forewarns of describing the Lorenz attractor, space of lattices, modular dynamics and its periodic orbits. Equations are knot funny (pun, RTFA) but there for your edification anyway. Dunno if it's art, but I know what I like. http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/lorenz.ht ml
I was not successful in getting a Coral Cache, URL is reported as blacklisted, so that's the live site, be gentle.

Submission + - Life with a Lethal Gene

Submitted by

charles robert darwin

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @06:57PM

charles robert darwin writes: "The New York Times is running a story on young people who are choosing to get genetic tests for conditions like Huntington's Disease that develop relatively late in life. Appaprently, while a genetic test for HD has been around for a while, very few people who have a parent or relative with the disease choose to take the test. This story focuses on a young woman who did and tested positive and follows her as she deals with the consequences. Even though it's obvious rough, at the end, she's still happy she tested. I think this nails the wider issue: "...as a raft of new DNA tests are revealing predispositions to all kinds of conditions, including breast cancer, depression and dementia, little is known about what it is like to live with such knowledge." With the HapMap and the $1,000 genome, this is something we are all going to face in one way or another very soon, and we really need to start thinking about it."

Submission + - Science Team Shows Light Is Made of Particles AND

Submitted by modemuser on Saturday March 17, 2007 @06:49PM

modemuser writes: Light is made of particles and waves, research published in "Foundations of Physics" shows. Team's findings refute 80-year-old belief. http://www.rowan.edu/news/display_article.cfm?Arti cleID=1704

Submission + - 6 Tips For Saving Gas

Submitted by

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @04:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: In the past months we have seen the price of gasoline soar higher than ever before, and this can be hard on people who have a budget that is tight. Even though gas prices have come down a slight bit, you still will want to do everything you possibly can to save on the money you have to pay out for gas. There are a variety of ways that you can save gas, and save money. http://autoandtrucksarticles.blogspot.com/2007/03/ 6-tips-for-saving-gas_17.html

Submission + - take-two's suit against me, jack thompson

Submitted by

jack thompson

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @04:16PM

jack thompson writes: "Heads-Up to Video Game Industry Press Re Take-Two Lawsuit Against Jack Thompson From: Jack Thompson Dear Gamers and Gamer Publications on the Internet and Elsewhere: I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb — even dumber than what they have to date done — that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two. With the filing of this SLAPP lawsuit last week, my prayers are finally answered. This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law — while in continuous good standing to do so with The Florida Bar, I might add, the shock radio and video game industry's efforts notwithstanding. I encourage folks to read Psalm 35, a Psalm of David, which is brilliant in its entirety (since God Himself wrote it), but for those who don't own a Bible or who think their hands will catch on fire if they touch one, here is the salient portion that applies to this lawsuit: 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. The pit Take-Two has dug for itself will be patently clear next week when I strike back. Oh, and by the way, the entire Take-Two management and board will be gone on March 23, so this pit-digging comes at a very bad time indeed. Amen, and Praise be to God Almighty, maker of Heaven, Earth, and yes, the maker even of video games. Jack Thompson Copy: The currently licensed Blank Rome lawyers"

Submission + - A Lesson in Security:The Student vs Hacker Rematch

Submitted by monkeyboy44 on Saturday March 17, 2007 @11:32AM

monkeyboy44 writes: After last years entertaining hacker vs. student showdown, InformIT.com once again covered the annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition where college students are put to the test. During the three day event, small teams from eight of the areas colleges are handed insecure networks that they have to lockdown and keep running — all while a team of hackers attempt to gain access any way they can. To keep it interesting, the teams also had to perform various tasks, such as program web applications, install IDS systems and more — and if hacked, the US Secret Service was on hand to determine if their was enough data to start an investigation. Once again, the hackers dominated — but not without a few surprises.

Submission + - Dutch e-voting manufacturer blackmailed government

Submitted by vvpt on Saturday March 17, 2007 @11:21AM

vvpt writes: After the Dutch group 'We don't trust voting computers' showed how easy the Nedap voting computers can be manipulated the company is under heavy fire. An independent commission is investigating how the future of Dutch voting should look like (the outcome is expected by October but everyone knows it is going to be very different from now). Nedap knows they are toast unless they can lure the government into buying their stock. So company executive Jan Groenendaal told a Dutch minister: Buy my company or we will withdraw all our services for the next elections. Not an empty threat: 99% of all votes are cast on their equipment. Dutch elections are impossible without the help of Nedap. The blackmail is now revealed by 'We don't trust voting computers' after obtaining letters and e-mails between the government and Groenendaal through a successful FOIA request.

Submission + - Coke and Pepsi Cook Your Liver?

Submitted by beartenor1 on Saturday March 17, 2007 @11:18AM

beartenor1 writes: Science Daily is reporting that a team from the University of Barcelona (UB) has recently published a study in the journal Hepatology which provides clues to the molecular mechanism through which the fructose in beverages may alter lipid energy metabolism and cause fatty liver and metabolic syndrome. Is it time to ban high-fructose corn syrup?

Journal Journal: SCO says GNU doesn't have a license

Journal by Ritchie70 on Saturday March 17, 2007 @10:54AM

I was browsing SCO's website trying to figure out development tool options for SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 (I know, I know) and stumbled across this.

It describes one of the three options for OpenServer 5.0.7 as:

Submission + - Good Teaching Tools for the Kids

Submitted by jdramer on Saturday March 17, 2007 @09:30AM

jdramer writes: I was recently asked by someone who home-schools her kids what kind of programs are available for teaching kids about what you can do with computers. She was thinking things like computer animation, drawing programs; basically anything that encourages creativity. So I'm wondering what programs are out there that would be good for young children in primary school?

Submission + - Open RT project Ray-tracing algorithms available

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17, 2007 @09:21AM

An anonymous reader writes: Ray-tracing is a technique that allowed Peter Jackson to make special effects look convincing in the Lord of the Rings. Now, Daniel Pohl, has used the new algorithms [develped by Professor Philipp Slusallek and co-workers from the University of Saarland] to produce ray-traced versions of the Quake 3 and 4 video games. "It gives much higher image quality in shadows and reflections," said Mr Pohl. "You can even do reflections on reflections on reflections." This is something that would be impossible with traditional rendering techniques. The algorithms are being made available to anyone to use via the Open RT project. Graphics in computer games are typically rendered via a technique known as rasterisation which involves drawing all the elements of a scene using polygons. The scientists have shown that their series of ray-tracing algorithms can run on a high-end PC graphics card.

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