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Submission + - Microsoft Sues UK's Datel over Controllers (allvoices.com)

Submitted by nathanielinbrazil
nathanielinbrazil writes: Microsoft has sued a British manufacturer over the infingement of four of its patents for Xbox game controllers. The suit was filed in Seattle, Washington and Datel has yet to response. Datel is a United Kingdom company with a U.S. unit and has produced two specific controllers — the TurboFire and WildFire — that Microsoft wants stopped.

Comment rubbing peters to pay paul (Score 1) 124

by forgot_my_username (#31686360) Attached to: Sex.com is Going Down
The most interesting part of the article is where Mike Mann, the guy who runs sex.com, said that he wanted to give all the proceeds to charity!

I know that there is a great joke there... but my brain is still in shock


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Submission + - SCO loses patent case

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: go to groklaw and check out the verdict on the SCO patent case (they lost)

cme to dady
The Internet

Submission + - Sex is Bankrupt! Sex.com going down... (allvoices.com) 2

Submitted by nathanielinbrazil
nathanielinbrazil writes: A motion to dismiss the involuntary bankruptcy of Sex.com has been filed in a California court. Operational turmoil has put its owner in the doghouse with its creditors, who want to take over. "It's the best domain in the world by far," said Mike Mann, who has tried to keep the creditors at bay. Sex.com is estimated to be worth $100 m. Let the games begin!

Submission + - Greenpeace Hates the Cloud (allvoices.com)

Submitted by nathanielinbrazil
nathanielinbrazil writes: A report released this morning from Greenpeace claims that Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are bad for the environment. Their data farms have a heavy reliance on coal-fired energy plants, causing substantial greenhouse gas impact on the environment. (Fifth largest contributor behind japan) "The last thing we need is for more cloud infrastructure to be built in places where it increases demand for dirty coal-fired power," said a Greenpeace spokesperson.
Hardware

Submission + - Touchless Screens, The Next Touchscreen (allvoices.com)

Submitted by forgot_my_username
forgot_my_username writes: A report on Allvoices mentions that the MIT media lab. is developing a motion screen computer. It looks back at you. It measures light, and gestures and uses those. “Imagine every pixel on your LCD screen emitting light could also be receiving light,” said Ramesh Rakar, an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab. They even mention the health benefits of not touching displays.... do you know where your display has been?
News

Submission + - Suicide Bombers Wreak Havoc in Moscow (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by reporter
reporter writes: About four hours ago, two women wearing belts loaded with explosives walked into two subway stations — the Lubyanka station and the Park Kultury station — in Moscow and detonated the belts. Twenty-two people died at the former station, and 12 died at the latter. Both stations are near the heardquarters of the Federal Security Service, the successor to the K.G.B. "Moscow's red Sokolnicheskaya line, where the first explosion occurred, is used by members of Russia's security service to get to work."

The news wires are lighting up with this story. See the reports at "Times Online", "The New York Times", "Telegraph.co.uk", and "guardian.co.uk"
Idle

Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW* 91

Posted by samzenpus from the putting-on-your-history-goggles dept.
Amazingly accurate for someone so plastered. I think all history should be taught at this level of intoxication.

Comment F*&(ing FARMVILLE! (Score 1) 270

by forgot_my_username (#31613340) Attached to: Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain
Great,
I blame farmville, all that trading about of farm animals.

It used to be that a man's sheep where a man's sheep... and you did not touch another man's sheep.

But, there you go... all this willy nilly trading of farm animals was bound to have a bad end!


Spurious link:siRNA and protein synthesis video with stupid article I wrote attached
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Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain 270

Posted by samzenpus from the friends-and-really-good-friends dept.
ectotherm writes "According to Professor Peter Kelly, a director of Public Health in Great Britain: 'There has been a four-fold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected.' Why the increase? People meeting up for casual sex through Facebook. According to the article, 'Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex. There is a rise in syphilis because people are having more sexual partners than 20 years ago and often do not use condoms.'"

Comment Re:Too small a sample size (Score 1) 260

by forgot_my_username (#31606314) Attached to: First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success
It may be a small sample size, but man this is cool stuff.
From TFA, the siRNA can stop any mRNA produced protein.
Eventually, this could be huge for treatments of diseases and conditions associated with mutated proteins.
Before, they had the siRNA, but no real way to deliver them.
So, this is a double wammy!


There is a story with a video about this and siRNA

In fairness, I wrote the story, and found the video... but it I think it is very cool.

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