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Submission + - Cancer stem cells in breast cancer challenged

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "A Dana-Farber Cancer Institute study challenges the hypothesis that "cancer stem cells" — a small number of self-renewing cells within a tumor — are responsible for breast cancer progression and recurrence, and that wiping out these cells alone could cure the disease. Read More"
Graphics

Submission + - 30 inch Monitor = More Productivity & Efficien

Submitted by Dogggis
Dogggis writes: Report shows how a 30 inch screen offers measurable productivity and efficiency gains.. As we have discussed many times before, the additional "screen real estate" is a very good way to boost overall productivity, even in very common tasks that have little or nothing to do with highly specialized professional applications....Productivity gains were present in not only professional design and publishing, digital imaging, and digital video, but also in general productivity and office applications such as word processors and spreadsheets. Cumulated productivity gains linked to a large, high-resolution display can lead to a return on investment (ROI) of several thousand dollars per year. http://www.gizmag.com/go/6972/
Businesses

Submission + - Is a Dell and Apple partnership possible?

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thschmid
thschmid writes: "Reading a story on Yahoo! Finace, I was wondering what the /. community thought about Dell selling systems based on OS X? Michael Dell made a comment about a year ago that he would love to do just that. Dell also seems to be in dire need to boost their image, especially since HP took over the #1 spot in sales.
Personally, I would love to see this happen."
Debian

Submission + - Etch: release date lost in the future?

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ThunderHammer
ThunderHammer writes: "January and February are long gone with always more than 100 release critical bugs. Only in the last few weeks an energic drop can be seen and brings a little more hope (at the moment is anywhere near 70 bugs). Long development cycle often involve (long) delays and is, in general, a good paradigm for stability, testing and reliability but doesnt look like an unprofessional "when it's done" approach? Do fixed deadlines make sense in cases like this?"
Google

Submission + - Google assists Indian goverment censorship

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Google's Orkut has made a deal to provide IP addresses of posters of content deemed objectionable by Bombay police. They object to, among others, posts against certain Indian personalities, young women admiring Indian mobsters, and, amazingly, "anti-Indian words" (!).
Space

Submission + - New Horizons Probe Returns New Images of Jupiter

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SeaDour
SeaDour writes: "The Pluto-bound New Horizons space probe, launched a little over a year ago, recently succeeded in passing through a narrow navigational keyhole by Jupiter. Using the gas giant's tremendous gravity, the craft now has a significant boost toward its final destination, shaving three years off its journey. As it passed through the Jovian system, the probe took some fantastic images of the neighborhood, including detailed observations of erupting volcanoes on Io, time-lapse photography of Jupiter's tumultuous atmosphere, and even the faint ring system that was first discovered in Voyager photography. These new images prove the tremendous capabilities of the small probe, which is set to reach Pluto in 2015."
Networking

Submission + - Road Runner Bandwidth Doubling Today!

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drunk pandas
drunk pandas writes: "Loot Ninja is reporting that Road Runner today has doubled their download speeds, and tripled their upload speeds, going from 5 Mbps down and 384 Kbps up to 10 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. I knew download speeds would hit 10Mbps, but there was no official word on upload speeds. Good to see this free upgrade to all users!"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - The Sex Lives of Geeks

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Spencer Koppel
Spencer Koppel writes: "While many think of geeks as having little or no experience with sex, a recent series of polls conducted by Geek 2 Geek (www.gk2gk.com) seems to belie that perception. The responses, taken as a whole, indicate that geeks enjoy a very happy and near normal sex life, despite the stereotypes portrayed in movies and television. Among the questions asked of people who identified themselves as "geeks" were: How old were you when you first had sex? o 44% indicated that they had sex by the age of 18. According to "Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954-2003," by Lawrence B. Finer, published in the January/February 2007 issue of Public Health Reports, that number for all Americans was 58% in 2003. o 12% of respondents aged 25 and above indicated they have never had sex. Based on data from Finer's paper, the number for all Americans is somewhat less than 10%. What's the earliest date when you had sex with someone? o 46% have had sex on their first date. o 69% have had sex by their 5th date. What's an acceptable number of dates before having sex? o 23% said it was ok to have sex on the first date. Males were more liberal on this subject — 25% of males approved compared to only 18% of females. o Only 6% of males and 7% of females felt it was never ok to have sex until marriage. How many different partners have you had sex with? o 88% of respondents age 25 and over have had sex with at least one partner. o 34% said they have had sex with more than 10 partners. On a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being perfect) how would you rate your enjoyment of sex? o 82% of females and 79% of males answered 8 or above. o 4% of females and 6% of males answered 3 or below. The polls were taken over the last few months on the site Geek 2 Geek (www.gk2gk.com), the online dating and social network for geeks and their admirers. The complete results can be found at http://www.gk2gk.com/poll/results.asp For more information, contact Spencer Koppel at gk2gk@gk2gk.com or at 312-661-0102."
Windows

Submission + - McAfee says Vista's StickyKeys could be misused

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "A Windows feature designed to simplify computing for disabled users could be misused in Vista, a McAfee researcher reported Monday. Attackers could use this feature, called StickyKeys, to trick a user into launching unauthorized software on the Vista machine. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031207-mcafe e-says-vistas-stickykeys-could.html"
Microsoft

Confidential Microsoft Emails Posted Online 479

Posted by CowboyNeal from the behind-the-curtain dept.
dos4who writes "From the class action 'Comes et al. v. Microsoft' suit, some very enlightening internal Microsoft emails are now made public. Emails to and from Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Jim Allchin, etc all make for some mind blowing reading. One of my favorites is from Jim Allchin to Bill Gates, entitled 'losing our way,' in which Allchin states 'I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.'"

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