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Submission + - Stem cells used to restore sight for corneal disea (news.com.au)

Submitted by

Sean0michael

on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @10:57PM

Sean0michael writes: "Australian scientists have Restored the sight of three human test subjects using stem cells cultured in contact lenses. All the patients were blind in only one eye. Two were legally blind, but can now read the big letters on an eye chart. The third could read the first few lines, but is now able to pass a driver's test. The University of New South Wales reports that these patients all had damaged corneas, and the stem cells came from each person's good eye. The best part--the procedure is inexpensive, raising hopes for being able to push this to the third world sooner than other, more expensive medications."

Submission + - Apple allows banned Slasher app back in App Store (artsiness.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @10:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: Apparently Apple is reconsidering the status of previously banned apps. One of the first apps to disappear from the App Store back in August of 2008 was Slasher. The author, apparently after many emails and phone calls, managed to convince Apple to reverse its original decision to ban the app. This is extremely good news for others who have fallen victim to the capriciousness of Apple's prior store policy.

Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit 370

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 16, 2008 @06:03PM from the in-case-they-run-out-of-human-tools dept.

timdogg writes "Brilliant Digital Entertainment, an Australian software company, has grabbed the attention of the NY attorney general's office with a tool they have designed that can scan every file that passes between an ISP and its customers. The tool can 'check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images.' As with the removal of the alt.binary newgroups, this is being promoted under the guise of preventing child porn. The privacy implications of this tool are staggering."

Comment Re:Case studies (Score 1) 92

by Jack Greenbaum on Monday September 15, 2008 @03:57PM (#25015847) Attached to: Intellectual Property and Open Source

For example he talks about someone who creates an idea while they have a job can be sued by their employer if at some point that idea becomes profitable and the employer wants control. He lays out steps to help avoid having this happen.

See various articles on the recent Mattel vs Bratz lawsuit, such as this wrap up.

Miss Sister 2008 3

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 25, 2008 @01:57PM from the sister-fister dept.

Rev. Antonio Rungi, an Italian priest, is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour. Nuns will have a profile including information about their life, vocation and a photograph. It will be up to the nuns whether to pose with the traditional veil or with their heads uncovered. "We are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits, but being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and we mustn't hide it." Rungi said. This has to lead to longer lines at the confessional.

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