Comment Re:This is a rare breed of human. (Score 2) 758
So buy stuff that does tell you. Problem solved.
The FDA is making it increasingly hard for companies to label product as NOT having GMOs as well (Source).
Comment Re:This is a rare breed of human. (Score 5, Insightful) 758
Newsflash: Millions of people are going to starve to death with or without GMO crops. It's not like Monsanto or ADM is just going to magnanimously ship all this extra food to Africa out of the goodness of their hearts. Producing more food does absolutely nothing to ensure that the surplus actually gets to the people who need it. One study claims that 40% of food in the US goes to waste (Link). A good chunk of this hypothetical extra GM food will probably just add to that.
Submission + - NASA Cancels Nanosat Challenge
RocketAcademy writes: "NASA has canceled funding for the Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge, a $2-million prize competition that was intended to promote development of a low-cost dedicated launch system for CubeSats and other small satellites.
The cancelation is a setback for small satellite developers, many of whom have satellites sitting on the shelf waiting for a launch, and the emerging commercial launch industry.
The Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge was being run by NASA and Space Florida as part of NASA's troubled Centennial Challenges program. The sudden cancelation of the Launch Challenge, before the competition even began, is calling NASA's commitment to Centennial Challenges into doubt."
The cancelation is a setback for small satellite developers, many of whom have satellites sitting on the shelf waiting for a launch, and the emerging commercial launch industry.
The Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge was being run by NASA and Space Florida as part of NASA's troubled Centennial Challenges program. The sudden cancelation of the Launch Challenge, before the competition even began, is calling NASA's commitment to Centennial Challenges into doubt."
Submission + - Wii U already hacked for homebrew (playerattack.com)
dotarray writes: The Wii U hit shelves just a week ago, and already gamers have figured out that it is entirely possible to run homebrew programs on Nintendo's new console, even if the results aren't quite perfect just yet.
Submission + - "Shine, Baby, Shine!"
An anonymous reader writes: “The technology is here. Solar is real and more affordable than it has ever been. If we really want this to take, we have to give alternative energy the same perks that we give to oil and coal. So go out and buy a Senator!” Larry ended his pep talk with a wave of his ten-gal Texas hat and his signature J.R. cackle.
Submission + - Bitcoin mining reward about to half (mineforeman.com)
ASDFnz writes: The reward for succesfuly completing a block (also called mining) is about to half from 50 bitcoins to 25. http://mineforeman.com/2012/11/23/halving-day-is-almost-upon-us/ is an explination of why this will happen and if you go to http://bitcoinclock.com/ you can watch the countdown.
Submission + - Google Search Missed for 'Foolproof Suffocation' in Casey Anthony Case
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Orlando Sentinel reports that a google search was made for the term "foolproof suffocation" on the Anthony family's computer the day Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter Caylee was last seen alive by her family — a search that did not surface at Casey Anthony's trial for first degree murder. In the notorious 31 days which followed, Casey Anthony repeatedly lied about her and her daughter's whereabouts and at Anthony's trial, her defense attorney argued that her daughter drowned accidentally in the family's pool. Anthony was acquitted on all major charges in her daughter's death, including murder. Though computer searches were a key issue at Anthony's murder trial, the term "foolproof suffocation" never came up. "Our investigation reveals the person most likely at the computer was Casey Anthony," says investigative reporter Tony Pipitone. Lead sheriff's Investigator Yuri Melich sent prosecutors a spreadsheet that contained less than 2 percent of the computer’s Internet activity that day and included only Internet data from the computer’s Internet Explorer browser – one Casey Anthony apparently stopped using months earlier — and failed to list 1,247 entries recorded on the Mozilla Firefox browser that day — including the search for “foolproof suffocation.” Prosecutor Jeff Ashton said in a statement to WKMG that it's "a shame we didn't have it. (It would have) put the accidental death claim in serious question.""
Submission + - Gameplay: the Missing Ingredient In Games (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Game designer Tadhg Kelly has an article discussing where the games industry has gone over the past several years. Gaming has become more of a business, and in doing so, become more of a science as well. When maximizing revenue is a primary concern, development studios try to reduce successful game designs to individual elements, then simply seek to add those elements to whatever game they're working on, like throwing spices into a stew. Kelly points out that indie developers who are willing to experiment often succeed because they understand something more fundamental about games: fun. Quoting: 'The guy who invented Minecraft (Markus “Notch” Persson) didn’t just create a giant virtual world in which you could make stuff, he made it challenging. When Will Wright created the Sims, he didn’t just make a game about living in a virtual house. He made it difficult to live successfully. That’s why both of those franchises have sold millions of copies. The fun factor is about more than making a game is amusing or full of pretty rewards. If your game is a dynamic system to be mastered and won, then you can go nuts. If you can give the player real fun then you can afford to break some of those format rules, and that’s how you get to lead rather than follow the market. If not then be prepared to pay through the nose to acquire and retain players.'
Submission + - Researchers Investigating Self-Boosting Vaccine (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Vaccines, contrary to opinions from the anti-science crowd, are some of the most effective tools in modern medicine. For some diseases, a single shot is all it takes for lifetime immunity. Others, though, require booster shots, to remind your immune system exactly what it should prepare to fight. Failure to get these shots threatens an individual's health, and the herd immunity concept as well. Scientists are now looking into 'self-boosting' vaccines in order to fix that problem. Some viruses are capable of remaining in the human body for a person's entire lifetime. If researchers can figure out a way to safely harness these, it may be possible to add genes that would create proteins to train the immune system against not just one, but multiple other viruses (abstract). This is a difficult problem to solve; changing the way we do vaccinations will itself have consequences for herd immunity. It also hinges on finding a virus that can survive the immune system without have uncomfortable flare-ups from time to time.
Submission + - Hydrophilic, Hydrophobic Water Bottle Fills Itself From Air (thenextweb.com)
mbstone writes: There's three quadrillion gallons of water vapor in the air, but will this still be true after mass production of the self-filling water bottle? The invention is based on the Namib Desert Beetle which gets its moisture (12% of its weight) from water vapor.
Comment Re:why (Score 1) 447
I'm going to operate on the assumption that furries can also be into cold blooded animals. If I'm wrong, please, let me live in ignorance.
That said: the "turkey" is actually a person in a feather costume, and the preparation involves the cutting of strategic holes and generous application of lubricant.
Submission + - GNOME 3 to support a "classic" mode
An anonymous reader writes: LWN.net is reporting that GNOME developer Matthias Clasen has announced that, with the upcoming demise of "fallback mode," the project will support a set of official GNOME Shell extensions to provide a more "classic" experience. "And while we certainly hope that many users will find the new ways comfortable and refreshing after a short learning phase, we should not fault people who prefer the old way. After all, these features were a selling point of GNOME 2 for ten years!"
Submission + - Electric Cars DOA without Supercharged Batteries 1
greenjobsguru writes: "This is the typical chicken and egg problem. No charging stations, no electric cars; no electric cars, no charging stations. Unless scientists deliver some serious breakthroughs in battery capacity and charge time in the next few years, we're going to need charging stations everywhere. Home, office, retail parking lots, shopping malls, airports, and yes, gas stations. The US has currently about 160,000 gas stations, but research outfit Frost and Sullivan estimate we'll have 4.1 million charging stations to keep our electric cars juiced up --yes, that's 25 times the number of gas stations! And preferably powered by renewable energy (bummer! we'll also need a smart grid for that...).
Then, we'll have a real clean transportation industry, with plenty of good paying green jobs. So, let's try and stay optimistic."
Then, we'll have a real clean transportation industry, with plenty of good paying green jobs. So, let's try and stay optimistic."
Submission + - US accused of hacking French president's office with Flame (itnews.com.au)
Bismillah writes: "Today's ahem story: the French are accusing the US of hacking into the Elysée, the office of the president of France.
To make it better, the US is said to have used the Flame spyware.
The US is denying the attack took place, but the French are making a big thing about it."
To make it better, the US is said to have used the Flame spyware.
The US is denying the attack took place, but the French are making a big thing about it."
Submission + - Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
mc10 writes: Google went temporarily offline for about 27 minutes at around 6:24pm PST / 02:24 UTC (5 Nov. 2012 PST / 6 Nov. 2012 UTC), when CloudFlare realized that Google's services went offline. CloudFlare explains how the Internet is glued together by the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and how Moratel, an Indonesian ISP, was announcing a network that wasn't actually behind them.
