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Anonymous Coward writes: "Male circumcision is overstated as prevention tool against AIDS (reported by Eurekalert http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/plo s-mco062007.php) Quoting: "New study finds the key to understanding the global spread of AIDS is the size of the infected prostitute community around the world. [...] The study has a number of important findings that should impact policy decisions in the future. First, male circumcision, which in previous studies had been found to be important in controlling AIDS, becomes statistically irrelevant once the study controls for the number of prostitutes in a country."
Cross fingers! The prevention programs so much touted by the neo-conservators and intelligent-designers, baked by UN (http://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20070329/circu mcision-new-weapon-against-AIDS) are not good at all? How about the praying and singing in the churches?"
monocode writes: A group of Mono developers at Novell voluntarily worked weekends and 12 to 16 hour per day during an epic 21-day "hackathon" to produce a functioning prototype of Moonlight, a Linux-compatible open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight development framework and browser plug-in. The Moonlight XAML canvas component doesn't depend on Mono and can even be used in native Linux desktop applications without requiring any C# or managed code. "Moonlight is a monumental achievement with broad implications for the Linux desktop. Novell developers have already begun to investigate ways that the Moonlight rendering canvas can be used in desktop applications and other projects."
catbutt writes: "According to a NYTimes article, which references a National Academy of Sciences study, wind farms may not be effective at reducing polution. The logic seems a bit odd, though, because it says that the reason it won't reduce certain types of pollutants is that there "was already a cap on sulfur emissions and one on nitrogen oxides was likely to follow. Is is possible such caps are a bad idea, then, if they cause people to not bother reducing their output of pollutants, since all it would end up doing is allowing someone else to pollute more?"