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Scientists Discover Proteins Controlling Evolution 436

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @11:10PM from the let-the-flamewar-begin dept.

Khemisty writes "Evolutionary changes are supposed to take place gradually and randomly, under pressure from natural selection. But a team of Princeton scientists investigating a group of proteins that help cells burn energy stumbled across evidence that this is not how evolution works. In fact, their discovery could revolutionize the way we understand evolutionary processes. They have evidence that organisms actually have the ability to control their own evolution."

Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam 335

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @10:10AM from the real-american-hero dept.

ESCquire writes "Apparently, the Washington Post Blog 'Security Fix' managed to shut down McColo, a US-based hosting provider facilitating more than 75 percent of global spam. " Now how long before the void is filled by another ISP?

Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage 286

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 20, 2007 @12:52PM from the ddos-ing-yourself dept.

brajesh writes to tell us that Skype has blamed its outage over the last week on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. Apparently the huge numbers of computers rebooting (and the resulting flood of login requests) revealed a problem with the network allocation algorithm resulting in a couple days of downtime. Skype further stressed that there was no malicious activity and user security was never in any danger.

Comment Re:Virus checker companies (Score 1) 69

by Rubbersoul on Thursday December 28, 2006 @12:07PM (#17388004) Attached to: CERTStation Threat-Level Aggregator

You could easily rework your post to comment on the federal government and it's color coded warning system. Hmm ... I wounder why they might want to keep the perception of impending doom alive ...

Comment Re:Curioser and curioser, and more curioserererer (Score 2, Interesting) 438

by Erasei on Thursday May 25, 2006 @08:52PM (#15406433) Attached to: IL School District to Monitor Student Blogs

more or less gives them a license to discipline (oh, but only after some undisclosable anonymous source expresses 'concern', of course)

I know how this feels first hand. In the 6th grade my parents sent me and my two younger sisters to a private school. The Dean was pretty strict, but we were getting a good education, a lot of individual teacher attention and really exceeding in our studies. The second year the Dean decided that we (the students, not just me and my siblings) were rebels that needed to be controlled, which he thought he could do through a strict dress code. The kicker was that it was to be enforced even when we weren't at school. We (supposedly) were not allowed to wear jeans (ever) and the girls had to wear skirts or knee length shorts, always. Even on Saturday. That, and no "excessive jewelry".

We didn't stay much longer. These poor kids in the article though.. I don't imagine they have that luxury.

Comment Forget QOS (Score 1) 362

by CoreDump on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @06:31PM (#11682856) Attached to: VoIP for Deployed Soldiers?

QOS is not what you need to focus on.

Latency in this application will kill your sound quality far more than a few dropped packets. Optimally you'll want to be under 300ms for things to be manageable.

The other main thing to look for is a CODEC you can use with your chosen provider that uses as little bandwidth as possible and supports loss concealment. You need to worry about those two factors long before QOS becomes relevant to the equation.

Journal Journal: Corporate Censorship Not Interesting Engough for /.

Journal by CoreDump on Friday January 30, 2004 @01:45PM

2004-01-30 17:22:09 CBS Takes Partisan Censorship, Blocks SuperBowl Ad (yro,media) (rejected)

Hi Michael, you great bastion of upstanding editorial stewardship! :)

Journal Journal: CBS & Corporate Censorship

Journal by CoreDump on Friday January 30, 2004 @01:30PM

By now, most of us have probably seen the "Bush in 30 Seconds" ads on the web. They were part of an online contest, and the winner has been chosen. The sponsor of the contest planned to show the winning ad during the SuperBowl on Feb 1st. CBS is refusing to show ad, claiming it is too controversial. This "controversial" ad can be seen Here(HighBW)

Comment Re:Why are they sending you this information??? (Score 2, Insightful) 1013

by Tyrall on Thursday August 21, 2003 @08:13PM (#6760559) Attached to: Using Spyware to Report Pirates?

Wish I still had mod points for this one.

I fully agree if the user is distributing the software, they should be nuked, but I'd love to see the AUP/ToS for any ISP that dictated what software you could or could not run on your own machine.

If anyone actually read the documents (and does anyone still read EULAs, AUPs, and other such cruft?), they'd run so fast the ISP wouldn't see them go.

ISPs are responsible for, and thus should worry about, what their customers do WITH THE SERVICE THEY PROVIDE. That does not apply in your pot smoking example, or in the example given in the parent article.

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