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Biotech

Submission + - Research Allows Bacteria to Store Computer Data

Istrancis writes: "According to Japanese research, bacteria could someday be used to store computer data, not only temporarily, but on an extremely long term basis. The process of recording the data involves inserting artifical genetic material into the bacteria's genome, and the idea is that this data would be transferred over to the next generation of bacteria, and on to the next one, allowing this data to remain intact for far longer than a modern CD-ROM, USB flash drive, or even hard disk currently allows."
Security

Submission + - 1/3 of Employees give up Credentials

Bob Roswell writes: "I sent all my employees an HTML Email. The subject line said "Daylight Savings Time: Please login Below" and the body of email was a reasonable facsimile of the Outlook Web Access Login Screen. I sent the email from outside the company, but changed the from address to the email address of our internal support. About 1/3 of the employees logged into the web form which recorded their usernames and passwords. Fewer than 5% contacted internal support or their co-workers to warn them about the phishing attack. I guess our firewalls, VPNs, and training are not very good. Time to use multi factor logins?"
Biotech

Submission + - Study Indicates Autism is Mostly Genetic

Old Man Kensey writes: A study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the nonprofit foundation Autism Speaks has found multiple verifiable genetic links to the development of autism, including a gene involved in glutamate metabolism, a process implicated in other childhood neurological disorders like epilepsy. One researcher went so far as to say the findings indicate that autism may be as much as 90% genetic.
The Courts

Submission + - Couple who catch cop speeding could face charges.

a_nonamiss writes: "A Georgia couple, apparently tired of people speeding past their house, installed a camera and radar gun on their property. After it was installed, they caught a police office going 17MPH over the posted limit. They brought this to the attention of the local police department, and are now being forced to appear in front of a judge to answer to charges of stalking.

from the article:

The Sipples allegedly caught Kennesaw police officer Richard Perrone speeding up to 17 mph over the speed limit. Perrone alerted Bartow authorities, who in turn visited the Sipples' home to tell them Perrone intended to press charges against them for stalking.
I have the utmost respect for most law enforcement. They have a difficult, dangerous and mostly thankless job to do, but shouldn't they be held accountable for casually breaking the very same laws they are supposed to be enforcing? Additionally, shouldn't we, as citizens, have the right to be able to bring this to someone's attention without having to face laughably bogus charges for our efforts?"
Programming

Ruby Implementation Shootout 112

An anonymous reader writes "Ruby has an ever growing number of alternative implementations, and many of these attempt to improve the suboptimal performance of the current mainstream interpreter. Antonio Cangiano has an interesting article in which he benchmarks a few of the most popular Ruby implementations, including Yarv (the heart of Ruby 2.0), JRuby, Ruby.NET, Rubinius and Cardinal (Ruby on Parrot). Numerical evidence is provided rather than shear opinions. The tests show that Yarv is the fastest implementation and that it offers a promising future when it comes to the speed of the next Ruby version."

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