Comment Euclid's Elements (Score 3, Informative) 451
For the love of God, Euclid's Elements. Available for free here:
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
Comment Re:Misleading headline, as usual. (Score 1) 203
Yup. Pretty bad. Especially if you read the title or the abstract of the article in Nature Genetics.
A common MYBPC3 (cardiac myosin binding protein C) variant associated with cardiomyopathies in South Asia
Heart failure is a leading cause of mortality in South Asians. However, its genetic etiology remains largely unknown...Here, we describe a deletion of 25 bp in the gene encoding cardiac myosin binding protein C (MYBPC3) that is associated with heritable cardiomyopathies and an increased risk of heart failure in Indian populations...Its prevalence was found to be high (~4%) in populations of Indian subcontinental ancestry. The finding of a common risk factor implicated in South Asian subjects with cardiomyopathy will help in identifying and counseling individuals predisposed to cardiac diseases in this region.
Emphasis is mine.
From the looks of it, non-Indian populations were not even considered.
Submission + - False DMCA Claims by Creationists Stifle Critics
Bueller_007 writes: Creation Science Evangelism, an creationist organization owned by convicted felon Kent Hovind has been filing false DMCA claims to stifle their rivals on YouTube. Although CSE's videos are not copyrighted (according to their official website and the videos themselves), within the past 72 hours, they have had approximately 20 videos removed at their request, and at least two popular users have had their accounts disabled.
All of the videos that have been removed were critical remixes of Hovind's original videos, interspersed with rebuttals and likely to have fallen under fair use. Exact duplicates of Hovind's videos — seen as supportive — were not removed. Further, CSE has also filed false DMCA claims to have others' completely original content removed, as well as public-domain phone calls Hovind made from prison.
All of the videos that have been removed were critical remixes of Hovind's original videos, interspersed with rebuttals and likely to have fallen under fair use. Exact duplicates of Hovind's videos — seen as supportive — were not removed. Further, CSE has also filed false DMCA claims to have others' completely original content removed, as well as public-domain phone calls Hovind made from prison.
Submission + - Jerry Falwell Dies
An anonymous reader writes: Evangelist Jerry Falwell and enemy of science has just died.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6659457.stm
Submission + - Second Life Users Trading Child Porn
An anonymous reader writes: BBC is reporting that German police are investigating Second Life because some of its members were allegedly trading porn in the online world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6638331.stm
Submission + - Earth Day: 10 First Steps To Lighter Living
kitzilla writes: "Earth Day is Sunday — are you doing anything earthy? Here's a list [via Lifehacker] of ten easy things you can do to lighten your environmental "footstep." Nothing particularly complicated here, but a good review: from unplugging chargers and equipment in standby mode to buying locally grown food. Check of one or two of these, and grab some good Earth Day karma."
Submission + - Shooting at NASA
pvt_medic writes: News reports are coming in that there has been a shooting at NASA Building 44 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Building 44 is a communications and tracking development laboratory on a remote part of Johnson Space Center's sprawling campus, some distance from the Mission Control buildings.
Submission + - WoW Addiction Results in Death of Toddler
Henry V .009 writes: The Albuquerque Journal reports that Federal authorities have just charged Rebecca Wulf for allowing her 3-year-old daughter to starve to death, surrounded by "cat feces, moldy food and unwashed dishes" while Rebecca played World of Warcraft. I thought Slashdoters might want an early heads up on what is likely to become a big news story. Having worked with abused children in the past, I can say that the stories I hear of WoW addiction cases are on the level of hard drug addiction stories — in my opinion at least, this can no longer be dismissed as a 'you can be addicted to anything' issue anymore.
Submission + - Gunman on the loose at Virginia Tech
An anonymous reader writes: There were two shootings, which resulted in at leas 20 fatalities. The second shooter is dead.
Eyewitness reports.
Feed New Dam Threatens People And Environment In Myanmar (sciencedaily.com)
A deal signed between Thailand and Myanmar would clear the way for the first large-scale hydropower plant on the Salween River in north-eastern Myanmar. The project could displace and negatively impact upon tens of thousands of poor and marginalized people from ethnic minorities in that country, warns World Wildlife Fund. The Salween River is the longest undammed waterway in south-east Asia, running for 2,800 kilometres.
Submission + - Sony's new DVDs not working in some players
An anonymous reader writes: It seems that the most recent DVDs released by Sony, specifically "Stranger Than Fiction","Casino Royale", and "The Pursuit of Happyness", have some kind of "feature" that makes them unplayable on many DVD players. This doesn't appear to be covered by the major media yet, but This Link to Amazon Discussions gives a flavor of the problems people are experiencing. This blogger apparently called Sony and was told the problem is with the new copy protection scheme, and they do not intend to fix it; it's up to the manufacturers to update their hardware. Is it a sound strategy for a company to institute a copy protection scheme that prevents a good chunk of legitimate customers from buying their movies?
Submission + - Microsoft admitted Xbox 360 flaw
j_sp_r writes: Microsoft has admitted, after thousands of complaints from users, that there is a flaw in the Xbox 360.
Using the flawed series of the Xbox 360 can cause scratches on disks, so has the Dutch consumer program "Kassa" found out.
First Microsoft stated it's the fault of the users who failed to handle the disks with care.
It affects a set of 1 a 2 million Xbox 360's. The problem is caused by an absent of protective pads around the machines lens.
Original article is here in Dutch and the babelfish translation is here
Using the flawed series of the Xbox 360 can cause scratches on disks, so has the Dutch consumer program "Kassa" found out.
First Microsoft stated it's the fault of the users who failed to handle the disks with care.
It affects a set of 1 a 2 million Xbox 360's. The problem is caused by an absent of protective pads around the machines lens.
Original article is here in Dutch and the babelfish translation is here
Submission + - Wi-Fi highly critical flaw found in Linux
thisispurefud writes: A flaw has been found in a major Linux Wi-Fi driver that can allow an attacker to run malicious code and take control of a laptop, even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130717-pg,1/arti cle.html
Submission + - China Launches Navigation Satellite
ThanksL writes: A Chinese rocket placed a navigation satellite in orbit Saturday as part of an effort to build a global positioning system, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The Long March 3-A rocket blasted off from the Xichang launching center in southwestern China and a short time later the satellite was maneuvered into orbit, 13,300 miles above the earth, Xinhua said.
Journal Journal: 50 terabyte flash drive made of bug protein
A prototype USB drive using bug protein to store data in the neighborhood of around 50 terabytes worth of data could be here in less then 18 months. This idea first started out by coating DVDs with a layer of protein so that one day solid state memory could hold so much information that storing data on your computer hard drive will be obsolete, says Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston while reporting on his findings at the International Conf
