Comment Re:ICOA.PK pump and dump (Score 3, Informative) 55
Right, the stock ticker and the wireless company aren't the same, which means there are a lot of dumb people out there.
Comment The Luddites will win this round too (Score 2) 336
As others have said, this is not about electrical interference but social control. What's the difference between someone reading harry potter on a 1lb device or reading it in it's 10 lb hardcover form? The greater danger is from the projectile the book becomes in a crash. But since there is no FUD means for banning the book, they allow you to read it. But in reality there is no difference so long as the plane doesn't crash.
Submission + - 7th Circuit Judge refers to .co as a "copyright troll" in decision (uscourts.gov)
terraformer writes: "Today a 7th Circuit Judge referred to a company as a "copyright troll" in Brownmark Films v. Comedy, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 11454. (URL http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/IR121JCK.pdf see page 8 of the decision). Confirmed by a Lexis search, this is the first time ever for reference of this term in judicial finding in federal courts. The significance of this is that no matter how staid and concerned with tradition the justice system is in this country, popular references will eventually leak into it. The term copyright troll imparts a meaning not easily duplicated and goes to show how important it is to frame the debate.
FYI: The term Patent troll shows up about a dozen or so times but it appears in most cases as a term of art introduced by one side or the other. Here it appears the judge introduced it on his own."
FYI: The term Patent troll shows up about a dozen or so times but it appears in most cases as a term of art introduced by one side or the other. Here it appears the judge introduced it on his own."
Submission + - Global warming without CO2 as the cause? (theregister.co.uk)
KindMind writes: The Register reports researchers say that the late Miocene (12 to 5 million years ago) had less CO2 than now (200 to 350 ppm by volume compared to 390 now), yet had warmer conditions ("... nearly ice-free conditions in the Northern Hemisphere ..."). The article abstract in Nature is here, but requires login to read the full article.
Submission + - Scientists discovered that a hidden vitamin in beer and milk may prevent obesity (medicaldaily.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Scientists have discovered that a hidden vitamin in beer and milk called the "miracle molecule" may prevent obesity.
A new study found that nicotinamide riboside (NR), a molecule found to indirectly influence the activity of cell metabolism, could play an important role in preventing weight gain and diabetes, improving muscular performance and providing other "extraordinary health benefits," according to a Switzerland-based research team.
A new study found that nicotinamide riboside (NR), a molecule found to indirectly influence the activity of cell metabolism, could play an important role in preventing weight gain and diabetes, improving muscular performance and providing other "extraordinary health benefits," according to a Switzerland-based research team.
Submission + - Trained Rats Map Minefields Automatically (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Believe it or not, but the Department of Defense is paying psychologists to train rats to find mines and circle around them. By attaching little GPS backpacks and supplying a laptop with software that looks for the 'circling around' signature, the DOD hopes its project will allow the release of platoons of rats near suspected minefields so that the laptop software creates a detailed map of where all the mines are located automatically. Not sure if they plan on picking up the rats afterward, but they do assure us that the rats are too lightweight to set off the mines!"
Submission + - Last.fm Confirms Password Leak (net-security.org)
An anonymous reader writes: And Last.fm makes three. Following the revelations that the data leaked by an unknown individual on a Russian forum contained user passwords for business social network LinkedIn and dating site eHarmony, the team of popular music website Last.fm has piped up to warn about a leak of their own users' passwords. Users who have logged in to the site were greeted today by a warning asking them to change their password while the site investigates a security problem. Following the offered link to learn more, they landed on another page with another warning.
Submission + - Germany readying offensive cyberwarfare unit, parliament told (techworld.com)
concertina226 writes: According to German reports, the Bonn-based Computer Network Operations (CNO) unit had existed since 2006 but was only now being readied for deployment under the control of the country’s military.
"The initial capacity to operate in hostile networks has been achieved," a German press agency reported the brief document as saying. The unit had already conducted closed lab simulations of cyber-attacks.
Unlike physical attacks, cyber-weapons can’t be isolated from their surroundings with the same degree of certainty. If, as a growing body of evidence suggests, the US Government sanctioned the use of cyber-malware such as Stuxnet, are the authorities also held responsible should such campaigns hit unintended victims?
"The initial capacity to operate in hostile networks has been achieved," a German press agency reported the brief document as saying. The unit had already conducted closed lab simulations of cyber-attacks.
Unlike physical attacks, cyber-weapons can’t be isolated from their surroundings with the same degree of certainty. If, as a growing body of evidence suggests, the US Government sanctioned the use of cyber-malware such as Stuxnet, are the authorities also held responsible should such campaigns hit unintended victims?
Comment Re:So.... (Score 1) 828
I have a post elsewhere that goes into this but the suicide rates don't change between locales that severely restrict quick access to firearms and those with more reasonable laws. Suicide rates track with economic factors for the most part. If someone has decided to end their life, they will do so with any means possible. Pills, gravity, etc it doesn't matter.
Comment Re:So.... (Score 2) 828
First, Child is anyone up to 19 and at least 2/3s of that ~150 or so deaths occurs in the 16-19 yro range.
Second, the original statement was not tied in any way to the CDC data because the CDC data does not in any way suggest a likelihood or probability of firearms death for those who possess a gun v. not possessing a gun.
So I am very right that the OP was munging the Brady stats, of which the Brady bunch and others have been forced to admit that their stats include suicides and treats all deaths up to 26 as "children".
I am very familiar with CDC and Census data as I used it throughout my time in graduate school.
Comment Re:So.... (Score 3, Informative) 828
But if you take the gun away, the person is less likely to commit suicide - the same way if you put up a fence along a bridge, people are less likely to commit suicide by jumping off.
The statistic is right to include suicides as those are deaths that could have been prevented.
You are kidding, right? If you look at the suicide rate of states it's intimately linked with economic prosperity and not easy access to, or the lack thereof, guns. MA has just as many suicides per capita that other mid size prosperous states do, but less with guns and more with pills, etc.
Comment Re:disarm the planet (Score 1) 828
Nah. We'll send a neurotic genius to upload a computer virus on the mothership.
And he will miraculously be able to figure out the network protocol and to interface with the mothership when computers on earth can barely communicate with each other beyond some simple predefined syntax.
Comment Re:So.... (Score 1) 828
The victim having a gun doesn't help in most cases. Studies have shown that bystanders are more likely to get injured, and having a gun during a drive-by shooting is pretty much useless. Making guns harder to get isn't likely to make those go up.
Please, point me to such studies that say this. I won't hold my breath since you are mis characterizing bogus studies to begin with.
Comment Re:So.... (Score 1) 828
Bull. The UK has the same "gun" homicide stats that it had before they confiscated the citizen's arms. Their raw homicide rate has actually gone up. You are spouting lies.
Comment Re:Disarm the good guys (Score 1) 828
Actually, this could be interesting, as long as we can get reliable statistics...
Do you really expect to get reliable (accurate is what I think you are going for there) statistics from a nation whose leader and the referendums he supports has "received" close to 90%+ of the vote in each of the elections despite massive opposition? Good luck with that.
