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SSpade writes:
Notorious spammer Alan Ralsky has been indicted.
Al Ralsky is a very prolific spammer and his name is well known among ISP abuse desks. Along with 10 other people he was indicted today after a 2 year investigation by the Justice Department, according to an article published today by the Detroit Free Press.
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JAMDoc writes:
On Friday, April 27, 2007,
Grid.org announced it has completed its mission to demonstrate the viability and benefits of large-scale Internet-based grid computing, and will be retiring its famous efforts to support critical health research.
Grid.org was the largest and most ambitious public interest grid venture ever attempted, and thanks to Grid.org and its millions of members, dozens of similar global grid projects have been able to catch on and succeed by following its footsteps.
Here ends Grid.Org's revolutionary grid-processing effort. Having utilized the computing power of 3.7 million systems world-wide, Grid.Org chugged the equivalent of more than 500,000 years of data processing. Grid.Org's projects included drug screens for cancer, anthrax, and smallpox as well as a major contribution to the human proteome folding project.
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radioweather writes
"A couple of weeks ago, there was a nutty idea discussed in The Independent that claimed the electromagnetic radiation from cell phones was causing bees to become disoriented, preventing them from returning to the hive. The flimsy cell phone argument was used to explain Colony Collapse Disorder. Today the LA Times reports that researchers at UC San Francisco have uncovered what they believe to be the real culprit: a parasitic fungus. Other researchers said Wednesday that they too had found the fungus, a single-celled parasite called Nosema ceranae, in affected hives from around the country."
