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Submission + - Ron Paul Enters Presidential Race

Submitted by atxpatriot
atxpatriot writes: Constitutional defender Rep. Ron Paul (TX) announced this morning that he is officially entering the race for the GOP presidential nomination. Before the 2006 Congressional elections, C-NET ranked Congressman Paul highest among Republican house members for supporting technology friendly legislation. Ron Paul has the potential to bring many political issues into the race, that would otherwise be left out.
Intel

Submission + - Viiv Versus Live!, Battle For The Living Room ?

Submitted by Spinnerbait
Spinnerbait writes: Both Intel Viiv and AMD Live! branding and standardization efforts for Media Center PC architectures have their pluses and minuses, depending on what you intend to do with your system. While Intel imposes strict guidelines on system builders for the use of Intel chipsets with integrated graphics, AMD's Live! platform allows for third party chipset vendors like NVIDIA to enter the fray. As a result, pre-built systems based on Intel Viiv branding may come up short, when you consider how strong an AMD platform may be with an nForce IGP chipset versus the i965G. Viiv versus Live! is an interesting dynamic for the DYI market, where you can definitely build yourself a more capable Intel-based HTPC that isn't Viiv compliant. But then again, the DYI crowd probably wouldn't have much use for either platform branding anyway.
Media

Submission + - Subliminal images do affect the brain

Submitted by Parallax Blue
Parallax Blue writes: The BBC is reporting on a new study by UK researchers in Current Biology that suggests subliminal messages may register in the brain if it has 'spare capacity'.

Participants in the study were asked to carry out an easy task and a hard task while being flashed with everyday objects in one eye and a strong flashing image in the other. The strong flashing image cancelled out the images of everyday objects in the other eye so that the participants were unaware of them. When the participants were carrying out an easy task, the brain scan detected activity in the primary visual cortex, indicating the subliminal images did register. However, when carrying out the hard task there was no activity, indicating the images did not register.

The implications for such uses as subliminal advertising is interesting, suggesting that subliminal messages in ads may work. However, further studies will have to be done to evaluate the precise impact of subliminal words and images.
Intel

Submission + - Intel to sample flash-killer PRAM this year

Submitted by Station
Station writes: Intel's new phase-change memory technology (PRAM) will begin sampling this year. Samsung, IBM, and Hitachi are all working on phase-change memory as a successor to flash as it has a lower (~20ns) read latency than flash (50-90ns). 'Intel says they plan to ship the first PRAM modules as a straight-ahead NOR flash replacement so that they can work the kinks out of the design before trying to move it up the memory hierarchy. The company claims a much higher number of read-write cycles (100 million) than flash, as well as a potential 10 years' worth of data retention. NOR flash is typically used as program storage memory for mobile devices like cell phones, while more durable but slower NAND flash is used for mass storage in devices like the iPod nano.'
Censorship

Submission + - Free speech challenged at law student forum

Submitted by
The Xoxo Reader
The Xoxo Reader writes: "The Washington Post has a front-page article about AutoAdmit (a.k.a Xoxohth), a message board for law students and lawyers that has been criticized for allowing users to post racist and sexist attacks under the cover of anonymity. The article (and the message board itself) raises important questions about whether freedom of speech can go too far, even if anonymity and loose moderation can otherwise promote useful discussion about the legal community."
Data Storage

Submission + - Samsung Begins Shipping Hybrid Hard Drives

Submitted by
writertype
writertype writes: "Samsung has become the first company begin shipping hybrid hard drives, we report on ExtremeTech. Unfortunately, there's no word yet (besides "soon") on when retail shipments will begin, or when (or if) 3.5-inch models will be available. Note that these are different than the ReadyBoost USB flash drives optimized for Vista; hybrid drives contain a smaller amount of flash, and work as a write cache for your notebook drive, extending battery life."
User Journal

Journal Journal: HUMAN STEM CELL TRANSPLANTS MATURE INTO NEURONS 1

Journal by stemceller
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions announced that Human nerve stem cells transplanted into rats' damaged spinal cords have survived, grown and in some cases connected with the rats' own spinal cord cells in a Johns Hopkins laboratory, overturning the long-held notion that spinal cords won't allow nerve repair.
United States

Submission + - Nuclear Power and Iran Today

Submitted by
blue234
blue234 writes: "On Iran's nuclear ambitions, some have suggested an approach which mirrors our policy vis-a-vis N. Korea. In other words, if they really insist on the need for a peaceful nuclear infrastructure, then the world should help them build nuclear power plants which do not produce the kind of nuclear byproduct which can be used to produce nuclear weapons. The trouble is N. Korea and Iran clearly have ambitions of possessing nuclear weapons. In fact, most experts believe Pyongyang already has several such weapons in its inventory. This approach, nonetheless, may be worth pursuing with Iran — if only to call Tehran's bluff. So far, however, the U.S. and Europeans continue to pursue this issue in the UN context. url: http://www.abcarticledirectory.com/Article/Nuclear -Power-and-Iran-Today/31163"
Displays

Submission + - The State of Video Connections

Submitted by
mikemuch
mikemuch writes: "Joel Durham provides a nice rundown on what's happening in video interfaces as we leave VGA behind and move through DVI flavors, visit HDMI along the way, and look forward to UDI and DisplayPort."
Censorship

Submission + - YouTube changes its story...BANS Gisburne forever

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: After deleting Nick Gisburne's account over a video YouTube claims was "Inappropriate Content" YouTube has now changed it's story and has deleted his new account claiming that the exact same video now violates a "Third Parties Copyright". There still exist some 50+ copies of this video that were posted in response to his that still exist on YouTube. Each of these were clearly posted as responses to the original.

To make things even more bizarre, several outspoken Christians (firefly515 and GlenReb) apparently launched a "flag and complain" campaign against Nick in an attempt to have him removed from YouTube. firefly515 has made a video gloating about getting NickGisburne2000 banned. After posting that video he received so much flack from the YouTube community as a whole that he made a video asking everyone to vote on whether or not he should delete all of his videos and his account.

The YouTube community has been left confused over what really happened here. Was the Christian campaign successful? Did the video actually violate the YouTube TOS for appropriate content? Did the video in fact violate copyright law as outlined in the DMCA?
Security

When Malware Attacks Malware 135

Posted by kdawson from the internecine dept.
PetManimal writes "Researchers say that the Storm Trojan/Peacomm worm has been tweaked to spread via IM programs and attack rival malware. Symantec sounded the alarm, and says that the exploit launches in AOL, Google Talk, and Yahoo Messenger windows that are already open, making it appear to be a legitimate message from a known user. The worm has modified the code from last year's Nuwar worm, and when activated, enables a DDoS attack against any site, including antispam services and servers supporting rival malware: 'Systems hijacked by Peacomm have also conducted DDoS attacks against at least five domains used by the creators of the noted Warezov (or Stration) worm. After a busy September and October, Warezov was credited by some analysts as the genesis of 2006's massive fourth-quarter spike in spam volume.'"

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