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Comment Re:farcical (Score 1) 713

by BLQWME on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @07:38PM (#26273687) Attached to: Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax

You are so right! No one thinks about the anonymity issues either. Let's say a wife is running from her abusive husband and holes up some place. Husband "Hello, OnStar, I seem to have forgotten where my car is. Can you tel me where I left it last night"?

Comment How 'bout sales tax? (Score 1) 713

by BLQWME on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @07:28PM (#26273599) Attached to: Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax

Why don't they cut down the amount spent on Welfare and institute a state sales tax? Before I get flamed on the welfare comment, I do realize there were some movements afoot to reform Welfare in Oregon. I just don't know the outcome of those movements.

Comment Re:NSA patenting it because... (Score 1) 161

by BLQWME on Monday December 22, 2008 @04:59PM (#26204981) Attached to: NSA Patents a Way To Spot Network Snoops

Ah, come on mods- that was funny.

Submission + - Alienware Won't Sell CableCard PCs to Consumers (cepro.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17, 2007 @11:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: Alienware is breaking its direct-to-consumer sales tradition by creating a product sold only through specialty retailers and home technology installers. The product is a high-end Media Center PC with an option for dual CableCards (also known as OCUR), which is one reason Alienware won't sell it online or through big-box retailers. Since CableCard-enabled Media Center PCs started shipping this year, consumers, installers and the cable companies themselves have reported challenges with the HD-over-cable solution. Cable boxes themselves cannot deliver HD content to PCs. "We feel that OCUR is a solution that requires the expertise of a reseller and installer to perform an optimal customer experience, which does not warrant direct consumer sales of OCUR-equipped products" says Marc Diana, product manager for non-mobile products. The product, yet to be named, will be demonstrated for the first time in September.

Submission + - Stem Cells Shown to Protect Dying Motor Neurons

Submitted by

Penguinshit

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:40PM

Penguinshit writes: "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by rapid loss of muscle control and eventual paralysis due to the death of large motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Growth factors such as glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) are known to protect motor neurons from damage in a range of models. Human cortical neural progenitor cells derived from fetal tissue (ie. stem cells) can be expanded in culture for long periods and survive transplantation into the central nervous system, in some cases making large numbers of GFAP positive astrocytes. They can also be genetically modified to release GDNF and thus act as long-term 'mini pumps' in specific regions of the brain. In this study a team at UW-Madison's Waisman Center genetically modified human neural stem cells to release GDNF and transplanted them into the spinal cord of rats with mutant SOD1. Following unilateral transplantation into the spinal cord of the rats there was robust cellular migration into degenerating areas, efficient delivery of GDNF and remarkable preservation of motor neurons at early and end stages of the disease within chimeric regions.

This work is especially important to me, as I have been living with ALS for almost three years."

Submission + - Forensics Expert says Al-Qaeda Images Altered

Submitted by WerewolfOfVulcan on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:33PM

WerewolfOfVulcan writes: Wired reports that researcher Neal Krawetz revealed some veeeeeery interesting things about the Al-Qaeda images that our government loves to show off.

From the article: "Krawetz was also able to determine that the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiri's head was added to the image afterward. In the second picture above showing the results of the error level analysis, the light clusters on the image indicate areas of the image that were added or changed. The subtitles and logos in the upper right and lower left corners (IntelCenter is an organization that monitors terrorist activity and As-Sahab is the video production branch of al Qaeda) were all added at the same time, while the banner writing was added at a different time, likely around the same time that al-Zawahiri was added, Krawetz says." Why would Al-Qaeda add an IntelCenter logo to their video? Why would IntelCenter add an Al-Qaeda logo? Methinks we have bigger fish to fry than Gonzo and his fired attorneys... }:-) The article contains links to Krawetz's presentation and the source code he used to analyze the photos.

Submission + - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released (kde.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: August 2, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications. Almost two months after the foundations of KDE 4 have been laid with the first alpha, KDE enters the stage of a full freeze of the library interface. From now on, the applications will focus on integrating the new technology refined during the last months, and the library developers will try to fix all bugs found during this process. No new applications will enter the official KDE modules and usability and accessibility work is of course an ongoing process. In the following weeks KDE developers will be able to add features to their applications until the next beta is released and the application features will be frozen as well.

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