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Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 223

by DrCJM (#40215899) Attached to: My primary work is ...

So apparently everyone on slashdot is expected to be a developer? WTF

"Research" means a whole lot more than being 'a developer'.

I work for a biotech company as a Principal Research Scientist. I don't 'develop' stuff, I do research.

Comment Re:Really? higher amoung un-vaccinated eh? (Score 1) 1007

by DrCJM (#39668873) Attached to: Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital
Reuters is your reference source for scientific news? Hmmmm... Anyway, there is an undoubted recent increase in pertussis cases amongst immunized children due to:

1) Shorter protection time than expected indicating boosters are required

(See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22423127 for example)

and

2) Emergent bacterial strains with modified surface antigens being selected due to evolutionary pressure (gasp!) from the acellular vaccine

(See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22416243 for example)

If you want to understand the science, go to the scientific literature. Not 'naturalnews.com'...
The Internet

Submission + - Hacktivist Sabu: Anonymous traitor or FBI martyr? (patexia.com)

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techgeek0279
techgeek0279 writes: "Hacktivism: a term coined about 14 years ago that now has more meaning than ever in the history of our world. Hacking of Indonesian government websites, the Mexican finance department website, the Pentagon website, the World Trade Organization web server, the World Economic Forum web server, the World Bank web server, Scientology websites, the CNN website, the European Climate Exchange website, Mastercard and Visa websites, the Department of Justice website, FBI and CIA databases, most recently the Vatican website and so many other illegal breaches by hacktivist organizations has led to the realization that cyber-security may very well be our nation’s number one threat today."
Music

Submission + - Hipster Runoff hacked and archives destroyed. Why? (vice.com)

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derekmead
derekmead writes: "Hipster Runoff, a site that's made a name for itself by making fun of the indie music industry, was apparently hacked this morning and is currently offline. In an interview, the guy behind the site said his backups and archives have been sabotaged, and that he suspects someone in music (band, industry type) was behind it. Still, who in the industry is so sensitive that they'd take the time to ax a one-man satire blog? Lana del Rey?"
NASA

Submission + - NASA, General Motors team to build robotic glove for human hands (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "NASA and General Motors today said they were developing a robotic glove humans can use to prevent or reduce the risk of repetitive stress injuries. The Human Grasp Assist device, also known as the K-glove or Robo-Glove, resulted from GM and NASA's Robonaut 2 (R2) project, which sent the first human-like robot into space where it is now lives on the International Space Station."
Cloud

Submission + - Microsoft: RDP Vulnerability Should be Patched Immediately (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Microsoft is urging organizations to apply the sole critical update in this month’s Patch Tuesday release as soon as possible. The critical bulletin – one of six security bulletins issued as part of today’s release – addresses two vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

Those IT admins who use RDP to manage their machines over the internet, which is essentially the default in cloud-based installations such as Amazon’s AWS, need to patch as quickly as possible, said Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek.

Besides the RDP bugs, this month’s Patch Tuesday addressed five other vulnerabilities: two denial-of-service bugs and an escalation of privileges issue in Microsoft Windows; a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Expression Design; and an escalation of privileges issue in Microsoft Visual Studio. All those issues are rated ‘important’ with the exception of one of the Windows’ denial-of-service bugs, which is rated ‘moderate.’

Submission + - Smartphones More Accurate, Faster, Cheaper for Disease Surveillance

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Smartphones are showing promise in disease surveillance in the developing world. The Kenya Ministry of Health, along with researchers in Kenya for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that smartphone use was cheaper than traditional paper survey methods to gather disease information, after the initial set-up cost. Survey data collected with smartphones also in this study had fewer errors and were more quickly available for analyses than data collected on paper, according to a study presented today at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta.

Submission + - US, EU, Japan Complain to WTO Over China's Rare Earth Ban (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: China's rare earth monopoly has resulted in a shortage as China blocks their export and the rest of the world resumes their operations. Now in a first ever joint filing from three members of the WTO Japan, the EU and the US are not sitting idly by as China repeatedly ignores the WTO's orders to export rare earths and raw materials at a fair price to other countries. China claims that the embargoes are in place to protect its environment while Obama denounces China as being unfair and not playing by the rules of the WTO. In 2009, the WTO released a report that explained how actions like China's hurts trade partners.
IT

Submission + - Companies More Likely To Outsource Than Train IT Employees (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "IT pros feeling the pressure to boost tech skills should expect little support from their current employers, according to a recent report on IT skills. '9 in 10 business managers see gaps in workers' skill sets, yet organizations are more likely to outsource a task or hire someone new than invest in training an existing staff. Perhaps worse, a significant amount of training received by IT doesn't translate to skills they actually use on the job.'"
Games

Submission + - The Consoles Are Dying Says Developer (itproportal.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Whilst you might have often heard that PC gaming is dying — detractors have been claiming this for over a decade — one developer has a different take: that in fact it's the consoles that are on the way out. In a 26 minute presentation at GDC — available now as a voice over'd slideshow — Ben Cousins who heads mobile/tablet game maker ngmoco, uses some rather convincing statistics of electronic and gaming purchases along with market shares of developers and publishers from just a few years ago, that when compared with today, displays some surprising results. The old guard, including the three big console manufacturers — Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft — are losing out massively, compared with the new generation of gaming platform developers, Facebook, Apple and Google. With the new companies, the audience size is vastly increased thanks to more of a focus on tablet, mobile and browser based gaming. Facebook, iPhone and Android users weigh in at over a billion users. Compare that with the main consoles, the Xbox, Wii and PS3 and you have hardware that has only sold around (even when combined) a few hundred million units.

Submission + - McLaren MP4-12C supercar proves Moore's law is alive and well (extremetech.com)

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MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "An excerpt from ExtremeTech, where one of its writers was lucky enough to test drive McLaren's new supercar: 'Dr. Jekyll, meet Mr. Hyde. 200 mph sports car, meet the quarter-million-dollar vehicle with no gas guzzler tax. I am cruising California highways in a 592-hp supercar at 70 mph, getting 30 mpg, and listening to an iPod playlist as we glide smoothly over worn asphalt roads. Two hours later, within the confines of the Auto Club Speedway east of Los Angeles, I hit the throttle and three seconds after that, from standstill, with no wheelspin, we’re passing 60 mph en route to 100 mph and momentary deafness from the engine roar. McLaren extends the performance, safety, and even environmental envelopes through the mastery of exotic, lightweight materials: carbon fiber, Kevlar, magnesium, titanium, even gold plating (seriously) where it helps. It borrows heavily from racing technology and even uses some technologies banned from racing because it made the race cars too good, such as movable rear wings, adaptive suspensions, and torque vectoring. Most of all, though, the MP4-12C follows on from where the McLaren F1 left off in the 1990s. Famously, the three-seater F1 cost over $1 million — but the MP4-12C, which has comparable performance and a few more mod cons, is just $230,000. Apparently Moore’s law applies to sports cars, too."

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