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Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:49PM from the type-A-negative-personality dept.

trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."

Comment Your whois lookup is wrong (Score 1) 296

by sidney on Sunday May 31, 2009 @02:21AM (#28156067) Attached to: New Mac Clone Maker 'Quo' To Open Retail Store

From TFA: "The Quo Web site is being worked on now and is set to launch next week."

From a whois lookup directly on the domaincontender.com site:

Domain Name: QUOCOMPUTER.COM
Registrar: DOMAIN CONTENDER, LLC
Whois Server: whois.domaincontender.com
Referral URL: http://www.domaincontender.com/
Name Server: NS1.IZDIGITAL.NET
Name Server: NS2.IZDIGITAL.NET
Status: ok
Updated Date: 16-mar-2009
Creation Date: 29-jan-2009
Expiration Date: 29-jan-2010

>>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 31 May 2009 06:16:55 UTC

Submission + - Fox News' FTP Password Anyone?

Submitted by Paris The Pirate on Monday July 23, 2007 @06:38AM

Paris The Pirate writes: Jeff Goodman writes "While browsing around the Fox News website, I found that directory indexes are turned on. So, I started following the tree up, until I got to /admin. Eventually, I found my way into /admin/xml_parser/zdnet/, in which, there is a shell script. Seeing as it's a shell script, and I use Linux, I took a peek. Inside, is a username and password to an FTP. So, of course, I tried to login. The result? Epic fail on Fox's part. And seriously, what kind of password is T1me Out. This is just pathetic." Anyone want to suggest a password policy to Fox?

Submission + - Vista DRM: Longest Suicide Note in History

Submitted by enos on Sunday December 24, 2006 @02:41AM

enos writes: Peter Gutmann describes the consequences of Vista's DRM including the intentional crippling of functionality, unnecessary burdens on hardware manufacturers as well as unintended side effects. For example, Vista automatically and silently reduces the quality of audio and video on untrusted devices when "premium" content is present. This can have life threatening consequences when used in medical imaging where the compression artifacts can be misinterpreted.

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