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Submission + - The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer (nytimes.com)

Submitted by The-Bus on Monday June 18, 2007 @12:25PM

The-Bus writes: Julian Dibbell has written a great article for the New York Times Magazine on the life of Chinese gold farmers. It's a great read and has a lot of very interesting tidbits, from comparing the potential size of the economy of MMO games and the GDP of Bolivia, to a Stanford scholar who found similarities between contemporary anti-gold-farmer rhetoric and 19th-century U.S. literature on immigrant Chinese laundry workers.

Submission + - Are heart attack victems really dead?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @07:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating — the definition of "clinical death" — and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died? As recently as 1993, when Dr. Sherwin Nuland wrote the best seller "How We Die," the conventional answer was that it was his cells that had died. The patient couldn't be revived because the tissues of his brain and heart had suffered irreversible damage from lack of oxygen. This process was understood to begin after just four or five minutes. If the patient doesn't receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation within that time, and if his heart can't be restarted soon thereafter, he is unlikely to recover. That dogma went unquestioned until researchers actually looked at oxygen-starved heart cells under a microscope. What they saw amazed them, according to Dr. Lance Becker, an authority on emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "After one hour," he says, "we couldn't see evidence the cells had died. We thought we'd done something wrong." In fact, cells cut off from their blood supply died only hours later. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186/site/newsweek ?GT1=9951

Feed Beijing Olympics to get Lenovo-designed torch, seeded clouds (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Thursday April 26, 2007 @08:32PM

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Apparently, Lenovo kept enough staff on board to create the 2008 Olympic torch, as the firm's Cloud of Promise design was recently selected over 300 competing themes and will be "carried by torchbearers around the world in the Olympic Torch Relay preceding the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games." With Lenovo being a China-based firm, the company's chairman (Yang Yuanqing) stated that it was "an honor to have its torch design chosen," and oddly enough, that wasn't the only cloud-related Olympic news coming out of Beijing. Reportedly, meteorologists will be utilizing a process known as "cloud seeding" to force rain out beforehand and subsequently clear the filthy skies and alleviate the purported "50-percent chance of rain during the opening and closing ceremonies." Of course, this isn't exactly a push to become a greener society or anything, but at least the HD feeds from around the area will look a bit better during the competitions.

Read - Lenovo designs Olympic torch
Read - Cloud seeding in China

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Submission + - Student evades Cisco security, gets suspended

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BobB

on Thursday April 26, 2007 @08:32PM

BobB writes: "A default setting in Cisco network access control gear allowed a University of Portland student to dodge a security scan by Cisco's NAC software agent and get on the school network. The exploit was the work of a sophomore who was suspended for doing it, and further use of the weakness has been blocked by changing a setting on the Cisco box involved, according to Cisco. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/042607-cisco -nac-unversity-portland.html"

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