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Comment: Re:Hundreds, you say? (Score 1) 72

Except that by generating headlines, the repositories of those headlines (like /. here) will store the articles concerning those events. The only way their message (albeit not a very productive one in my opinion) will disappear forever will be if the articles covering it do too, and when that happens you can bet your comment on it will disappear as well.
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Can I Use A Laptop For Remote Desktop Gaming?

Submitted by Bevilr
Bevilr writes "I'm going abroad early next year, and I want to be able to access and use my homebuilt gaming computer. I'm going to be moving around Europe, but I should have broadband capabilities for month long stretches. I obviously don't want to lug my desktop from house to house, but considering I just rebuilt it, I want to play games on it. Now that Steam and Digital Downloads have proliferated the industry I feel like I'll be able to get new games and play them on it from afar. However I was wondering about ping, and whether the quality of the laptop matters. Can I get a netbook, a mid-range laptop or will I need a laptop that costs so much it can run the game itself? I guess what I'm really asking is: can I create my own personal version of On-Live?"

Is the music industry hunting tab sites now?->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Guitar Noise, a popular site among aspiring guitar players, has been served a take down notice from attorneys representing the NMPA (National Music Publishers Association) and the MPA (The Music Publishers Association of the United States, Inc.) Perhaps the new frontier in the discussion of intellectual property rights online is the collection of sites that distribute tabs and sheet music that was reverse engineered by fans. Perhaps this is emblematic of a new trend of litigious exploits. The question that begs to be answered is whether the dissemination of lyrics and musical instructions harms the industry, and if it does, by how much."
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F.D.A. Approves Vaccine for Prostate Cancer-> 1

Submitted by reverseengineer
reverseengineer writes "The US Food and Drug Administration has given its first approval for a therapeutic cancer vaccine. In a clinical trial 'involving 512 men, those who got Provenge (sipuleucel-T) had a median survival of 25.8 months after treatment while those who got a placebo lived a median of 21.7 months. After three years, 32 percent of those who got Provenge were alive, compared with 23 percent of those who got the placebo.'

“The big story here is that this is the first proof of principle and proof that immunotherapy works in general in cancer, which I think is a huge observation,” said Dr. Philip Kantoff, chief of solid tumor oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the lead investigator in Dendreon’s largest clinical trial for the drug. “I think this is a very big thing and will lead to a lot more enthusiasm for the approach.”"
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Docs Perform First Remote Control Heart Surgery->

Submitted by ByronScott
ByronScott writes "Doctors at a British hospital have just carried out the world’s first surgery using a remote controlled robot! The procedure fixed a patient’s irregular heart rhythm, and although the doctor was in the same hospital as the patient — just through the wall in another room — developers of the RC surgery technology believe this is the first step towards long-distance operations. Imagine a doctor in London performing surgery on your heart in New York!"
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Ubisoft Authentication servers are down->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "After demanding their paying customers to be always online on order to play the latest Ubisoft games it seems that they are having a little problem at this moment: their authentication servers are down. A lot of people are allready complaining in the forum, and according to The Escapist Magazine an Ubisoft employee stated: "I don't have any clear information on what the issue is ...""
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