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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

Hacktivist Sabu: Anonymous traitor or FBI martyr?->

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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."
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Music

Hipster Runoff hacked and archives destroyed. Why?->

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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?"
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NASA

NASA, General Motors team to build robotic glove for human hands->

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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."
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Cloud

Microsoft: RDP Vulnerability Should be Patched Immediately->

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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.’"
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Smartphones More Accurate, Faster, Cheaper for Disease Surveillance

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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."

US, EU, Japan Complain to WTO Over China's Rare Earth Ban->

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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."
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IT

Companies More Likely To Outsource Than Train IT Employees->

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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.'"
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