Comment: Re:Culmination of a dream (Score 1) 372
Study confirming the finds in 2001 can be found in Molecular Ecology Vol 21 (24 Issues in 2012)
Article name: impact of genetically modified organisms
Comment: Re:Culmination of a dream (Score 1) 372
I believe that about ten years ago it was made clear that modified corn spread among the domestic strains in Mexico.
It was claimed long before but was denied by the GM-industries "scientists".
Russia funds research in 'zombifying' weapons-> 2
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Unsichtbarer_Mensch writes "Mind-bending ‘psychotronic’ guns that can effectively turn people into zombies have been given the go-ahead by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The futuristic weapons – which will attack the central nervous system of their victims – are being developed by the country’s scientists."
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The futuristic weapons – which will attack the central nervous system of their victims – are being developed by the country’s scientists."
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Teacher fired after refusing to hand over Facebook login->
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hessian writes "A Michigan teacher's aide is fighting a legal battle with the Lewis Cass Intermediate School District for removing her from her position after refusing to give the district access to her Facebook page.
Kimberly Hester was a teacher's aide at Frank Squires Elementary School in Cassopolis, Mich. last April when she jokingly posted a photo of a coworker to her personal Facebook page. The picture shows a pair of shoes and pants around the ankles, WSBT-TV reports."
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Kimberly Hester was a teacher's aide at Frank Squires Elementary School in Cassopolis, Mich. last April when she jokingly posted a photo of a coworker to her personal Facebook page. The picture shows a pair of shoes and pants around the ankles, WSBT-TV reports."
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Up To 1.5 Million Visa, MasterCard Credit Card Numbers Stolen
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An anonymous reader writes "Global Payments, the U.S.-based credit card processor company that experienced a security breach affecting plastic issued from Visa and MasterCard, today confirmed that the breached portion of its processing system was confined to North America. The company also finally revealed how many credit card numbers were stolen: less than 1,500,000."
Comment: Re:Not Bias (Score 1) 619
But police still managed to bust torrent-sites and that 15 year old anon..
Comment: Re:Lesson for other hacking groups (Score 2) 278
He did tweet " the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist" and basically disapeared for a month..
Comment: Re:Wiki leaks, AMRAAM dries up (Score 1) 438
Gripen is pretty adaptable and can in worst case scenario be adapted to use R-77 (AA-12 Adder).
Or just sit tight until 2015 and use MBDA Meteor which it is already prepared for.
Comment: Re:Ironically, most of this is payed by EU money (Score 1) 347
To be fair there are two representatives, Christian Engström and Amelia Andersdotter.
Patent Markings May Spell Trouble For Activision 82
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from the almost-rocket-docket dept.
from the almost-rocket-docket dept.
eldavojohn writes "If you pick up your copy of Guitar Hero and read the literature, you'll notice it says 'patent pending' and cites a number of patents. A group alleges no such patent pends nor are some of the patents applicable. If a judge finds Activision guilty of misleading the public in this manner, they could become liable for up to $500 per product sold under false patent marking. The patents in question seem to be legitimately Guitar Hero-oriented, and little is to be found about the mysterious group. The final piece of the puzzle puts the filing in Texas Northern District Court, which might be close enough to Texas Eastern District Court to write this off as a new kind of 'false patent marking troll' targeting big fish with deep coffers."
Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris"
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from the ad-nauseum-roundhouse dept.
from the ad-nauseum-roundhouse dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."
Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies 397
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from the cause-or-symptom dept.
from the cause-or-symptom dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Develop has an excellent piece up profiling a bunch of average to awful titles that flopped so hard they harmed or sunk their studio or publisher. The list includes Haze, Enter The Matrix, Hellgate: London, Daikatana, Tabula Rasa, and — of course — Duke Nukem Forever. 'Daikatana was finally released in June 2000, over two and a half years late. Gamers weren't convinced the wait was worth it. A buggy game with sidekicks (touted as an innovation) who more often caused you hindrance than helped ... achieved an average rating of 53. By this time, Eidos is believed to have invested over $25 million in the studio. And they called it a day. Eidos closed the Dallas Ion Storm office in 2001.'"
Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project
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from the duck-and-cover dept.
from the duck-and-cover dept.
garg0yle writes "Police in San Diego were called to investigate an 11-year-old's science project, consisting of 'a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics,' after the vice-principal came to the conclusion that it was a bomb. Charges aren't being laid against the youth, but it's being recommended that he and his family 'get counseling.' Apparently, the student violated school policies — I'm assuming these are policies against having any kind of independent thought?"
Psystar Activation Servers Down? 245
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from the bad-news-bears dept.
from the bad-news-bears dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I purchased Rebel EFI in support of Psystar's crusade back in October. Just 3 short months later, I have no support. I found this out when I upgraded my hard drive and installed Snow Leopard using Rebel EFI. The program can no longer 'phone home' to activate or download/install drivers. This is a direct contradiction to Psystar's promise posted on their website: 'Psystar will continue to support all of its existing customers of hardware and software through this transitional period. Warranties on hardware will continue to be honored as long the customer has a valid warranty. Rebel EFI support for existing customers, as always, will remain exclusively available through email and the built-in ticket interface.' Has anyone else run into this issue? It has been 9 days with no response from Psystar by e-mail or phone."
Bus Pirate project v3 hardware hacking multi-tool
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An anonymous reader writes "The Bus Pirate project just released v3 of their open source hardware hacking multi-tool, a USB device that interacts with electronics through a terminal interface. Use the Bus Pirate to see how much of your private information is stored on smartcard SIM chips. Explore the Wii Nunchuck over the I2C bus like Johnny Lee, or read and write EEPROM chips at any voltage. Check out the existing chip demonstrations. BPv3 has lots of features a hardware hacker might need. There's currently a group purchase of assembled hardware for $30, including wordwide shipping."