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As airlines caving in to PETA, scientists are urged to take a stand->

Submitted by mapkinase
mapkinase writes "Fresh issue of Nature features two articles on recent development in the war of animal rights activists against human health. It turned out that

Many airlines, including Lufthansa, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, already refuse to carry research primates...

under the pressure of PETA and other ilk (I am actually shocked that airlines caved without even a whimper in any major news source). Author of the first article proposes that scientists should take a stand against luddites:

Picture a crowd of scientists waving placards plastered with photographs of stroke victims and sufferers of Parkinson's disease. They are demonstrating outside the corporate headquarters of British Airways, Lufthansa and Delta, demanding that the airlines stop impeding the biomedical research that could deliver big advances against these and other diseases.

if scientists want continued access to animals as research models, they will have to appear on the front line with every bit as much visibility, determination, organization and persistence as animal-rights activists now muster.

We, scientists, are the force to be reckoned with and every scientist who still believes that human rights to the best health care supersede rights of the animals, imaginary or not, should take a stand, not only scientists actively involved in medical research on primates."
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Cisco To Buy NDS->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Is Cisco doing the right thing? After Cisco terminating the employment of almost 13.000 employees several months ago, is now adding about 5000 more employees from NDS. I am wondering what will be the repecursions for NDS as well as for Cisco, as once again, Cisco is taken over a company in an industry that is already quite full of competitors and that has its own way of operating"
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Bug in OpenBSD's random() function->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "random() is a C library function which can generate reproducible random number sequences. The folks at ISC have found a bug in OpenBSD's implementation of random() which causes it to generate a sequence of zeros. Such an exposition of the bug is made possible because it is free software. It seems that OpenBSD have fixed it within a day too!"
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Australian Greens demand public access to cloak and dagger anti-piracy meetings->

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Fluffeh
Fluffeh writes "Continuing the recent stories on the secret, closed door, FOI blocked talks, the Australian Greens have filed a motion in the Senate requesting that the Government release documents regarding its closed door meetings on Internet piracy which the Attorney-General’s Department has blocked from being released under Freedom of Information laws. This morning, Greens Communications Spokesperson Scott Ludlam filed an order in the Senate that the Government disclose details of the most recent meeting. “The Government refuses to reveal almost any information about the attendees, the substance or the outcomes of the meeting,” he said in a separate statement. “A Freedom of Information request from a journalist looks like it’s been met with maximum resistance.”"
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Neutrino Flavor Change Mystery Solved?->

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astroengine
astroengine writes "Another piece of the neutrino puzzle has fallen into place, thanks to new results announced last week by the Daya Bay collaboration in China. The experiment has only been up and running for a couple of months, but the international collaboration's latest measurement might explain how neutrinos change "flavors" — akin to a costume change — as they move through space."
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Lego Used to Make Artificial Bones->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at Cambridge University have used Lego Mindstorms robots to create an artificial bone-like substance. Their research is featured in a video for the Google Science Fair."
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Swiss vote against book price control->

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hinterwaeldler
hinterwaeldler writes "2007 switzerland abandoned book price control (which requires publishers to fix prices for their books and forbids any dealer to sell at another price), reducing prices by 30% to 50% for online buyers. The brick & mortar book stores lobbied the parliament into creating a bill to reinstate the price fixing, against which a referendum was taken by liberals and the pirate party, forcing a popular vote. On march 11, after an intense debate, swiss voters decided against book price control with a large majority of 56%."
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Framesniffing attack against SharePoint and Linkedin-> 1

Submitted by stonedyak
stonedyak writes "Context Information Security has highlighted a weakness in Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari web browsers that enables remote attackers to steal sensitive information held on private Microsoft SharePoint sites, as well as mine data from other public websites such as LinkedIn. In these Framesniffing Attacks, a hidden HTML frame is used to load a target website inside the attacker's malicious webpage to read information about the content and structure of the framed pages. The attack bypasses browser security restrictions that are meant to prevent webpages directly reading the contents of 3rd party sites loaded in frames."
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