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Comment: Re:Surprised this isn't regulated more closely (Score 1) 129

by sjames (#40212253) Attached to: Microsoft Certificate Was Used To Sign Flame Malware

But isn't Windows (then and now) supposed to be easy while Linux requires you to be some kind of computer genius to use (according to MS PR)?

Something doesn't seem quite right there!

Note that I can install a 12 year old Debian system, do a dist-upgrade and be running the latest and greatest. Of course, since I can as easily download a current iso without Debian grabbing at my wallet, there's no need to do that.

Science

There Is a Link between Genius and Insanity->

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An anonymous reader writes "Genius and insanity may actually go together, according to scientists who found that mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are often found in highly creative and intelligent people.

The link is being investigated by a group of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder."
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Medicine

Has science defeated prostate cancer?->

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techfun89
techfun89 writes "Zytiga was approved last year for advanced prostate cancer patients who had already received chemo but whose cancer had still metastasized.

Zytiga is a unique compound which penetrates the cancerous cells and shuts down its testosterone production, which quickly kills off the damaged cells and prevents their spread. Zytiga takes things a step further and also remains effective after the cancer metastasizes where other drugs loose their effectiveness.

In the Zytiga test group, the cancer progressed at only half the speed of the control group with patients reporting less pain and a noticeable delay before chemo was needed. As a result the trial was cancelled to allow every patient to use the drug."
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Education

Schools Need 100Mbps Per 1,000 Users ->

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alphadogg writes "American schools need mega-broadband networks — and they need them soon, a new report says. Specifically, U.S. educational institutions will need networks that deliver broadband performance of 100Mbps for every 1,000 students and staff members in time for the 2014-15 school year. That's the conclusion reached by the State Educational Technology Directors Association. Why the need for speed? For one thing, more and more schools are using online textbooks and collaboration tools, said Christine Fox, director of educational leadership and research at SETDA. Broadband access must be "ubiquitous" and "robust," she said, adding that schools should think of broadband as a "necessary utility," not as an add-on. The report, called " The Broadband Imperative," further suggests that schools should upgrade their networks to support speeds of 1Gbps per 1,000 users in five years."
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Earth

Mysterious radiation burst recorded in tree rings->

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ananyo writes "Just over 1,200 years ago, the planet was hit by an extremely intense burst of high-energy radiation of unknown cause, scientists studying tree-ring data have found.
The radiation burst, which seems to have hit between ad 774 and ad 775, was detected by looking at the amounts of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in tree rings that formed during the ad 775 growing season in the Northern Hemisphere. The increase in 14C levels is so clear that the scientists conclude that the atmospheric level of 14C must have jumped by 1.2% over the course of no longer than a year, about 20 times more than the normal rate of variation (abstract abstract).
Yet, as the only known events that can produce a 14C spike are supernova explosions or giant solar flares, and neither event was observed at the time, astronomers have a cosmic mystery on their hands."
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Windows

Acer: Windows 8 on ARM performance "isn't great"->

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Barence writes "Acer says it has no plans to launch Windows 8 laptops based on ARM processors, after claiming performance "isn't great".

Acer is planning to launch a series of Ultrabooks and laptops after the release of Windows 8, but says it won't be using ARM for any non-tablet devices because the performance isn't up to scratch. "According to engineer studies, unless we go into ARM 64-bit, otherwise performance is still not so great," said Acer chairman J.T. Wang. "ARM is a newcomer, young and attractive but it takes some time.""
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