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Disappointing Cancer Study Results Go Unreported 77

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 27, 2008 @07:01PM
from the laetrile-is-delicious dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Science News reports on a new study showing that most cancer drug trial results are never published, probably leaving patients vulnerable to cocktails that have already been shown to be dangerous or useless."

California Sec. of State Wants Open Source E-Voting Systems 112

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 27, 2008 @09:12AM
from the nowhere-to-go-but-up dept.

Lucas123 writes "California's Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, was among a group of e-voting experts at MIT yesterday who said the nation's electronic voting systems are still not secure and many run on faulty software. Among the suggestions offered to fix the problem: use open source software, stop delivering e-voting machines to polling places weeks in advance of an election, and keep a paper trail for auditing purposes. Bowen also believes that a ubiquitous Internet voting system could not work without the use of a national ID card system."

158 Pages of Microsoft's Dirty Laundry 296

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday March 01, 2008 @10:01AM
from the isn't-that-a-song dept.

KrispyRasher writes "Even internally, Microsoft couldn't agree on what the base requirements to run Vista were, but that didn't stop it from inaccurately promoting the OS as running on some hardware. 158 pages of Microsoft internal emails reveal scandalous truths about the squabbles that took place in the lead up to Vista's launch."