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Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal 182

Posted by samzenpus
from the crustacean-frustration dept.
Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning but new research shows they are making shrimp swim into that big bowl of cocktail sauce in the sky. Alex Ford, a marine biologist at the University of Portsmouth, found that shrimp exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine are 5 times more likely to swim towards light instead of away from it. Shrimp usually swim away from light as it is associated with birds or fishermen.
Privacy

Germany's Home Seretary plans new anti terror laws

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An anonymous reader writes "According to Germany minister of Interior Wolfgang Schaeuble terror suspects should not be able to use the phone. Heise reports about the new plans of the controversial politician:

In an interview with German newsweekly Der Spiegel, Germany's Home Secretary says that "conspiracy" needs to be made a crime and "dangerous parties" need to be "incarcerated" as "combatants." [...] Schäuble also says that the "intentional killing of suspects" is not a taboo strictly ruled out by the German Basic Law, but rather a "legal problem" that the Home Secretary says "still has to be looked into." The example he mentioned was the possible capture of Osama bin Laden. Schäuble is thus calling for the German government to be given more legal "leeway."[...] Germany's Home Secretary believes that these measures are necessary because Germany is "in the crossfire of Islamic terrorism"; he also remembers the time before September 11, 2001. For that reason, Schäuble says the "monitoring of communication" is "vital.


Schaeuble plans also to enact a law that would allow state authorities to search computers per internet connection, but many experts suspect that the Federal Police is not capable to enforce this "online searches"."
Microsoft

Microsoft Not Affected by GPLv3 After All?->

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something_wicked_thi writes "ArsTechnica has posted an article that offers a counterpoint to the Groklaw coverage of Microsoft's statement regarding whether they are subject to the terms of the GPL. The ArsTechnica article takes the stance that the FSF might be wrong in their assessment of the situation and that Microsoft probably has not done anything to subject themselves to the GPL but are being cautious nonetheless.

The Groklaw article starts by suggesting the statement is laughable and seems to offer little evidence to support this conclusion. On the other hand, the ArsTechnica article has a more traditional style of journalism. Could Microsoft have a point, after all?"
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Unlimited Virgin Media ISP not quite so Unlimited->

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Anonymous Coward writes "For a while, since Virgin Media rolled out 20mbit broadband across the UK they quietly set about throttling every connection that consumes X amount of bandwidth during peek times. Causing the connection to drop from, 20mbit all the way down to 5mbit. The cheaper packages suffer further, as you will see from the information they provide.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traf fic.html

They still provide 'unlimited' service, according to their advertising but that is not true."
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NASA purchases $19 million toilet from Russia

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Gary
Gary writes "NASA has paid $19 million for a Russian-built international space station toilet system. The toilet system, similar to the one already in use in the station's Zvezda Service Module, is scheduled to arrive at the space station in 2008 and will offer more privacy for a crew expected to double from three to six by 2009. The space station toilet physically resembles those used on Earth, except it has leg restraints and thigh bars to keep astronauts and cosmonauts from floating away. NASA says purchasing the multi million dollar toilet is a bargain compared to developing one from scratch."

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