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+ - #OpIsreal Aims to knock Isreal off the Intenet-> 0

Submitted by tobiah on Saturday April 06, 2013 @11:26PM

tobiah writes "Anonymous and affiliate groups have launched a joint cyberattack on Isreali websites.

In a video message posted on YouTube, Anonymous said that on April 7, “elite cyber-squadrons from around the world have decided to unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people against Israel as one entity to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace.”

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+ - Bacteria Found to be Common Snowflake Seed-> 1

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tobiah

on Sunday March 02, 2008 @05:51PM

tobiah writes "CBS is reporting on a new study published in Science (subscription required) finding that a significant percentage of snowflake cores are bacteria. The most commonly found bacteria was Pseudomonas syringae, which causes disease in some crops and for which there is an active effort to eradicate it. The study's first author, Brent C. Christner, is quoted suggesting that decreased rain and snowfall might be a negative side effect of this effort. But what I'd really like to know is what do bacterial snowflake look like?"
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