401193
submission
andruk writes:
Evidently Google's Android is already forcing companies to open up. According to the article:
"With the introduction of the iPhone from Apple, one of the first mainstream multimedia devices, and Google's plan to make the software that runs cellphones, the industry is being pushed toward a more open approach."
401165
submission
SoyChemist writes:
Scientists from Korea and the Czech Republic have discovered new drugs that can counteract the chemical overload caused by nerve gas. All of the experimental medications belong to a family of chemicals called oximes. Those molecules reactivate the enzyme that is damaged by the chemical weapons. Last year, the FDA approved the first combined atropine and oxime auto-injector for use by emergency personnel. Israel has been providing them to their citizens since the first Gulf War.
401163
submission
ozydingo writes:
EMI is reportedly considering to significantly cut funding to trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI. Coming at the heels of certain setbacks in the RIAA's ongoing legal campaign against P2P users, this move may be an indication of the label's dissatisfaction with how the RIAA has been handling the changing scene of music distribution. If followed through, it may force the RIAA to reassess its methods of approach in dealing with P2P music distribution.
401059
submission
Stony Stevenson writes:
Al Gore's Climate Crisis website has been hacked by spammers using an interesting technique to affect Google's rankings. Hackers inserted links into the source code of the web pages of Gore's site. These links were not visible to regular users as they were buried in the source code, but they were picked up by search engine software to affect the position of another site altogether.
Symantec fears that a vulnerability in WordPress web publishing software has left many bloggers open to attack by the same method.
385127
submission
dprovine writes:
According to a joint investigation by series of articles in The Washington Post and
60 Minutes, a forensic test used by the FBI for decades is known to be invalid. The National Academy of Science issued a report in
2004 that FBI investigators had given "problematic" testimony to juries. The FBI later
stopped using "bullet lead analysis", but sent a letter to law enforcement officials
saying that they still fully supported the science behind it. Hundreds of criminal
defendants — some already convicted in part on the testimony of FBI experts — were
not informed about the problems with the evidence used against them in court.
Does anyone at the Justice Department even care about what effect this will have on
how the public in general (and juries in particular) regards the trustworthiness of
FBI testimony?
