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Submission + - FDA Admits Chickens Test Positive for Arsenic (usatoday.com)

Submitted by plastick
plastick writes: The FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that's fatal in high doses. But the real story is where this arsenic comes from: It's added to the chicken feed on purpose.

Even worse, the FDA says its own research shows that the arsenic added to the chicken feed ends up in the chicken meat where it is consumed by humans. So for the last sixty years, American consumers who eat conventional chicken have been swallowing arsenic, a known cancer-causing chemical.

Pfizer, the manufacturer of the chicken feed product known as Roxarsone has decided to pull the product off the shelves. Pfizeris the the very same company that makes vaccines.

Another disturbing fact you probably didn't know about hamburgers and conventional beef: Chicken litter (yes, chicken crap) containing arsenic is fed to cows in factory beef operations. So the arsenic that's pooped out by the chickens gets consumed and concentrated in the tissues of cows, which is then ground into hamburger to be consumed by the masses.
Youtube

Submission + - Bill Could Land YouTube LipSynch Artists In Prison (foxnews.com)

Submitted by plastick
plastick writes: Senate Bill 978, a bipartisan measure introduced last month by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Christopher Coons (D-Del.), is backed by supporters who say it closes glaring loopholes in current copyright infringement law created by the realities of the digital age.

“As technology rapidly evolves, our laws must be updated to protect creativity and innovation,” said a statement by Cornyn.

But critics say a section of the bill provides for steep penalties — up to five years in prison — for “publicly performing” copyrighted material and embedding the video to sites like YouTube.

“It seems like (the bill) is attacking the core of the Internet itself, which is to promote communication amongst people all over the world,” said Hemanshu “Hemu” Nigam, a former White House counsel for online protection and the founder of the online safety advisory firm SSP Blue.
Apple

Submission + - Did Apple Reject An App And Copy It In iOS 5? (digitizor.com)

Submitted by dkd903
dkd903 writes: Apple announced iOS 5 a few days back and they have “copied” a lot of features from others. If a report on The Register is to be believed, Apple has sunk to a new low. They rejected an app called wi-fi sync last year and have incorporated the same in iOS 5 when it was unveiled this week.
Java

Submission + - 10 Things that suck about Java (betanews.com) 1

Submitted by lseltzer
lseltzer writes: There was a time when important people claimed that Java was the future of computing and major industry companies — even Microsoft bought into it. Now Java has degenerated into an unpleasant legacy technology that causes way more problems than it solves.
The Courts

Submission + - Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft In i4i Case (computerworld.com)

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CWmike
CWmike writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a $300 million patent infringement ruling against Microsoft, granting a victory Thursday to i4i (PDF document), which filed the lawsuit back in 2007. The legal battle already forced Microsoft to modify certain functionality in its Word application in 2009, when the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled in favor of Toronto-based i4i and told Microsoft to stop selling Word in the U.S. At issue was an i4i patent that covers technology that lets users manipulate the architecture and content of a document, which i4i alleged Microsoft infringed upon by letting Word users create custom XML documents. Microsoft removed the feature. 'This case raised an important issue of law which the Supreme Court itself had questioned in an earlier decision and which we believed needed resolution. While the outcome is not what we had hoped for, we will continue to advocate for changes to the law that will prevent abuse of the patent system and protect inventors who hold patents representing true innovation,' Microsoft said in a statement."

Submission + - UK Government Seeking to Expand Website Blocking (ispreview.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The UK Internet Watch Foundation ( IWF ), which already works with most consumer broadband ISPs to block websites that contain child sexual abuse content, could soon see its "voluntary" remit extended to include internet sites that contain "violent and unlawful" content.

Comment Where did all that money go? (Score 1) 932

by plastick (#36038656) Attached to: Draft Proposal Would Create Agency To Tax Cars By the Mile
Gotta love our effed up government looking for more ways to tax the ever living crap out of what we barely have left - in an economy that's almost collapsing.

Didn't they already borrow so much money that it's not possible to pay it all back? And now they want more??? How much is enough?

And how much did these traitors spend invading Libya? It's so insane.

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