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Submission + - Concussions, brain degeneration and neuropathology

Submitted by

danglia

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @06:19PM

danglia writes: "On the heels of the SuperBowl, here's a NYTimes article detailing the degenerative effects football players face from multiple concussions. After more than 15 concussions, former Eagles star Andre Waters, 44, committed suicide. Autopsies revealed that his brain tissue had degenerated into that of an 85-year-old man.

From the Article:

"The Waters discovery began solely on the hunch of Chris Nowinski, a former Harvard football player and professional wrestler whose repeated concussions ended his career, left him with severe migraines and depression, and compelled him to expose the effects of contact-sport brain trauma. After hearing of the suicide, Mr. Nowinski phoned Mr. Waters's sister Sandra Pinkney with a ghoulish request: to borrow the remains of her brother's brain.""

Submission + - e-petition for solar power generators

Submitted by

Ardavan1367

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @06:12PM

Ardavan1367 writes: "Innovations this year have been more than a success. A new era with an image of technology, intelligence, computations. Human workforce has managed so far to create one from nothing by a knowledge above natural powers, Science. With the new innovations in the solar power panels, new panels are improved for power generation on long durations and work more efficiently. Fields of these panels can be used along with electrically charged cars and devices and our extra costs on oil can be cut off.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SolarPower/"

Vulnerability In Firefox Popup Blocker 100

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @06:01PM from the all-your-files dept.

cj writes in with news of a vulnerability in Firefox's stock popup blocker discovered by Michal Zalewski. The vulnerability can allow a malicious user to read files from an affected system. The attacker would "need to plant a predictably named file with exploit code on the target system. This sounds hard, but isn't," according to the article.

Submission + - RIAA sues man for downloading five songs

Submitted by Ten24 on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @05:53PM

Ten24 writes: "An Augusta, Maine man is in hot water with the music industry after downloading five songs. 23-year-old Scott Hinds has been sued by the Recording Industry of America for illegally downloading the songs through peer to peer networks and now faces a $750 civil penalty for each song...."

Could these guys get any more disgusting? Can the artists stop supporting these guys sometime soon, maybe take a moral stance?

http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/06/riaa_sues_august a_5_songs/

Submission + - Filemaker Open-Source look Alikes ???

Submitted by

Steve Bovy

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @05:49PM

Steve Bovy writes: "Are their any open source products/projects that address the same application space as Filemaker ???"

Submission + - US Shopping Cart Census

Submitted by Intron on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @05:42PM

Intron writes: The US Census Bureau has a story from the near future on Missing Shopping Carts. What this story says to me is that their budget and staff are bigger than they need to be to do their job. Maybe someone can fill me in on the important story I'm missing here.

Submission + - Electronic medical records

Submitted by

jbrodkin

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @05:33PM

jbrodkin writes: "Electronic medical records are billed as the savior of the health care industry, but three out of four doctors have failed to latch onto this trend because of cost. This is creating a huge divide between big and small players in the health industry. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020607-healt hcare-medical-records.html"

Viacom Claims Copyright On Irrlicht Video 258

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @05:19PM from the some-kinda-nerve dept.

stinkytoe writes in with the news that Nikolaus Gebhardt, developer of the cross-platform game engine library Irrlicht, recently had one of his video tutorials taken off of YouTube. A thread on Irrlicht's forum contains a copy of the takedown notice. From Gebhardt's blog: "Viacom, the corporation behind MTV, DreamWorks and Paramount is now claiming they own the copyright on a video of an Irrlicht tutorial. Which is completely ridiculous, of course: The whole thing has been written by me and the Irrlicht team, even textures and skins and logos have been created by me, and an Irrlicht Engine user... simply filmed and published it on YouTube.com. Here is a screenshot of the tutorial, it's really just a 2D GUI rendered using the 3D engine, nothing special at all."

Submission + - How Does One Combat Spam?

Submitted by on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @05:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: Hey Slashdot crowd, I was curious if anyone has any suggestions on offensively dealing with spam. For a couple years I've been fairly lucky — I haven't really been smacked with spam, maybe one spam e-mail a day or so — but recently I've been getting up to 50 junk e-mails per day on most of my addresses. I don't want to change my e-mail address nor my personal domain because of these idiots, so that's out of the question. My e-mail client does a decent job of cleaning it up and putting it in the Junk mail folder, but are there any offensive measures you guys take against a spammer?

Is there any organization or some sort of united front where I may send my junk e-mail to so it can be analyzed or dealt with? Really, anything at all that can be done so I feel like I'm making a difference instead of just bending over and taking it?

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