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Submission + - Papua considers tracking chips in HIV patients (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by The Iso
The Iso writes: Papua is a province of Indonesia comprising the western half of the island of New Guinea, and Papua New Guinea is an independent country comprising the eastern half. This story concerns the province. In an effort to control the spread of HIV, the Papua Legislative Council is considering tracking the movements and activities of HIV patients. Is this acceptable to combat the disease?
NASA

Submission + - NASA astronauts drank before launch (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This may not be a good day for NASA. AP reports, at least twice, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, an aviation weekly reported Thursday, citing a special panel studying astronaut health.

The independent panel also found "heavy use of alcohol" before launch that was within the standard 12-hour "bottle-to-throttle" rule, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology, which reported the finding on its Web site.

In Washington, the chairman of the House Science and Technology committee said he hadn't seen the report, "but if the reports of drunken astronauts being allowed to fly prove to be true, I think the agency will have a lot of explaining to do."

"That's not the 'right stuff' as far as I'm concerned," said Bart Gordon, D-Tenn.
Google

Submission + - What Google Giveth, Google Can Taketh Away

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Skidge
Skidge writes: "With the previous story about the power of Google to effectively make your site "cease to exist", here's a story about how Google can direct its gaze to a small site and give a large boost in ad revenue, only to take it away when it decides the site really isn't worth it. From the article, "Google suddenly started sending search traffic to my pages, boosting my ad revenue by a significant amount. Just as suddenly, the search traffic dried up, sending me back into the gutter with the rest of the low-page-rank bums.""
Google

Submission + - Terrorists using Google Maps to plan attacks

Submitted by the Gray Mouser
the Gray Mouser writes: Fox news is reporting that maps printed from the Google Maps website have been found during raids of terrorists' homes. The map had a British base at Basra palace marked with exact coordinates plotted out.

Interesting to note is that some soldiers stated they had considered suing Google if mortar shells had dropped on them.
Nintendo

Submission + - Woman dies after "Hold your wee for a Wii cont

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NewsCloud
NewsCloud writes: "A 28 year old woman was found dead of water intoxication hours after taking part in an Entercom-owned radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest:
Can you hold "it" in for a long time? We're having you drink water every 15 minutes! And the last person to go to the bathroom wins the Wii!
According to Wikipedia: "Water intoxication can be prevented if a person's intake of water and electrolytes closely matches his or her losses. The body's regulatory mechanisms provide a very generous margin of safety if the two are imbalanced, but some extreme activities (such as heavy, prolonged physical exertion), as well as disease states, can overwhelm or impair these mechanisms.""
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Faux Klingons sendings real Americans to war

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An anonymous reader writes: According to US Congressman David Wu (D-OR), a cabal of "faux Klingons" have seized control of the White House {YouTube} — The "President has listened to [...] the so-called Vulcans in the White House, [... b]ut unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek, [...] these guys make [decisions] on ideology. These aren't Vulcans. There are Klingons in the White House." If you're in disbelief over this clear case of pandering to the 1337 wing, check the transcript in the Congressional Record.
The Internet

Submission + - The Penny Per Person Experiment.

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Another Darn Millionaire
Another Darn Millionaire writes: "There were 296,410,404 people who lived in the United States in July 2005. At least, that's what the U.S. Census Bureau says. They used the most recent census data ( 2000 ) to estimate the population in July 2005.

What does this have to do with anything? A man who is calling himself "Another Darn Millionaire" is trying to capitalize on each and every person in that census. The Penny Per Person Experiment is a web site that is selling links for 3,141 "counties". The price? One penny per person.

It works like this. The 2005 estimated population for Anderson County in Texas is 56,408. The price to link from Anderson County, TX on The Penny Per Person Experiment web site is then, 56,408 pennies or $564.08 ( US Dollars ).

The web site is, like the idea, rather simple. A greenish-yellow box at the top of each web page provides visitors with state and "county" drop-down menus that are linked to advertisers' web sites.

Is this a front page news story? Not yet. But let the enthralled and cynical alike, add it to their cauldron of molten blogs and watch the viral publicity grow into a rolling boil. Huh? Just give it time. It will grow.

Check out your county at http://www.thepennyperpersonexperiment.com/"
Power

Ford Airstream Electric Concept Car 202

Posted by kdawson from the fill-it-up-with-H2 dept.
Not to be upstaged by GM's plug-in electric concept vehicle, Ford has unveiled its own concept. The twists are design by Airstream and a hydrogen-powered fuel cell to charge the battery. From the AutoblogGreen article: "The fuel cell, made by Ballard, turns on automatically when the battery charge dips below 40 percent. With the on-board charger (110/220 VAC), the battery pack can be refilled at home. Ford says the HySeries Drive is 50 percent smaller and less complex than conventional fuel cell system and should have more than double the lifetime."
The Courts

Submission + - Cisco lost rights to iPhone trademark last year?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: An investigation into the ongoing trademark dispute between Cisco and Apple over the name "iPhone" appears to show that Cisco does not own the mark as claimed in their recent lawsuit. This is based on publicly available information from the US Patent and Trademark office, as well as public reviews of Cisco products over the past year. The trademark was apparently abandoned in late 2005/early 2006 because Cisco was not using it. TFA: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=236
Linux Business

Submission + - SCO claims they're not done yet

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: According to this article SCO is talking tough again claiming that it has lowered its legal costs and is still making money.
"Although we have had a few setbacks in the court proceedings, important and significant claims remain in the case," McBride wrote. "In other words, to paraphrase a line from Mr. Twain, the rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated." This week Novell alleged in a court filing that SCO was going bankrupt.
The Internet

Submission + - UN offical says org. not taking over internet

Submitted by kaufmanmoore
kaufmanmoore writes: Hamadoun Toure, the new head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union says that he does not plan to take over governance of the internet and leave it up to groups like ICANN. In his statement he says that the ITU will instead focus on bridging the digital divide, internet security and standardize broadband communications. When asked about Chinese censorship Toure said that issue is beyond the mandate of the ITU. The full article is here
Music

Submission + - Senate bill S.256 aims to restrict internet radio

Submitted by JAFSlashdotter
JAFSlashdotter writes: If you enjoy MP3 or OGG streams of internet radio, it's time to pay attention. This week US Senators Lamar Alexander, Joseph Biden, Dianne Feinstein, and Lindsey Graham in their collective wisdom have decided to reintroduce the "Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music (PERFORM) Act". This ARS Technica article explains that PERFORM would restrict our rights to make non-commercial recordings under the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, and require satellite and internet broadcasters to use "technology to prevent music theft". That means goodbye to your favorite streaming audio formats, hello DRM. The EFF said pretty much the same when this bill last reared its ugly head in April of 2006. It's too soon to get the text of this year's version (S.256) online, but it likely to resemble last year's S.2644, which is available through Thomas. Last year's bill died in committee, but if at first you don't succeed...
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - The New Age of Javascript Graphics

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An anonymous reader writes: whenpenguinsattack is running an interesting list containing javascript applications showing off the power of the new [canvas] element. This element can be found on the latest Firefox/Mozilla, Opera and Safari browsers. It comes as no surprise to me that IE is not able to run most of them. My favourites: Canvascape 3D and jsMSX Emulator, which exercise the javascript/canvas engines to the maximum. With the upcoming javascript JIT compiler in Mozilla 2.0 speeding up these applications 100-fold, is javascript to become the mainstream general use language, and browsers the mainstream application environments?

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