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Submission + - Bradley Manning formally charged with aiding the enemy. (cnn.com)

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mosb1000
mosb1000 writes: "Bradley Manning was formally charged with aiding the enemy on thursday. Although aiding the enemy is a capital offense, the prosecution is mercifully seeking only a lifetime sentence for leaking thousands of sensitive documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and US diplomatic cables. No concrete evidence of harm as a result of the leak has come to light, nor any evidence that Manning intended such a result. If they prosecution gets it's requested August 3rd trial date Manning will be receiving his speedy trial after little more than 800 days in prison."
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Submission + - Google Launches Underwater Endeavor With Seaview (mindprocessors.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: People will soon be able to explore the depths of the ocean seeking out tiger sharks, green turtles, and manta rays with a new program called the Catlin Seaview Survey.

Submission + - 26th Feb/Moodoff Day (eindiadiary.com)

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infobd4
infobd4 writes: "Moodoff Day is a not-for-profit organisation aiming to raise awareness
of smart phone addiction and to minimise the impact on relationships, work/life
balance, reduce risk of injury in traffic and improve quality of life. What
will you be doing Sunday, February 26, from 5am to 10am? A non-profit
organization out of Sydney, Australia, is asking that you spend those morning
hours without using your smartphone. This unique campaign is already receiving
support world wide. This event is to be called "Moodoff Day." Why a goofy name
such as Moodoff? Well, it was named after the effect it will likely have on the
participants. When people are asked to stop browsing or checking their
spartphone, it usually turns their mood off. Moodoff Day is designed to
stimulate the much-needed awareness about the potential dangers of excessive
smartphone use, including addiction. So what do you think? Can you wake up, go
to the bathroom, brush your teeth AND eat breakfast before checking your phone?
we think u can do it once in a year."

Submission + - Mexican Scientists Successfully Test Vaccine that Could Cut Heroin Addiction (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by JumperCable
JumperCable writes: Scientists at Mexico's National Institute of Psychiatry say they have successfully tested the vaccine on mice and are preparing to test it on humans. The vaccine, makes the body resistant to the effects of heroin, so users would no longer get a rush of pleasure. Mice given the vaccine showed a huge drop in heroin consumption.

Submission + - Startup uses 3-D Printer to build human muscle tissue (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by parallel_prankster
parallel_prankster writes: A San Diego-based startup Organovo is building human muscle tissue with the help of 3-D printers . Organovo’s product is so similar to human tissue, it could help researchers identify drugs that will fail long before they reach clinical trials. This technology lets cells interact with each other – like the way they do in the body. They’re packed together tightly and incubated, prompting them to trade chemical signals. When they’re printed, the cells are kept bunched together in a paste that helps them grow, migrate, and align themselves properly. So far, Organovo has built tissue of several types, including cardiac muscle, lung, and blood vessels. They’ve only made small pieces of tissue, but the goal is to use their 3-D printer to make organs for transplants.
EU

Submission + - EU suspends copyright treaty ratification (khaleejtimes.com) 1

Submitted by cmarkn
cmarkn writes: The European Commission, facing opposition in city streets, on the Internet and in the halls of parliament, has suspended efforts to ratify a new international anti-counterfeiting agreement, and instead will refer it to Europe’s highest court to see whether it violates any fundamental EU rights.

The decision appeared to reflect recognition by European Union officials of the political obstacles. Protests against the agreement were staged earlier this month in several European capitals — including Berlin, Helsinki, Paris and Vienna — by critics who say the agreement would stifle free speech and access to information.

The hacking group known as Anonymous claimed responsibility last week for a new series of hacks against the US Federal Trade Commission and consumer rights websites. The sites were replaced with a violent German-language video satirizing ACTA.

ACTA has been under negotiation for years. Its drafters say it is needed to harmonize international standards to protect the rights of those who produce music, movies, pharmaceuticals, fashion goods, and a range of other products that often fall victim to piracy and intellectual property theft.

The U.S. has signed the agreement. Others include Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea. Mexico and Switzerland participated in the negotiations but have not yet signed.

The EU and 22 EU Member States signed ACTA on 26 January 2012 in Tokyo. Although the European Council — the European Union heads of government — unanimously approved ACTA in December, for the EU to be a party to the treaty, all 27 member countries would have to formally ratify it.
Google

Submission + - What's the Best Streaming Media Player? (deviceguru.com)

Submitted by __aajbyc7391
__aajbyc7391 writes: It's looking like 2012 will be a watershed for cord-cutters wanting to replace expensive cable TV services with low-cost gadgets that stream movies and TV shows from the Internet via free, subscription, and pay-per-view services. Accordingly, this DeviceGuru smackdown pits five popular streaming media player devices against each other. The smackdown pits Roku, Google TV, Apple TV, the Boxee Box, and Netgear's NeoTV against one another, tabulating their key features, functions, specs, supported multimedia formats, and other characteristics, and listing the main advantages and disadvantages of each device. Then, it provides a summary chart that attempts to quantify the whole thing, so you (theoretically) can pick the best one based on what characteristics are most important to you. Of course, the market's evolving so quickly that the entire process will need to be redone in 6 months, but what else is new.
Idle

Submission + - Artist Sued for Inauthentic Copies

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Eriq Gardner reports that Todd White, the former SpongeBob SquarePants lead designer, is now the defendant in a $5 million class action lawsuit that claims he deceived thousands of art buyers into buying reproductions of his art that were not authentic. According to the lawsuit filed by Carole Harris, White issued numerous limited-edition "giclees," a high-resolution digital scan of an original piece, substituting it onto a substrate, and applying a protective varnish sealant. White advertised the works were gilcees, and "consumers nationwide were willing to pay thousands of dollars for mere reproductions of original art." So far, so good. But the plaintiffs say that the reproductions aren't authentic. Each was supposed to be hand-signed by White himself, but instead White had others "trained to 'paint' Mr. White's signature." White is no stranger to the courts having previously been sued for sending ninjas to take over his art dealer's gallery, but even if the allegations are true, White wouldn't be the first artist to direct underlings to make art under a false signature joining apprentice artists from the Renaissance age to Andy Warhol's factory in the 1960s."
Transportation

Submission + - GE forces Chevy Volt onto employees (greencarreports.com) 3

Submitted by thecarchik
thecarchik writes: Sixteen months ago, General Electric announced it would place the "largest order in history" for electric cars , to be used by its employees who are issued company cars. Now, those cars are starting to arrive and be placed with employees.

And where changes are made, personnel policies are sure to follow. A person inside GE recently forwarded a memo to us that covers some of the nuts and bolts of using the 2012 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car . It's from the fleet operations manager for GE Healthcare.

Among the interesting points:

"All sedans ordered in 2012 will be the Chevrolet Volt"

Crossovers and minivans will be replaced by electric-vehicle sedans, i.e. the Volt
ISS

Submission + - Microgravity Coffee Cup (physicscentral.com)

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BuzzSkyline
BuzzSkyline writes: "Despite the fact that astronauts have been eating and drinking out of tubes for decades, it's actually possible to drink from an open-top cup in space. Astronaut Don Pettit recently downlinked a video that shows him slurping coffee from a cup he kludged out of plastic sheet. It appears to work pretty much like a cup on Earth, even in freefall aboard the International Space Station, thanks to capillary action."

Comment Re:"Cyberwar" (Score 3, Insightful) 200

by JumperCable (#38733430) Attached to: Israel Faces Escalating Cyberwar

Disagree.

If a nation-state or organized political entity orchestrates a campaign over time to destroy an enemies assets, be they economic, social or military, it's a war.

So when a nation or nations implements sanctions (for instance the sanctions on Iranian oil), you would consider that war? I think you definition of war is way to liberal.

Also, if you disagree with me I will recognize that as an act of war on your part for trying to destroy my intellectual assets.

Comment Re:Community resistance (Score 1) 589

by JumperCable (#38733264) Attached to: Tackling Open Source's Gender Issues

I'm subscribed to the Cocoa-dev mailing list, and one of the regular members there began submitting messages under her real name, revealing that she had previously been posting under a male name because they found that they got more direct responses and less obnoxious comments.

Hmmm... How about we flip this scenario. What if everyone on the Cocoa-dev mailing list changed their names to a female name. Thus everyone is assumed to be a woman. No more trolling of female based names. No one can claim that women are treated differently. No one can tell what is between their legs so people will stop bitching about it and everyone can get the hell back to business.

Comment Another Solution... (Score 2) 589

by JumperCable (#38730160) Attached to: Tackling Open Source's Gender Issues

I don't really think there will be much of a change in the percentage of female involvement in open source coding no matter what we do (unless Mattel introduces Open Source Coding Barbie).

But barring that how about:

* Starting an all woman coding project.

* At conferences, instead of having evening happy hours with 100-to-1 guy girl ratios, split them up to hit the local bars to hit on women who are actually interested in being hit on and better looking that the ones that are of only interest because they are the only ones there. This will help take the focus off of the women beyond their coding competency.

* Level up the socially awkward geeks who are bugging these women because they are pretty much the only female contact in their life. Direct them to resources on how to lose weight, get in shape, dress better and improve their social skills & social life.

Any other solution I hear out there consists of yelling at men and calling them neckbeards instead of actually trying to find solutions. Of course this approach isn't well received and ultimately results in idiotic yelling matches between people who want nothing more than to insult each other based on gender issues. And yes, this is why most people ignore this shit. The people involved are more focused on degrading other people than building them up.

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