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H1N1 Appears To Be Transmittable From Human To Pig 132

Posted by timothy from the reciprocity-is-just-good-manners dept.
mpetch writes "In an interesting twist, it appears that H1N1 influenza can be transmitted from humans to swine. Apparently a Canadian pig farmer vacationed in Mexico, returned to Canada and infected about 10% of the swine on an Alberta farm. The swine subsequently developed flu symptoms."
Privacy

Submission + - Complaint to FSA on Phorm's statements to market (nodpi.org)

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AlexanderHanff
AlexanderHanff writes: "NoDPI have sent a letter of complaint to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) regarding Phorm Inc.'s statements to the press and market news services regarding support of legal compliance from various UK Government Departments and Regulators.

Phorm claim that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the Home Office and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR or BERR) have all cleared Phorm's WebWise technology as being fully compliant under UK and EU Law.

This is contrary to action taken by the European Commission earlier this week, who have initiated legal proceedings against the UK Government specifically for failing to uphold and enforce EU Privacy Directives regarding Phorm's covert trials with BT in 2006/2007.

Furthermore, NoDPI have produced statements from DBERR, ICO and the Home Office which contradict Phorm's statements to the press and market news services this week.

NoDPI are calling for the FSA to investigate whether or not Phorm's statements to the market can be seen as breaking the rules of trading as they are misleading and could even be interpretted as fraudulant."

Comment Re:No,he is very clever :) (Score 1) 705

by oh_bugger (#27467851) Attached to: Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World
War has changed. Its no longer about nations, ideologies, ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles fought by mercenaries and machines. War and its consumption of life has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodys enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, Infomation control, Emotion control, Battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control.

Comment Re:Going against the grain... (Score 1) 569

by oh_bugger (#27281347) Attached to: Programming Language Specialization Dilemma
The fact is managing resources isn't as essential anymore for software to work. You can write software which is constantly dividing and the user wouldn't notice any slow down. Nowadays the biggest (well, most sensible) requirement is modularity for future growth of the software. Companies look for people who can write code which will be useful to the company over and over again. They don't want to hire programmers who will be completely rewriting projects every time the spec changes. This is the current state of typical software companies writing apps for businesses. Resource management isn't usually considered when hiring a new dev unless they're developing something high performance or low level.
Censorship

Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution 1161

Posted by kdawson from the little-communicating-across-the-divide dept.
nizcolas writes "Notable evolutionary biologist, author, and speaker Richard Dawkins was recently invited to speak on the campus of the University of Oklahoma as part of the school's celebration of Charles Darwin. However, Oklahoma lawmakers are working to silence Dawkins with the passage of House Bill 1015 (RTF), which reads in part: '... the University of Oklahoma ... has invited as a public speaker on campus, Richard Dawkins of Oxford University, whose published opinions, as represented in his 2006 book "The God Delusion," and public statements on the theory of evolution demonstrate an intolerance for cultural diversity and diversity of thinking and are views that are not shared and are not representative of the thinking of a majority of the citizens of Oklahoma ...'" Pending legal action, Dawkins is set to speak tonight at 7 pm. (Luckily, we no longer live in the era of Bertrand Russell's court-ordered dismissal on moral grounds from the College of the City of New York.) And reader thms sends word of the Vatican's Darwin conference (program): "The conference, marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Origin of Species," has been criticized by advocates of Creationism or Intelligent Design for not inviting them. The Muslim creationist Harun Yahya, most famous for his Atlas of Creation, also complained about not being invited."

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