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Journal SPAM: One failed NIC to blame for stranding 17,000 in LAX? 293

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:27PM

The card in question experienced a partial failure that started about 12:50 p.m. Saturday, said Jennifer Connors, a chief in the office of field operations for the Customs and Border Protection agency. As data overloaded the system, a domino effect occurred with other computer network cards, eventually causing a

Submission + - new gene that turns cancer off

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:26PM

An anonymous reader writes: Canadian team discovers gene that turns cancers off
VANCOUVER

August 13, 2007 at 6:49 PM EDT

A unique gene that can stop cancerous cells from multiplying into tumours has been discovered by a team of scientists at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.

The team, led by Dr. Poul Sorensen, says the gene has the power to suppress the growth of human tumours in multiple cancers, including breast, lung and liver.

The gene, HACE 1, helps cells fight off stress that, left unchecked, opens the door to formation of multiple tumours.

Dr. Sorensen's team found cancerous cells form tumours when HACE 1 is inactive, but when additional stress such as radiation is added, tumour growth is rampant.

Kick-starting HACE 1 prevented those cells from forming tumours.

The study appears in the advance online publication of Nature Medicine.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070813.wgenee0813/BNStory/specialScienceandHeal th

Submission + - Single NIC Caused LAX Outage

Submitted by

Billosaur

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:11PM

Billosaur writes: "The LA Times is reporting that the cause of the great system outage at Los Angeles International Airport last week was the failure of a single network interface card (NIC). This caused a partial failure early Saturday afternoon that then cascaded throughout the system, leading to a total system failure by 2 pm, which was not corrected until 9 pm. Officials in Losa Angeles are calling for immediate action and Representative Jane Harman is calling for a briefing in Washington on the matter early next week."

Submission + - Baby Einstein Not So...Einsteinian? (time.com)

Submitted by

Derek Hudson

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:06PM

Derek Hudson writes: "A research team at the University of Washington has discovered that simply plopping Junior down in front of the boob-tube and letting him suck up learnin' from a video may not be the best for his little mind; in fact, it may actually impede development. Although the article over at Time isn't kind to baby videos in general, The Baby Einstein videos have been specifically implicated in delaying vocabulary development in children 8-16 months old. In the words of Dr. Dimitri Christakis, who lead the study, "The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew..." and, according to the LA Times Article, he "would rather babies watch 'American Idol' than these videos..." Ouch.

The article; however, doesn't mention whether or not the videos affect the youngins' grasp of theoretical physics."

Submission + - "Libertarians are Terrorists" says Alabama

Submitted by on Friday May 11, 2007 @11:21AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a surprise move, the Alabama Department of Homeland Security (ALDHS) has seen fit to redefine terrorists as those who oppose a strong and dominant government, which includes Libertarians.

The original article at www.homelandsecurity.alabama.gov/tap/anti-gov_grps .htm [404] has been removed but an archived copy can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20060421160851/www.home landsecurity.alabama.gov/tap/anti-gov_grps.htm .

A disturbing sign of things to come or a hilarious display of government incompetence? Only time will tell.

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