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Submission + - BlackHats paying for infections

Submitted by CodeMaster on Thursday April 05, 2007 @02:35PM

CodeMaster writes: A great article at computerworld covering the business side of the malicious code we see everywhere now on the net. All those crappy iframes seem to be "sponsored" pretty badly by groups that will pay the webmaster who added them by the infection, on a weekly basis (beat that!). Pretty eye opening...

Feed Warming climate creates mountains of mushrooms (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Thursday April 05, 2007 @02:33PM

Wild mushrooms are reproducing twice a year instead of the usual once in the UK, in a striking example of how global warming is turning up the heat on wildlife

Feed Serious drought may strike western US (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Thursday April 05, 2007 @02:32PM

The western US may be heading towards a return to the dustbowl landscape that devastated the prairies of the 1930s, climatologists warn

Submission + - Intelligent Design-Your-Own Darwin Fish Contest

Submitted by

Matthew Bettelheim

on Thursday April 05, 2007 @02:24PM

Matthew Bettelheim writes: "Inkling Magazine is having a competition to see who can come up with the next best Darwin fish design. So long as it cleverly incorporates that telltale fish profile, all ideas are game. Send us doodles, polished Illustrator files, graffiti art, whatever. We don't care as long as it's got an almond-shaped body, a tail and a certain wittiness.

http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/intelligen t-design-your-own-darwin-fish/"

Submission + - Coke and Pepsi Cook Your Liver?

Submitted by beartenor1 on Saturday March 17, 2007 @11:18AM

beartenor1 writes: Science Daily is reporting that a team from the University of Barcelona (UB) has recently published a study in the journal Hepatology which provides clues to the molecular mechanism through which the fructose in beverages may alter lipid energy metabolism and cause fatty liver and metabolic syndrome. Is it time to ban high-fructose corn syrup?

Submission + - Rice bill would make R.I. first state to go WIFI

Submitted by

roscoetoon

on Saturday March 17, 2007 @10:57AM

roscoetoon writes: "http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/News/pr1.asp?prid=389 1

"(public) access to the Internet, particularly broadband internet access, has become a necessity in today's world," said Representative Rice (D-Dist. 72, Portsmouth, Middletown, Newport),"The ultimate goal of this legislation is to make Rhode Island the first state to utilize a complete Wi-Fi network. The Electronic Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Act would open the door to a very promising and exciting opportunity for our state, and through this measure, I hope that Rhode Island will become a national leader in information technology.", but, it still seems a ways off,"the innovation center must issue a public report on its study by July 1, 2008"."

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