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South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein 1297

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 09, 2009 @12:55AM from the respect-my-authority dept.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park, were given a very special gift by US marines: a signed photo of Saddam Hussein. During his captivity, the marines forced Saddam to repeatedly watch the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as the boyfriend of Satan. Stone said, "We're very proud of our signed Saddam picture and what it means. It's one of our biggest highlights."

Submission + - Researcher's death hampers TCP flaw fix

Submitted by linuxwrangler on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @03:36PM

linuxwrangler writes: Security researcher Jack Loius, who had discovered several serious security flaws in TCP software was killed in a fire on the ides of March dealing a blow to efforts to repair the problem. Although he kept good notes and had communicated with a number of vendors, he died before fixes could be created and prior to completing research on a number of additional vulnerabilities. Much of the work has been taken over by Louis' friend and long-time colleague Robert E. Lee. The flaws have been around for a long time and would allow a low-bandwidth "sockstress" attack to knock large machines off the net.

Submission + - Cracking the code of bacterial communication (ted.com)

Submitted by

TEDChris

on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @02:10PM

TEDChris writes: "It's not often you get leading-edge science shared in such a dynamic way. Microbiologist Bonnie Bassler here explains her discovery of "quorum sensing" — the amazing ability of bacteria to communicate with each other and coordinate attack strategies. By cracking the communication code, she has opened up potential for a new class of drugs tackling microbial diseases. The talk got a massive standing ovation at this year's TED and has just been posted. To quote one commenter: "This is by far the most inspiring, amazing, and far-reaching talk I've seen in a very long time. " Wd love Slashdot community's insight into implications of this work."

Submission + - New technology has dramatic chip-cooling potential

Submitted by BillOfThePecosKind on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @05:25PM

BillOfThePecosKind writes: "Researchers have demonstrated a new technology using tiny "ionic wind engines" that might dramatically improve computer chip cooling, possibly addressing a looming threat to future advances in computers and electronics." Some researchers funded by Intel over at Purdue have improved the "heat-transfer coefficient" by some 250%. I never liked water cooled systems, and this sounds promising. However I wonder how much ozone one of these things produces, probably not much.

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