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Gulf Oil Spill Disaster — Spawn of the Living Dead 228

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 10, 2010 @02:26PM from the less-on-your-plate dept.

grrlscientist writes "A recently published study, intended to provide data to commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico so they maximize their catch of Yellowfin Tuna, Thunnus albacares, whilst avoiding bycatch of critically endangered Atlantic (Northern) Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus, suggests that the Deepwater Horizon oil leak may devastate the endangered Atlantic bluefin population, causing it to completely collapse or possibly go extinct."

Comment Re:Game Over NY State (Score 1) 228

by Invisike6 on Friday November 09, 2007 @04:08PM (#21299909) Attached to: NY Rejects E-Voting, DOJ Trying to Force the Issue

I'm not sure about New York, but in California where we have the Brown Act ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Act Open Meeting Requirements), there is a provision for any legal action, or pending legal action to be held in closed session. Partly to debate strategy, partly to allow an open discussion between board members. If it was in open session, the board's opponents lawyer could take notes, and plan a counter to the public agency's response.

Submission + - Drug testing entire cities at once

Submitted by

Ellis D. Tripp

on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @03:12PM

Ellis D. Tripp writes: "Researchers have developed a technique for determining what illicit drugs people might be consuming in a given area, by testing a sample from the local sewage treatment plant. As little as a teaspoonful of untreated wastewater can reveal drug use patterns in a given community. From the article:

"one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine. Cocaine and ecstasy tended to peak on weekends and drop on weekdays, she said, while methamphetamine and prescription drugs were steady throughout the week."

Obviously, any drugs found can't be tied to any specific user, but how much longer until the drug warriors want to deploy automatic sampling units farther upstream of the sewage treatment plant, sampling sewage output from selected neighborhoods, blocks, or even individual houses?

http://www.townhall.com/news/sci-tech/2007/08/21/s cientists_drug-test_whole_cities"

Submission + - Police objecting to tickets from red-light cameras

Submitted by

caffiend666

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @12:21PM

caffiend666 writes: "According to this Dallas Morning New article, any "...Dallas police officer in a marked squad car who is captured on the city's cameras running a red light will have to pay the $75 fine if the incident doesn't comply with state law... Many police officers are angry about the proposed policy. The prevailing belief among officers has been that they can run red lights as they see fit." How is this a case for or against governments relying on un-biased automated systems? Or, should anyone be able to control who is recorded on camera and who is held accountable?"

Apple TV "Barely Watchable" 424

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 09, 2007 @10:20AM from the so-was-baywatch dept.

lpangelrob writes "Peter Svensson of the Associated Press reviews the Apple TV, and comes away less than impressed.While the Apple TV gets solid marks for "a very iPod-like interface, commendably clear and easy to use", the Apple TV experience falls apart on an HD television. The reviewer notes that "videos from Apple's online iTunes store look horrible on an HDTV set. The movies and TV shows have the same nominal resolution as DVDs, but look much blurrier, approaching the look of standard-definition broadcast TV.'"

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