Malyven - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Citation Needed (Score 1) 208

by Malyven on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @01:21PM (#35010354) Attached to: Congressman Introduces Video Game Warning Label Legislation

This is, I think, the entire issue at hand. Children and young teens should not have video games/TV/Movies as their primary source of socially acceptable behavior. It's the parents responsibility to ensure these children know the difference of right from wrong.

Submission + - Supermassive black hole is thrown out of galaxy (physorg.com)

Submitted by

DarkKnightRadick

on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @08:22PM

DarkKnightRadick writes: "An undergrad student at the University of Utrecht, Marianne Heida, has found evidence of a super massive black hole being tossed out of it's galaxy. According to the article, the black hole — which has a mass equivalent to 1 billion suns — is possibly the culmination of two galaxies merging (or colliding, depending on how you like to look at it) and their black holes merging, creating one supermassive beast. The black hole was found using the Chandra Source Catalog (from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory). The direction of the expulsion is also possibly indicative of the direction of rotation of the two black holes as they circled each other before merging. The story can also be found here."

Submission + - Genetic Testing Coming to a Drugstore Near You 1

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @07:39PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Walgreens is slated to begin selling genetic-testing kits priced from $19.99 to $30 apiece that can tell people whether they’re likely to get breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, become obese or suffer from a range of other maladies. To get the results of various tests, shoppers will have to fork over an additional $79 for drug-response results, $179 for “pre-pregnancy planning” results, $179 for health condition results, and $249 for a combination of the three. Pathway and other companies already offer such tests online, but Walgreens is the first brick-and-mortar retailer to sell them. People who purchase the tests will send a sample of saliva in a vial in a pre-paid envelope to the manufacturer’s lab and will obtain results online. “There are people who need or want to know more about their genetic makeup, and we recognize that, for some, genetic reports are becoming a more important component in managing their personal health care,” says Walgreen spokesman Jim Cohn. Still all is not well in the genetic testing business. FDA spokeswoman Karen Riley says Pathway Genomics overstepped its bounds when it announced its plans to market the tests directly to the consumer at 6,000 of Walgreen’s 7,500 stores and wants Pathway Genomics to submit data showing that its tests give accurate results. “The claims have limitations based on existing science," says Riley, "and consumers should not be making important medical and lifestyle decisions based on these tests without first consulting a health-care professional." Walgreen responded that FDA clearance is not required to sell the kit in its stores and that the drugstore chain already sells other diagnostic and testing products such as pregnancy tests, paternity tests and drug tests."

Comment Re:better solutions? (Score 3, Interesting) 114

by Malyven on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @01:59AM (#32165922) Attached to: Google Defends Privacy Policies

Or do you see another search engine providing as much internal Data as google does? I have yet to see another site like http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/ Sure it's not super detailed but it's a hell of lot better than anything else out there.

Submission + - Mandriva put up for sale (itwire.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 10, 2010 @11:33PM

An anonymous reader writes: The French company Mandriva, which creates and sells the Mandriva Linux distribution, appears to be up for sale, according to information at a website dedicated to news about the distribution.

Comment Gives a more literal meaning too... (Score 1) 11

by Malyven on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @04:01PM (#31837952) Attached to: Escaped Convicts Disguised As Sheep Evade Authorities

A Wolf in Sheep's clothing. :D

Comment Re:Better than post-it notes (Score 1) 516

by Malyven on Tuesday September 27, 2005 @06:20PM (#13662424) Attached to: Too Many Passwords

I have wanted something like this since I first heard about it. The pocket vault http://www.chameleonnetwork.com/index.html is a brilliant idea for a biometric portable storage unit (don't I sound intelligent), Wish they would finally release it so I could check it out.

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