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Submission + - Life found in deepest layer of Earth's crust (newscientist.com)

Submitted by michaelmarshall on Friday November 19, 2010 @10:01AM

michaelmarshall writes: For the first time life has been found in the gabbroic layer of the crust. The new biosphere is all bacteria, as you might expect, but they are different to the bacteria in the layers above: they mostly feed on hydrocarbons that are produced by abiotic reactions deep in the crust. It could mean that similar microbes are living even deeper, perhaps even in the mantle.

Submission + - Anti-piracy lawyers "knew letters hit innocents" (pcpro.co.uk) 1

Submitted by nk497 on Friday November 19, 2010 @07:31AM

nk497 writes: A UK legal watchdog has claimed lawyers who sent out letters demanding settlement payments from alleged file-sharers knew they would end up hitting innocent people. The Solicitors Regulators Authority said the two Davenport Lyons lawyers "knew that in conducting generic campaigns against those identified as IP holders whose IP numeric had been used for downloading or uploading of material that they might in such generic campaigns be targeting people innocent of any copyright breach." The SRA also said the two lawyers lost their independence because they convinced right holders to allow them to act on their behalf by waiving hourly fees and instead taking a cut of the settlements. The pair earned £150,000 of the £370,000 collected from alleged file-sharers. Because they were looking to recoup their own costs, the lawyers ignored clients' concerns about the negative publicity the letter campaign could — and eventually did — cause, the SRA claimed.

A Single Re-Tweet Lands Chinese Woman in Labor Camp 273

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 18, 2010 @03:16PM from the more-than-2-days-per-char dept.

lee1 writes "A woman in China has been sentenced to a year of 're-education' in a labor camp for the crime of 'disrupting social order' after retweeting a joke on Twitter (which is entirely banned in China, but popular nonetheless). Cheng Jianping had repeated a Twitter comment suggesting that nationalist protesters smash Japan's pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, adding the words 'Charge, angry youth.' At the time, China and Japan were feuding over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, and groups of young Chinese had been demonstrating against Japan, smashing Japanese products; the tweet amounted to gentle chiding of the protesters. Ms. Cheng may also have been targeted because she is a human rights activist: she had signed petitions calling for the release of China's jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. She has been detained in the past for several other 'crimes,' including criticizing China's Communist Party."

Comment Re:All these states should be like New Hampshire (Score 1) 272

by ProEJockey on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @10:29AM (#32014310) Attached to: Amazon Fights For Privacy of Customer Records

we have violent crime problems so bad that in '08 there was real talk of brining in the National Guard for help.

WTF.

There was talk again last night of bringing the national guard in. Our great mayor Daley, being up for reelection again (possibly) politely declined. He wants no national guard in his city unless it is to collect 10.25% on all non-perishable goods purchased.

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