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Comment Re:Do they really recite the digits of pi? (Score 1) 282

by akudewan on Monday March 12, 2007 @07:45AM (#18314493) Attached to: Wednesday Is Pi Day

It's not hard to recite the decimal expansion of 22/7.

Note: pi is not the expansion of 22/7, its "approximately" 22/7.
The numerical value of truncated to 50 decimal places is: 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510
Source: Wikipedia

The Coevolution of Lice & Their Hosts 179

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @11:43PM from the lets-be-adults-about-this-everyone dept.

eldavojohn writes "It might be an uncomfortable subject but parasites are an interesting subject when it comes to evolution. Ever wonder if pocket gophers have lice? Well, they do. And most interesting of all is the evolution of these lice mirroring the evolution of gophers. To study the genes of lice may shed just as much light on evolutionary trees as studying the genes of the actual host the lice has evolved to. The most unsettling result from these studies is that human head lice and human pubic lice (crabs) vary so greatly that they are in two separate genera. There were similarities between our pubic lice and the lice found on gorillas. Scientists came to the conclusion, which they published today in BMC Biology, is just as striking as their earlier one about head lice. But it is hardly the same. We did not get pubic lice from other hominids. We got them from the ancestors of gorillas."

The Pirated Software Problem in the 3rd World 252

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 11, 2007 @11:32AM from the that's-a-whole-world-more-than-world-two dept.

RockDoctor writes "Dark Reading carries an article by one Nathan Spande who works in Cambodia. Locally he finds that OpenOffice.Org and MS Office are the same price ($2), or $7-20 by downloading. He discusses why the economics of OpenSource don't work in this environment, and how it contributes to global computer security issues through the "little extras" (trojans, spambots and other malware) that typically accompany such "local editions" of software. The economics of software outside the west are very different to what most people are used to."

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