Comment Re:Back to the Future (Score 1) 1054
So you agree, then, that conservatism shouldn't be blamed for the effort to censor Card's book.
Comment Re:Back to the Future (Score 1) 1054
Don't blame conservativism. The author himself is a "conservative Mormon," according to TFA.
Peoples' Immune Systems Can Now Be Duplicated In Mice 89
cylonlover writes "Because everyone's immune system is different, it's impossible to predict with absolute certainty how any given person will react to a specific medication. In the not-too-distant future, however, at-risk patients may get their own custom-altered mouse, with an immune system that's a copy of their own. Medications could be tried out on the mouse first, and if they are shown to have no adverse effects, the person could take the medication with a higher degree of confidence. If the person has an autoimmune disease, the mouse could also provide valuable insight into its treatment. A team led by Columbia University Medical Center's Dr. Megan Sykes has recently developed a method of creating just such a 'personalized immune mouse.'"
A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos 183
sciencehabit writes "The CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva has confirmed Wednesday's report that a loose fiber-optic cable may be behind measurements that seemed to show neutrinos outpacing the speed of light. But the lab also says another glitch could have caused the experiment to underestimate the particles' speed. The other effect concerns an oscillator that gives its readings time stamps synchronized to GPS signals. Researchers think correcting for an error in this device would actually increase the anomaly in neutrino velocity, making the particles even speedier than the earlier measurements seemed to show."
Comment Re:First keylogger? (Score 1) 89
At my university during the early '80s, each student's VAX-11/780 username and password both consisted of the student's Social Security number.
When exam results were posted on the bulletin board, they were listed by SSN.
The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred 591
Hugh Pickens writes "Robert Wright says that if you had asked him a few days ago — before news broke that American soldiers had urinated on Taliban corpses — if such a thing were possible, he would have said 'probably.' After all if you send 'young people into combat, people whose job is to kill the enemy and who watch as their friends are killed and maimed by the enemy, ... the chances are that signs of disrespect for the enemy will surface — and that every once in a while those signs will assume grotesque form.' War, presumably, has always been like this, but something has changed that amounts to a powerful new argument against starting wars in the first place. First, there's the new transparency of war as battlefield details get recorded, and everyone has the tools to broadcast these details, so 'it's just a matter of time before some outrageous image goes viral — pictures from Abu Ghraib, video from Afghanistan,' that will make you and your soldiers more hated by the enemy than ever. The second big change is that hatred is now a more dangerous thing. 'New information technologies make it easier for people who share a hatred to organize around it,' writes Wright. 'And once hateful groups are organized, they stand a better chance than a few decades ago of getting their hands on massively lethal technologies.' It used to be that national security consisted of making sure all foreign governments either liked you or feared you; now it requires that as few people as possible hate you. 'I think we should reflect on that before we start another war.'"
Comment Re:A first (Score 1) 694
That's the spirit! The captain always goes down with the ship.
Comment Misleading Summary (Score 1) 65
The technology will likely be priced in the 'hundreds of dollars,' rather than the tens of thousands that the likes of Cisco and Polycom charge for high-end telepresence rooms.
And that's because this is not a "high-end telepresence room"; it's a "low-cost camera and screen that swivels on a set of robotic shoulders, and sits at a meeting table with physical attendees." Apples and oranges.
Comment I prefer Sciarrino (Score 1) 234
Comment Speak Softly Love (Score 1) 234
Opening three notes of the Godfather Theme ("Speak Softly Love") at 8:53.
Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage 417
An anonymous reader writes "Hold on to your hamburgers — Japanese scientist Mitsyuki Ikeda at the Environmental Assessment Center in Okayama has invented an artificial meat substitute made from human feces. The unseemly meal is made by extracting protein and lipids from 'sewage mud.' The lipids are then combined with a reaction enhancer and whipped into 'meat' in an exploder. Ikeda makes the 'meat' more palatable by adding things like soy protein."
Comment Re:Context (Score 2) 1073
Albert Camus? Is that you?
Comment Re:The crackpot's web site (Score 2, Funny) 1090
He's no Kaczynski.
Comment Re:Strabismus is not "lazy eye" (Score 1) 386
It is not "malaise" that causes strabismus or amblyopia.
I think the word the OP was looking for was malady, not malaise, as in There's a malady in children that can prevent full stereopsis (depth perception) from developing, called strabismus or lazy-eye.
Comment Re:because .xxx is nothing like .sex (Score 3, Informative) 266
The doc you linked does mention a different idea that I could get behind though, establish a
.kids which would be a semi-walled garden of child appropriate material.
That's been tried, via an administered second-level domain,
From the link, It's the first and only "youth-friendly" Web space to be established by the United States government, and it features advanced technical, policy and operational mechanisms that keep young people informed, entertained and protected online.
