Santa Hate III 2
It doesn't look like these Santas are going to make it much longer.
Feed Science Daily: High Levels Of Toxic Metals Found In Herbal Medicine Products Sold Online (sciencedaily.com)
One fifth of both US-manufactured and Indian-manufactured Ayurvedic medicines purchased via the Internet contain lead, mercury or arsenic.
Feed Macworld: Nikon’s D90 SLR shoots Hi-Def movie clips (macworld.com)
In addition to still images, the 12.1-megapixel camera from Nikon will also be able to film 1,280-by-720-pixel video at 24 frames per second when it arrives next month.
China Blocks More Internet Services 69
Dave writes "China continues to block more and more popular services. This week they blocked iTunes and YouTube, and now it's TringMe, a popular VoIP 2.0 service. From TringMe's Blog: 'We received close to hundred complaints from our China users that TringMe services is not accessible from yesterday. We have found after our investigation that TringMe is blocked by Chinese government. Earlier China blocked Skype and now they are turning their eye to TringMe. TringMe is extremely popular in China and we have a large number of paying customers in China including a Chinese social network with 3 million users using TringMe's API & services.'"
Submission + - New Algorithm Boosts Network Efficiency (universityofcalifornia.edu)
palegray.net writes: "Researchers at the University of California have developed a new network routing algorithm that has the potential to significantly boost Internet traffic routing efficiency. This new approach focuses on the needs of dynamic networks, where connections are frequently transient. From the article: "What the team did with their new routing algorithm, according to Savage's student Kirill Levchenko, was to reduce the "communication overhead" of route computation — by an order of magnitude." For the technically inclined, the full research publication is available in PDF format."
Submission + - The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon
Hugh Pickens writes: "When American Swimmer Margaret Hoelzer goes for the gold tonight in the 200-meter backstroke, part of her success will be due to a new system developed by Tim Wei, a mechanical and aerospace engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, that uses fluid dynamics to study human movement allowing scientists and coaches to study how fast and hard a swimmer pushes the water as he moves through it. Wei uses a tracking technique called digital particle image velocimetry, commonly used to measure the flow of small particles around an airplane or small fish or crustaceans in water. Wei filtered compressed air in a scuba tank through a porous hose to create bubbles about a tenth of a millimeter in diameter. When an athlete swims through a sheet of bubbles that rises from the pool floor, a camera captures their flow around the swimmer's body and the images show the direction and speed of the bubbles, which Wei then translates into the swimmer's thrust using software that he wrote. "More force equals faster swimming," Wei says. Swim coach Sean Hutchison, says Wei's analysis helped swimmers he works with at King Aquatic Club in suburban Seattle and that the lessons he learned helped Olympian Margaret Hoelzer set a world record in the 200-meter backstroke in July. "Swimming has gotten to a point where you have two choices," Wei said. "You either bring state-of-the-art science into swimming and improve stroke mechanics, make them better, or you do drugs.""
Comment Re:Republican grandstanding (Score 1) 1143
One of the reasons I keep hearing for the high price of oil is speculators in futures markets. If investors knew that in the future more oil would be available, todays price would also go down even though the oil isn't yet available.
Submission + - Air Force Goofs, Flying Live Nukes Across America (forbes.com)
kernel panic attack writes: "From the paging Dr. Strangelove dept.
Surely the late Stanley Kubrick is somewhere smiling at this one... Forbes.com has a story about a B-52 Bomber that mistakenly flew 6-nuclear tipped cruise missles across several states last week. The 3-hour flight took the plane from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30. The incident was so serious that President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were quickly informed and Gates has asked for daily briefings on the Air Force probe, said Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell. He said, "At no time was the public in danger." One Air Force official has already been SACked, in connection with the incident. Couple this with the recent resumption of long range Russian Bomber flights, and it looks like the good old Cold War days just may have returned."
Surely the late Stanley Kubrick is somewhere smiling at this one... Forbes.com has a story about a B-52 Bomber that mistakenly flew 6-nuclear tipped cruise missles across several states last week. The 3-hour flight took the plane from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30. The incident was so serious that President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were quickly informed and Gates has asked for daily briefings on the Air Force probe, said Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell. He said, "At no time was the public in danger." One Air Force official has already been SACked, in connection with the incident. Couple this with the recent resumption of long range Russian Bomber flights, and it looks like the good old Cold War days just may have returned."
Feed Review: Reunion 9.04 (macworld.com)
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