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Medicine

Submission + - SPAM: Computers spot cancers at same rate as humans 1

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Anti-Globalism
Anti-Globalism writes: "British researchers are reporting results from a randomized study of 31,000 women. Mammograms in Britain are routinely checked by two radiologists or technicians, which is thought to be better than a single review. Researchers wanted to know if a single expert aided by a computer could do as well as two pairs of eyes.

They found that computer-aided detection spotted nearly the same number of cancers, 198 out of 227, compared to 199 for the two readers."
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Google

Submission + - SPAM: Google reveals wireless vision: open networks

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Anti-Globalism
Anti-Globalism writes: "Google's vision of tomorrow's wireless network is in stark contrast to how wireless operators do business today, setting the two sides on a possible collision course.

Earlier this week, the search giant filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent Office describing its vision of an open wireless network where smartphones aren't tied to any single cell phone network. In Google's open wireless world, phones and other wireless devices would search for the strongest, fastest connection at the most competitive price. Essentially, wireless operators' networks would be reduced to "dumb pipes.""
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Privacy

Submission + - SPAM: MySpace unleashes digital music service, no DRM

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Anti-Globalism
Anti-Globalism writes: "In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels.

Unlike much of the material at Apple's iTunes store, the music sold through MySpace's new service won't contain the protections that limit how many times a track can be copied.

MySpace is hoping to set itself apart from iTunes even further by allowing its users to create an unlimited number of playlists containing up to 100 songs apiece a sharing concept similar to music services already offered by Imeem and Last.fm."
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The Matrix

Submission + - SPAM: Does ideology trump facts? Studies say it often do

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Anti-Globalism
Anti-Globalism writes: "We like to think that people will be well informed before making important decisions, such as who to vote for, but the truth is that's not always the case. Being uninformed is one thing, but having a population that's actively misinformed presents problems when it comes to participating in the national debate, or the democratic process. If the findings of some political scientists are right, attempting to correct misinformation might do nothing more than reinforce the false belief."
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The Courts

Submission + - SPAM: NYC Opens Hotlines To Texting Tipsters

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Anti-Globalism
Anti-Globalism writes: "New York City is touting a new weapon in its war on crime: cell phone cameras.

Tipsters in New York City can now send photos and video from computers and Web-enabled cell phones and PDAs to the city's 911 and non-emergency hot lines to report crimes and quality-of-life issues such as potholes, officials announced Tuesday.

While many cities' emergency systems are equipped to accept text messages, this is believed to be the first system that also is able to process photos and video."
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The Internet

Submission + - SPAM: Why is the internet so infuriatingly slow?

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Anti-Globalism
Anti-Globalism writes: "The major ISPs all tell a similar story: A mere 5 percent of their customers are using around 50 percent of the bandwidthsometimes more during peak hours. While these "power users" are sharing three-gig movies and playing online games, poor granny is twiddling her thumbs waiting for Ancestry.com to load."
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Programming

Submission + - SPAM: Heavy mental effort leads to much bigger meals

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Anti-Globalism
Anti-Globalism writes: "But a preliminary study from a group of researchers in Quebec suggest that working on a computer may have an additional impact on our waistlines: taxing mental effort appears to cause people to eat significantly more food, even though it doesn't burn many more calories than sitting around and relaxing.

The publication, published in a journal called Psychosomatic Medicine, arose from a pilot study that the researchers were performing in order to determine whether a potential connection between mental effort and eating was worth following up on. But, with only 14 students enrolled, they actually discovered a statistically significant effect of what they call "knowledge-based work" (KBW), and so were able to publish even their initial efforts."
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Privacy

Submission + - SPAM: ISPs Hand Over Details of Thousands of Pirates

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Death Metal Maniac
Death Metal Maniac writes: "Two major UK ISPs have been ordered by the High Court to hand over the identities of several thousand alleged file-sharers. BT has confirmed it is involved while Virgin Media was less direct in admitting that lawyers Davenport Lyons, working with Topwear Inc., are about to start threatening thousands more people.

US game developer Topware Interactive, the people behind the now infamous Dream Pinball affair, are about to turn up the heat. Operating through London lawyers Davenport Lyons, they have managed to convince the High Court to send out an order demanding that ISPs in the UK start to hand over the details of several thousand alleged pirates."
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The Matrix

Submission + - SPAM: Oldest skeleton in new world discovered

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Death Metal Maniac
Death Metal Maniac writes: "Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeletonalong with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsulacould provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated.

Clues from the skeletons' skulls hint that the people may not be of northern Asian descent, which would contradict the dominant theory of New World settlement. "The shape of the skulls has led us to believe that Eva and the others have more of an affinity with people from South Asia than North Asia," González explained."
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Security

Submission + - SPAM: Zombie network explosion

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anti-globalism
anti-globalism writes: "The number of compromised zombie PCs in botnet networks has quadrupled over the last three months, according to figures from the Shadowserver Foundation.

Shadowserver tracks botnet activity and the number of command and control servers. It uses a variety of metrics to slice and dice its figures based in part on the entropy of botnet infections. The clear trend within these figures is upwards, with a rise in botnet numbers of 100,000 to 400,000 (if 30 day entropy is factored into equations) or from 20,000 to 60,000 (for five day entropy)."
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Earth

Submission + - SPAM: Scientists fear impact of Asian pollutants on U.S.

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Anti-Globalism
Anti-Globalism writes: "From 500 miles in space, satellites track brown clouds of dust, soot and other toxic pollutants from China and elsewhere in Asia as they stream across the Pacific and take dead aim at the western U.S.

By some estimates more than 10 billion pounds of airborne pollutants from Asia ranging from soot to mercury to carbon dioxide to ozone reach the U.S. annually. The problem is only expected to worsen: Some Chinese officials have warned that pollution in their country could quadruple in the next 15 years."
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