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Submission + - Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran (nytimes.com)

Submitted by diewlasing on Friday June 01, 2012 @06:13AM

diewlasing writes: WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.

Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet.

Submission + - Ruling Upholds Gene Patent in Cancer Test (nytimes.com)

Submitted by diewlasing on Friday July 29, 2011 @10:35PM

diewlasing writes: In a closely watched case, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday that genes can be patented, overturning a lower court decision that had shocked the biotechnology industry.

Submission + - Bill of Rights for the Digital Age

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diewlasing

on Friday March 07, 2008 @01:43PM

diewlasing writes: "Since we are living in a world where the need for privacy measures and rights to use emerging technology grows, it seems to me that state governments should adopt a bill of rights regarding internet privacy, use of technology and speech on the internet. For example, making it illegal to allow ISPs to release personal information to anyone who wants it. Obviously that's not the only issue. This may or may not have been discussed here before but I'll ask anyway: If you were asked by your state government to come up with a bill of rights for internet privacy, technology use, and free speech regarding the internet and emerging technologies, what would you include? Obviously many things are covered (here in the US) under the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, but it seems to me these days people with the money can disregard this and the states might find it a good idea to enshrine rights into law. I ask for feed back on this from the Slashdot community."

Submission + - Huge hydrogen gas cloud will hit Milky Way (bbc.co.uk)

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diewlasing

on Saturday January 12, 2008 @04:22AM

diewlasing writes: "A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way, astronomers have announced. It will reach here within 20-40 million years and is expected to cause a great visual spectacle wherever in the galaxy it collides."

Submission + - A Virtually science-less parallel universe? 1

Submitted by diewlasing on Monday September 24, 2007 @12:47PM

diewlasing writes: I recently read an article which stated that Oxford scientists proved mathematically, that there are parallel universes, where every outcome is played out in its own "world". So I was wondering, what if people who push for creation science to be taught in schools actually had their way? What if the world was flooded with creation scientists. There would be real scientists of course, but in the course of human evolution (pun intended) more creation scientists were trained. And I'm speaking of the US in particular. Would our science and engineering courses be plagued with so many inaccuracies that we would never be able to engineer anything useful or contribute to human knowledge? This is a bit of hyperbole, but keep in mind, there are many complaints on how the US is lagging behind in science and engineering.

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