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duh P3rf3ss3r writes:
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal has just affirmed the District Courts ruling in SCO v Novell in its entirety. The decision is quite a good read and lays out the reasons why the court has rejected, in toto, SCO's attempt to re-argue the case before the Court of Appeals. Is this the last gasp for SCO or will they try to appeal this to the Supreme Court? The betting lines open at 11...
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duh P3rf3ss3r writes:
The BBC is carrying a report from a team of researchers at Newcastle University who claim to have developed the first "artificial" human sperm from stem cells. The research, reported in the journal Stem Cells and Development involved selecting meristematic germ cells from a human embryonic stem cell culture and inducing meiosis, thus producing a haploid gamete. The authors claim that the resulting sperm are fully formed, mature, human sperm cells but the announcement has been greeted with mixed reaction from colleagues who claim the procedure is ethically questionable and that the gametes produced are of inferior levels of maturation.
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duh P3rf3ss3r writes:
National Geographic reports that a 6000 year old tomb complex on 200 hectares (500 acres) has been discovered on the Salisbury Plain just 24 km (15 miles) from Stonehenge. The site has come as a surprise to the archaeologists who had thought that the area had been studied in such depth that few discoveries of such magnitude remained. The site, fully 1000 years older than Stonehenge, has been called "Britain's oldest architecture".
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duh P3rf3ss3r writes:
The Associated Press reports that, after 200 years of speculation and investigation, the tomb of Nicolaus Copernicus has been found. Although the heliocentric concept had been suggested earlier, Copernicus is widely thought of as the father of the scientific theory of the heliocentric solar system.
The positive identification was made by comparing the DNA from a skeleton's teeth with that from hairs in a book known to have belonged to Copernicus. A computer-generated facial reconstruction is said to also bear a resemblance to contemporary portraits of the scientist.
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duh P3rf3ss3r writes:
According to groklaw, a hearing into seven summary judgement motions in the SCO v Novell case has been set for 31 May at 9 am before Judge Dale Kimball. Groklaw's PJ speculates that David Boies may have to show up for SCO just to keep their case alive.
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duh P3rf3ss3r writes:
A new research paper out of Carnegie-Mellon University details a method of accelerating P2P transfers by as much as 500%. The technique looks for similarity among sets of files rather than focusing on identical files with identical names as most current P2P clients do. The client then uses that pool to increase the number of peers from which file segments are available. Apparently, the overhead of compiling the similarity matrices is far less than the improved performance from increasing the depth of the peer pool. The BBC also has a story.
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duh P3rf3ss3r writes:
As reported by the BBC, the space shuttle Discovery safely landed at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 2232 GMT. Discovery's 13 day mission is being called a success after astronauts undertook four space walks to install new wiring and to do battle with a recalcitrant solar panel. The next scheduled flight is the Atlantis shuttle in March.
A video chronicle of the mission, including the landing, is available at NASA's video gallery.
