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Comment Re:Stop deleting stuff (Score 1) 533

by hnkstrprnkstr on Friday August 05, 2011 @01:53PM (#36998700) Attached to: Wikipedia Losing Contributors, Says Wales

I completely agree. I spent a lot of time entering an article which was deemed "not notable" and quickly deleted. Who has time to waste? So long, Wikipedia.

Submission + - Scientists decipher 3 billion-year-old fossils (mit.edu)

Submitted by hnkstrprnkstr on Monday December 20, 2010 @12:17PM

hnkstrprnkstr writes: MIT scientists have created a sort of genomic fossil that shows that the collective genome of all life underwent an enormous expansion about 3 billion years ago, which they're calling the Archean Expansion. Many of the new genes appearing in the Archean Expansion are oxygen related, and could be the first biological evidence of the Great Oxidation Event, the period in Earth's history when oxygen became so plentiful that many anerobic life forms may have become extinct.

Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website 323

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 02, 2010 @09:38AM from the close-enough dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the owners of TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com are complaining that they're being wrongfully written about in the press — one for not having had any content about Sarah Jones but being told it needs to pay $11 million, and the other for having the content and having the press say it lost a lawsuit, even though no lawsuit was ever actually filed against it."

A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released 105

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @04:11PM from the five-is-better-than-one dept.

Julie188 writes "Greg Kroah-Hartman has released five new stable Linux kernels, correcting minor errors of their predecessors and including improvements which are unlikely to generate new errors. As so often with kernel versions in the stable series, it remains undisclosed if the new versions contain changes which fix security vulnerabilities, although the number of changes and some of the descriptions of those changes certainly suggest that all the new versions contain security fixes."

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