ketan324 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:In a word... (Score 1) 1385

by ketan324 on Friday April 17, 2009 @11:57AM (#27614569) Attached to: Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US

I agree, I commute between central NJ and NYC right now and I refuse to the train because its very slow. I take the bus which takes exactly the same amount of time for less. There are many express right now between major NJ cities to NYC, upgrading those routes to a high-speed rail would be fantastic. Additionally NYCBoston would greatly benefit as many people commute between the two cities and traveling by air is inefficient and many times it takes longer.

Submission + - Operators and handset vendors plug standard charge (theregister.co.uk)

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ketan324

on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @09:31AM

ketan324 writes: "Its about time for these cellphone manufacturers to wise up and design a universal phone charger. Although many manufacturers have already "standardized" to a mini-USB interface, there are many more out there who use proprietary adapters. I wonder how Apple will feel about this? Will they finally realize that their oh-so-special adapter is nothing more than a fudged USB interface? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/17/standard_charger/"

Bookmark Operators and handset vendors plug standard charger (theregister.co.uk)

by ketan324 on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @09:19AM

Comment gsm only (Score 1) 397

by ketan324 on Monday October 27, 2008 @12:12PM (#25528645) Attached to: Why Your Clock Radio Is All Abuzz About iPhones

Its just GSM based phones, the RF distortion is not an issue with CDMA based phones.

Carbon Nanotubes Can Exist Safely Inside the Body, Help Treat Cancer 86

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 01, 2008 @01:22AM from the series-of-tubes dept.

iandoh writes "A team of scientists at Stanford University has tracked the movement of carbon nanotubes through the digestive systems of mice. They've determined that the nanotubes do not exhibit any toxicity in the mice, and are safely expelled after delivering their payload. As a result, the study paves the way toward future applications of nanotubes in the treatment of illnesses. Previous research by the same team demonstrated that nanotubes can be used to fight cancer. The nanotubes do this in two ways. One method involves shining laser light on the nanotubes, which generates heat to destroy cancer cells. Another method involves attaching medicine to the nanotubes, which are able to accurately 'find' cancerous cells without impacting healthy cells."

Submission + - Mitochondria may hold secret to preventing death

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H_Fisher

on Monday July 16, 2007 @01:20PM

H_Fisher writes: "Research into mitochondria — small parts within a cell that have their own DNA — are a cause of cellular death, Newsweek reports. The article from the most recent edition of the magazine, entitled "The Science of Death: Reviving the Dead," reports on people who have recovered from sudden death due to cardiac arrest through the use of medically-induced hypothermia. The cooling process may help stop the death of brain and heart cells caused by the mitochondria once they are deprived of oxygen. The next step: figuring out how to keep the brain from dying, and arguing for or against "the view that the mind is more than the sum of the parts of the brain, and can exist outside it.""

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