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Comment Re:This is called a non-denial denial (Score 2) 221

by lowar on Saturday July 25, 2020 @03:34PM (#60331103) Attached to: Bill Gates Has a Message For Conspiracy Theorists

You have to wonder if the research that found that the mandatory Gates Foundation DTP vaccine called a "Natural Experiment" that caused a 5 fold increase in child mortality over the disease it was meant to treat was considered a success by Bill Gates. Has he lost any sleep over the death his foundation inflected on those families? Probably not.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

The Gates Foundation (founded in 1994) mandated the use of the DTP vaccine in Guinea-Bissau in 1981?

Is it still a conspiracy when it's a peer reviewed study?

You tell me.

Comment Re:not the real April Fool's RFC (Score 1) 63

by lowar on Thursday April 01, 2010 @05:00PM (#31702922) Attached to: IETF Drops RFC For Cosmetic Carbon Copy

Finally an RFC defining some common emoticons. :-D

Safari 3 vs. Firefox 2 and IE7 559

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @10:37AM from the not-worth-it dept.

Bobcat writes "Ars Technica has a 'first look' at Safari for Windows, which is interesting because it's written from the perspective of someone new to Safari. It was tested against Firefox 2 and IE7 and aside from the slightly faster page loading, Ars didn't find much to recommend it to Windows users. 'The modest increase in rendering performance is hardly worth the deficiencies, and Safari's user interface simply doesn't provide the usability or flexibility of competing products. If the folks at Apple think that providing Windows users with a taste of Mac OS X through Safari is going to entice them to buy a Mac, it's going to take a better effort than the Safari 3 beta. Even if the final release is more polished and completely bug-free, it still won't be as powerful or feature-loaded as Opera or Firefox.'"

IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order 468

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 23, 2007 @09:28AM from the land-that-i-love dept.

fstyke writes "An article in the Washington Post (anonymous for obvious reasons) describes the trauma the president of a small US IT company faces after receiving a National Security Letter. This is sent by the FBI demanding information (140000+ have been sent between 2003/2005 according to the article). Makes for an interesting read of the side effects of receiving such a letter and its requirements for the recipient to remain silent about even the fact he/she has received it.'The letter ordered me to provide sensitive information about one of my clients. There was no indication that a judge had reviewed or approved the letter, and it turned out that none had. The letter came with a gag provision that prohibited me from telling anyone, including my client, that the FBI was seeking this information. Based on the context of the demand -- a context that the FBI still won't let me discuss publicly -- I suspected that the FBI was abusing its power and that the letter sought information to which the FBI was not entitled.'"

Which IT Careers Are Hot and Which are Not? 284

Posted by Cliff on Friday March 23, 2007 @08:48AM from the where-should-one-go-from-here dept.

necromante asks: "I've been working on different IT positions through my career: support; some networking; DBA; web development; project management; even working on the client side for a little while. However, I don't feel like I am really a specialist on any of those subjects and I feel I need to focus on a particular field. So, I decided to ask for some feedback before making my decision. I understand that this depends everyones tastes, likes and dislikes. However, I would like to have a better idea of which are the available options, and I hope the results of this discussion can benefit other readers. Is there any IT career that I should consider more than the others? Which are the emerging fields? Is there any industry I should focus on in particular? Which careers on IT are actually more in demand and which ones not? Is it a better path to focus on moving into management?"

Submission + - Ten dangerous beliefs about smart phones

Submitted by

jcatcw

on Friday March 23, 2007 @08:33AM

jcatcw writes: "According to Computerworld, lots of assumptions about the security of smart phones are wrong, and any high-value targets, such as political candidates or organizations with valuable data, should treat them carefully. They are not, contrary to common beliefs: just phones with cool features; stable; secure end-to-end; difficult to spy to on."

Submission + - Bill Gates to finally receive his Harvard degree

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday March 22, 2007 @05:32PM

coondoggie writes: "It's not like he needs it to beef up his résumé, but the world's richest college dropout finally is getting his degree. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, will speak at Harvard University's commencement ceremony in June and, like all commencement speakers, will receive an honorary degree from the institution. It's hard to guess if Gates, the wealthiest person in the world and co-founder of a company that brought in $44 billion in revenue last year, cares. But the programming whiz who once dropped out of Harvard will likely feel some sense of satisfaction. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/032207-bill- gates-to-finally-receive.html"

Submission + - Single human gene gives mice tri-color vision

Submitted by

maynard

on Thursday March 22, 2007 @05:28PM

maynard writes: "Scientists from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute working in collaboration have published a study in the peer reviewed journal Science showing that mice transgenetically altered with a single human gene are then able to see in full tri-color vision. Mice without this alteration are normally colorblind. The scientists speculate that even mammalian brains from animals that have never evolved color vision are flexible enough to interpret new color sense information with just a simple addition of new photoreceptors. Such a result is also indicated by a dominant X chromosome mutation that allows for quad-color vision in some women. From the article:

The experiments were designed to determine whether the brains of the genetically altered mice could efficiently process sensory information from the new photoreceptors in their eyes. Among mammals, this more complex type of color vision has only been observed in primates, and therefore the brains of mice did not need to evolve to make these discriminations.

The new abilities of the genetically engineered mice indicate that the mammalian brain possesses a flexibility that permits a nearly instantaneous upgrade in the complexity of color vision, say the study's senior authors, Gerald Jacobs and Jeremy Nathans.
"

Submission + - Which IT careers are hot and which are not?

Submitted by necromante on Thursday March 22, 2007 @05:25PM

necromante writes: I've been working on different IT positions through my career: Support, some networking, DBA, web development, project management, even working on the client side for a little while. However I don't feel like I am really an specialist on any of those subjects and I feel I need to focus on a particular field. So I decided to ask Slahdot for some feedback before taking my decision. Is there any IT career that I should consider more than the others? Which are the emerging fields? Any industry in particular? Which careers on IT are actually more in demand and which ones not? Or is a better path to focus on moving into management? By the way, I am writing from Canada. I do understand that this also depends everyones tastes, likes and dislikes. However I would like to have a better idea of which are the available options. I hope the results of this discussion can benefit other Slashdot readers. Thank you for your time!

Submission + - Fermi Paradox Could Predict Humankind's Future

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19, 2007 @10:11AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Fermi paradox says that if extraterrestrial civilizations exist, at least one of them should have colonized the entire galaxy by now. But since there is no evidence of this, humankind must be the only intelligent life in the galaxy. The Space Review has an article on how the Fermi paradox can be applied to human civilization. It says that, like the extraterrestrials, humans have three choices: colonize the galaxy, remain on Earth, or become extinct.

Submission + - Regrowing lost body parts coming in the future

Submitted by

[TheBORG]

on Monday February 19, 2007 @09:54AM

[TheBORG] writes: "There are two stories on Yahoo! News about regrowing lost body parts. One is about regrowing lost fingers & limbs and the other one is about regrowing teeth. The story about regrowing lost fingers and limbs talks about the experimental use of powdered pig bladder to regrow fingers and eventually lost limbs for soldiers and others in need from information that Pentagon-funded scientists hopefully learn from studying the salamander. The story about regrowing teeth talks about how Japanese scientists used primitive cells (not quite as early as stem cells) and injected them into a framework of collagen (the material that holds the body together). Once grown to a certain point, scientists implanted the growths into mice where the teeth developed normally."

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