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Comment Keep the goat guy!! (Score 1) 4

by maja33 (#20076803) Attached to: TT, Current entries in the "replace the goat guy" contest
Oh sweet mother of an outmoded concept! Keep goatse,
the lesser evil. If I must choose my chose would be 'Are you stumped?'. I (think) remember seeing a documentary about this guy and the heroic operation to save him from the accident (cutting tree branches). I will have nightmares about the other entries but not about ma Thessie and a horny dog (offensive??). I think only the harlequin babies and that poor man without a face are a bit offensive. Ancient mental crutch!! Those babies are an argument for abortion. Would you want those babies to suffer the torment of live outside the womb?
Media

Fewer People Copy DVDs Than Once Thought 333

Posted by Zonk from the except-among-our-users dept.
MasterOfMagic writes "According to a survey reported at the NY Times, very few people actually have and use DVD copying software. The survey reports that only 1.5 percent of computer users have DVD copying software, and of those 1.5%, 2/3rds of them don't even use it. The survey also revealed that users were more likely to download DVDs than copy DVDs that they borrowed or rented, and that about half of all downloaded DVDs are pornography. According to the survey's lead analyst, 'With music, part of the appeal is sharing your own playlists and compilations with your friends ... I'm not sure people share their porn the way they share their music.'"
Biotech

Submission + - Baby Mammoth Found Intact (cnn.com)

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knoll99
knoll99 writes: "Let the Cloning Begin!

(Reuters) [transcribed through CNN.com] — Scientists unveiled the discovery Wednesday of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost of north-west Siberia.

A reindeer herder found a 10,000-year-old frozen baby mammoth in Russia's Yamal-Nenets autonomous district.

  The remains of the six-month-old female mammoth were discovered in a remarkable state of preservation on the Yamal peninsula of Russia in May, a Reuters report said. The specimen is believed to be the best of its kind to date.

A reindeer herder found the frozen animal in May near the Yuribei River, in Russia's Yamal-Nenets autonomous district.

Scientists hope the animal might yield DNA samples that could be used to clone and effectively resurrect the extinct members of the elephant family.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/11/siberia .babymammoth.reut/index.html"

Feed The Earth's Climate Is Seesawing, According To Climate Researchers (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed
During the last 10,000 years climate has been seesawing between the North and South Atlantic Oceans. Cold periods in the north have corresponded to warmth in the south and vice versa. These results imply that Europe may face a slightly cooler future than predicted by IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Feed $500 million underwater fiber network to link Asia, America (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed

Filed under: Networking

Unfortunately for most, traversing back and forth to Asia from America on a regular basis isn't exactly in the cards, but thanks to a $500 million project agreed upon by a 17-member telecommunications consortium, visiting via fiber will soon be a whole lot snappier. Telekom Malaysia, along with 16 other firms, have awarded a half billion dollar contract to Alcatel-Lucent and NEC to construct a 12,428-mile link between the west coast of America and Southeast Asia. The aptly-dubbed Asia-America Gateway will connect the western US with Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam, and Hawaii, while also offering "seamless interconnection" with Europe, Africa, and Australia. Moreover, the project is being designed to provide a "more secure link for traffic" across the seas, as it avoids the hazardous Pacific Ring in hopes of dodging massive internet outages due to unexpected earthquakes. Best of all, the wait time for the undersea cabling to make an impact is fairly reasonable, as users should see "faster and more reliable service" when it becomes operational in December of next year.

[Via Physorg]

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Television

BBC White Paper Claims HD Over Low Bandwidth Signal 88

Posted by Zonk from the quite-a-feat dept.
Kelten Miynos writes "According to CNet, the BBC has written a white paper in which they claim it's possible to double the available Freeview TV bandwidth by using some clever technologies. 'Doubling the space would mean we could easily have HD channels on Freeview, although everyone would need to buy a new receiver and aerial to pick them up. The key to all this is something called MIMO, which stands for multiple-input multiple-output. MIMO works using two transmitters, and two receivers. The two transmitters mean the two sets of data — sent on the same frequency — will arrive at the receivers at different times. Different arrival times are what allow the receiver to differentiate between the two separate signals and subsequently decode them.' These procedures could then be transplanted abroad to other countries with similar services."

Feed Anti-dandruff Compound May Help Fight Epilepsy (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed
Researchers have discovered that the same ingredient used in dandruff shampoos to fight the burning, itching and flaking on your head also can calm overexcited nerve cells inside your head, making it a potential treatment for seizures.
Businesses

An Essay On Subscription Television 306

Posted by kdawson from the wishes-and-horses dept.
dpu writes "Who would pay $1.99 to download a television episode that only costs about $0.0014 to see on cable? This is a short essay on the current and past state of subscription television, and a hope for the future. It skips a lot of points that the thinkers among us might care about, but it does the math and drives a nail into Big Content's pinky toe."

Google CEO — Take Your Data and Run 116

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the web-two-point-oh-no-there-goes-our-monopoly dept.
BobB writes to tell us that Google is promising to make the data they store for end users more portable and is urging other companies to do the same. From the article: "Making it simple for users to walk away from a Google service with which they are unhappy keeps the company honest and on its toes, and Google competitors should embrace this data portability principle, Eric Schmidt said at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco."

Feed Dems Challenge Post of Iraq Docs (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
The Bush administration posts classified documents detailing Saddam's nuclear program on a now-shuttered federal website. Democratic senators question the timing of the posting, which includes weapons' design info, just days before midterm elections.


Microsoft

Submission + - MS Patent Applications Reveal Search Technology

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "In the roughly 90 patents they applied for on November 2, 2006, Microsoft reveals that it is apparently pushing its research in the search engine market. There are a few patents that reveal improved ranking methods and document classification but the real interesting ones revolve around linking related queries, optimizing search, identifying results that are spam and using a Bayesian classifier to measure feedback from the user. If that's not enough, there's even a few I don't quite understand. Another notable Microsoft application for a patent is the model for assisting children in authoring stories so you can't accuse Microsoft of not thinking of the children. Microsoft regularly applies for many patents but never so many revolving around search."

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