Comment WITCH HUNT! (Score 1) 204
Let the witch hunts begin!
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Comment Re:Death bell tolling for thee.... (Score 1) 322
and how do you know apple isn't gonna do that?
Comment Re:screw 'em, then, let them be ignorant (Score 2) 129
How exactly blocking Gmail et al. would make China become backward?
I mean, it is a fair question.
blocking google does not make them backwards... however, since they are backwards they block google... Being backwards is not the effect..is the cause.
Comment The best part (Score 1) 420
The best part is that it will soon (if not already) illegal for YOU to watch THEM.
That is.. they can watch you but you can't watch them...
Comment iPod touch (Score 2) 301
mp3 player, of course a good rom would permit FLAC and other formats... however you would probably need a good capacity SD card (if the cell supports it) ...just keep it in airplane mode to improve battery life.
Comment Re:Half of circumference? (Score 1) 332
I think "flameén" is a conjugated from of "flamear" which comes from the english "to flame" but verbalized in spanish.
Comment replace non-smoking signal (Score 1) 220
Since all flights are always non-smoking the whole flight, it's about time they replace the (now) useless non-smoking signal with a no-electronics signal.
Comment Does copyright lasts hundreds of years? (Score 1) 325
not yet, but it will once Mickey is hundreds of years old
Comment Re:THANK GOODNESS! (Score 1) 136
now that we have admitted that digital copying equates to theft it's just a matter of time before the MAFIAAs win
Submission + - DVD Sniffing Dogs in a Queens DVD bootleg Bust
BillyBurrito writes: "District Attorney Brown said, "For the first time in the United States, specially trained DVDsniffing dogs have actively participated in a criminal investigation aimed at combating DVD piracy.
The dogs passed with flying colors by successfully ferreting out hidden contraband at a number of locations. Man's best friend has become a DVD counterfeiter's worst nightmare as we now welcome this latest weapon into our law enforcement anti-piracy arsenal."
http://mpaa.org/press_releases/dvd%20counterfeits_ 08_29_2007_cmp.pdf"
Submission + - new gene that turns cancer off
An anonymous reader writes: Canadian team discovers gene that turns cancers off
VANCOUVER
August 13, 2007 at 6:49 PM EDT
A unique gene that can stop cancerous cells from multiplying into tumours has been discovered by a team of scientists at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.
The team, led by Dr. Poul Sorensen, says the gene has the power to suppress the growth of human tumours in multiple cancers, including breast, lung and liver.
The gene, HACE 1, helps cells fight off stress that, left unchecked, opens the door to formation of multiple tumours.
Dr. Sorensen's team found cancerous cells form tumours when HACE 1 is inactive, but when additional stress such as radiation is added, tumour growth is rampant.
Kick-starting HACE 1 prevented those cells from forming tumours.
The study appears in the advance online publication of Nature Medicine.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070813.wgenee0813/BNStory/specialScienceandHeal th
VANCOUVER
August 13, 2007 at 6:49 PM EDT
A unique gene that can stop cancerous cells from multiplying into tumours has been discovered by a team of scientists at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.
The team, led by Dr. Poul Sorensen, says the gene has the power to suppress the growth of human tumours in multiple cancers, including breast, lung and liver.
The gene, HACE 1, helps cells fight off stress that, left unchecked, opens the door to formation of multiple tumours.
Dr. Sorensen's team found cancerous cells form tumours when HACE 1 is inactive, but when additional stress such as radiation is added, tumour growth is rampant.
Kick-starting HACE 1 prevented those cells from forming tumours.
The study appears in the advance online publication of Nature Medicine.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGA
Submission + - Too old to game? 1
Jeek Elemental writes: Ive been gaming for pretty much my whole life, starting on the venerable Vic-20. Other interests around computers have waxed and waned, though gaming has always had its hooks deeply embedded.
Lately, at 32 years old, I just cant seem to get into any games at all. Every one I try is a disappointment and quickly put away.
I should note I speak of straight-pc games, not them new-fangled Sousaphone-hero or what have you on the consoles. My all-time favorites would have to be UT2k4 and Neverwinter Nights, both online.
Am I just gamed-out? Are new games crap? Should I let Wii woo mee? When did you stop gaming and if you didnt what do you play?
Lately, at 32 years old, I just cant seem to get into any games at all. Every one I try is a disappointment and quickly put away.
I should note I speak of straight-pc games, not them new-fangled Sousaphone-hero or what have you on the consoles. My all-time favorites would have to be UT2k4 and Neverwinter Nights, both online.
Am I just gamed-out? Are new games crap? Should I let Wii woo mee? When did you stop gaming and if you didnt what do you play?
Submission + - Underground Anechoic Chamber
CoolnQuiet writes: "Ever wondered where they get those dBA readings on the side of your VGA card box? Here are some pictures of an underground anechoic chamber (echo free) for really accurate noise readings: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article748-page2.htm l."
Submission + - Untapped Energy Below Us (yahoo.com) 1
EskimoJoe writes: "BASEL, Switzerland — When tremors started cracking walls and bathroom tiles in this Swiss city on the Rhine, the engineers knew they had a problem.
"The glass vases on the shelf rattled, and there was a loud bang," Catherine Wueest, a teashop owner, recalls. "I thought a truck had crashed into the building."
But the 3.4 magnitude tremor on the evening of Dec. 8 was no ordinary act of nature: It had been accidentally triggered by engineers drilling deep into the Earth's crust to tap its inner heat and thus break new ground — literally — in the world's search for new sources of energy.
On paper, the Basel project looks fairly straightforward: Drill down, shoot cold water into the shaft and bring it up again superheated and capable of generating enough power through a steam turbine to meet the electricity needs of 10,000 households, and heat 2,700 homes.
Scientists say this geothermal energy, clean, quiet and virtually inexhaustible, could fill the world's annual needs 250,000 times over with nearly zero impact on the climate or the environment.
A study released this year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said if 40 percent of the heat under the United States could be tapped, it would meet demand 56,000 times over. It said an investment of $800 million to $1 billion could produce more than 100 gigawatts of electricity by 2050, equaling the combined output of all 104 nuclear power plants in the U.S."
Submission + - Open Sound System (OSS4) goes GPLv2 (opensound.com)
mrcgran writes: "The Open Sound System (OSS) is one of the first sound systems for Linux, predating ALSA, but in the last 10 years it's stalled in version 3.8 (the last public GPL version) and it's being replaced by ALSA as the sound system of choice in Linux. ALSA is a Linux-only solution, while OSS works in a range of Unixes as well, and both have advantages and disadvantages over the other.
Now, OSS4 is out under a GPLv2 license, with a number of advanced features over ALSA, like its new dynamic VMIXing capabilities, low-latency kernel modules, simple API and many other features. This release seems to be important enough to shake the foundations of the current desktop sound systems, specially in Linux."
