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Comment Re:If only Obama knew.... (Score 1) 296

by niales (#32047996) Attached to: What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser?

Sometimes I think I'm one of the only people who voted for Obama and knew this from the beginning. I knew he'd support Hollywood because that's what Dems do. I knew he'd cater to the Unions because that's what Dems do. Anyone surprised by the slow pullout of Iraq and the beefing up of forces in Afghanistan wasn't watching the campaign very closely.

All in all I've been generally happy with his performance. One of the only unhappy surprises I got was the entire GM "Thing."

As you said Open Source is so low on his priority list I won't be surprised if he simply never even gets to it (with a full 8 years).

Comment Re:Government is Clueless about Business (Score 1) 192

by niales (#31823728) Attached to: Companies Skeptical of Commercial Space Market

1) Our elected representative pushing policies we do not agree with is NOTHING like what caused the original Tea Party.

2) A general lack of understanding in the Party. All party's have fools who spout rhetoric, but I've yet to hear a thought out position from a Tea Partier.

Perhaps it's all media coverage, but their general strong support for Palin makes that hard to believe.
Medicine

Injectable Artificial Bone Developed 105

Posted by kdawson from the no-op dept.
An anonymous reader writes in with the news that British scientists have invented artificial "injectable bone" that flows like toothpaste and hardens in the body. This new regenerative medicine technology provides a scaffold for the formation of blood vessels and bone tissue, then biodegrades. The injectable bone can also deliver stem cells directly to the site of bone repair, the researchers say. "Not only does the technique reduce the need for dangerous surgery, it also avoids damaging neighboring areas, said [the inventor]. The technology's superiority over existing alternatives is the novel hardening process and strength of the bond... Older products heat up as they harden, killing surrounding cells, whereas 'injectable bone' hardens at body temperature — without generating heat — making a very porous, biodegradable structure."
Space

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth 235

Posted by Soulskill from the no-cake-jokes-allowed dept.
MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered evidence of magnetic portals connecting the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through.'"
The Internet

Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth 428

Posted by kdawson from the beware-the-man-with-the-lantern dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Simson Garfinkel has an interesting essay on MIT Technology Review in which he examines the way that Wikipedia has redefined the commonly accepted use of the word 'truth.' While many academic experts have argued that Wikipedia's articles can't be trusted because they are written and edited by volunteers who have never been vetted, studies have found that the articles are remarkably accurate. 'But wikitruth isn't based on principles such as consistency or observability. It's not even based on common sense or firsthand experience,' says Garfinkel. What makes a fact or statement fit for inclusion is verifiability — that it appeared in some other publication, but there is a problem with appealing to the authority of other people's written words: many publications don't do any fact checking at all, and many of those that do simply call up the subject of the article and ask if the writer got the facts wrong or right. Wikipedia's policy of 'No Original Research' also leads to situations like Jaron Lanier's frustrated attempts to correct his own Wikipedia entry based on firsthand knowledge of his own career. So what is Wikipedia's truth? 'Since Wikipedia is the most widely read online reference on the planet, it's the standard of truth that most people are implicitly using when they type a search term into Google or Yahoo. On Wikipedia, truth is received truth: the consensus view of a subject.'"

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