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Comment Stillwell, History of Mathematics (Score 1) 630

by tenyearsgone on Sunday February 08, 2009 @11:57PM (#26779449) Attached to: Mathematics Reading List For High School Students?

This book shows how math concepts were 'discovered' as they were needed. Negative numbers help us solve all subtraction problems. Complex numbers solve all polynomial root problems. etc. It makes he student realize the math concepts are there for a reason and we still have plenty of room to add to them. Each chapter is a self-contained interesting story.

Comment Help, not hinder (Score 2, Interesting) 486

by tenyearsgone on Thursday July 17, 2008 @01:27AM (#24224259) Attached to: Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela

Seems like helping the Cubans get internet access might help further U.S. goals better than the embargo does.

Submission + - Microsoft Seeks Virtual Fuzzy Dice Patent

Submitted by

theodp

on Thursday August 23, 2007 @03:11AM

theodp writes: "So what does Microsoft's just-published patent application for an Adaptive heads-up user interface for automobiles cover? Among other things, Virtual Pairs of Fuzzy Dice that appear to move with automobile movements."

Submission + - Google Sky

Submitted by

Tom F

on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @06:18AM

Tom F writes: "BBC News are running an article relating to the release of Google Sky. A new tool to allow users to now view images of the heavenly skies with the chance to look at 1 million stars and 200 million galaxies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6955787.stm"

Submission + - Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better than Plain Soap (physorg.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @11:16PM

eldavojohn writes: "Stop buying antibacterial soap as it's no more effective than the regular stuff and, on top of that, you are introducing a risk to a mutation of bacteria! From the article, "The team looked at 27 studies conducted between 1980 and 2006, and found that soaps containing triclosan within the range of concentrations commonly used in the community setting (0.1 to 0.45 percent wt/vol) were no more effective than plain soaps. Triclosan is used in higher concentrations in hospitals and other clinical settings, and may be more effective at reducing illness and bacteria. Triclosan works by targeting a biochemical pathway in the bacteria that allows the bacteria to keep its cell wall intact. Because of the way triclosan kills the bacteria, mutations can happen at the targeted site. Aiello says a mutation could mean that the triclosan can no longer get to the target site to kill the bacteria because the bacteria and the pathway have changed form." For the love of god, stop endangering everyone with your soapy hand held mutation experiments!"

Submission + - Russian court aquits former owner of allofmp3.com (themoscowtimes.com)

Submitted by on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @08:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: Moscow's Cheremushkin District Court has acquitted Denis Kvasov, former owner of the music download website allofmp3.com, of violating intellectual property laws, reports Moscow Times.

The court has cited insufficient evidence of criminal activity — a question of fact — without touching the question of law of whether the site's activities (had they been proven by the prosecution) actually violated Russian copyright law. Yekaterina Sharapova, the trial's presiding judge, said: "I want to draw particular attention to the sloppy job done by prosecutors in collecting and analyzing the facts."

According to the Moscow Times, though, the allofmp3.com case is far from over. Two more criminal trials are scheduled to take place: one against Vladimir Mamotin, the media director of MediaServices, the parent company of allofmp3.com, and another against the company itself.

allofmp3.com has been a long subject of controversy. According to the licensing agreement, it pays a percentage of its revenue to the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society, which in turns pays individual rights holders of the songs. However, western music labels claim that ROMS's licensing agreement violates their intellectual property rights.

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