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Possible Treatment For Ebola 157

RedEaredSlider writes "Researchers at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have found a class of drugs that could provide treatment for Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever. The new drugs are called 'antisense' compounds, and they allow the immune system to attack the viruses before they can do enough damage to kill the patient. Travis Warren, research scientist at USAMRIID, said while the work is still preliminary -— the drugs have been tested only on primates — the results are so far promising. In the case of Ebola, five of eight monkeys infected with the virus lived, and with Marburg, all survived. The drugs were developed as part of a program to deal with possible bioterrorist threats, in partnership with AVI Biopharma."

Comment Re:Why has no one taken this thread seriously... (Score 2) 520

I somewhat agree with the GP. While it's true LPN is somewhat of a worthless degree, a BSN is only a guaranteed job if you're willing to move. I volunteer at a hospital, and I can go all day without seeing a nurse under 40. In fact, 60 and 70 year-old nurses greatly outnumber 20 and 30 year olds, even though 20 and 30 year olds greatly outnumber 60 & 70 year olds in the population and let's face it. Health care is for the young, since it's a very strenuous activity with it's 12+ hour shifts and constant walking. With all the nurses being trained every year, and the huge waiting list at colleges, I can't help but wonder where 20 and 30 year olds end up. My guess is McDonald.

Comment DDR is grey area as well. (Score 3, Interesting) 146

DDR is currently in a gray area, since it crosses the line between video game and jukebox. Especially if it's positioned in an area so everyone can watch it. There hasn't been a "ruling" one way or the other from ASCAP on it. There are complications, because a lot of DDR songs are unlicensed in the US or are original performances by Konami. GH is a better test case, which is probably why they're using it.

Comment Not exactly (Score 2, Insightful) 424

The gold farmer often hack other players and use game exploits to obtain their gold. They obtain gold outside of the game's mechanics. They are an outside force in the game between monster drops and marketing for gold.

Gold farmers increase the supply of money and therefore increase the price of everything. I've seen games where farmers have gone nuts and drove the price where it was impossible to earn enough gold through legitimate means to play fairly with people who have enough gold.

Worse, is that the gold farmers, especially those that use an exploit take away that area for normal players. No one can train or farm for gold legitimately, because a gold farmer has ruined the training area for everyone else*.

*An example would be a vacuum hack, which causes all items to be vacuumed into a hacker's inventory and far away from legitimate players.

Gold farmers also ruin the community, because they don't play to be part of the community.

Stone Age Dentists 219

morleron writes "Scientists have found evidence in Pakistan that the Stone Age had dentists. They used flint drills to remove cavities and attempt other tooth repair. No evidence as to whether or not the patients were conscious during the procedures."

RICO Suit Filed Against Skype Founders 155

Stitch_Surfs writes "Defendant Skype Technologies S A, Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis, Kazaa, Bluemoon Ou and a slew of others have been named in a Rico Suit Filed by StreamCast Networks, of Houston, Texas. StreamCast is the company credited with the development of the Peer to Peer Technology called Morpheus. From the little information the courts have released, StreamCast is claiming that the group engaged in corrupt business practices."

New Data Transmission Speed Record 262

An anonymous reader writes "Gizmag is reporting that a team of German and Japanese scientists have collaborated to shatter the world record for data transmission speed. From the article: "By transmitting a data signal at 2.56 terabits per second over a 160-kilometer link (equivalent to 2,560,000,000,000 bits per second or the contents of 60 DVDs) the researchers bettered the old record of 1.28 terabits per second held by a Japanese group. By comparison, the fastest high-speed links currently carry data at a maximum 40 Gbit/s, or around 50 times slower."

When Virtual Worlds Collide 228

Wired is running an interesting article on the realization of past predictions with regards to online gaming and where we are headed for the future. The author predicts that the separation between online worlds like Ultima Online and World of Warcraft may be headed out of style, making your in-game persona as pervasive as an email address. From the article: "Because the current metaverse evolved largely out of videogames, it makes sense that it should be composed of fiefdoms - after all, you wouldn't expect a Grand Theft Auto crack dealer to drop in for a barbecue with the Sims. But there is reason to believe that the divided metaverse is merely a transitional phase, and that its component worlds will coalesce."

Adults Love Video Games 257

flabbybuns writes "For those of you who feel you may waste too much time behind a controller fret no longer. According to a recent report on adult gamer statistics, it turns out that the adults are more hardcore about gaming than the kids are. "
User Journal

Journal Journal: Lots of time but little progress

Well, on my thesis, I have a buggy version of imaginary NURBS bezier curves working. I need to fix the first part, hopefully, it'll work right.
Spam

Journal Journal: Work Work Work

This blogging software is great, but it's subjected tons of daily spam. I figure I lose 50 megs to spam a month, maybe more. I could take the time to skin my blog to disquise my referals, but I'd sill be recieving spam, you'd, the reader, just won't see it. That is unacceptable.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Wow, long time

I've been working hard off and on, but I've failed to post much.
User Journal

Journal Journal: 5 Mirrors

Right now, it's called <i>5 mirrors</i>. I've completed 10 pages of simple documentation on it, although it's far from a completed design document.

User Interface, Engine and basic design goals have been written out, but puzzles and maps have not been created. yet.

It's a project involving Dawn, Sarah and myself.
Sarah, Dawn and myself are designers
Sarah will be doing artwork
Dawn will be doing QA
I'll be the main programmer.

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