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Meer: Volunteers Use Annular Eclipse To Measure Sun More Accurately |
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| 2012-05-25 09:01:07
Anonymous Squonk writes "The measurement of the sun currently in use was actually calculated over 120 years ago, and is off by hundreds of kilometers. Thousands of ordinary Japanese citizens worked together to improve this estimate. By measuring the borders of the 'ring of fire' effect of the recent eclipse, and using the known size and distance from the Earth of the sun, the radius of the Sun was measured as 696,010 kilometers, with a margin of error of only 20 kilometers."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/efUdAutRkpE/volunteers-use-annular-eclipse-to-measure-sun-more-accurately
Meer: Supreme Court Orders Do-Over On Key Software Patents |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
Fluffeh writes "It seems that the US Supreme Court has an itch it just can't scratch. A patent granted to the Ultramercial company covers the concept of allowing users to watch a pre-roll advertisement as an alternative to paying for premium content and the company is demanding fees from the likes of Hulu and YouTube. Another company called WildTangent is however is challenging Ultramercial's "invention" as merely an abstract idea not eligible for patent protection. Add to this a recent ruling by the Supreme Court restricting patents — albeit on medical diagnostic techniques and you get into a bit of a pickle. The Supreme Court is now sending the Ultramercial case back to the lower courts for another round, which doesn't mean that the court disagrees with the original ruling, but rather that it thinks it is a patent case that is relevant to the situation and they want to re-examine it under this new light."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9Erun9p2ozI/supreme-court-orders-do-over-on-key-software-patents
Meer: Moxie Marlinspike Proposes New TACK Extension To TLS For Key Pinning |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
Trailrunner7 writes "Two independent researchers are proposing an extension for TLS to provide greater trust in certificate authorities, which have become a weak link in the entire public key infrastructure after some big breaches involving fraudulent SSL certificates. TACK, short for Trust Assertions for Certificate Keys, is a dynamically activated public key framework that enables a TLS server to assert the authenticity of its public key. According to an IETF draft submitted by researchers Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin, a TACK key is used to sign the public key from the TLS server's certificate. Clients can 'pin' a hostname to the TACK key, based on a user's visitation habits, without requiring sites modify their existing certificate chains or limiting a site's ability to deploy or change certificate chains at any time. If the user later encounters a fraudulent certificate on a "pinned" site, the browser will reject the session and send a warning to the user. 'Since TACK pins are based on TACK keys (instead of CA keys), trust in CAs is not required. Additionally, the TACK key may be used to revoke previous TACK signatures (or even itself) in order to handle the compromise of TLS or TACK private keys,' according to the draft."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yUWh_OYotbg/moxie-marlinspike-proposes-new-tack-extension-to-tls-for-key-pinning
Meer: Sales of Unused IPv4 Addresses Gaining Steam |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
netbuzz writes "A growing number of U.S. carriers and enterprises are hedging their bets on IPv6 by purchasing blocks of unused IPv4 addresses through official channels or behind-the-scenes deals. There is certainly no shortage of stock, as these address brokers have blocks available that range from 65,000 to more than a million IPv4 addresses. And it's not just large companies and institutions benefiting, as one attorney who's involved in the market says he represents a woman who came into possession of a block of IPv4 address in the early '90s and now, 'She's in her 70s, and she's going to have a windfall.''"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MKcrcAg0hD4/sales-of-unused-ipv4-addresses-gaining-steam
Meer: US State Department Hacks Al-Qaeda Websites In Yemen |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
shuttah writes "In the growing Al-Qaeda activity in Yemen, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton revealed today that "cyber experts" had recently hacked into web sites being used by an Al-Qaeda affiliate, substituting the group's anti-American rhetoric with information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes. Also this week, a statement from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs revealed the presence an Al-Qaeda video calling for 'Electronic Jihad.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6mpoEfgSjgE/us-state-department-hacks-al-qaeda-websites-in-yemen
Meer: Yahoo Includes Private Key In Source File For Axis Chrome Extension |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
Trailrunner7 writes "Yahoo on Wednesday launched a new browser called Axis and researchers immediately discovered that the company had mistakenly included its private signing key in the source file, a serious error that would allow an attacker to create a malicious, signed extension for a browser that the browser will then treat as authentic. The mistake was discovered on Wednesday, soon after Yahoo had launched Axis, which is both a standalone browser for mobile devices as well as an extension for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer. ... Within hours of the Axis launch, a writer and hacker named Nik Cubrilovic had noticed that the source file for the Axis Chrome extension included the private PGP key that Yahoo used to sign the file. That key is what the Chrome browser would look for in order to ensure that the extension is legitimate and authentic, and so it should never be disclosed publicly."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9YgzVxqEtyo/yahoo-includes-private-key-in-source-file-for-axis-chrome-extension
Meer: New Music Boss, Worse Than Old Music Boss |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
frank_adrian314159 writes "David Lowery, musician (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven), producer (Sparklehorse, Counting Crows), recording engineer (Archers of Loaf, Lamb of God), and geek (programmer, packet radio operator, ex-CBOT quant) talks about the economics of the music business and how the "old boss" — the record labels — have been replaced by the new boss — file downloading services, song streaming, and commercial online music stores. His take? Although the old boss was often unfair to artists, artists are making even less money under the new boss. Backed with fairly persuasive data, he shows that, under the new distribution model, artists — even small independent ones — are exposed to more risk while making less money. In addition, the old boss was investing in the creation of new music, while the new boss doesn't. This article is lengthy, but worth the attention of anyone interested in the future of music or music distribution."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/C_sOvgqKPjM/new-music-boss-worse-than-old-music-boss
Meer: Ask Slashdot: Hobbyist-Ready LCD Touch Panel For Embedded Projects? |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
michael_cain writes "I've been asked (by family, friends) to consider several small embedded controller projects. A good starting point for all of them would be a backlit LCD graphics module with touch screen pre-mounted in a plastic enclosure with enough room behind the display for a custom circuit board. 320-by-240 pixels, 3.5 to 4.5 inch diagonal measure, monochrome is sufficient (but color is always cool), easily driven by an AVR or PIC type microcontroller. And priced at a reasonable point for a hobbyist! Anyone seen anything like this?"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6RIHTvDYIRM/ask-slashdot-hobbyist-ready-lcd-touch-panel-for-embedded-projects
Meer: NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
coondoggie writes "NASA today gently reminded any future Moon explorers that any relics of its Apollo missions or other U.S. lunar artifacts should be off limits and are considered historic sites. NASA issued the reminder in conjunction with the X Prize Foundation and its Google Lunar X Prize competition which will use NASA's Moon sites guidelines as it sifts through the 26 teams currently developing systems and spacecraft to land on the Moon."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0sjUjgEP-WU/nasa-to-future-lunar-explorers-dont-mess-with-our-moon-stuff
Meer: New Jersey Mayor and Son Arrested For Nuking Recall Website |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
phaedrus5001 writes "The mayor of West New York, New Jersey was arrested by the FBI after he and his son illegally took down a website that was calling for the recall of mayor Felix Roque (the site is currently down).
From the article: 'According to the account of FBI Special Agent Ignace Ertilus, Felix and Joseph Roque took a keen interest in the recall site as early as February. In an attempt to learn the identity of the person behind the site, the younger Roque set up an e-mail account under a fictitious name and contacted an address listed on the website. He offered some "very good leads" if the person would agree to meet him. When the requests were repeatedly rebuffed, Joseph Rogue allegedly tried another route. He pointed his browser to Google and typed the search strings "hacking a Go Daddy Site," "recallroque log-in," and "html hacking tutorial."'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4h50JMylLDY/new-jersey-mayor-and-son-arrested-for-nuking-recall-website
Meer: When Antivirus Scammers Call the Wrong Guy |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
ancientribe writes "Phony AV scammers posing as Microsoft dialed the wrong number when they inadvertently phoned a security researcher at home. He lured them into a honeypot to study their actions, and posted the video online here. His main takeaway: they were 'Stone Age' when it came to their tech know-how."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Fp-AC1m6o5c/when-antivirus-scammers-call-the-wrong-guy
Meer: Mobile Workers Work Longer Hours |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
Qedward writes "Last month it was reported on slashdot that a third of workers at a British telecoms company were 'more productive' working from home during a telecommuting experiment to prepare for the London 2012 Olympics. A more recent study reveals almost two-thirds of mobile employees say they are working 50+ and 60+ hour weeks, with most also working weekends. It also has security implications, with most mobile workers saying they will do anything to get an internet connection, including hijacking unsecure networks. The problem of needing a connection has also led to an increase in workers waking up through the night due to stress."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UYtbTBUckL4/mobile-workers-work-longer-hours
Meer: FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from CNET: "CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications. 'The big question for me is why there isn't more transparency about what's going on?' asks Jennifer Lynch, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group in San Francisco. 'We should know more about the program and what the FBI is doing. Which carriers they're working with — which carriers they're having problems with. They're doing the best they can to avoid being transparent.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/A_u_0xWkjQg/fbi-quietly-forms-secretive-net-surveillance-unit
Meer: Why Open Compute Is a Win For Rackspace |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:54
1sockchuck writes "Cloud provider Rackspace is looking to the emerging open source hardware ecosystem to transform its data centers. The cloud provider spends $200 million a year on servers and storage, and sees the Open Compute Project as the key to reducing its costs on hardware design and operations. Rackspace is keen on the potential of the new Open Rack program, and its buying power is motivating HP and Dell to develop for the new standard — partly because Rackspace has also been talking with original design manufacturers like Quantra and Wistron, It's an early look at how open source hardware could have a virtuous impact on the server economy. 'I think the OEMs were not very interested (in Open Compute) initially,' said Rackspace COO Mark Roenigk. 'But in the last six months they have become really focused.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/P-XuMFvnEpY/why-open-compute-is-a-win-for-rackspace
Meer: Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:53
therealobsideus writes "Dish recently announced Auto Hop, giving its customers with the Hopper DVR the ability to 'hop' past commercial break on recordings. In response, Fox has filed suit against Dish in U.S. District Court, seeking to block the technology." The L.A. Times has coverage, too. Fox claims that giving viewers the ability to skip commercials on recorded television shows demonstrates the "clear goal of violating copyrights and destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gR4SnhfVt4k/fox-sues-dish-over-auto-hop-ad-skipping-feature
Meer: Neil Armstrong Gives Rare Interview |
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| 2012-05-25 08:07:53
pcritter writes "In a rare coup for accountants' association CPA Australia, CEO Alex Malley interviews Neil Armstrong, whose dad worked as an Auditor, bringing him back 4 decades to the pinnacle of the space race. Neil reveals that "I thought we had a 90 per cent chance of getting back safely to Earth on that flight but only a 50-50 chance of making a landing on that first attempt". The 4 part video series is now posted on CPA Australia's website."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4T5lsH2aDgA/neil-armstrong-gives-rare-interview
Meer: Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger |
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| 2012-03-27 12:05:25
RemyBR writes with an excerpt from an article at El Reg: "Microsoft has confirmed that users of its instant messaging app will not be able to send each other links to popular torrent site The Pirate Bay, citing malware fears. 'We block instant messages if they contain malicious or spam URLs based on intelligence algorithms, third-party sources, and/or user complaints. Pirate Bay URLs were flagged by one or more of these and were consequently blocked,' Redmond told The Register in an emailed statement."
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Meer: Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger |
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| 2012-03-27 11:37:32
RemyBR writes with an excerpt from an article at El Reg: "Microsoft has confirmed that users of its instant messaging app will not be able to send each other links to popular torrent site The Pirate Bay, citing malware fears. 'We block instant messages if they contain malicious or spam URLs based on intelligence algorithms, third-party sources, and/or user complaints. Pirate Bay URLs were flagged by one or more of these and were consequently blocked,' Redmond told The Register in an emailed statement."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/q_ZATmb0sNA/microsoft-blocking-pirate-bay-links-in-messenger
Meer: Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types |
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| 2012-03-27 09:17:57
sciencehabit writes, quoting an article in Science: "A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a 'do not eat' signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells."
The abstract and full paper are freely available. It seems fairly promising: "In mice given human bladder cancer tumors, for example, 10 of 10 untreated mice had cancer that spread to their lymph nodes. Only one of 10 mice treated with anti-CD47 had a lymph node with signs of cancer. Moreover, the implanted tumor often got smaller after treatment — colon cancers transplanted into the mice shrank to less than one-third of their original size, on average. And in five mice with breast cancer tumors, anti-CD47 eliminated all signs of the cancer cells, and the animals remained cancer-free 4 months after the treatment stopped."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z1XSwpDhheM/drug-turns-immune-system-against-all-tumor-types
Meer: Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage |
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| 2012-03-27 06:22:29
Presto Vivace writes "Neil Chenoweth, of the Australian Financial Review, reports that the BBC program Panorama is making new allegations against News Corp of serious misconduct. This time it involves the NDS division of News Corp, which makes conditional access cards for pay TV. It seems that NDS also ran a sabotage operation, hiring pirates to crack the cards of rival companies and posting the code on The House of Ill Compute (thoic.com), a web site hosted by NDS. 'ITV Digital collapsed in March 2002 with losses of more than £1 billion, overwhelmed by mass piracy, as well as technical restrictions and expensive sports contracts. Its collapse left Murdoch-controlled BSkyB the dominant pay TV provider in the UK.' Chenoweth reports that James Murdoch has been an advocate for tougher penalties for pirates, 'These are property rights, these are basic property rights,' he said. 'There is no difference from going into a store and stealing a packet of Pringles or a handbag, and stealing something online. Right?'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dco-08OGoiw/murdoch-faces-allegations-of-sabotage
Meer: German Pirate Party Enters 2nd State Parliament |
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| 2012-03-27 04:10:33
An anonymous reader writes "After its recent success in the Berlin elections, the German Pirate Party scores 7.4% of votes for the state pariament of Saarland, earning them 4 seats out of 51. While the campaign didn't center around copyright issues and/or ACTA (the party's stance is well-known), it centered around open government, access to education, and participative governing models, effectively ridding the party of its 'one issue' notion."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4JVz8OC3X0I/german-pirate-party-enters-2nd-state-parliament
Meer: Censorship of Chinese Social Media Is Real, Comprehensive |
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| 2012-03-27 02:12:49
chicksdaddy writes "Threatpost has a write-up of a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University that provides the first conclusive evidence that Chinese government censorship extends to social media sites like Sina Weibo, the popular micro blogging Web site that many have likened to a Chinese Twitter. 'The study ... found that censors in China delete around 16 percent of the messages submitted to Sina Weibo ... The study, released in March, concludes that "soft censorship" in China — the removal of controversial subject matter from blogs and Web pages — is at least as popular as hard censorship, like the blocking of offensive sites. The result is suppression of news about events or individuals that are deemed threatening to the ruling Communist party.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Dqx3dEvgDqg/censorship-of-chinese-social-media-is-real-comprehensive
Meer: Congress Capitulates To TSA; Refuses To Let Bruce Schneier Testify |
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| 2012-03-27 01:39:58
McGruber writes "Following up on an earlier Slashdot story, earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing titled 'TSA Oversight Part III: Effective Security or Security Theater?' ... In a blog update, Bruce Schneier says that 'at the request of the TSA' he was removed from the witness list. Bruce also said 'it's pretty clear that the TSA is afraid of public testimony on the topic, and especially of being challenged in front of Congress. They want to control the story, and it's easier for them to do that if I'm not sitting next to them pointing out all the holes in their position. Unfortunately, the committee went along with them.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rkjpLTsIwXQ/congress-capitulates-to-tsa-refuses-to-let-bruce-schneier-testify
Meer: Akamai To Offer IPv6 To All In April |
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| 2012-03-27 00:57:11
netbuzz writes "Akamai says that it will offer IPv6 services to its entire customer base beginning next month – a long-awaited move that is expected to be a major boon to the adoption rate of the next-generation Internet Protocol. Akamai hoped to release its production-grade IPv6 services by the end of 2011, but the task proved more difficult than originally anticipated. Akamai has been beta testing its IPv6 services with key customers since last fall."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OqZ14ZoHtbc/akamai-to-offer-ipv6-to-all-in-april
Meer: 16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft |
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| 2012-03-27 00:35:48
New submitter petval tips another amazing Minecraft project: a functioning scientific/graphing calculator. "On a virtual scale, the functional device is enormous — enough so that anyone in the real world would become a red blot of meat and bone staining the road if they fell from the very top. Honestly, his virtual machine looks more like a giant cargo ship ripped from a sci-fi movie than a working calculator. Yet type your problem out on the keypad, and the answer appears on a large white display mounted on the side of the monstrous brick structure." The creator says it can do "6-digit addition and subtraction, 3-digit multiplication, division and trigonometric/scientific functions ... Graphing y=mx+c functions, quadratic functions, and equation solving of the form mx+c=0." We've previously discussed the creation of a 16-bit ALU in Minecraft.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/knycwhOdOAE/16-year-old-creates-scientificgraphing-calculator-in-minecraft
Meer: Your Privacy Is a Sci-Fi Fantasy |
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| 2012-03-27 00:14:26
snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia discusses the 'sci-fi fantasy' that is privacy in the digital era. 'The assault on personal privacy has ramped up significantly in the past few years. From warrantless GPS tracking to ISP packet inspection, it seems that everyone wants to get in on the booming business of clandestine snooping — even blatant prying, if you consider reports of employers demanding Facebook passwords prior to making hiring decisions,' Venezia writes. 'What happened? Did the rules change? What is it about digital information that's convinced some people this is OK? Maybe the right to privacy we were told so much about has simply become old-fashioned, a barrier to progress.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/i_gd6hSIWf0/your-privacy-is-a-sci-fi-fantasy
Meer: Supreme Court Throws Out Human Gene Patents |
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| 2012-03-26 23:31:13
thomst sends this quote from an Associated Press report:
"The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers. The court overturned patents belonging to Myriad Genetics Inc. of Salt Lake City on two genes linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The justices' decision sends the case back down to the federal appeals court in Washington that handles patent cases. The high court said it sent the case back for rehearing because of its decision in another case last week saying that the laws of nature are unpatentable. In that case, the court unanimously threw out patents on a Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., test that could help doctors set drug doses for autoimmune diseases like Crohn's disease."
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Meer: Wing Commander: Darkest Dawn — Fan-Made Goodness Reborn |
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| 2012-03-26 23:09:45
MojoKid writes "Last week marked the launch of Wing Commander Saga: Darkest Dawn, a fan-built companion to Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger that's been in the making for the past ten years. It's a real labor of love. Now that the game is available, the question is, how good is it? "The game dropped on Thursday, I started playing Friday, and as of this writing (Sunday afternoon), my weekend chore list is gathering dust on the fridge. I've been too busy cursing my decision to chuck my Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 to notice. 'If I'd kept it just one more year I wouldn't have this problem,' I mutter, fingers splayed over the keyboard in a vain attempt to convince my Hellcat to bank like something other than a Centaurian Mud Pig. Wing Commander Saga is a fan-made game that's good enough to be worth paying for. Not only is it better than a lot of schlock companies expect you to pay for, it pays homage to its source material while improving on Wing Commander's classic gameplay and graphics."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gBBESa1p750/wing-commander-darkest-dawn-fan-made-goodness-reborn
Meer: Book Review: HTML5 Developer's Cookbook |
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| 2012-03-26 22:48:16
stoolpigeon writes "HTML5 is the latest version of HTML. In fact, it is still under development — but HTML5 brings so many highly-desired capabilities that browsers have begun to implement it and many projects already take advantage of it. Often an HTML5 project employs more technology than just HTML, and the label has come to include the use of CSS3 and JavaScript as well. There are a number of resources out there to help one use HTML5 and recently I've been using the HTML5 Developer's Cookbook by Chuck Hudson and Tom Leadbetter." Read on for the rest of stoolpigeon's review.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/x2pBEmK_H74/book-review-html5-developers-cookbook
Meer: Righthaven Stops Showing Up In Court |
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| 2012-03-26 22:03:07
Fluffeh writes "This story has gone from funny to said. Following copyright-troll Righthaven's recent whipping by a judge, it now appears the company has just given up altogether. CEO Steve Gibson is working at another job (while being investigated by the Nevada Bar) and main lawyer Shawn Mangano apparently has completely stopped responding to all attempts to contact him, even by the court. All this has resulted in the key appeals in its cases to be dismissed 'for lack of prosecution.' Last Thursday it also had a key case closed, with prejudice, driving another nail in its already buried coffin."
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