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What Is Life? Probably the best, most accessible explanation to Life the universe and evolution, | 183 comments | Create New Account
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the heat is on ... perhaps
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 10 2013 @ 11:33 PM EST
The Australian parliament is getting interested in aspects of 'flexible' pricing
... see
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-11/microsoft-apple-summonsed-to-front-parliam
entary-committee/4512236

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What Is Life? Probably the best, most accessible explanation to Life the universe and evolution,
Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 03:12 AM EST
Wonders of Life

Probably the best, most accessible explanation to Life the universe and evolution, I have yet seen.

3. Endless Forms Most Beautiful

2. Expanding Universe

1. What Is Life?

The universe is almost entirely devoid of life. Earth, the planet we call home, seems to defy the laws of physics. It is teeming with life in all colours, shapes and sizes. No- one knows for sure how many different species are alive right now, our best guess is close to 8.7 million. In this film, Professor Brian Cox asks how, from a lifeless cosmos ruled by the laws of physics and chemistry, it is possible that a planet can produce so much wonderful, varied biology.

It's an epic journey through time that begins with Brian undertaking a species count in the cloud forests of Madagascar. Here, creatures exist that are unique to this isolated Indian Ocean island.

He searches for clues to how species have become so diverse by considering the chemistry of a lion, tracing their molecular connection to the heavens with a visit to the Southern African Large Telescope. Witnessing the ancient formation of stars Brian follows carbon, life's most precious ingredient, as it is captured by the living world. From plants to insects, through grazing herds, all the way up to Africa's big cats, Brian follows carbon as it passes through the food chain.

This leads him to the one carbon rich molecule that controls it all: DNA, the blue print for all living things. On the ancient Karoo plains Brian discovers how once DNA arrived it was inevitably changed. He shows that the universe itself plays an important part in shaping this molecule.

Finally he returns to Madagascar to search for its most famous inhabitants: lemurs. There are over 90 different species across the country, but perhaps one of the most bizarre is known locally as the aye-aye. Being nocturnal and living in some of the densest, most mountainous terrain makes them incredibly difficult to find. Yet Brian is determined to find one because they hold one of the best demonstrations of how DNA is shaped by the environment. For Brian the aye-aye holds the key to understanding why we find ourselves on such a rich, varied and complex living world.

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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CFAA and DMCA
Authored by: vadim on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 06:50 AM EST
Folks, i've just got an idea on how to turn CFAA and DMCA on
their heads to promote access to the information instead of
restrict it. Something like GPL use copyright law to turn it on
it head and grant more liberty.
Suppose somebody let's call him P makes copies of DVDs for
backup purposes
and then publishes a web page with links to these movies.
The links are password protected with WEAK password.
The potential downloaders will be breaking the law breaking
the password and downloading the movies form this site,
however they can be confident that P will not sue them.
So a potential download have to break/guess the password to
download a movie.
However to accuse P of copyright violation the accuser will
have to break the CFAA and DMCA laws too, and this action
will invalidate the evidence against P.

What do you think?

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  • CFAA and DMCA - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 08:34 AM EST
  • CFAA and DMCA - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 08:43 AM EST
Apple, Microsoft and Adobe summoned by Australia
Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 07:41 AM EST
BBC

Having been in Australia about 18 months ago, I can confirm that they are being ripped off very badly. So is the UK, and probably various other countries too. I think that these nasty businesses price their trashware (in the case of M$ at least) as high as the mugs will pay. Their obscene profit margins tend to confirm that.

I hope that other governments are going to start looking into this.

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An Unfair Situation -- Andoid security updates vs Not unlocking your phone
Authored by: ukjaybrat on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 08:06 AM EST
Your every day story about android security updates

Laws have been passed that make it illegal to unlock our phones. All this does is put money in the carriers pockets because we are forced to upgrade our contracts and buy a new phone when our current model is no longer supported.

Someone should start a petition for a law that would force carriers to continue support for at least 2 years (length of most contracts) of any device it sells. That way a customer will always have the latest security updates on their phone as long as they are under contract.

It does not seem fair that carriers can bully us into staying under their umbrella with the 'unlock law' and not supply security updates at the same time. It leaves users with no possible action to prevent their prone devices from malware attacks.

ok ok... you and i both know that most of the malware stories are pure FUD. But most people don't, and this proposition would at least help ease people's fears by eliminating stories like the one I have included up top. It would also hopefully form a better relationship between Google and carriers (much akin to sitting two troubled kids at a table together and telling them to play nice).

Anybody else have any suggestions, or even agree with my proposal?

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IANAL

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  • US only? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 09:38 AM EST
    • Yes - US only - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 01:04 PM EST
    • No, not US only - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 02:18 PM EST
      • No, not US only - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 10:16 PM EST
        • No, not US only - Authored by: ukjaybrat on Tuesday, February 12 2013 @ 09:20 AM EST
          • No, not US only - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2013 @ 02:12 PM EST
            • Two issues - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 12 2013 @ 02:53 PM EST
            • No, not US only - Authored by: ukjaybrat on Thursday, February 14 2013 @ 11:11 AM EST
              • But..? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 14 2013 @ 04:57 PM EST
                • But..? - Authored by: ukjaybrat on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 07:24 AM EST
Finally confirmed: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
Authored by: JamesK on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 08:20 AM EST
A team of American and European researchers have confirmed that the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction — the event that wiped out roughly 75% of the planet’s species, including almost every dinosaur — was caused by an asteroid impact in Mexico 66 million years ago.

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The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised.

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The bits - they need to be inverted. It's very technical, you wouldn't understand.
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 08:51 AM EST
Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe Systems have been summoned by lawmakers to explain why consumers pay more for IT products Down Under than in other countries.

The Australian Parliament's House Committee on Infrastructure and Communications said Monday that it wants the companies to appear before the committee as part of an ongoing probe regarding disparity between prices charged in Australia and in overseas markets.

Steven Musil, CNET

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IOS6.1 problem
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 10:03 AM EST
Slashdot and the Beeb are reporting network problems with IOS6.1 Apple are refusing to comment which is starting to cause raised eyebrows.

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  • Standard response - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 11:49 AM EST
    • Standard response - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 11:53 AM EST
EDA 'David' files law suits against Moto, Nokia, others
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 11:50 AM EST
linky. Yet another lawsuit.

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DOE advanced cybersecurity tools?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 05:59 PM EST
"The US Department of Energy today said it would spend $20 million on the development of advanced cybersecurity tools to help protect the nation's vulnerable energy supply."

"The DOE technologies developed under this program should be interoperable, scalable, cost-effective advanced tools that do not impede critical energy delivery functions, that are innovative and can easily be commercialized or made available through open source for no cost." link

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New Help Desk
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 09:08 PM EST

Replace the...

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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New XKCD
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 09:10 PM EST

Workflow

Wayne
http://madhatter. ca

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Can the Pope Legally Resigm
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 09:15 PM EST

L owering the Bar

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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from the copyright-trolling-smackdown dept: Prenda Lawyer Faces Sanctions
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 11:22 PM EST
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130208/14380521924.shtml

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