Authored by: kawabago on Sunday, March 24 2013 @ 11:30 PM EDT |
I just saw this article at www.sciencedaily.com and the title
is so funny I just had to share it!
Nature Versus Nurture: Better Looking Birds Have Healthier
Babies, Finds Study of Great Tits
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- Funny Title - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 09:05 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 01:04 AM EDT |
For Non-Trackability semiaccurate.com
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 01:33 AM EDT |
Internet Will
Not Be Another
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 06:23 AM EDT |
Greg Mitchell, author of a recently updated book
on media mistakes
during the run-up to the Iraq War, So
Wrong For So Long, revealed Saturday
night on his blog that
the Washington Post's Outlook section had killed an
assigned
piece related to the press debacle that was slated for
publication
this weekend.
Mitchell noted that the Outlook section did run what he
called a “misleading, cherry-picking” piece by Post media
writer Paul Farhi,
in which Farhi claims the media didn’t
fail during the 2002-2003 rush to
war.
The Post’s decision to run Farhi’s piece defending the
press, and not
Mitchell’s, got a lot of attention Sunday
morning on Twitter. It was especially
noteworthy given that
the paper’s editorial board –- which helped promote the
Bush
administration’s bogus rationale for invading Iraq -– was
silent on last
Tuesday’s 10th anniversary of the start of
the conflict.
Outlook editor
Carlos Lozada told The Huffington Post that
the Post didn't run Mitchell's
piece because it didn't draw
the "broader analytical points or insights" the
paper was
looking for on the topic of Iraq War mea culpas.
(Mitchell
has
posted his article here.)
Michael
Calderone, The Huffington Post[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: squib on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 02:21 PM EDT |
Recently, I thought I'd better send a libellous email via my anonymous hotmail
account. Then I noticed that at the top right hand corner this appeared after I
sent it: /* Copyright (C) 201
Is M$ now claiming copyright to my emails or does this refer to something
else?
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- Hotmail copyright - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 03:45 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 09:03 PM EDT |
So this is completely amazing. Destin from Smarter Every Day stopped by Orbix Hot Glass in Fort Payne, Alabama to
explore a fascinating phenomenon called a Prince Rupert’s
Drop. Apparently when molten hot glass is dropped in cold water it forms an
object that’s almost completely impervious to brute force, even a sold hammer
strike to the center of the teardrop-like shape won’t break the glass. Yet
gently cut or even bump the tip of the drop and suddenly the entire thing
shatters in an explosive chain reaction traveling at a speed of over 1 mile PER
SECOND.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 10:53 PM EDT |
The FTC contends 'pay-for-delay' deals, which allow brand-name drug
companies to keep cheaper generic drugs off the market for a time, violate
antitrust laws.
A government attorney urged the Supreme Court to allow
authorities to crack down on cash deals among prescription drug makers that
delay the introduction of generic drugs and keep consumer prices high.
The
so-called pay-for-delay deals, which allow brand-name drug companies to keep
cheaper generic drugs off the market for a time, violate antitrust laws, the
Federal Trade Commission argued Monday.
"It's unlawful to buy off the
competition," said Malcolm Stewart, the deputy solicitor general who represented
the FTC and the Justice Department. "It's an agreement not to compete," he said,
which is "presumptively illegal."
The FTC said that more than two dozen such
deals cost consumers $3.5 billion last year.
David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times
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An
insider's view of generic-drug pricing
A former drug purchasing manager
for Kaiser Permanente says a lot of the prices for generic medicines can't be
justified.
Bob Toomajian worked for 16 years as Kaiser Permanente's drug
purchasing manager for Southern California, giving him an insider's knowledge of
how medications are priced before reaching consumers.
When it comes to
patented name-brand drugs, he told me, pharmaceutical companies try to get away
with the highest prices possible. On the other hand, they're typically
recovering millions of dollars in research and development costs, so those
sky-high prices are perhaps understandable.
It's a different story for
generic drugs, Toomajian said. In that case, the manufacturer isn't saddled with
R&D expenses. It isn't attempting to create a market for a new medicine.
Basically, everything it earns beyond production costs is pure gravy.
"A lot
of the prices for generics can't be justified," Toomajian said. "Manufacturers
are basically starting with the exorbitant prices that the branded guys charged
and then setting their own prices at whatever level they think the market will
bear."
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 02:29 AM EDT |
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, under fire over her
office's aggressive
prosecution of Internet activist Aaron
Swartz, was admonished by a federal
appeals court in 2004 for
advocating a harsher jail term for a defendant than
she had
promised him in a plea-bargain agreement, according to a court
document.
Zach Carter, The
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 07:02 AM EDT |
Link
"The Internet was created on the foundations of
advertising," said Jaffe. "There are true privacy concerns of the public,
they're serious concerns and should be respected. We are having that
conversation with consumers. But Mozilla is cutting off that
conversation."
That's an outright lie, simple as that.
Kudos to Mozilla. I already use NoScript. It's great.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 07:23 AM EDT |
See
http://www.osnews.com/story/26892/Nokia_s_VP8_patent_claims_we_ve_bee
n_here_before
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 10:53 AM EDT |
Abstract
The scope and eligibility of patents for
genetic sequences have been debated for decades, but a critical case regarding
gene patents (Association of Molecular Pathologists v. Myriad Genetics) is now
reaching the US Supreme Court.
Recent court rulings have supported the
assertion that such patents can provide intellectual property rights on
sequences as small as 15 nucleotides (15mers), but an analysis of all current US
patent claims and the human genome presented here shows that 15mer sequences
from all human genes match at least one other gene. The average gene matches 364
other genes as 15mers; the breast-cancer-associated gene BRCA1 has 15mers
matching at least 689 other genes. Longer sequences (1,000 bp) still showed
extensive cross-gene matches. Furthermore, 15mer-length claims from bovine and
other animal patents could also claim as much as 84% of the genes in the human
genome. In addition, when we expanded our analysis to full-length patent claims
on DNA from all US patents to date, we found that 41% of the genes in the human
genome have been claimed.
Thus, current patents for both short and long
nucleotide sequences are extraordinarily non-specific and create an uncertain,
problematic liability for genomic medicine, especially in regard to targeted
re-sequencing and other sequence diagnostic assays.
Jeffrey Rosenfeld and
Christopher E. Mason, Genome Medicine
h/t Mike the Mad Biologist [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 12:01 PM EDT |
Link
So Windows Live Messenger is doomed but Skype is exposing user
location. Good job, MS.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 03:12 PM EDT |
A man who pointed a laser pointer at an aircraft gets a 30 month
sentence (could destroy eyesight and/or make pilot lose control), yet Aaron was
threatened with 35 years for doing no real harm-- makes sense to me ------>
NOT!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 04:27 PM EDT |
Just glancing at the current Future Shop flyer and noticed that the laptop ads
(Toshiba, Sony, Samsung, Lenivo, Asus) do not have the Windows 8 desktop
pictured. All of teh ads aldso do not mention what OS is on the laptops. There
is one lonely ad for windows 8 with 2 asus laptops on it, but of the 17 screens
shown in the flyer only 2 show windows 8. Have they quietly started to allow 7
to be installed or are the vendors reconfiguring the desktops before sale?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Laptop Ads - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 07:03 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 06:17 PM EDT |
Is there an inexpensive/free way to find all lawsuits in which a specific field
of practice is either the subject, or a major component of the lawsuit.
Ideally, I'd like real time notification of all such lawsuits as they are filed,
regardless of where in North America they are filed. Even better, would be
worldwide notification of all such lawsuits.
Note: I am not interested in all lawsuits that are filed related to #CFR#.#. The
lawsuits may/will come under a variety of CFR sections.
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Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 09:55 AM EDT |
A state lawmaker introduces a bill that
would forbid drivers from wearing and using head-mounted displays such as Google
Glass on West Virginia roads. --- The following program contains
immature subject matter.
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