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Funny Title
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

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130324201814.htm

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Tin Foil Hat
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 01:04 AM EDT
For Non-Trackability semiaccurate.com

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Internet Will Not Be Another TV (poster)
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 01:33 AM EDT

Internet Will Not Be Another TV (poster).

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Washington Post Defends Not Running Article On Iraq Media Failure
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

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Hotmail copyright
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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Cool Science - Prince Rupert’s Drop: The Curious Properties of a Molten Glass Blob
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.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/prince-ruperts-drop-the-curious-properties -of-a-molten-glass-blob-dropped-in-cold-water/

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Supreme Court weighs deals to delay generic drugs
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."

David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times

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Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Carmen Ortiz Admonished In 2004 For Aggressive Tactic
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 Huffington Post

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Ad industry has attacked Mozilla over its decision to block third-party cookies
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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OSnews take on the VP8 patents: "We have been here before"
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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Pervasive sequence patents cover the entire human genome
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

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MS is forcing Skype on you. Skype leaks your location.
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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30 Months For Potential Murder?
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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Laptop Ads
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?

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Realtime Report Keyword in lawsuits filed
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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Google Glass May Not Be Welcome for Drivers in West Virginia
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.

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