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- Stem cell measure winning in California
- Stem cell measure winning in CaliforniaSimilar to Stem cell research was made about 40 – 50 years ago.They created so called “Chimeras”. The result – they lived OK for a while, but after certain period of time ALL OF THEM died from cancer.I do not want to run into details...
- Tags: stem-cell, Stem-Cell Research
- Discussion threads 2004-11-03
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- Girls are as smart as boys, but tests are getting dumber
- New research published in the journal Science confirms what all of us teachers have known for a long time: girls are just as smart as boys. I hope none of our tax dollars went into that one. A quick quote from the article before I get into the...
- Tags: Test, Teacher, Hyde, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Pepsi Bottling makes big green tech recycling commitment
- Mammoth beverage manufacturer Pepsi Bottling is turning to Redemtech to develop a strategy in the United States and Canada for handling its e-waste, either through recycling or reuse. Under the deal, Redemtech has been tasked with the following: - Dispose of electronic assets. For perspective,...
- Tags: Green Technology, PepsiCo, E-waste, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- New telescopes embedded in glasses lens
- Small bioptic telescopes mounted on glasses to help people with visual impairments have been in existence for about 60 years and are allowed for use in driving by 39 states in the U.S. Most of them were either too heavy or too ugly to be widely used. Now, a Harvard...
- Tags: Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge
- Google's $10M, no, $100M Android ChallengeI think that Google also needs to make their own self branded phone.They can not depend on existing manufacturers to do it for them. But, after the Google phone takes off, Google might decide to get out of the market.It will be many years before...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUsIt's not surprising.The increased cost of the premium Office doesn't provide much that corporations need. Also, as linked, Vista Home Basic is not viable either, so they must, if they go Vista, get the premium product.I do think a clarification is needed. [B]He...
- Tags: Elop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- The same day that Forrester Research is touting yet another of a growing number of studies claiming Vista is failing to gain traction in the enterprise, Microsoft is claiming just the opposite. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week
- During Microsoft's annual Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, the company will finally show off semi-publicly the spherical Surface computer that has been rumored for the past few months. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Multi-touch, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship
- NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...
- Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Will industry react to new cell phone cancer scare?
- Will industry react to new cell phone cancer scare?hmm...what are we going to do with microwaves, wireless routers and TV & radio stations that emit in a similar spectrum?...Go in the mountains,or... in a cave?What about Bluetooth?So I hear some people saying to use headsets instead, but if they're Bluetooth,...
- Tags: Federal government, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, industry, cell phone, FCC, Bluetooth, new cell phone cancer, radiation, cell phone cancer, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...
- Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Will industry react to new cell phone cancer scare?
- The problem is that the market can't wait for a long-term study. Were one to be started now it would not yield results until many thousands of people had died. My guess is the industry will try to brazen it out and hope Dr. Herberman is wrong. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Phone, Industry, Cell Phone, Cell, Cancer, Herberman, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Qualcomm patent ruled invalid in German Nokia case
- The German Federal Patent Court ruled on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case against the world's top cell phone maker Nokia was invalid. HELSINKI--The German Federal Patent Court ruled on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case against the world's top cell...
- Tags: Patent, Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Reuters, Nokia, Qhalcom, patents, legal, cellphones
- News items 2008-07-24
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac
- I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality
- DTrace and the Linux bunker mentalityBecause it is the Linux way Paul1) Take something good and copy it badly.2) Never, ever listen to anyone offering advice regarding usability [i]"Linux ain't no Fisher Price OS"[/i] etc.3) Spend more time arguing on the mailing lists, than actually developing and bug-testing.RE: DTrace and...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, DTrace, SCO Group Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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