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Google and its "safe browsing" database
Post Date: 2009-02-18 11:54:27 by X-15
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About 1.2 percent of all scrapes of Google's results done by Scroogle show at least one "safe browsing" interception by Google. This is consistent with the 1.3 percent figure in Google's own report, "All Your iFRAMEs Point to Us," dated February 4, 2008. The way that Google handles these interceptions is by prefacing the link in their search results with www.google.com/interstitial, which sends the searcher to Google's page for more information. On Google's results page itself, it identifies such listings with the words, "This site may harm your computer." Scroogle has always respected this format for such links, and now we also show ...
Mixed Population Provides Insights Into Human Genetic Makeup
Post Date: 2009-02-17 15:51:34 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Mixed Population Provides Insights Into Human Genetic Makeup ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2009) — Genetic diseases and genetically mixed populations can help researchers understand human diversity and human origins according to a Penn State physical anthropologist. "We wanted to get to a strategy to predict what a face will look like," said Mark D. Shriver, associate professor of biological anthropology. "We want to understand the path of evolution that leads to that part of the selection process." To pinpoint genes that influence the shape of the human face and head, Shriver began with an online database of genes linked to disease -- Online Mendelian Inheritance of ...
A Baby, Please. Blond, Freckles -- Hold the Colic
Post Date: 2009-02-17 13:49:25 by Prefrontal Vortex
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A Baby, Please. Blond, Freckles -- Hold the Colic Laboratory Techniques That Screen for Diseases in Embryos Are Now Being Offered to Create Designer Children By GAUTAM NAIK Want a daughter with blond hair, green eyes and pale skin? A Los Angeles clinic says it will soon help couples select both gender and physical traits in a baby when they undergo a form of fertility treatment. The clinic, Fertility Institutes, says it has received "half a dozen" requests for the service, which is based on a procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD. While PGD has long been used for the medical purpose of averting life-threatening diseases in children, the science behind it ...
80 missing computers at nuke lab: watchdog
Post Date: 2009-02-15 22:17:52 by wudidiz
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80 missing computers at nuke lab: watchdogFebruary 14th, 2009 in Technology / Other Enlarge Eighty computers have been lost, stolen or gone "missing" at a major US nuclear weapons lab, the nonprofit watchdog group Project On Government Oversight has said. Eighty computers have been lost, stolen or gone "missing" at a major US nuclear weapons lab, the nonprofit watchdog group Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has said. The group posted online a copy of what they say is an internal letter outlining what appear to be worrisome losses at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the state of New Mexico. The letter says that 13 lab computers were lost or ...
How your looks betray your personality
Post Date: 2009-02-13 19:03:08 by Prefrontal Vortex
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How your looks betray your personality 11 February 2009 by Roger Highfield , Richard Wiseman and Rob Jenkins Magazine issue 2695. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. THE history of science could have been so different. When Charles Darwin applied to be the "energetic young man" that Robert Fitzroy, the Beagle's captain, sought as his gentleman companion, he was almost let down by a woeful shortcoming that was as plain as the nose on his face. Fitzroy believed in physiognomy - the idea that you can tell a person's character from their appearance. As Darwin's daughter Henrietta later recalled, Fitzroy had "made up his mind that no man with such a nose could have ...
Epson's tiny GPS receiver will make everything location aware
Post Date: 2009-02-13 14:10:53 by PSUSA
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Small, right? That's Epson's Infineon XPOSYS chip, its next generation Assisted-GPS device set for mass production in late 2009. The chip measures just 2.8 x 2.9-mm making it 25% smaller than other A-GPS chips on the market, according to Epson, while consuming half the power. The sensitivity has also been improved for a more accurate location fix while indoors. Between this, Google Latitude, and the ever expanding lineup of Skyhook positioning devices, you can kiss your location anonymity goodbye.
First satellite collision in space
Post Date: 2009-02-12 06:05:36 by Tatarewicz
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A defunct Russian military satellite knocked out one of Iridium's (US) 66 network communications satellites above Russia's Arctic Tuesday. The accidental collision, a first, occurred at 465 miles, a very important orbit for weather and relay communications craft. Iridium has an in-orbit spare which will be moved into its cross-linked network to replace the one lost, which incidentally was launched by a Russian rocket. POSTER COMMENT; Needs to be a way to bring defunct spacecraft down or "move" them further out into space to minimize an accumulation of damaging debris.
Tribute To John R. Boyd
Post Date: 2009-02-12 01:29:25 by X-15
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As I sat sipping an after-dinner drink in the Officer's Club at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle, I was distracted by the antics of three pilots, still in their flight suits, standing at the bar. One of them, tall with dark curly hair and a cigar in his mouth, talked in a loud animated manner. He used his hands to emphasize his words as fighter pilots are prone to do. I commented to my host, a colonel and chief of development planning, "There's a guy who obviously thinks he's the world's hottest fighter pilot." "That's John Boyd, who may well be one of the hottest pilots around," my host responded. "You should meet him." I ...
How I Built a Wind Generator in My Backyard for $150
Post Date: 2009-02-11 13:16:07 by X-15
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Lately I've been spending a great deal of time working on ways to generate my own electricity. It isn't a necessity for me yet, but someday being electrically self-sufficient could really come in handy. My interest started a while back when I stumbled upon a how-to article on building wind generators from treadmill motors and PVC pipe. It sounded easy enough, so I decided to try and design my own. This particular design can be built for $100-$150 if you are thrifty and can regularly generate 50-250 watts (considerably cheaper than a solar panel of similar power output). Here's how I built it for those of you who are interested... www.thekevdog.com/projects/wind_generator/
Amazing technology from Japan . .. . . but can you guess what it is?!
Post Date: 2009-02-11 09:22:29 by Itistoolate
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Amazing technology from Japan . .. . . but can you guess what it is?! You’ve just looked into the future… yep that’s right! You’ve just seen something that will replace your PC in the near future. Here is how it works: In the revolution of miniature computers, scientists have made great developments with bluetooth technology… This is the forthcoming computers you can carry within your pockets. This “pen sort of instrument” produces both the monitor as well as the keyboard on any flat surfaces from where you can carry out functions you woul d normally do on your desktop computer. Can anyone say, “Good-bye laptops!”
A new 'search engine': clusty.com
Post Date: 2009-02-09 17:12:59 by Itistoolate
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Human Evolution is Still Continuing
Post Date: 2009-02-09 06:35:49 by Turtle
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This Thursday, February 12, 2009, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, author of the 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (I guess Darwin didn’t get the memo about race not existing. You’ll see vast heapings of praise in the press for Darwin this week. Keep in mind, though, that if he were alive today, the same people now lauding the dead Darwin would be denouncing the living one the same way they demonized James Watson in 2007.) I’m pleased that a new book, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, demonstrates that Darwin has ...
Federation, synagogue win first Green Beanie Awards
Post Date: 2009-02-08 06:03:25 by Disgusted
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NEW YORK (JTA) -- The inaugural Green Beanie Awards, JTA’s bid to identify the best Jewish environmental initiatives, gave top honors to the UJA-Federation of New York and The Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation of Evanston, Illinois. The winners were announced in conjunction with JTA's special Tu B'Shevat section, "Eco Jews: Tradition and Trends in Jewish Environmentalism." More than 100 organizations, institutions and individual from around the world and across the Jewish communal spectrum submitted entries, including day schools and Jewish community centers, senior homes and high schools, food co-ops and bloggers. After much deliberation, the ...
Chemtrail Plane photographed
Post Date: 2009-02-06 23:07:33 by Itistoolate
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Rethinking Diversification
Post Date: 2009-02-06 20:39:56 by tom007
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Rethinking Diversification Catherine, Financial Permaculture, News & Commentary and The Solari Report, February 2, 2009 at 10:02 pm Rethinking Diversification For our entire lives, most of us have depended on highly centralized systems. Our food comes from a thousand or more miles away. Our savings is shipped into distant financial centers and invested by strangers in enterprises run by strangers. We watch highly scripted news that serves the same spin no matter how many channels we try. We bank at impersonal global banks with criminal records that would make a felon blush and have no idea where our money goes, just that the government guarantees that we will get it back. Within ...
Genes May Play a Role in Response to Preemie Prevention Treatment
Post Date: 2009-02-06 15:33:10 by Prefrontal Vortex
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SMFM: Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Meeting SMFM: Genes May Play a Role in Response to Preemie Prevention Treatment By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: February 03, 2009 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3 -- Genetic variation in the human progesterone receptor may explain why treatment to prevent recurrent preterm birth does not work in some women, researchers found. Certain single nucleotide polymorphisms seemed to play a role in the efficacy of 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate, said Tracy Manuck, M.D., of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human ...
White House Wants Space Weapons Ban
Post Date: 2009-02-06 00:13:51 by X-15
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The new White House Web site puts the administration of President Barack Obama on record as favoring a "worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites." But the wording on the site raises questions about exactly what it means. "Does that really run counter to some of the major programs, and what's important?" asked Marion Blakey, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), during a Jan. 26 roundtable at Aviation Week's offices in Washington. "I don't know that it does, because the terminology to my mind argues toward weapons, and not toward communication and surveillance." Under the heading ...
Inconvenient Truth: Reducing CO2 Emissions Will NOT Save the Planet!
Post Date: 2009-02-05 15:09:49 by RickyJ
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An editorial by Mark Johnson, Meteorologist AMS CBM/NWA. Reprinted with Permission. -- I talk about the fallacy of Man-made Global Warming to whomever will listen. I talk to many groups, large and small about how AGW is just bad science. I tell them that study results are hand-picked and modified to fit a pre-determined conclusion. That is: Man-made carbon emissions are responsible for accelerated, dangerous global temperature rises. Many are enlightened by my graphs disproving the fictional Hockey Stick. They are amazed when I cite peer-reviewed studies that prove Polar Bears aren’t drowning and that arctic sea ice and glaciers are actually increasing in size. They laugh in disbelief ...
Google Latitude keeps tabs on friends' locations
Post Date: 2009-02-04 21:45:52 by TwentyTwelve
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February 4, 2009 12:01 AM PST Google Latitude keeps tabs on friends' locations Posted by Stephen Shankland Google Latitude shows your friends on a map--as long as they've agreed to share their location. (Credit: Google) Just because the Internet has broken down geographic barriers, don't assume that Google doesn't care about geography. The company plans to launch software called Latitude on Wednesday that lets mobile phone users share their location with close contacts. Google hopes it will help people find each other while out and about and to keep track of loved ones. "What Google Latitude does is allow you to share that location with friends and family ...
The Next American Revolution: Main Street vs. Wall Street
Post Date: 2009-02-03 09:17:27 by tom007
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The Next American Revolution: Main Street vs. Wall Street by: Mark McQueen February 03, 2009 Mark McQueen Mark McQueen Add to Your WatchlistAbout this author: The stories are well known: * American Automaker executives flying to Washington in private jets to beg for government handouts. * Two hundred thousand dollar California spa bills at AIG (AIG), even after the U.S. taxpayers had to bail that insurance company out of certain bankruptcy. * Eliot Spitzer and his difficult three diamond session. * Citigroup (C) taking delivery of its new $50 million Falcon after receiving more than $40 billion of preferred share capital from the U.S. Treasury to keep the world’s Financial ...
Light Bulb Moment
Post Date: 2009-02-02 11:07:59 by richard9151
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Light Bulb Moment Light bulb manufacturers have convinced environmentalists and lawmakers that the compact fluorescent light (CFL) is more energy efficient than the incandescent. Okay. No problem. When you go to buy a new light bulb, if you care to spend the extra money (CFLs cost about six times as much as incandescents), you might feel good about helping the environment. Nothing wrong with that. Enjoy. Problem is, those light bulb makers have quietly mounted a very successful campaign to MAKE you buy their new bulbs. No choice. Their new bulb is your new bulb. This past December, President Bush signed an energy bill that will make it illegal to manufacture or sell incandescent light ...
Want a glimpse of the future? Take a look at the UK
Post Date: 2009-02-02 11:02:30 by richard9151
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Want a glimpse of the future? Take a look at the UK. Last year, the British government asked store owners to voluntarily stop selling 150-watt incandescent bulbs. Then just a few days ago, some UK retailers started phasing out sales of 100-watt bulbs, prompting consumers to purchase as many as they could get their hands on. Next year, 60-watt bulbs will follow. In three years the "voluntary" phase will end, and by 2016, store owners will face criminal charges if they sell incandescents. Welcome to the forced age of the compact fluorescent light (CFL) – an age that will arrive in the U.S. in just five years. Recently, when the change was made to CFLs in Cuba, government ...
Global variation in copy number in the human genome
Post Date: 2009-01-30 14:25:36 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Global variation in copy number in the human genome Copy number variation (CNV) of DNA sequences is functionally significant but has yet to be fully ascertained. We have constructed a first-generation CNV map of the human genome through the study of 270 individuals from four populations with ancestry in Europe, Africa or Asia (the HapMap collection). DNA from these individuals was screened for CNV using two complementary technologies: single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays, and clone-based comparative genomic hybridization. A total of 1,447 copy number variable regions (CNVRs), which can encompass overlapping or adjacent gains or losses, covering 360 megabases (12% of the ...
From the Edgte of the Universe...to Us
Post Date: 2009-01-27 12:21:51 by Zoroaster
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From the Edge of the Universe...to Us. Tuesday January 20th, 2009 printer friendly version send to a friend previous | next In the New Scientist of January 17, 2009, there appears an article about what could be the most important physics experiment in history, one that could, by revolutionizing our understanding of reality, enable us to much more accurately know who and what we are. And that may be radically different from what we appear to ourselves to be--solid, physical beings living out our lives in a predictably linear reality. We may actually be part of an entirely different reality, and understanding this might lead to dramatic changes in the way we see our world and our ...
Whistleblowers’ evidence of NASA UFO fraud might kill UK hacker case
Post Date: 2009-01-27 11:42:29 by gengis gandhi
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Whistleblowers’ evidence of NASA UFO fraud might kill UK hacker case 91 comments January 15, 12:26 PM by Jeff Peckman, Denver UFO Examiner « Previous Next » Evidence that U.S. space agency NASA has defrauded U.S. taxpayers for billions of dollars could scrap NASA’s case against UK hacker Gary McKinnon. Credible witnesses have claimed that NASA has altered or destroyed its photos containing images of UFOs. This could become a legal and public relations nightmare for NASA. The space agency is attempting to prosecute McKinnon for hacking into NASA computer files. McKinnon has stated that he saw UFO-related files in NASA’s computers. But NASA has denied any ...
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