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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Post Date: 2005-11-28 20:46:37 by rack42
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This is a summary report of findings from a study of takedown notices under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [snip] In this study, we traced the use of the Section 512 takedown process and considered how the usage patterns we found were likely to affect expression or other activities on the Internet. The second level of analysis grew out of the fact that we observed a surprisingly high incidence of flawed takedowns: •Thirty percent of notices demanded takedown for claims that presented an obvious question for a court (a clear fair use argument, complaints about uncopyrightable material, and the like); •Notices to traditional ISP’s included a ...
A High-Tech Hot Spot in Oregon's High Desert
Post Date: 2005-11-27 14:46:40 by robin
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A High-Tech Hot Spot in Oregon's High Desert
Wi-Fi access, set up for nerve gas depot emergencies, is free for all
By Sam Howe Verhovek
Times Staff Writer
November 27, 2005
HERMISTON, Ore. — Barreling down U.S. Highway 395, through remote
farmland not far from a massive storage facility for old chemical
weapons, Fred Ziari beckoned his passenger to jump on the Internet.
"OK, go ahead," Ziari, an Iranian-born wireless communications
entrepreneur, said with a touch of glee. "Launch your browser. It's
free!"
Fast, free broadband wireless access to the Internet
might seem an ...
Hidden Proofs Of A Giant Race-annotated
Post Date: 2005-11-27 08:14:56 by gengis gandhi
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Hidden Proofs Of A Giant Race As you read this series of extracts, try to visualize the proverbial series of contemporary evolution...something is amiss. 1. Large bones in stone graves in Williamson County and White County, Tennessee. Discovered in the early 1800s, the average stature of these giants was 7 feet tall. 2. Giant skeletons found in the mid-1800s in New York state near Rutland and Rodman. 3. In 1833, soldiers digging at Lompock Rancho, California, discovered a male skeleton 12 feet tall. The skeleton was surrounded by caved shells, stone axes, other artifacts. The skeleton had double rows of upper and lower teeth. Unfortunately, this body was secretly buried because ...
Evidence that Dinosaurs and Humans co-existed
Post Date: 2005-11-25 19:12:24 by A K A Stone
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Taylor Trail A series of 14 human footprints with at least 134 dinosaur tracks in the bed of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas. McFall Trail A recently discovered series of 15 human footprints on the Upper Taylor Platform (UTP) in the bed of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas. Ryals Track A human footprint across a dinosaur footprint, about 30 feet from the Taylor Platform in the bed of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas. The Morris Track The Morris Track was found by John Morris in the bed of the Paluxy River, downstream from the Taylor Trail at the Dougherty Site. While some of the detail eroded over a period of months, when it was first ...
Macrovision RipGuard can't stop ripping
Post Date: 2005-11-25 11:29:20 by A K A Stone
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Back in February this year, Macrovision made a terrible attempt to scare the "ripping community" with the introduction of RipGuard. The company claimed that RipGuard would "stop DVD rippers in their tracks" and would have a dramatic effect on the amount of content that makes its way to P2P networks. "RipGuard is designed to... reduce DVD ripping and the resulting supply of illegal peer to peer," said the firm. However, Macrovision's "perfect" RipGuard solution does not match up to the firms claims. "We were able to circumvent the technology and rip a perfect copy of ['Madagascar'] using a free DVD ripper downloaded from the Internet," Piper ...
Giant kites to pull cargo vessels on the high seas
Post Date: 2005-11-24 22:56:43 by robin
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Computer Worm Poses as E-Mail From FBI, CIA
Post Date: 2005-11-24 03:51:41 by robin
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Computer Worm Poses as E-Mail From FBI, CIA'Sober X' Web Threat Spreads QuicklyBy Arshad Mohammed and Brian KrebsWashington Post Staff WritersThursday, November 24, 2005; D01It's being called the worst computer worm of the year -- a fast-spreading Internet threat that looks like an official e-mail from the CIA or FBI but can leave your computer wide open to intruders.The bogus e-mail claims the government has discovered you visiting "illegal" Web sites and asks you to open an attachment to answer some official questions. If you do, your computer gets infected with malware that can disable security and firewall programs and blast out similar e-mails to contacts in your address ...
Paleocene dinosaurs and the reinforcement syndrome
Post Date: 2005-11-23 20:31:44 by A K A Stone
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Evolutionary scientists have proclaimed for years that the dinosaurs died out at the end of the Cretaceous, exactly 65 million years ago. This date has been considered one of the evolutionary facts of nature. Since dinosaur fossils have been unearthed on all continents, the timing suggests a global change in the environment, or catastrophe. The extinction of the dinosaurs is a great mystery of paleontology, and there have been dozens of hypotheses for its cause.1 During the past two decades, however, most scientists have come to believe the extinction was caused by an asteroid hitting the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The precise timing of extinction, in so many locations, suggests it ...
Evolution and medicine
Post Date: 2005-11-22 23:40:14 by A K A Stone
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In the field of medicine, creationists are often considered by medical doctors as hopelessly behind the times. Endlessly we hear the same old rhetoric: “Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology.” In a New York Times online article last month was the quote: “Evolution is the basis of biology, biology is the basis of medicine … You’re messing with something important when you mess with evolution.” (See “Seeing Creation and Evolution in the Grand Canyon,” http://www.nytimes.com, October 6, 2005.) As a practicing physician, I have had to examine these claims about the importance of evolutionary thought in my daily interaction with patients. I have ...
Sony's rootkit infringes LAME GPL licence and breaks copyright
Post Date: 2005-11-19 10:42:07 by A K A Stone
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DamnedIfIknow, eranros, hyqwn and lanky used our news submit to tell us that on closer inspection of Sony's Audio XCP rootkit it has been found that it infringes copyright. From the inspection it has been found that the LAME Encoder code has been used in the XCP rootkit which is licenced under the Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). The LGPL licence means that those that change or add things to the code MUST publish some of the code they write so that other people can see the changes made. Sony has definetly not done this, and this constitutes a breach of the LGPL licence. Sony likes to tell consumers and the media a like that they need to protect their work from infringers and ...
Global Flood on Mars but Not Earth?
Post Date: 2005-11-18 22:13:25 by A K A Stone
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One of the most amazing admissions of inconsistency in secular science is this issue of a global flood on Mars. As incredible as it may sound, there are secular scientists that actually propose that there was a global flood on the red planet. Currently Mars is a dry, arid world, comparable in many respects to the desert regions we have on earth. Now let me get this straight. Scientists believe in a global flood for Mars which is presently an arid desert, but do not believe in a global flood for Earth whose surface is 75% covered with water about two miles deep right now. I would submit that from space, Earth appears like it is currently in a global flood. Can you imagine what these same ...
Largest Meat Eating Dinosaur Discovered
Post Date: 2005-11-18 15:12:47 by Steppenwolf
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Largest meat-eating dinosaur discovered Philip Currie views the dinosaur's razor-sharp teeth Scientists have discovered the bones of what may be largest meat-eating dinosaur ever to walk the Earth - a razor-toothed beast more terrifying than the Tyrannosaurus rex. This guy has a long snout and incredibly sharp teeth - I think it would have been terrifying Philip Currie A team of palaeontologists from Argentina and North America unearthed the fossils in the Patagonian desert, on the eastern slopes of the Argentinian Andes. There may be as many as six creatures preserved at the site. The predators' graveyard challenges the theory that the biggest meat-eaters were always loners. It ...
Rewriting prehistory: Dinosaurs ate grass [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-11-18 14:13:19 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON – Imagine dinosaur terrain – full of ferns and palms, right? Better add some grass to that picture. A new discovery debunks the theory that grasses didn't emerge until long after the dinosaurs died off. Fossilized dung tells the story: The most prominent plant-eating dinosaurs were digesting different varieties of grass between 65 million and 71 million years ago, researchers report Friday in the journal Science. Advertisement Click Me! The earliest grass fossils ever found were about 55 million years old – from the post-dinosaur era. It's a big surprise for scientists, who had never really looked for evidence of grass in dino diets before. After all, grass ...
EU setting up system of spy satellites
Post Date: 2005-11-18 12:12:45 by NOLAJBS
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BRUSSELS -- The European Union is building its own network of spy satellites, allowing Brussels to ensure nations and private individuals are obeying its policies. The multibillion-dollar system, known as Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, should be up and running by 2010, a commission spokesman said Monday. Announcing the launch of a "pilot stage" for GMES, the commission stressed its "user-friendly" application in guiding relief work after disasters or providing real-time images of forest fires or oil spills. But a commission statement also acknowledged that GMES would play a key role in the "implementation, review and monitoring of EU policies," ...
Abita's water may get chlorine ~ Test finds presence of contamination
Post Date: 2005-11-17 12:02:14 by NOLAJBS
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Abita Springs, a century-old town founded around the soothing and, some say, healing powers of its artesian water, may soon embark on what citizens have long considered near-blasphemy: chlorination. "Yep, we have fought the good fight . . . but it looks like we have lost the battle and we will have to chlorinate our municipal water supply," Mayor Louis Fitzmorris said. "I hate to say it, but this time I don't think we can avoid it." The latest threat to the town's treasured water is coliform bacteria. In October, state-mandated testing of water samples at a site near the town-owned cemetery showed that coliform bacteria exceeded the maximum level permitted by the state ...
Machines and objects to overtake humans on the Internet: ITU
Post Date: 2005-11-17 11:10:30 by A K A Stone
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Machines will take over from humans as the biggest users of the Internet in a brave new world of electronic sensors, smart homes, and tags that track users' movements and habits, the UN's telecommunications agency predicted. In a report entitled "Internet of Things", the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) outlined the expected next stage in the technological revolution where humans, electronic devices, inanimate objects and databases are linked by a radically transformed Internet. "It would seem that science fiction is slowly turning into science fact in an 'Internet of Things' based on ubiquitous network connectivity," the report said Thursday, saying objects ...
Still More on Sony's DRM Rootkit
Post Date: 2005-11-15 20:19:47 by boonie rat
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Schneier on Security A weblog covering security and security technology. November 15, 2005 Still More on Sony's DRM Rootkit This story is just getting weirder and weirder (previous posts here and here). Sony already said that they're stopping production of CDs with the embedded rootkit. Now they're saying that they will pull the infected disks from stores and offer free exchanges to people who inadvertently bought them. Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Monday it will pull some of its most popular CDs from stores in response to backlash over copy-protection software on the discs. Sony also said it will offer exchanges for consumers who purchased the discs, which contain hidden files ...
Backpack Designed to Generate Power from Walking
Post Date: 2005-11-15 11:50:23 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON - A backpack that converts a plodding gait into electricity could soon be charging up mobile phones, navigation devices and even portable disc players, U.S.-based researchers said on Thursday. Their backpack design converts mechanical energy from up-and-down movement of the backpack's cargo to electricity during normal walking. Fueled by a snack, hikers can put the spring in their steps to good use, the researchers write in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The backpack is deliberately designed to shake around a bit. The up-and-down movement of the backpack's cargo compartment against the frame of the pack turns a gear connected to a generator. The simple magnetic coil ...
Fuss and Feathers - Pandemic panic over the avian flu.
Post Date: 2005-11-14 12:07:05 by boonie rat
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Fuss and Feathers Pandemic panic over the avian flu. by Michael Fumento 11/21/2005, Volume 011, Issue 10 "THE INDICATION IS THAT we will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of flu," warns America's top health official. "In 1918, half a million people died. The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans . . . " A quotation ripped from today's papers about an impending "bird flu" pandemic? No, the year was 1976 and the prediction of a deadly "swine flu" overshot the mark by 999,999 deaths (although dozens did die from the vaccine campaign). That's something to remember amid the current alarms. ...
Meditation associated with increased grey matter in the brain
Post Date: 2005-11-13 09:52:46 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/yu-maw111005.php Public release date: 10-Nov-2005 Contact: Jacqueline Weaver jacqueline.weaver@yale.edu 203-432-8555 Yale University Meditation associated with increased grey matter in the brain New Haven, Conn.-Meditation is known to alter resting brain patterns, suggesting long lasting brain changes, but a new study by researchers from Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows meditation also is associated with increased cortical thickness. The structural changes were found in areas of the brain that are important for sensory, cognitive and emotional processing, the researchers ...
First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted
Post Date: 2005-11-10 21:43:14 by rack42
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Virus writers have begun taking advantage of Sony-BMG's use of rootkit technology in DRM software bundled with its music CDs. Sony-BMG's rootkit DRM technology masks files whose filenames start with "$sys$". A newly-discovered variant of of the Breplibot Trojan takes advantage of this to drop the file "$sys$drv.exe" in the Windows system directory. u3; "This means, that for systems infected by the Sony DRM rootkit technology, the dropped file is entirely invisible to the user. It will not be found in any process and file listing. Only rootkit scanners, such as the free utility RootkitRevealer, can unmask the culprit," warns Ivan Macalintal, a senior threat ...
Alternative Energy
Post Date: 2005-11-10 10:28:47 by Lod
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We are a family of seven living on a farm in Southwest Missouri. Our children range in age from 2 to 15. One of the major reasons that we moved out to a farm was for the purpose of establishing our ministry - the Commonwealth Missionary Alliance. The goal of the Commonwealth Missionary Alliance is to help people - especially missionaries - learn to do as many practical things in life as they can when they either have no assistance - or when they choose to do it themselves. Among those "things" - and specifically speaking - teaching people how to produce their own power, either through solar power, wind power or with a generator. When we moved to this farm, there was nothing but ...
Einstein Is Wrong, Relatively Speaking
Post Date: 2005-11-09 00:41:37 by Coral Snake
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Einstein Is Wrong, Relatively Speaking By Verity Edwards The Australian 11-8-5 One is possibly the greatest scientist who ever lived, and the other is a maverick physicist from Adelaide. But Reg Cahill says he can prove Albert Einstein and his hundred-year-old theories of relativity are wrong. The problem for Professor Cahill is that many of his contemporaries line up with Einstein. "I've been treated with utter contempt and hostility," he told The Australian. "This is pretty shocking stuff - but it's what you'd expect." In 2002, Professor Cahill started to question what he thought were anomalies in Einstein's theory that time and space are relative. "They ...
Italian Police Asked to Investigate Sony DRM Code
Post Date: 2005-11-08 21:03:19 by rack42
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My synopsis: What's this about? Sony's protected audio CD's requires that a "driver", named a "rootkit" because it is not seen by the Windows operating system as a program or a process, be installed in order to play the CD, and it can only be played with Sony's installed player. I've read that Apple MACs don't have this resriction; I can't confirm this. There is no easy way to remove the "protection" contrary to Sony's claims. Italy has declared this software as spyware under their law. Click for Full Text!
The Ultimate Silver Lining [antibacterial fabric]
Post Date: 2005-11-06 23:50:44 by DeaconBenjamin
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How Bill McNally turned his idea for an antibacterial fabric into a $50 million sensation. Nine years ago, Bill McNally was a senior marketing manager at a Wisconsin hospital when a nasty infection struck a large group of patients. Because of the bacteria’s resistance to standard antibiotics, the medical staff was desperate to find a cure for the outbreak, and the options were limited. “There’s little we can do,” one nurse lamented at an emergency meeting, “short of painting the walls with silver.” Within a few days, the infection abated. But, McNally says, the nurse’s joking reference to silver -- long known for its antibacterial properties -- ...
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