Good news, America! Your faithful scientific elite have isolated a brain enzyme that, when blocked, decreases appetite, promotes weight loss and improves the body’s ability to handle blood sugar levels. You’ll be fat and diabetic no longer!
There’ll be no need to exercise when you’ll have easy access to a drug that makes trans-fat-laden fast food [...]
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has put ISPs on notice that he’s going to do everything he can to preserve Net Neutrality, telling ISPs to “think twice” before they start to corrupt the connections they provide to their customers.
From the Article: “Wyden delivered his ultimatum at a Computer & Communications Industry Association conference in DC, where [...]
Amazingly, the pre-release estimates of a $400 million first week for the latest edition of Grand Theft Auto turned out to be low with publisher Take-Two trumpeting a 6 million unit, $500 million debut. Playing GTA IV in HD isn’t without controversy, however, with reports of over-scan issues on older HDTVs (some experiences range to [...]
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team played this past weekend in vintage uniforms from their days as the Yakult Atoms. True to their name, the Yakult Atoms uniforms had manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka’s most famous character, Mighty Atom (Tetsuwan Atom/Astro Boy), embroidered on their sleeves. The vintage uniforms were part of the team’s promotional campaign [...]
Nine Inch Nails has made its new ten-song, 44-minute minute album entitled “The Slip” available for free download at www.nin.com (free signup required). The new set includes the songs “Echoplex” and “Discipline” which were both posted online during the last couple of weeks ahead of the new album release.
The music is available in a variety [...]
The Pro-IP Act has passed the Judiciary Committee unanimously, thanks to the support of committee chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI). If you remember, this is the same bill which would create copyright cops with the power to seize computers, when powers like that have been systematically abused in other areas. But, apparently, they think the [...]
According to this article in the Washington Times, some air marshals are being forbidden entry to the airplanes they are supposed to protect, as they have similar names to people on the no-fly list. Another nugget from the article- Chertoff says just one airline is seeing some 9,000 false positives EVERY DAY from this list.
From [...]
We now know how the White House managed to lose about five million emails. It seems that they “upgraded” their Lotus Notes system, which had an automatic retention and backup system, for Microsoft Exchange, which did not support the automatic system.
So they changed it to a manual process, where aides would manually sort emails one [...]
A damning piece by David Barstow in today’s New York Times that chronicles “a symbiotic relationship where the usual dividing lines between government and journalism have been obliterated.”
From the Article: “Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a [...]
A single village in China is responsible for cranking out 60% of the world’s paintings. The overwhelming majority of the paintings are slavish reproductions of famous paintings. The artists doing the work are very talented, however, and an organization called Regional asked some of the artists to paint themselves. The results are incredible, as you [...]
Last July, a research team from the University of Washington released an online tool to analyze whether web pages were being altered during the transit from web server to user. On Wednesday, the team released a paper at the Usenix conference analyzing the data collected from the tool. The found, unsurprisingly, that ISPs were indeed [...]
In a Manhattan case, Warner v. Berry, the RIAA sued a man who lives in a homeless shelter, leaving a copy of the summons and complaint not at the homeless shelter, but at an apartment the man had occupied in better times, and had long since vacated. The RIAA’s lawyers were threatened with sanctions by [...]
The Totoro no Furusato (The Homeland of Totoro Foundation) has opened an English-language Totoro Fund website in its effort to preserve “the beautiful natural habitat and cultural assets of Sayama Hills and its surrounding areas.” These lush green hills, located to the west of metropolitan Tokyo, helped inspired Hayao Miyazaki to create his 1988 classic, [...]
Hundreds of retired New York City subway cars are being sunk sixteen nautical miles off Delaware’s Indian River Inlet and about 80 feet underwater, continuing the transformation of a barren stretch of ocean floor into a bountiful oasis, carpeted in sea grasses, walled thick with blue mussels and sponges, and teeming with black sea bass [...]
A team of researchers have found that Comcast has quietly rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, which is interfering with web browsers in addition to p2p traffic. The smoking gun that documents this behavior are network traces collected from Comcast subscribers Internet connections. This evidence shows Comcast is forging packets and blocking connection attempts from [...]
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