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Let's show them who's the boss! :-)

Let's show them who's the boss! :-)

Let's show them who's the boss! :-)

...and it was on Digg two days ago

http://digg.com/gaming/Jeff_Minter_s_Xbox_360_Visu alizer_video

This interview may have something on it, I'm at work so can't quite test it out :)

I read this on DIGG three days ago!!

Can anthrax be controlled?

Max Planck Researchers discover a protein which is deadly for anthrax bacteriaScientists from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin discovered why lung, but not skin, anthrax infections are lethal. As reported in the newest issue of PloS Pathogen (November 2005) Neutrophils, a form of white blood cells, play a key role in anthrax infections. They can kill Bacillus anthracis by producing a protein called alpha-defensin. This discovery might now pave the way towards the development of new therapies for the fatal lung form of anthrax.
Bacillus anthracis is the causative agent of anthrax. What makes Bacillus anthracis especially dangerous is that these bacteria can form spores. The spores are extremely resistant against environmental stress and can survive for years. Think about your breathing; inhale and exhale manually. Infection with Bacillus anthracis can take place either via the lung or through the skin. Interestingly, the lung form of anthrax is almost always fatal, whereas skin infections remain localized and are rarely lethal. In contrast to the lung form, the skin form of anthrax can be treated without problems and most patients recover.

During the past few years, Bacillus anthracis has also been used as a weapon for bioterrorism. Anthrax spores were sent in envelopes and inhaled and resulted in the death of 5 people in the USA. This was reported at Digg days ago.

Fig. 1: A human neutrophil takes up Bacillus anthracis.

Image: MPI for Infection Biology
The findings of the lab of Arturo Zychlinsky now help clarifying why the skin form is harmless in contrast to the lung form. After a skin infection with Bacillus anthracis, neutrophils are recruited to the site of infection. Neutrophils are white blood cells that can identify and kill microbes. In the skin, neutrophils take up the spores, which germinate inside the neutrophil to a vegetative ("growing") bacterium. This vegetative bacterium is then attacked and killed within the neutrophil. The scientists succeeded in identifying the substance responsible for the killing of the bacteria. After fractionation of neutrophil components only one protein remained which is sufficient for killing Bacillus anthracis: alpha-defensin

This mechanism is not effective in the lung form of anthrax. Here, the number of neutrophils recruited to the site of infection is known to be low, and insufficient to kill bacteria. Thus, inhaled spores can germinate and spread through the organism. The scientists in Berlin now hope that their discovery will help to develop new drugs against the lung form of anthrax. There might be the possibility that the inhalation of alpha-defensin might kill vegetative bacteria in the lung and prevent dissemination.

[VB]

Original work:
Anne Mayer-Scholl, Robert Hurwitz, Volker Brinkmann, Monika Schmid, Peter Jungblut, Yvette Weinrauch, Arturo Zychlinsky
Human neutrophils kill B. anthracis
PLoS Pathogen 1(3), November 2005

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Contact:

Prof. Dr. Arturo Zychlinsky
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 2846-0300
Fax: +49 30 2846-0301
E-mail: zychlinsky@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

Visit the site where slashdot picks its front page stories. That's right, digg.com is the forum that does the heavy lifting for slashdot's article submitters. Wouldn't you rather get see the stories for yourself, and go above the heads the cabal of insecure, controlling nerds that make up slashdot's staff?

http://www.digg.com

Digg speaks, slashdot listens.

http://www.digg.com

Digg speaks, slashdot listens.

It's slashdot without the faggots.

What an awesome site. Check it out, and leave slashdot in the dust.

See Digg.com--where Slashdot gets all its news now. It's like traveling into the future to see Slashdot's stories days from now! But with WAY more each hour, and you vote on what gets posted. According to Alexa.com, Digg will be overtaking Slashdot's traffic within the month.

This place is dead. Corporate-owned, jammed with banner ads, and run by incompetent editors who don't give a CRAP about your input and are two busy posting whiney editorials about getting their nickname taken away in World of Warcraft and expecting preferential treatment because he's CmdrTaco of Slashdot, darnit. Ha, yeah, subscribers know what I'm talking about--try emailing them about a dupe sometime before it hits the front page.

It's time to move on to bigger and better things. Digg looks like it.

For those tired of Slashdot becoming a wholly owned branch of Microsoft's Home Entertainment Division(or whatever it is called these days) check out:

http://www.digg.com/

You know, I don't think I really mind Slashdot marketing the 360, nothing is going to save the doomed console, but I do mind just how fucking lame and transparent the stories are.

If the hype is this lame, I can't image how bad the actual 360 is...

Here's a link, although it's in Real Media format (the first version I saw wasn't).

http://www.digg.com/technology/The_future_of_the_V ideo_Games

As usual /. is a day behind. This was posted on digg yesterday.

..Chuck..

It looks like Digg is getting /.ed already.

No slashdot killer can be on the receiving end of the /. effect.

So, is anyone else getting tired of these Slashvertisement product announcements on the /. front page?

Geez, go to Digg.com for all the up to the minute tech news that you're missing if you only stick around here (the press is already labeling it a "Slashdot killer").

Haha, you're pissed because Slashdot got FUCKING OWNED YET AGAIN.

This site is in the dumper. Go visit Digg.com for actual up to the minute tech news, where they now get 6 million visitors and growing.

Anyone remember when the cool TechTV channel started getting more and more gamer-oriented until it changed its name to G4? I'm curious when this "News For Nerds" site will finally change to "News For Gamers." The news quality is already piss-poor (gotta go to Digg.com just to get any relevant tech news). So I guess all that's left is Zonk's weekly gamer reviews, always 8/10.

According to Sony those DRM-CDs will play just like normal audio CDs when using with Mac.

Here is some more information.

It's kind of weird how this grass-roots stuff can turn so ugly sometimes, in somewhat illogical ways.

Editors stopped listening to readers after the buyout from VA Software, now OSTG. Subscribers are pissed that their dupe reports don't even get read.

Hell, this is the site with an editor who abuses the front page to whine about his videogame name getting taken away when he clearly violates the rules for using a title in his name. Did he want an exception or something because he's Rob Malda of Slashdot?

Seven years ago, Slashdot was FANTASTIC for technical computer and science news, and also the oddball interesting story. Now it's Microsoft, Google, iPod, Microsoft, Google, Google, Game Review, Google, iPod, Game Review, Google.

Go to Digg.com to get all the INTERESTING news you miss out on if you rely on Slashdot. It's like the Slashdot frontpage of old, and YOU get to vote on the stories. Digg readers knew about the iPod nano days before its official release--Kevin Rose posted about it there. Slashdot hasn't scooped anything in years and years.

Thereby driving the last of the good readers over to Digg.com where they would be much happier.

Yes, do it, Taco. Let's hear ten paragraphs about how "violated" you are by Blizzard making you--gasp--change your videogame nickname on their servers.

Am I the only one wondering why and how this is front page news? Could we not get a story about Civilization IV being out to rave reviews? How about some Apple or Google news? Maybe a link to a review of the latest Longhorn build? Blizzard made CmdrTaco change his name in WoW, news at 11! "I'm CmdrTaco and I lost my WoW name. Here are ten more paragraphs describing my emotional pain."

Everyone--please see Digg.com where YOU vote for the stories. You actually get real news and info there, right when it happens.

This is ridiculous.

Point 1 & Point 2: Some interesting comments on Digg, mostly to the same effect as the points I was making.

i.e. "on one entry, me and several friends have inside sources (one being the entry) and when we try to correct it, or correct misinformation that has been posted, the sites owner locks it down or chooses the misinformation over what is even know as fact. starting to distrust information found on there due to personal experience."

Tverbeek was a good example, because he's a royal prick, but he's got no shortage of equivalents on Wikipedia.

And my points are reiterated by one of the Wiki admins there, as well (so no, I'm not "trolling", unless you're also accusing Wiki admins of trolling as well):
The majority of edits on large topics are decreasing the quality of those articles. This is because, for most people, the quality of the article as a whole is taking a back seat to the desire everyone seemingly has to have their imprint on articles. This is turning many articles into long lists of disparate trivia instead of naturally-flowing, high-quality encyclopedia articles. Efforts to stem this and make the encyclopedia more encyclopedic are criticized as counter to the spirit of "openness."

His User page is here.

Read Digg instead

Whatever Slash does, it had better do it quick, and it had better stop sucking.

Check this out:

http://www.digg.com/technology/Slashdot_is_losing_ its_edge_to_digg.com

Slashdot stories seem to be signifcantly slower to be reported than other sites.

http://digg.com/hardware/EFF_Cracks_Secret_Service _Code

http://digg.com/technology/Slashdot_is_losing_its_ edge_to_digg.com

;)

Slashdot stories seem to be signifcantly slower to be reported than other sites.

http://digg.com/hardware/EFF_Cracks_Secret_Service _Code

http://digg.com/technology/Slashdot_is_losing_its_ edge_to_digg.com

;)

How the mighty have fallen! I remember the days when Slashdot had all the recent cool news. Here is the link from Digg from 2 days ago...

http://www.digg.com/hardware/What_s_hiding_on_your _microchip_ ... PLEASE IMPROVE SLASHDOT... It is dying a slow death... Literally.

And now errrr... http://slashdot.org/

From the site: Status: We have been under a slashdot like effect all day. After being featured on http://www.engadget.com/ http://www.hackaday.com/ http://digg.com/ http://qj.net/ and a bunch of other sites or PSP crashes every couple of minutes.

Well now you get the Real Thing!

Check out the Gmail Help Center for the answer

From the linked answer: The Gmail Team is currently testing a new feature called 'Gmail Clips,' which provides users access to news, blogs, and other information within their Gmail accounts, using RSS/Atom feeds. Currently, a small number of randomly selected users are testing the feature, but it may become more widely available in the future.

Sounds like "Gmail Clips" would be somewhat different than what I saw of Google Reader.

On another note, I don't believe that the slow (non-existant?) response times from Google Reader are from a slashdotting. Turns out, I was looking at it before the post on /. and it was slow then. Perhaps digg.com readers contributed? Who knows. Anyway, it was slow to begin with. Give them a few days to notice their web logs and I'm sure they'll beef up the load balancing in front of reader.

Well, of course Slashdot left that out of the article summary. This needed to be a "Poor guy convicted for doing simple website checks, let's rally together fellow hackers and feel sorry for him" instead of "Guy lied to the police about what he did, a big no-no." The former gets more page hits from sympathetic Slashdotters, which means higher revenues for OSTG. Yes, kids, this site is owned by a corporation (a Linux corporation, in fact...suddenly all the anti-Microsoft, pro-GPL front page articles make sense for OSTG's bottom line). It amuses me how rarely people realize and acknowledge that.

This place is a big joke now. Go to Digg to see a site where users decide what gets posted. Digg readers knew about the iPod nano three days before its official announcement--Kevin Rose revealed it there.

Screenshot of Flock 0.2

Apparently Flock also has a Digg-style service on their site.

You can check it out by signing up or by using the following account info to login:

username: slashdot
password: slashdot

Here are two screenshots of above mentioned Digg-style service that they call "Breadcrumbs."

It's because it's Google, it's about an office suite alternative to Office, and it's about AJAX. The fact there is no tangible evidence for anything doesn't matter; these three ingredients thrown together in random increments get page hits on Slashdot.

Think about it, this entire article is really just the question in the headline. "Is there a Google Office in the works?" Well, uh, how should we know? What's the discussion going to be about? "Gee, I hope so." "Yeah. Go Google." "Yeah."

I've been visiting Digg more and more, where the news there is actually worthwhile (and it's updated way more often than this site!).

I think it's a rule that Slashdot has to have at least one idiot contributor. In the 90s, it was Jon Katz. After Katz was fired, it was the much-hated Michael. After Michael was fired, Zonk took over after leading the games section for a while. Zonk loves to post inflammatory articles, non-news articles, and endless game reviews to the front page. He also loves to dupe the hell out of everything, like Michael did, and those stories sometimes mysteriously disappear, like Michael's did. If I didn't know any better, I would have thought Zonk was some 17 year old high schooler who just got Slashdot frontpage privileges.

It's disheartening when you wonder why, just why, does incompetence seem to be a Slashdot editor requirement when so many other websites, like Digg, seem to know what the hell they're doing. Why is it so hard to read their own front page to avoid dupes? Why is it so hard to read their own submissions to avoid false stories? Why is it so hard to post good news (like, say, Apple's recent response to the iPod nano complaints) and not these crappy game reviews?

Old news...Diggreported this two and a half weeks ago. Also, in addition to Venom and Sandman, the Hobgoblin will be played by James Franco (see Freeze Dried Movies for the scoop).

James Franco as Hobgoblin looks to be a good call, and Thomas Hayden Church is a lock for Sandman, but Topher Grace as Venom??? Seriously...I think Grace is a decent enough actor, but can he pull off Eddie Brock? Personally, I think he would have been better cast as Cletus Kasady (aka Carnage).

Old news...Diggreported this two and a half weeks ago. Also, in addition to Venom and Sandman, the Hobgoblin will be played by James Franco (see Freeze Dried Movies for the scoop).

James Franco as Hobgoblin looks to be a good call, and Thomas Hayden Church is a lock for Sandman, but Topher Grace as Venom??? Seriously...I think Grace is a decent enough actor, but can he pull off Eddie Brock? Personally, I think he would have been better cast as Cletus Kasady (aka Carnage).

I don't know what you saw and what is there and what not and where is there, but an article with the name you mentioned, "Windows Is Officially Broken" was indeed published today.

It is also featured (and linked to) in Digg:
http://www.digg.com/software/Windows_Is_Offically_ Broken_-_Microsoft_has_admitted_it

Oh, thank goodness for the holy mods. They never get things wrong. In fact, I definitely deserved every positive mod I've received, and it makes me deleriously happy every time I get one. All 435-440 times (I carefully keep count, you see).

You've got a point, I tend to be verbose (BUT, often with reason)!

No, really there is no good reason. If it's a good idea, it can be explained in a much shorter post, and it really doesn't take that much time/effort to express your ideas concisely.

If it's a really stupendously great idea that needs extensive writeup, then it doesn't deserve to be stuck deep inside a forum, it should be put on a webpage so people can Digg it. (that's a good suggestion actually... go and troll digg, it would make me happier if there were fewer trollish posts here on Slashdot)

"Apple should partner w/ Google and the recently announced Google Wi-Fi service. Two power houses, major distribution and mind share, not to mention the pile of cash they're both sitting on. Oh and they'd be getting free advertisements w/ 2-3 combined posts per day here on /."

More likely Google will buy AOL from Time Warner.

As theorized here:

http://news.com.com/Google+to+bid+on+AOL/2100-1038 _3-5873485.html?tag=nefd.top

And Dugg here:

http://www.digg.com/technology/Google_to_bid_on_AO L_

Social bookmarking is a pretty cool concept that should be applied to many more things, obviously. Even though it takes more coding effort (especially to block cheaters), people are still hard at work coding such sites. If that's any indication that social bookmarking sites are cool.

If that is what you want... maybe you need to check out http://digg.com/

already done

Digg posted this story over a day ago. http://digg.com/science/Man_builds_up_30,000_volts _of_static_electricity

This story has been on DIGG.COM for the past day and a half. The link is here. You gotta try Digg.com out. Seriously, I love my Slashdot, but the stories on digg are fresher, faster, and the users pick what gets on the site.

This story has been on DIGG.COM for the past day and a half. The link is here. You gotta try Digg.com out. Seriously, I love my Slashdot, but the stories on digg are fresher, faster, and the users pick what gets on the site.

Slashdot mangled the link. This is the correct link.

As this is a wiki, the more people know about it, the faster it should grow. Help spread the word on digg:

http://digg.com/links/Miss_TVTome_Check_out_The_TV _IV_Wiki.

A site that actually has News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters ?

sheesh this place is getting lame...

I get most of my news from Digg.com now... Usually a few days before it hits slashdot.

Anymore on slashdot, I mostly just troll and call people retarded. Oddly, it's actually gotten me better karma and more fans..