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  1. There are much less radical options in the works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy

    Penn State is working on a method of a 'natural' treatment/cure involving fish oil.

    All jokes aside, it's a good story about how medical research can find sudden and unexpected results

  2. Re:How do you determine healthy food? by NotSanguine · · Score: 1 · on IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent

    Organic alcohol is my favorite: http://www.imakenews.com/gaultbmw/e_article002241575.cfm?x=b11,0,w

    Uh, all alcohols are organic...

  3. Re:How do you determine healthy food? by cvtan · · Score: 1 · on IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent

    Organic alcohol is my favorite: http://www.imakenews.com/gaultbmw/e_article002241575.cfm?x=b11,0,w

  4. Re:Enter the lawyers by earlymon · · Score: 1 · on New Ice Structure Could Help Seed Clouds, Cause Rain

    I live in the Southwest - welcome to my world.

    http://www.imakenews.com/cppa/e_article001293894.cfm?x=b11,0,w

    http://www.uswaternews.com/archives/arcrights/arcrights.html

    Lewis Black said it best - we took something as simple as water and have managed to completely fuck it up.

  5. Re:Missing the point.... by Sinical · · Score: 1 · on U.S. Soldiers Hate New High-Tech Gear

    Why is it hanging in front of half your face? If I'm being shot at, my first concern is going to be shooting back accurately, and if that damn thing gets in my way it's going off and not coming back till after everything is done.
    The preferred option should have been a full width half-visor, similar to a hockey visor. See-through (probably slightly tinted), non shiny, not-in-the-way, but if you want data displayed on it, you can use it as a projection surface. Build the projection hardware into the helmet. You don't need much, because really, you don't need full-colour 30FPS. You are describing MANTIS. Dunno how that's going (or is even still in development).

    And speaking of information... this is the one part that worries me. You're taking these soldiers, who have to keep their location 100% secret or they die, and sticking a transmitter on them. It doesn't matter if it's encrypted, or if it goes up to a satellite or connects to AOL and uses a Buddy List to update everyone on where you are... it's still putting out power, and it's not gonna take long before someone goes "Hey, I don't need to know what is being sent out, I just have to get a scanner to see if there's any signals being radiated, and from where". Broadcasting your location probably isn't the best idea, it's just a matter of time until it gets you killed. You are missing a key ingredient here: the comms are almost certainly spread spectrum. Transmissions will look like noise.

    I have never worked on Land Warrior myself, and it looks like there are severe problems that could well make using it a mistake currently. But consider things from the developers' point of view: how are they going to learn what works without giving something to people? It sounds like some general somewhere asked for the kitchen sink, but hopefully soldiers will bitch and get that fixed, and the devices will surely only get lighter and faster and better. Of course there will always be some lag behind the commercial best, but then I'd be curious how long a Handspring or Blackberry or whatever would last in combat. Or at -40F, or in 100% humidity. Or at 18,000 ft.

    Perhaps the next generation is 8lbs and the software ceases to suck (as much). Is that enough? 4lbs? You know that's coming until the limit is the battery and the computing stuff is some little wafer of a module (I'm guessing the RF and associated power stuff is the heavier piece even now). Unless 2nd system effect creeps in.

    Yeah, I work at a military contractor. In general, we are massively bloated and fucking disgusting. But a fair chunk of that's what the government forces us to be. You have no idea about the paperwork, but it's what *you* required. The rest of it is because the barriers to entry are so high, there's no competition to force people to do better. And sometimes government oversight justs sucks and you have no idea how shit could get so bad (look at Lockheed-Martin and the Coast Guard's Deep Water program, recently in the news. Wow.)

    Blah, now I'm depressed.
  6. Re:The problem is your target market. by spun · · Score: 1 · on Florida Man Charged For Stealing Wi-Fi

    Well, I had heard this somewhere and I couldn't remember where. Did a quick google for it and it turns out I may have heard only half the story. At least one person has invented runless pantyhose. The problem? They explode.

  7. Re:Yeah... by Alsee · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network

    However this is Case 4: You have a cookie jar on the sidewalk in front of your house, and every time someone comes within range it is programmed to automatically reach out, tap them on the shoulder, and offer them a cookie.

    Are they guilty of theft? Here's an excellent legal review. According to federal law the answer appears to be a constistant NO, and according to my state's laws the answer is explicitly NO. If this guy was actually arrested on an "access" basis, and if that arrest is actually held up in court on an "access" basis, then there is something very very wrong with Florida state law.

    -

  8. Because the hotspot's owner is an asshat? by MacDork · · Score: 1 · on Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network
    explain to me again why a geek caught with his hand in the cookie jar should be rewarded with a "get out of jail free" card.

    Because the geek could have driven over to the Starbucks and done the same thing without penalty had the geek realized the Wi-Fi's owner was an asshat who would call the cops after he willfully left his wi-fi open to the public. If the guy willfully and knowingly leaves his hotspot open to the public, I fail to see how this would qualify as unauthorized access. At least the poor geek wasn't in California, or they'd have his DNA by now.

    But I'm not the judge, so it doesn't matter what I or any other slashbot thinks. Under Florida law, the legislators went to great lengths to define all those high tech terms but failed to define what constitutes 'authorized' access. So now it's up to the judge. For background on what judges have found constitutes unauthorized access, have a look here.

  9. Re:f-news link by RedLaggedTeut · · Score: 1 · on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs

    That link you gave is worth reading for the replies and link given by The_Reader_David.

    Gives you the creeps. Never anger a farmer !

    "When in panic, fear or doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."

    IMHO Iraq did stick to the rules given to them, if there is still something dangerous to be found, maybe the rules where bad.

    I bet we would have heard by now if Iraq had had the wargear to actually use the pesticides as a warhead.

  10. Re:Lets keep this a secret by gewalker · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years

    Actually, there is scientific evidence that not only is low-level radiation exposure harmless, it is actually good for you, and the optimium level is well above the normal background radiation.

    Here Here and here for example.

    It is true that any ionizing radiation can damage cellular material, but the human immune system seems to derive benefit from practicing fending off such low-level damage.

    The evididence is not conclusive for low-level radiation benefits, but there are several good studies that suggest that it is, and not one scientific study that suggest the opposite as far as I know. If so, I would like to see it. Nearly all nuclear radiation threat assesments is based on extrapolation from high-level radiation exposes.

  11. And it's been in the BMW 7 serries for a year! by twitter · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Launches Portable Music Player
    WinCE, it:

    It's perfect quality software. I want it in my DVD, my camera and my nuclear core monitoring hardware. Make it run submarines and life support systems. Can you f**k me harder? Please?

  12. Re:Well, they don't want to hurt current sales... by YouHaveSnail · · Score: 3, Interesting · on G5 PowerBook "Challenge"

    Car companies don't disguise their prototypes.

    Sure they do. And just as with computer-related rumors, there are folks out there who follow and report on new developments and publish photos of suspected prototypes.

    Yes, auto makers will show you their 'concept cars' as a way to generate interest. And they'll sometimes show actual prototypes as well, particularly when the prototype is close to what they expect to produce. But when GM or Ford are testing out a new engine, for example, they'll put it in a car with an existing body style. Or if they're trying out a whole new car, they'll cover the body panels with tape, or leather masking, or whatever.

    Heck, I can even think of at least a couple TV spots where the manufacturers use this idea to make their new model seem more desireable. There's one, for example, where some alleged engineers are testing out a white car (Nissan Altima, maybe?) somewhere in the desert. A bunch of planes, helicopters, cars, etc. show up trying to get a look at the car, and the engineers then hide the car under a tent so that the others (press? competition?) can't see it.

    So yeah, car companies do disguise their prototypes, and for the same reasons: they want to surprise the buying public and the competition with a cool new product at the introduction, and they don't want to hurt the market for the existing model until that time.