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  1. A real-world example - H pylori by hung_himself · · Score: 1 · on Software Firms Lobby for Stronger Copyright Laws
    Let's say there was an "open source" pharmaceutical effort that came out with a drug to cure xxxx disease. That drug would never be allowed to be sold.


    There may be some truth to this. A good example is that of H Pylori, a bacterium discovered back in the 80's that is a major factor in peptic ulcers. There should be a Nobel prize for this since it was against the wisdom of the time which held that excess acid production caused ulcers and the biggest money makers were acid reducers like Zantac and Tagumet. It wasn't until the mid 90's that the obvious antibiotic therapy was easily available in Canada - (my father had an ulcer around '95 and he was given antibiotics - a friend had it the year earlier and had no idea that bacteria were involved...). A lot of this probably had to do with the way the medical community is entrenched in its thinking esp in Canada (lumpectomies are *still* frowned upon by some idiot surgeons...).

    In the end, however antibiotic treatment, in conjunction with newer proton pump inhibitors has been adopted, Zantac (which went off-patent in '97) has been relegated to an OTC role so the "open source" treatment did win out. Yet I have always wondered how much more quickly the new therapy would have been introduced had it involved something other than cheap antibiotics and whether these guys would have won the Nobel by now as they deserve.

    Others have a somewhat stronger viewpoint...http://www.orc.ru/~yur77/pylori.pdf

  2. LATEBREAKING NEWS!!! KARMAWHORES, POST THIS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Attracting Women Into Computer Science

    Karmawhores, submit these latebraking news on Slashdot. I'm on lazy mood myself.Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

  3. WHAT HAPPENED NEAR TUGUNSKA RIVER, SIBERIA??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Attracting Women Into Computer Science

    WHAT CAUSED A BLAST OF 2000 x Hiroshima nuclear bomb in 1908?? We have the answer _TODAY_! Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

  4. LATEBREAKING NEWS!!! KARMAWHORES, POST THIS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on On the Possible Handtop Paradigm Shift

    WHAT CAUSED A BLAST THAT WAS 2000 x Hiroshima nuclear bomb in 1908?? We have the answer now!Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

  5. KARMA WHORES, POST THIS ON SLASHDOT!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on On the Possible Handtop Paradigm Shift

    I'm on lazy mood, Karmawhores, submit this news on Slashdot!!Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

  6. WHAT HAPPENED NEAR TUGUNSKA RIVER, SIBERIA??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on On the Possible Handtop Paradigm Shift

    MOD *INTERESTING*!! Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

  7. WHAT HAPPENED NEAR TUGUNSKA RIVER, SIBERIA??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on Attracting Women Into Computer Science

    Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

  8. WHAT HAPPENED NEAR TUGUNSKA RIVER, SIBERIA??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on On the Possible Handtop Paradigm Shift

    Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

  9. Server's Slow, So Here's a Synopsis by the+pickle · · Score: 5, Informative · on Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D
    The linked page is basically one guy's explanation of and links to a bunch of Russian sites that host hacked firmware for the 300D/Digital Rebel.

    Firmware update instructions from Canon
    10D Instruction Manual (PDF file)
    Latest Firmware from Wasia

    (Wasia is apparently the pseudonym of the Russian hacker who has developed all these goodies.)

    Wasia's site is here:

    http://satinfo.narod.ru/

    Some more info from the linked page:


    Its been widely known that the Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel and the Canon EOS 10D DSLR's are similar beasts. In fact, if you look at their Side-by-side comparisons you can see that most of the features that vary are catagorized as "Customizable".

    The 10D has a menu item called "Custom Functions" which allows these settings to be adjusted. Well, a fellow in Russia found that in the latest firmware, by switching a single byte in the firmware image, he was able to enable most of these 10D "Custom Functions" in the Digital Rebel. Now, some features, such as more frames in rapid shooting, are hardware-limitations but some features lacking such as Flash Exposure Compensation and embedded JPEG quality are found to be working in the 300D.

    This is not the 10D firmware, it is the 300D firmware with some of the dormant 10D features enabled. The developers probably shared the codebase between the two models. The 10D firmware will not work on your 300D.

    Now, be aware that this Modified firmware will violate your warranty!


    There are a bunch of other neat tips on that site, but they aren't directly related to this story, and so I haven't re-posted them here.

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