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There is a note (in spanish) in the Complutense web site about this. http://www.ucm.es/info/ucmp/pags.php?tp=Importante %20logro%20cient%EDfico&a=directorio&d=0003499.php
I'll translate (freely) some points below:

Dr.Bru mentions that the article is
Regulation of neutrophilia by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor: a new cancer therapy that reversed a case of terminal hepatocarcinoma
in the Journal of Clinical Research.
He says that this kind of therapy opens very promising horizons for the treatment of all types of solid tumors in a relatively short time, since all these tumors share a common mechanism.

He also adds:

1. The proposed treatment is in an experimental phase, and much broader experimentation is necessary before validating it.
2. Therefore, at this time, there is no treatment protocol that would allow it to be used in a general way
3. Since it is impossible to answer to all the calls received at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and taking into account the disruption that these represent to normal teaching and research activities, please direct all enquiries to this email address (which you can find in the link at the beggining of this reply)

The magnetic stripe standards, of course. The card is a test card I printed while I was building an ID card system for a client. The front lists the track standard and the allowed chars:

Track 1 (IATA data max. 76 chars):
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS TUVWXYZ[\]^ _

Track2 (ABA data, max 37 chars): 0123456789;;<=>

Track 3(TTS data, max. 104 chars):
0123456789:;<=>

The allowed chars have been encoded onto the stripe on the back.

...we have a slash site called QubitNews which could use some of your comments. In fact, we talked about this book some days ago. Feel free to drop by and participate (get quonnected!).

...we have a slash site called QubitNews which could use some of your comments. In fact, we talked about this book some days ago. Feel free to drop by and participate (get quonnected!).

...we have a slash site called QubitNews which could use some of your comments. In fact, we talked about this book some days ago. Feel free to drop by and participate (get quonnected!).

Not strictly ontopic, but worth to mention: QubitNews, a slash site on quantum computers and quantum information, is getting some activity lately. Drop by once in a while, if you are interested. You might read some insightful comment from insiders of the field!

If you scale things really down, you arrive to quantum mechanics, and there things go really interesting (or will go, if we eventually get a scallable hardware candidate for quantum computing).

By the way: a slash site on quantum computing: QubitNews. Join us and discuss the computational platform of the future :)

What criteria are used to dermine that climate is changing? Isn't it relative? Is it cyclical?

Hmmm...Problem Solving mode kicks in:

* Is the climate changing ?

** If climate is changing, is it man made?

*** Is it caused by automobiles?
*** Is it caused by something else?

** If climate is changing, is it non-man made?

*** Is it caused by volcanos?
*** Is it caused by cosmic rays / space phenomenon?
*** Is it caused by cows farting?
*** Is it caused by something else?

Turning off problem solving mode...we now return to previous chain of though...

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This story makes me think of some old stories like the one about data stats for temperatures based on ships logs which refers to CLWOC's work. Or about the
Corals Adapting to Global Warming.

Just random observations...

This project would open up to many more people if a more simplistic way of interfacing to the card reader was introduced. How 'bout via the soundcard?

I was poking around the links provided on the site, and found this: The simplest magnetic stripe reader. He wrote software to analyze the audio generated by the card when passed over the read head. This means that any old cassette player has a chance at being used to hack magstripes! Any comments on how accurate this method is, versus the F2F decoder chips?

Buñuel tried this before.

PikaPal asks:

Does anyone know what kind of support Linux has for USB and where one might find more information about it?

Linux currently does not have USB support in the kernel. There is a USB project, its homepage is at http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/uusb d-www. Make sure to read the FAQ.

This project probably won't find its way directly into the kernel. From what I hear, the kernel developers want to redo the low level device driver stuff to better handle hot-swappable devices in general (PCMCIA, USB, FireWire, PPA, etc.) then add a cleaner USB implementation on top of that. In the meantime, this USB project is pretty heavily used, particularly in the LinuxPPC world (iMac requires USB support to do anything).

PikaPal asks:

Does anyone know what kind of support Linux has for USB and where one might find more information about it?

Linux currently does not have USB support in the kernel. There is a USB project, its homepage is at http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/uusb d-www. Make sure to read the FAQ.

This project probably won't find its way directly into the kernel. From what I hear, the kernel developers want to redo the low level device driver stuff to better handle hot-swappable devices in general (PCMCIA, USB, FireWire, PPA, etc.) then add a cleaner USB implementation on top of that. In the meantime, this USB project is pretty heavily used, particularly in the LinuxPPC world (iMac requires USB support to do anything).

Yes, as a matter of fact, there is steady constant work being done on the USB subsystem, it's being done mainly by one advernturesome soul who is in school right now. You can check his progress at the web site. You can always find information about inportant projects at the Linux Documentation Project. I know they have keyboards, hubs, mice and several interfacec cards working right now. They are doing some weird crap too... the guy that's doing it noticed that his code puked when he added the seventh mouse...

USB will be supported in LinuxPPC 5.0 - you can find information about it here. The skinny on it is that support is an ongoing project, but progressing rapidly (with people like Alan Cox helping out, even!)