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San Francisco Getting Stem Cell Agency HQ

Posted by timothy on from the root-cells-are-in-the-basement dept.

karvind writes "San Francisco was chosen Friday as the headquarters for California's new stem cell agency, beating out San Diego, Sacramento and Emeryville. The stem cell institute was created in November after voters overwhelmingly approved a measure allowing the state to borrow $3 billion to fund human embryonic stem cell research. According to Yahoo, the plans call for a 17,000-square-foot office with a maximum of 50 employees who will help dole out nearly $300 million in research grants annually over 10 years."

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  1. Biggest story of the day by nilbog · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    HANDS DOWN the biggest story of the day was google getting hacked. I took a screenshot for myself- it's true even though nobody believes it.

    Why won't /. cover this? What's going on here?!?!

    http://www.myplanet.net/gthing/Picture%202.png

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    1. Re:Biggest story of the day by NickV · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That really wasn't a hack. Safari (and Firefox and IE) try their best to approximate a url if one fails.

      For instance, if you type in "microsoft" it tries "microsoft.com" and finds it.

      If you type in "www.google.com" and it can't find "www.google.com" (because of DNS issues) it tries "www.google.net.com") and wa-la!!! That's how you got that image.

      So it wasn't a Google Hack... it was a DNS issue (and it also seemed to have affected amazon.com, microsoft.com, yahoo.com and a few other sites... but not nearly as hard as Google.)

      Why Slashdot is refusing to even mention this?

      I have no freaking idea... it's kinda ridiculous. Half the comments in all the stories today are about it... people are DYING to talk about it, and slashdot refuses to mention it in any topic...

      What gives with Slashdot?

  2. Re:Google was hacked! by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeh, they have a bot that trolls Google News. Well know fact that the only "real" editor (well, I mean human) is Timothy.

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  3. ok, so with the 340 sq foot per person in SF... by dAzED1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    17,000 square feet in San Francisco...that's quite a lot of overhead on the $300Mill. Wonder how much will be lost in that office alone - esp when one of the selling points was that some of the loans would be paid back. Anyone know who is responsible for this fiasco, and what the budget for this needless office is?

  4. What, not Kansas??? by Phocas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But everyone knows Kansas is the place to be for top notch biological science...