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Slashback: Cancer, Cats, ICANN
Australia's mystery cat demystified. Bitsy Boffin writes "Back in October Slashdot ran a story from the Herald Sun about the shooting of a mystery "Big Cat" in Australia. At the time the tail (the only part the hunter brought back) of said cat had been sent off for DNA testing. The Herald Sun reports the findings of those DNA tests which show that the mystery cat wasn't a leopard or jaguar, just a really, really big feral cat."
US backs Microsoft in Korean antitrust case. CODiNE writes "Stating that 'Korea's remedy goes beyond what is necessary or appropriate to protect consumers' the Justice Department's antitrust division rejects the recent Korean FTC ruling. 'Sound antitrust policy should protect competition, not competitors, and must avoid chilling innovation and competition even by "dominant" companies.'"
RedHat follows Indian investment trend. An anonymous reader writes "After several other companies have decided to invest in the Indian economy it looks like RedHat will be following suit. According to the article, RedHat plans on hiring about 300 people for an investment of about $20M."
ICANN community slams VeriSign deal. Rob writes to tell us that an overwhelming amount of the ICANN community recently took a stand against a proposed deal that would allow VeriSign to raise the price of .com domain names by up to 50%. VeriSign accused ICANN of illegally "regulating" its business. ICANN had previously blocked services VeriSign wanted to launch on the grounds that they would harm the stability of the internet.
Clinical results from cancer-killing virus. just___giver writes "Results from human clinical trials show that terminally ill patients with aggressive metastasized cancer are receiving benefit from the recently covered virus that kills cancer when it is administered intravenously. They still have higher doses to test in this ongoing study. This safe, naturally occurring, unmodified virus has a remarkable ability to infect and kill cancer cells, without affecting normal, healthy cells. Numerous other third party studies show that the Reovirus should be an important discovery in the treatment of 2/3 of all human cancers. It is patented, easy to manufacture in large quantities, and even increases the effectiveness of conventional chemo and radiation therapy. Numerous phase 2 studies are being planned for 2006." OncolyticsBiotech also has a short video describing the process.
In the ever hot battle to be included in the Oxford American Online Dictionary (login reqd.), Podcast beat out Lifehack and Rootkit (It will be added in 2006)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
From the photos that were taken of the hunter with the catch, I find it hard to believe that a "domestic" style cat could ever get that large. It was huge! Damned, I better watch what I say around Shady. Come here Shady, OMG NO!
put the what in the where?
A plagarist trolls slashdot so badly, they even get a story posted.
Beatles-Beatles is a scammer that used slashdot to promote his own site.
These are the real interesting stories that slashback neglected to tell you about.
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how about testing? like they're doing.
How about people stop with the 1/4 baked ignorant alarmest fears regarding something new.
You want a gaurentee, here is one:
Someday, you will die.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I guess I really don't understand the purpose of a patent. If it is a naturally occurring, unmodified virus, why on Earth should you be able to patent it? But I suppose if they can patent the human genome...
Or is it really the application of this virus as cancer therapy that's been patented?
It is patented, easy to manufacture in large quantities, and even increases the effectiveness of conventional chemo and radiation therapy.
Well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
But seriously. If it's 'naturally occuring' and easy to manufacture, how the hell do they have a patent on this? I'm a hardcore capitalist, but being as how this could be the holy grail of modern medicine, I think the government definitely needs to step in to make sure us mere mortals can afford it (no pun intended).
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
It's just a COUS.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
- You patent the method of isolating it
- You patent the method of delivering it
- You patent its use as a cancer treatement etc.etc.
Ummm, Bruce, could I see you in my office for a minute? Great.
Bruce, I appreciate your enthusiam. I really do. It's really great. But, you know, there is a lot of work to do in the office. Stuff related to US antitrust law. It'd be really great if you could spend more time worrying about enforcing our laws and judgements, and less worrying about Korea. 'Cuz, umm, that's what the taxpayers are kinda paying ya for. We on the same page here? Great. Well, back to it then.
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