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  1. 10 meters on Chinese GPS System To Be Offered Free · · Score: 1

    Is fine for a GPS unit, my average here in Costa Rica, with a Garmin Rino 130 is 13 meters. In the us the precision is better due to the WAAS

  2. Re:Soccer? on IT Meets the World Cup · · Score: 1

    American team? I thought the cup was for individual countries, not continents...

  3. DART! on Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite · · Score: 1

    Very appropiate name for the spacecraft.... and was the satellite named bullseye?

  4. Re:Remember Betamax? on Why Sony is Ready to Self Destruct · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am a proud owner of a Sony Clie Nr70v, and it is one fine pda! Works great, good screen, fast for its time, and takes abouse without complaining.

  5. Wrong information on article or on local news on Coffee Maybe Not a Health Drink! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This study was made her in Costa Rica, in the local news it was reported to be applied to 4000 people, not 2000 as the nature article states.

    For the lucky ones who speak spanish:

    http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2006/marzo/08/aldea1.h tml

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    El café aumenta riesgo de infarto cardíaco en algunos
    El peligro es para quienes metabolizan la cafeína de forma más lenta
    La investigación se desarrolló en 4.000 pacientes costarricenses

    Debbie Ponchner
    dponchner@nacion.com

    Tomar café en grandes cantidades -más de cuatro tazas al día- puede aumentar hasta en 64% su riesgo de sufrir un infarto cardíaco, pero solo si usted es uno de los individuos cuya genética dicta un mecanismo lento de absorción de la cafeína.

    En cambio, quienes metabolizan la cafeína de forma rápida no aumentan, con cada taza de café que disfrutan, su riesgo de padecer enfermedad coronaria.

    Además:
    # El corazón de 4.000 ticos 'bajo la lupa'

    Esta relación entre la cafeína, la genética de la persona y la enfermedad coronaria fue demostrada en un estudio en el que participaron poco más de 4.000 costarricenses, todos habitantes de la Gran Área Metropolitana.

    Bajo la dirección de investigadores de la Universidad de Costa Rica, la Universidad de Toronto y la Universidad de Harvard el estudio confirma observaciones hechas antes de que existe una relación entre el consumo de café y el padecimiento de infartos. Sin embargo, demuestra que solo es cierto para personas con una genética específica.

    El estudio lo da a conocer hoy la revista Journal of the American Medical Association y fue desarrollado por la costarricense Hannia Campos en colaboración con Ahmed El-Sohemy, Marilyn Cornelis y Edmond Kabagambe.

    Un gen. Todo se debe al gen CYP1A2, encargado de llevar a cabo el metabolismo de la cafeína en el hígado de la persona, explicó Hannia Campos en una entrevista telefónica desde su oficina en la Escuela de Salud Pública de Harvard, en Massachusetts.

    Popular bebida

    El café es una buena fuente de cafeína, el estimulante más consumido en el mundo

    Existen dos alelos o formas de "escribir" ese gen. Ambas son correctas y se distinguen una de otra en tan solo un aminoácido en la cadena de ADN que lo compone.

    Esa minúscula diferencia hace que algunas personas hereden la versión del gen que realiza un metabolismo lento de la cafeína, mientras que otras obtienen la que realiza el metabolismo rápido.

    Quienes tienen la versión lenta, no logran eliminar la cafeína del todo de su cuerpo.

    Al cabo del tiempo, esa acumulación de cafeína puede llevar a un aumento en la presión sanguínea y otras condiciones involucradas en un posible infarto, explicó Campos, quien también es investigadora del Centro Centroamericano de Población de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR).

    El estudio. Teniendo en consideración la existencia de este gen involucrado en el metabolismo de la cafeína, Hannia Campos y Ahmed El-Sohemy diseñaron un estudio que evaluara el efecto del consumo de café, el gen y el riesgo de sufrir un infarto.

    Tomaron a 4.000 costarricenses. La mitad de ellos sufrieron un ataque del corazón entre 1994 y 2004, la otra mitad son individuos, de edad similar a cada uno de los pacientes, pero que no han tenido infartos.

    A todos los participantes en el estudio se les realizó entrevistas sobre su alimentación y estilo de vida; además se les tomó muestras de sangre y la medición de la proporción de grasa en el cuerpo.

    Primero determinaron cuál alelo tenía cada persona.

    En la población estudiada, el 55% tenía el alelo

  6. Re:not normal students - MIT students on Entry Level Game Industry Salaries · · Score: 1

    just 55k..... a decent IT salary is 10K a year....

  7. Info on the cure-alpha on Top 10 Strangest MP3 Players · · Score: 2, Informative

    I found some info with pictures on the cure-alpha http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/flas h/curealpha-alsonic-mp3-playercureall-111574.php/ Just watched Kung-Fu Hustle last night so maybe I'm a sucker for weird semi-Eastern cure-all MP3 players that produce magical Alpha waves that will cure you of gout, palsy, the croup, Zanzibar hot-heels, quinine poisoning, and dandruff. This 128MB flash player plays your favorite tunes--or tune, considering the size--and zaps you with powerful waves of energy that are beneficial to humans. Don't believe me? I don't believe me either. But it's nice to dream.

  8. Re:Needs to be taken from American hands on The Fracturing of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Who was the last country ton INVADE another one? Syria, North Korea, or China? NO! it was the US! (which shouldnt be called America). So, who is the bigger danger?

  9. Retarded Rodness on Robotic Patients Used to Help Train Doctors · · Score: 1

    LOL, have you ever been outside the city where you live? have you been to mexico? you have no idea of what you are saying. Most mexicans go "border jumping" because luickily there are amny LAZY us citizens that will pay very well for many basic chores

  10. DONATION IS THE ANSWER on Spyware Removal: Drop PC in Dumpster · · Score: 1

    I just finished testing some old P2, 5 of them, and we are donating them to 5 different associations for helping people wih dissabilities. Right now they dont have a single computer, and they need one. THIS is an option not making more garbage. And this donation was done by a SPORTSBOOK (for you that think this business should be shut)

  11. religious blindness on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1

    yuo have a very good point, people are blinded by religions very often, and dno't fid the underlying similarities

  12. Re:Almost not worth reading on O'Reilly Revisits Online Countermeasures · · Score: 1

    remove everything before the html:// and everything after .html and it will work

  13. Re:your numbers are wrong on Indian Company Shows Off Sub-$200 Laptop · · Score: 1

    Where I live, Costa Rica, the GDP is $9.600

  14. your numbers are wrong on Indian Company Shows Off Sub-$200 Laptop · · Score: 1

    the GDP for the US is $40.000, for America (which is a CONTINENT) it is a lot lower

  15. I worked for alienware on Alienware's Star Wars PCs · · Score: 1

    Besides their overpricing, one of their main ways to get money from you was to sell you the extended warranty, for example a salesperson will get a higher comission when selling a 1k system with 3 year warranty, than from a 5 system with a 1 year warranty (oo, adn their commissions suck)

  16. wonder when hyundai will get into this on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Hyundai heavy industries builds a lot of equipment, but no aircraft, wonder when they will begin...

  17. Re:Geez - what a kneejerk on Wordpress Banned by Google for Spamming · · Score: 1

    And having the additional traffic from slashdot today is not going to help ( : "project like WP (and his collaboration with me on Ping-O-Matic) has enormous resource needs. Enormous. This is not your average 1000-hits-per-day blog with pictures of kittens and rants about high school homework. This is a project that garnered over 100,000 downloads in just a few weeks. This is a project with around 150,000 posts in its support forums. And that doesn't even include the 3500+ pages in the Codex, with over a million page view"

  18. us greater terrorist? on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 1

    So you state that the us is a much bigger threat to the world?

  19. Re:thank you USA on All Three Next-Gen Consoles at e3 2005 · · Score: 0, Troll

    laaaaame troll, and typical of a us citizen

  20. only a boring intro on Red vs Blue Meets The Sims · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But whats the big fuss about this, the download is just an intro, with nothing worth the download... lets wait for episode 1..

  21. Re:45...43... on Red vs Blue Meets The Sims · · Score: 0

    The server is still working, takes a minute for the save popup to appear but downloads at nice speed

  22. another very dangerous weapon on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 1

    There is an item easily found in comercial airliners, that is often used in wars also known as "pillow wars" These dangerous items are part of the terrorists arsenals and can be easily home built!! beware!

  23. Re:What locations? on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 1

    In cincinatti we are having trouble with google

  24. Re:Ah hah on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 1

    yo can look for "search engines" on google!

  25. Kill Bill on 419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats? · · Score: 1

    This sounds so much as the deadly "Viper Assesination Squad"!!!!!!!