I just read this story linked from Digg…
It’s official. Valerie Plame was a covert agent at the time her name was leaked by Novak. Will Victoria Toensing issue an apology? And Fred Hiatt should follow her lead.
An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame’s employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Plame was a Covert Agent
Posted in General Interest on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Electrical Field Treats Brain Cancer
Posted in General Interest on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From Slashdot we read this…
“A device that specifically targets rapidly growing cancer cells with intermediate frequency electrical fields doubled the survival rates of patients with brain cancer, according to an article apperaring in PNAS. The device uses electrical fields to disrupt tumor growth by interfering with cell division of cancerous cells, causing them to stop [...]
MacGyver Physics
Posted in General Interest on May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From Slashdot we read this..
“This month’s issue of Symmetry, a magazine jointly published by SLAC and Fermilab, is featuring an article that points out the sometimes extemporaneous and unconventional solutions physicists have come up with in (and out of) the laboratory. From the article: ‘Leon Lederman … used a pocket knife, tape, and items on [...]
Some Soft Drinks May Damage Your DNA
Posted in General Interest on May 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From a recent post on Slashdot we see this good news…
“The Independent is reporting new findings that indicate a common additive called sodium benzoate, found in soft drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max among others, has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA in a cell’s mitochondria. From the article: ‘The mitochondria [...]
Microsoft’s Patent on a Pile of Baloney
Posted in General Interest on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a great read I found recently on Enterprise Networking Planet…
“Microsoft patent threat to Linux! The world … It ends!” shriek the headlines. There’s so much hysteria over this it’s like a being trapped in pre-teen sleepover. “And when they got home, a bloody hook was hanging from the car door handle!” “SQUEAL!!”
MS-Funded Study Atacks GPL3 Draft Process
Posted in General Interest on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From a recent posting on Slashdot we read…
“A new Microsoft-funded study by a Harvard Business School professor concludes that developers don’t want extensive patent licensing requirements in the GPL3. There are significant problems with the study, however, especially given the very small sample size. ‘Although 332 emails were sent to various developers, only 34 agreed [...]
Malware targets OpenOffice users
Posted in General Interest on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Register is reporting this..
Malware miscreants have crafted a cross-platform worm targeted at OpenOffice users that’s capable of infecting Windows, Mac, and Linux computers.
The OpenOffice/StarBasic macro worm, dubbed BadBunny is a proof-of-concept worm that’s not been seen outside the lab. Most anti-virus firms describe it as a low-risk threat.
George Carlin explains what is wrong with America
Posted in General Interest on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the Ada Evening News we read this..
“We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We [...]
Google To Shut Down AdSense Arbitrageurs
Posted in General Interest on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From a recent posting on Digg we find this…
Arbitrage and AdSense has been an issue basically since the day Google launched AdSense. Arbitrageurs would use Google AdWords and other means to send traffic to their site, and monetize that traffic with Google AdSense. Well, it seems that those made for Adsense sites and AdSense arbitrageurs [...]
The Case For Perpetual Copyright
Posted in General Interest on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An op-ed in the NYTimes by novelist Mark Halprin, who lays out the argument for what amounts to perpetual copyright. He says that anything less is essentially an unfair public taking of property: “No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special [...]
June Will Be Month of Search Engine Bugs
Posted in General Interest on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From a recent post on Slashdot will read this..
“A Ukranian hacker known as “MustLive” has announced plans for a Month of Search Engine Bugs project in June 2007. The plan is to shake out cross-site scripting bugs in the most popular search engines (think Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com) and publish details on these flaws. From [...]
