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In this issue:
* Where the Global Warming Data Is
* Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots
* The Technology Behind Last.fm
* In Motor Learning, New Brain Connections Form Rapidly
* Augmented Reality and Privacy
* Man Arrested For RuneScape MMORPG Online Robbery
* Online "Guilds" Mirror Real Life Gangs
* New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellent Tested
* iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing
* EU ACTA Doc Shows Plans For Global DMCA, 3 Strikes
* Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web?
* Arrington's CrunchPad Dies
* LHC Reaches Over One Trillion Electron Volts
* Should You Be Paid For Being On Call?
* Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals
* Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU?
* Scientists Create Artificial Meat
* Google Patent Reveals New Data Center Innovations
* India Hanging Up On 25 Million Cell Phones
* Royal Society Releases Historic Science Papers
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| Where the Global Warming Data Is |
| from the premiere-cru dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday November 29, @21:04 (Earth) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/0152244/Where-the-Global-Warming-Data-Is |
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Several readers noted the latest fallout from the Climate Research Unit's
[0]Climategate: the admission by the University of East Anglia that the
[1]raw data behind important climate research was discarded in the 1980s,
"a time when climate change was seen as a less pressing issue" according
to the Times (UK) article. The Telegraph [2]quotes Phil Jones, beleagured
head of the CRU: "Our global temperature series tallies with those of
other, completely independent, groups of scientists working for NASA and
the National Climate Data Centre in the United States, among others. Even
if you were to ignore our findings, theirs show the same results. The
facts speak for themselves; there is no need for anyone to manipulate
them." Some of the data behind these other results can likely be found in
a new resource that [3]jamie located up at the [4]Real Climate site: a
compilation of [5]links to a wide variety of raw data about climate. From
the former link: "In the aftermath of the CRU email hack, many people
have come to believe that scientists are unfairly restricting access to
the raw data relating to the global rise in temperature. ... We have set
up a page of data links to sources of temperature and other climate data,
codes to process it, model outputs, model codes, reconstructions,
paleo-records, the codes involved in reconstructions etc."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/0152244
Links:
0. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1747257/Climatic-Research-Unit-Hacked-Files-Leaked
1. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece
2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6678469/Climategate-University-of-East-Anglia-U-turn-in-climate-change-row.html
3. mailto:jamie@slashdot.org
4. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/wheres-the-data/
5. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/
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| Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots |
| from the in-ur-seas-twistin-ur-propeller dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday November 29, @23:20 (The Military) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/0225234/Air-Cannon-Ties-Pirates-In-Knots |
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "Numerous high-tech devices have been proposed to
[1]help ships cope with piracy on the high seas. Now a company has
developed a ship-borne launching device that fires a net or coiled rope
into the path of pirate vessels using compressed air with a range of up
to a range of 400m. The payload net or rope, which has a parachute
attached to the end, will unravel and lay out across the surface of the
water so that as the pirate boat travels through the water its propeller
shaft will [2]pick up the line and become entangled. 'With the trials and
testing we've done, [3]it has taken us some 45 minutes to cut and
disentangle the line from the propeller itself,' says Jonathan Delf.
'Within that time of course, the target ship is on its way and hopefully
help has arrived in the form of naval forces or helicopter support.' The
system can be fired up to five times off just a cylinder of air like a
simple scuba tank." The video mentions that the device can also fire a
payload of golf balls. The systems have recently be sold to "several
large shipping companies that travel near the oil-rich Nigerian Delta,
which, like the Somalian coast, is rife with piracy."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/0225234
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/04/23/1638229/Mariners-Develop-High-Tech-Pirate-Repellents
2. http://www.theengineer.co.uk/sectors/military-and-defence/tying-pirates-in-knots/1000091.article
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1GGoBidtk
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| The Technology Behind Last.fm |
| from the not-just-scrobbled-together dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday November 30, @01:35 (Music) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/0336221/The-Technology-Behind-Lastfm |
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CNET's Crave has up a [0]detailed interview with Last.fm's Matthew Ogle,
the company's head of Web development. Reader CNETNate notes that Last.fm
has streamed 275,000 years of audio around the world. From the interview:
"We stream all music directly off our servers in London. We have a
cluster of streaming nodes including a bunch of powerful machines with
solid-state hard drives. We have a process that runs daily which finds
the hottest music and pushes those tracks on to the SSDs streamers that
sit in front of our regular platter-based streaming machines. That way,
if someone is listening to one of our more popular stations, the chances
are really good that these songs are coming off our high-speed SSD
machines. They're fast because every song is sitting in memory instead of
being on a slow, spinning platter." The interview is actually on two
pages but pretends it's on three.
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/0336221
Links:
0. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49304380,00.htm
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| In Motor Learning, New Brain Connections Form Rapidly |
| from the reaching-out dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday November 30, @04:48 (Biotech) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/29/2242211/In-Motor-Learning-New-Brain-Connections|
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Science Daily has a report on research demonstrating directly that [0]new
connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as
animals learn a new task. A team lead by researchers at UC Santa Cruz
performed "...detailed observations of the rewiring processes that take
place in the brain during motor learning. The researchers studied mice as
they were trained to reach through a slot to get a seed. They observed
rapid growth of... synapses between nerve cells in the motor cortex...
The study used mice that had been genetically altered to make a
fluorescent protein within certain neurons in the brain. The researchers
were then able to use a special microscopy technique (two-photon
microscopy) to obtain clear images of those neurons near the surface of
the brain. The noninvasive imaging technique enabled them to view changes
in individual brain cells of the mice before, during, and after the mice
were trained in the seed-reaching task."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/29/2242211
Links:
0. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091129153359.htm
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| Augmented Reality and Privacy |
| from the case-for-a-protected-feed dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday November 30, @08:04 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/0359216/Augmented-Reality-and-Privacy |
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An anonymous reader recommends a piece up at Augmented Planet that makes
a couple of points about [0]privacy in the realm of geotagging and
augmented reality that haven't been discussed much. First, once you
geotag and upload, say, a photo to the Net you can lose ownership over
the data and especially its metadata. Second, data on the Net is
long-lived and might be put together in ways you wouldn't like, long
after it was created. "If you geotag a picture with your new 50" plasma
TV in the background and upload it to the Web, congratulations you have
just told everyone where you live and what you have of value. The web has
a long memory ��� geotag something today and in six months it is still on
the Web. When you tweet from the beach in Barbados telling your friends
you are away for 2 weeks, that picture of your 50" plasma will still be
out there along with its location. It's easy to track down someone's home
address if you have their real name." The submitter adds, "I never really
cared about my online privacy too much. This article made me think
seriously about privacy for the first time. No mean feat."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/0359216
Links:
0. http://www.augmentedplanet.com/2009/11/do-you-care-about-privacy/
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| Man Arrested For RuneScape MMORPG Online Robbery |
| from the doing-pretend-work-for-pretend-boots dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 30, @08:41 (Security) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1323202/Man-Arrested-For-RuneScape-MMORPG-Online-|
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Unexpof writes "A man has been arrested by the British Police Central
e-Crime Unit (PCeU) accused of [0]stealing the usernames and passwords
from players of the RuneScape MMORPG. Security experts report that this
is one of the first occasions when a Brit has been apprehended for
"virtual robbery", although incidents have happened in the past. For
instance, the CEO of the sci-fi trading game Eve Online stole 200 billion
"kredits", which he then used as a deposit on a real-world house, and in
October last year a Japanese woman was arrested by police after allegedly
hacking her virtual husband "to death".
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/1323202
Links:
0. http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/11/30/man-arrested-robbing-runescape-virtual-characters/
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| Online "Guilds" Mirror Real Life Gangs |
| from the you-can't-gquit-the-bloods dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 30, @09:17 (Role Playing (Games)) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1358241/Online-Guilds-Mirror-Real-Life-Gangs |
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j-beda writes "In June 2009, Dr. Neil Johnson published a paper titled '[0]Human
group formation in online guilds and offline gangs driven by a common
team dynamic' in [1] Physical Review E that found the way in which WoW
'guilds' form can be [2]described by a mathematical model that can also
be applied to an unrelated group of people: street gangs in Los Angeles.
Since 'Any group that satisfies these fairly autonomous, competitive
criteria would also (fit the model),' said Dr. Johnson, the findings are
of interest to those combating international as well as local terrorist
cells."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/1358241
Links:
0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.066117
1. http://pre.aps.org/
2. http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20091123-181613.html
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| New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellent Tested |
| from the burn-it-up dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 30, @10:06 (Space) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1447245/New-Aluminum-Ice-Rocket-Propellent-Test|
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eldavojohn writes "With the problem of moving conventional rocket fuel to
the moon and mars on their minds, [0]researchers from Purdue and Penn
State successfully tested and demonstrated the use of aluminum-ice
(ALICE) as fuel. In a paper [1]from last August they outlined how it
would work [PDF] and now they know it does. Space.com also [2]had more
information on the paper and how nano-scale aluminum functions as a
fuel."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/1447245
Links:
0. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/deltav/24457/?a=f
1. http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMJPC09_1980/PV2009_4877.pdf
2. http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/091021-tw-alice-rocket.html
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| iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing |
| from the under-ripe-fruit dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 30, @11:03 (Apple) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1553242/iPhone-31-Spotted-In-Field-Testing |
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kai_hiwatari writes "Digitizor reports that the [0]next generation of
iPhone was spotted in the analytics log of an iPhone app, iBart. The
device it seems was identified as iPhone 3.1 in the log. The last time
when iPhone 2.1 was spotted, it was followed by iPhone 3G."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/1553242
Links:
0. http://digitizor.com/2009/11/30/next-generation-iphone-caught-testing-spotted-in-app-usage-log/#more-5149
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| EU ACTA Doc Shows Plans For Global DMCA, 3 Strikes |
| from the works-for-basebal dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 30, @11:42 (Privacy) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/162259/EU-ACTA-Doc-Shows-Plans-For-Global-DMCA-3-St|
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An anonymous reader writes "The European Commission [0]analysis of ACTA's
Internet chapter has leaked, indicating that the US is seeking to push
laws that extend beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and beyond current
European Union law. The document contains detailed comments on the US
secret copyright treaty proposal, confirming the desire to promote a
three-strikes and you're out policy, a Global DMCA, harmonized
contributory copyright infringement rules, and the establishment of an
international notice-and-takedown policy."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/162259
Links:
0. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4575/125/
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| Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web? |
| from the yes-of-course-they-are dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 30, @12:25 (The Internet) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/166218/Are-Ad-Servers-Bogging-Down-the-Web |
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blackbearnh writes "The work of making high-volume web sites perform well
is an ongoing challenge, and one that continues to evolve as the nature
of web content changes. According to Google Performance Guru Steve
Souders, fat JavaScript libraries and rich content are creating new
problems for web site tuning, but one of the biggest problems lies
outside the control of web site administrators ��� ad servers. In an
interview previewing the upcoming Velocity Online conference run by
O'Reilly, Souders talks at length about [0]the real causes of poor web
performance today, and in particular, the effect that poorly performing
ad servers are creating. "We adopted a framework of inserting ads, of
creating ads, that's pretty simple. And because it's pretty simple, it's
not highly tuned. That's one reason why we shouldn't be too surprised
that we see performance issues in third party ads. The other reason is
that ad services are not focused on technology. Certainly companies like
Yahoo and Google and Microsoft, we're technology companies. We focus on
technology. So it's not surprising that our web developers are on the
leading edge of adopting these performance best practices. And it's also
not surprising that ad services might lag two, three or four years behind
where these web technology companies are.""
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/166218
Links:
0. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/steve-souders-making-web-sites.html
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| Arrington's CrunchPad Dies |
| from the hooray-for-greed dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, @13:08 (Portables) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1731239/Arringtons-CrunchPad-Dies |
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adeelarshad82 writes "Michael Arrington announced the [0]death of the
CrunchPad on Monday morning in a blog post heavily spiced with angst and
drama. According to Arrignton, the Cruchpad, a 12-inch Web tablet
expected to be priced at about $300, was just days away from launch. At
the last minute, however, Arrington received an email from Chandra
Rathakrishnan, the chief executive of manufacturing partner Fusion
Garage, apparently trying to cut Arrington out of the product on the eve
of the launch. Fusion Garage, according to Arrington, wanted to market
the device itself under its own name; which obviously was the deal
breaker. Arrington claims that the company had overcome obstacles at
every stage in the business such as deals with Intel, retail launch,
securing venture capital and angel investments. Interesting bit is that
some were already speculating that the [1]Crunchpad was not real."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/1731239
Links:
0. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/
1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356075,00.asp
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| LHC Reaches Over One Trillion Electron Volts |
| from the zzzzzzzzzzot dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, @13:54 (Science) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/171254/LHC-Reaches-Over-One-Trillion-Electron-V|
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The LHC has become the world's highest-energy particle accelerator,
weighing in at [0]over one trillion electron volts. "Until now the LHC
had been operating at a relatively low energy of 450 billion electron
volts. On Sunday, engineers increased the energy of this 'pilot beam,'
reaching 1.18 trillion electron volts at 2344 GMT. The previous record of
0.98 trillion electron volts has been held by the Tevatron accelerator
since 2001. The LHC is eventually expected to operate at some seven
trillion electron volts."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/171254
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8385891.stm
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| Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? |
| from the then-i-want-hazard-pay dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, @14:37 (The Almighty Buck) |
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1724255/Should-You-Be-Paid-For-Being-On-Call |
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theodp writes "Fortune's Dear Annie takes on the case of poor Dazed and
Confused, an independent webmaster who's expected to be on call for his
client at all hours of the day and night, but [0]doesn't get paid for
being on call, only for the 40 hours a week that he's in the office.
Surprisingly, Annie throws cold water on the contractor's dreams of paid
OT, citing these pearls of wisdom from an attorney who's apparently never
had the 'privilege' of being a techie on call: 'Many companies see the
on-call issue as analogous to a fire fighter's job. Most of the time, a
fire fighter is off-duty but on call, hanging around the firehouse,
cooking, sleeping, or whatever. What that person really gets paid for is
the relatively small, but crucial, amount of time he spends walking into
a burning building with an ax. A webmaster, likewise, has slow times and
busy times.'" What on call policies are you used to working with and how
should it work in an ideal world?
Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/1724255
Links:
0. http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/25/news/economy/overtime.oncall.fortune/index.htm
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| Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals |
| from the playing-to-your-strengths dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, @15:22 (Software) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1629242/Genetic-Algorithm-Helps-Identify-Criminals|
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[0]Ponca City, We love you writes to tell us that a [1]new software
approach to police sketch artists is finding surprising success in a
trial run of 15 police departments in the UK and a few other sites. The
software borrows principles from evolution with an [2]interactive genetic
algorithm that progressively changes as witnesses try to remember
specific details. Current field trials are reporting an increase in
successful identification by as much as double conventional methods. A
[3]short video with a few working shots of the new "EFIT-V" system is
also available on YouTube. "[Researcher Christopher Solomon]'s software
generates its own faces that progressively evolve to match the witness'
memories. The witness starts with a general description such as "I
remember a young white male with dark hair." Nine different
computer-generated faces that roughly fit the description are generated,
and the witness identifies the best and worst matches. The software uses
the best fit as a template to automatically generate nine new faces with
slightly tweaked features, based on what it learned from the rejected
faces. "Over a number of generations, the computer can learn what face
you're looking for," says Solomon. The mathematics underlying the
software is borrowed from Solomon's experience using optics to image
turbulence in the atmosphere in the 1990s.
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/1629242
Links:
0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
1. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091005161328.htm
2. http://www.forensicmag.com/articles.asp?pid=212
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKujX52iHXw
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| Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? |
| from the making-the-pr-department-work-for-their-paycheck dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, @16:04 (Bug) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1818207/Dell-Defect-Turning-22GHz-CPU-Into-100|
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jtavares2 writes "In what is being dubbed as Throttlegate, scores of
users on [0]many [1]message [2]boards have been complaining about
inexplicably aggressive throttling policies on their Dell Latitude E6500
and E6400 laptops which cause its CPUs to be throttled to less than 5% of
its theoretical maximum even while in room temperatures. In many cases,
the issue can triggered just by [3]playing a video or performing some
other trivial, but CPU intensive, task. After being [4]banned [PDF] from
the Dell Forums for revealing 'non-public information,' one user went so
far as to write and publish a [5]59-page report [PDF] explaining and
diagnosing the throttling problem in incredible detail. Dell seems to be
silent on the issue, but many users are hoping for a formal recall."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/1818207
Links:
0. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=348221
1. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=355599
2. http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19256129/19427660.aspx
3. http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19247293/19591882.aspx?PageIndex=8
4. http://imsahp.chambana.net/~randall/dell/Dell%20E6X00%20downclock%20problem%20high%20compatibility.pdf
5. http://imsahp.chambana.net/~randall/dell/throttlegate.pdf
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| Scientists Create Artificial Meat |
| from the mmmmm-soggy-pork dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, @16:46 (Biotech) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/1923204/Scientists-Create-Artificial-Meat |
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that scientists have
created the [1]first artificial meat by extracting cells from the muscle
of a live pig and putting them in a broth of other animal products where
the cells then multiplied to create muscle tissue. Described as soggy
pork, researchers believe that it can be turned into something like steak
if they can find a way to 'exercise' the muscle and while no one has yet
tasted the artificial meat, researchers believe the breakthrough could
lead to sausages and other processed products being made from laboratory
meat in as little as five years time. '"What we have at the moment is
rather like wasted muscle tissue. We need to find ways of improving it by
training it and stretching it, but we will get there," says Mark Post,
professor of physiology at Eindhoven University. "You could take the meat
from one animal and create the volume of meat previously [2]provided by a
million animals." Animal rights group Peta has welcomed the laboratory
grown meat announcing that "as far as we're concerned, if meat is no
longer a piece of a dead animal there's no ethical objection while the
Vegetarian Society remained skeptical. "The big question is how could you
guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an
animal that had been slaughtered. It would be very difficult to label and
identify in a way that people would trust.""
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/1923204
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6680989/Meat-grown-in-laboratory-in-world-first.html
2. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6936352.ece
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| Google Patent Reveals New Data Center Innovations |
| from the easy-to-innovate-with-unlimited-resources dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, @17:29 (Google) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/2039239/Google-Patent-Reveals-New-Data-Center-|
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miller60 writes "'Google is seeking to patent a system that provides
[0]precision cooling inside racks of servers, automatically adjusting to
temperature changes while reducing the energy required to run chillers.'
The cooling design uses an adjustable piping system featuring 'air wands'
that provide small amounts of cold air to components within a server
tray. The cooling design, which could help Google reduce the power bill
for its servers, reinforces Google's focus on data center innovation as a
competitive advantage. Check out the [1]patent application and a
[2]diagram of the system."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/2039239
Links:
0. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/11/30/google-patent-reveals-data-center-innovations/
1. http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220080204999%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080204999&RS=DN/20080204999
2. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/a-closer-look-at-googles-new-cooling-design/
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| India Hanging Up On 25 Million Cell Phones |
| from the can-you-hear-me-now dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, @18:12 (Communications) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/2042245/India-Hanging-Up-On-25-Million-Cell-Phon|
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jvillain writes "India is about to [0]pull the plug on 25 million cell
phones in the name of fighting terrorism and fraud. 'The ban by India's
Department of Telecommunications has been unfolding gradually since Oct.
6, 2008, six weeks before the attacks in Mumbai killed 173 people and
wounded 308. A memo then directed service providers to cut off cellphone
users whose devices didn't have a real IMEI ��� or unique identity number ���
in the interests of "national security." Since then, the move has picked
up steam as a way to circumvent terrorists using black market,
unregistered cellphones. The Mumbai attackers kept in touch with each
other via cellphones and used GPS to pinpoint their attacks, which
started Nov. 26, 2008, and went on for three days. The telecommunications
department has issued warnings and deadlines through 2009 but has
announced this one is for real, telling operators to block cellphones
without valid IMEI numbers. Previously, it warned companies to stop
importing them and customers to stop buying them.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/2042245
Links:
0. http://www.thestar.com/news/article/732572--india-hanging-up-on-25-million-cellphones
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| Royal Society Releases Historic Science Papers |
| from the bayes-essay-on-chance-ftw dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday November 30, @18:56 (Science) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/30/2322205/Royal-Society-Releases-Historic-Science|
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krou writes "To celebrate its 350th anniversary, the Royal Society has
[0]released a number of historic science papers and made them available
online via its [1]Trailblazing website. Among the papers are Benjamin
Franklin's notes on his kite-flying experiment, a paper on black holes
co-written by Professor Stephen Hawking, manuscripts from Sir Isaac
Newton showing 'that white light is a mixture of other colours,' and a
few other interesting details such as 'a gruesome account of a 17th
century blood transfusion.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/30/2322205
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8385560.stm
1. http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/
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