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In Rare Attack, Malware Targets Macs - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • Hackers have launched a rare and troubling attack on Apple Inc.'s computers.
  • Apple on Thursday confirmed reports of pornography Web sites where hidden software, once downloaded, could take control of an Apple computer. Apple did not immediately respond to claims that it is the first instance of a Trojan horse attack on Apple's Macintosh platform.
  • "Apple has a great track record for keeping Mac OS X users secure, and as always, we encourage people to install software only from trusted sources."
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  • The timing of the Trojan horse suggests there are more to come, say some computer and Internet security professionals.
  • As Apple's popularity rises, "the bad guys are taking Macs seriously now,"
  • Symantec's Web site of suspicions that a wave of attacks and viruses are due.
  • "If we see a rise in Mac malware, then we will have to assume that there are profits to be made in malware for Macs as well,"
barnaby

States Set to Sue the U.S. Over Greenhouse Gases - New York Times - 0 views

  • New York is one of more than a dozen states, led by California, preparing to sue the Bush administration
  • New York and other Northeastern states are stepping up their push for tougher regulation of greenhouse gases
  • regulations requiring power plants to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions
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  • move beyond federal regulators in Washington
  • “I believe that states have to step into a void created by a failure of federal action,” Mr. Spitzer
  • “The global warming issue is one where the current administration has first denied the scientific evidence and only recently begun to discuss the matter in a serious way.”
  • sue the Environmental Protection Agency is aimed at prodding the Bush administration to remove obstacles to more than a dozen states seeking to regulate global warming emissions
  • implement the first regulation in the United States requiring reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from cars. The E.P.A. has not yet granted the waiver, keeping the regulation from taking effect.
  • federal court in Vermont rejected attempts by automakers to block the regulation
  • United States Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide.
  • E.P.A. has violated legal requirements that federal agencies act on such requests within a reasonable time.
  • cut global warming emissions from power plants 16 percent by 2015, but that reduction is based on 1990 emissions levels
  • regulations will favor alternative energy approaches, like wind power, and will not be favorable for coal producers
  • cap the amount of emissions permitted and force producers to purchase allowances for their carbon emissions
  • involves nine other states in principle
  • Independent Power Producers of New York
  • “We don’t want to put more burden on the rate payers of New York, and the last thing I would think this governor wants to do is send the message that investment should go in other states,” said Gavin J. Donohue
sirgabrial

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Lab creates 'long-distance mouse' - 0 views

  • Lab creates 'long-distance mouse'
  • A genetically modified "supermouse" which can run twice as far as a normal rodent has been created by scientists working in the US.
  • It also lives longer, and breeds later in life compared with its standard laboratory cousin.
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  • Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • The mice were produced to study the biochemistry at play in metabolism and could aid the understanding of human health and disease.
  • five to six kilometres at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill, for up to six hours before stopping.
  • they utilise mainly fatty acids for energy and produce very little lactic acid,"
  • many more mitochondria.
  • 10 times more
  • The mice over-express a gene responsible for the enzyme phosphoenolypyruvate carboxykinases (PEPCK-C). Normal expression is in the liver, in the production of glucose.
  • eat twice as much as normal mice - but weigh half as much.
  • athletes resorting to gene therapy to try to improve their performance.
  • rather aggressive
chasejw

Small World ride revamped for bigger passengers (CalorieLab Calorie Counter News) - 0 views

  • rides may have to be re-engineered
  • the boats themselves, were designed and built in 1963 on the assumption that the male adult riders would average 175 pounds and the women about 135, which they pretty much did at the time.
  • The Small World ride now must accommodate adults who frequently weigh north of 200 pounds, which it often cannot do. Increasingly, overweighted boats get to certain points in the ride and bottom out
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  • he ride monitors attempt to leave empty seats on many boats to compensate for the hefty, but this routinely antagonizes the hundreds of paying customers waiting in line. When a boat does bottom out, a long line of other boats backs up behind it, their passengers slowly going mad from listening to the ride’s theme song.
chasejw

BBC NEWS | Health | Key HIV strain 'came from Haiti' - 0 views

  • Key HIV strain 'came from Haiti'
  • The strain of the HIV virus which predominates in the United States and Europe has been traced back to Haiti by an international team of scientists. The strain passed from Haiti to the US in about 1969 before spreading further
  • says the team in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences.
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  • They hope knowing this could help find a cure for HIV
  • HIV-1 group M subtype B" predominates in the US, Europe, large parts of South America, Australia and Japan.
  • they recreated a family tree for the virus, which they believe shows conclusively that the strain came to the US via Haiti - probably via a single person - in around 1969.
sirgabrial

5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen | Cracked.com - 0 views

  • #5. Brain Parasites
  • toxoplasmosa gondii
  • bug infects rats, but can only breed inside the intestines of a cat.
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  • the parasite takes over the rat's freaking brain, and intentionally makes it scurry toward where the cats hang out.
  • that half the human population on Earth is infected with toxoplasmosa
barnaby

MEXICO UNDER SIEGE: Mexico moves quietly to decriminalize minor drug use - Los Angeles ... - 0 views

  • Could Mexican cities become Latin Amsterdams, flooded by drug users seeking penalty-free tokes and toots
  • That is the fear, if somewhat overstated, of some Mexican officials
    • barnaby
       
      really cause i'd think more tourism would be benefitial
  • claimed more than 11,000 lives since he took office in late 2006
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  • Calderon who proposed the decriminalization legislation.
  • It makes sense to distinguish between small-time users and big-time dealers,
  • Up to 40 milligrams of methamphetamine, a synthetic and especially harmful drug, is permitted under the legislation, as is up to 50 milligrams of heroin.
  • U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, however, said in April that legalization "would be a failed law enforcement strategy for both the U.S. and Mexico."
    • barnaby
       
      and you were a failed DEA director the moment you took office
sirgabrial

WakeUpWalMart.com - Walmart's $4 Drugs Coming From Indian Company Whose Products Have B... - 0 views

  • Walmart's $4 Drugs Coming From Indian Company Whose Products Have Been Banned In US and Canada
  • 30-day supplies of generic drugs for $4
  • Walmart is importing drugs from foreign countries, including India.
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  • Costco switched to selling 100 pills for $10.
  • Ranbaxy Laboratories, LTD, has been repeatedly investigated by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice for "inadequate" safeguards against contamination, falsification of records and submitting false information to the FDA.
  • FDA banned importation
  • Canada followed suit
  • has no evidence that these drugs do not meet their quality specifications and has not identified any health risks associated with currently marketed Ranbaxy products
sirgabrial

Obama SignsTobacco Bill -- Politics Daily - 0 views

  • Obama SignsTobacco Bill
  • President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, a bill that gives the Food and Drug Administration the responsibility to regulate tobacco products.
  • tobacco-related illnesses are the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and he detailed all the ways that kids get hooked on smokes before they turn 18.
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  • * FDA regulations will supersede weaker state laws
  • bans the words "light" or "mild" in tobacco advertising
  • one cigarette is less dangerous than another
  • It bans flavored tobacco products, like clove or cappuccino cigarettes
  • submit a complete list of ingredients in the tobacco, paper, filter and other components, and allows the FDA to require the removal of any additive it says is dangerous
  • It requires this list of ingredients to be placed on all labels, which will itemize chemicals added to tobacco products
  • It restricts tobacco marketing to children, such as tobacco billboards near schools
  • applies to all tobacco products
  • passes all of the additional costs of new regulations back to the tobacco companies.
barnaby

MEXICO UNDER SIEGE: Gun flow south is a crisis for two nations - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

  • The United States lacks a coordinated strategy to stem the flow of weapons smuggled across its southern border, a failure that has fueled the rise of powerful criminal cartels and violence in Mexico
  • the growing number of weapons being smuggled into Mexico comprise more than 90% of the seized firearms
sirgabrial

Bozeman City job requirement raises privacy concerns - Montana's News Station - Fair. A... - 0 views

  • background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate.
  • The requirement is included on a waiver statement applicants must sign, giving the City permission to conduct an investigation into the person's "background, references, character, past employment, education, credit history, criminal or police records."
  • Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.
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  • names and log-in information and their passwords.
  • require people of high integrity
  • highest moral character
sirgabrial

Press Release | PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008 - 0 views

  • the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008
  • Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." - Ingrid Newkirk, President and Co-Founder of PETA
  • Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.
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  • PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes.
  • the Center for Consumer Freedom petitioned Virginia’s State Veterinarian to reclassify PETA as a slaughterhouse.
barnaby

Mystery deepens over disappearing merchant ship | Reuters - 0 views

  • The mystery surrounding a missing merchant ship
  • vessel's operator suggesting piracy
  • Maltese-registered vessel, carrying a $1.3-million cargo of timber, was supposed to have docked on August 4 in the Algerian port of Bejaia
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  • Mikhail Boytenko, editor of Russia's respected Sovfracht maritime journal, said that the ship may have been carrying a secret cargo
  • smells of some sort of state involvement.
  • European waters
  • Piracy is rare in European waters with only a couple of recent incidents involving private yachts in the Mediterranean.
  • GHOST SHIP?
  • safety of the 15-member Russian crew were raised after the Malta Maritime Authority said it received reports the ship had been boarded by armed men in masks posing as anti-drugs police in Swedish waters on July 24.
  • Swedish authorities said none of its law enforcement agencies had been involved.
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