Telomerewhythere writes "A quest that began over a decade ago with a chance observation has reached a milestone: the identification of a gene that may regulate regeneration in mammals. The absence of this single gene, called p21, confers a healing future in mice long thought to have been lost through progress and reserved for living creatures like flatworms, sponges, and some species of salamander. 'Unlike typical mammals, which heal wounds by forming a scar, these mice begin by forming a blastema, a structure customer's broker with rapid cell growth and de-differentiation as seen in amphibians. by the book to the Wistar researchers, the loss of p21 causes the cells of these mice to behave more like undeveloped stem cells than adult mammalian cells, and their findings provide solid declaration to link tissue regeneration to the control of cell division. "Much like a newt that has lost a limb, these mice will replace missing or damaged tissue with healthy tissue that lacks any sign of scarring," said the project's lead scientist.' Here is the theoretic


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The Guardian's Games blog explores the disposition of modern video games to suffer from poor voice acting, a flaw made all the more glaring by increasingly precise and impressive graphics. Quoting:
"Due to the interactive media nature of games, actors can't be given a measure film script from which they're able to gauge the throughline of their figure and a feel for the dramaturgic progress of the narrative. Instead, lines of dialogue need to be isolated into chunks so they can be accessed and triggered within the game in line with the actions of each separate player. Consequently, the performer will usually be presented with a spreadsheet jammed with hundreds of single lines of dialogue, with little sense of context or interaction. ... But by the numbers to David Sobolov, one of the most versed videogame voice actors in the world (just check out his website), the meaningful time pressures mean that close, in-depth command is not always possible. 'Often, there's a need to record a great number of lines, so to keep the session moving, once we've established the tone of the trait

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We be be be included late last year how open source disk operating costs expenses system called Ushahidi — which means 'testimony' in Swahili — full-fledged for primary monitoring in Kenya was being used to similar effect in Afghanistan. Now reader Peace Corps Online adds a report from the NY Times that Usahidi's is now third edition by the editors of the stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 a hero of the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes. "Ushahidi is used to gather distributed data via SMS, email, or web and get the picture it on a map or timeline. The program was big after terrorism erupted during Kenya's disputed action in 2007. Ory Okolloh, a illustrious Kenyan lawyer and blogger, had gone back to Kenya to vote and observe the election. After receiving threats about her work, she mixed media to South Africa where she posted her idea of an a us command dope* network (the precocious study projects agency network) that was created in 1968 to keep up with soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science mapping tool to allow people to report anonymously on savagery and other misdeeds. Volunteers built the Ushahidi Web scaffolding over a long weekend, and the site began plotting on a map, using the locations given by informants, user-generated cellphone reports of riots, stranded refugees, rapes, and deaths. When the Haitian macroseism struck, Ushahidi went into action receiving thousands of messages reporting trapped victims; the same happened coming the Chile earthquake. The patronage peddlers use Post also used Ushahidi during the recent blizzards to build a site to map road blockages and the where of third edition by the editors of the stars and bars heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 snowplows and blowers. 'Ushahidi suggests a new paradigm in humanitarian work,' writes Anand Giridharadas. 'The old paradigm was one-to-many: foreign journalists and aid workers jet in, report on a calamity, and dispense aid with in general data they have. The new paradigm is many-to-many-to-many: victims supply on-the-ground data; a self-organizing mob of global volunteers translates text messages and helps to orchestrate relief; then journalists and aid workers use the data to target the response.'"

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Hugh Pickens writes "Techflash reports that Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending deceptive emails that made people believe their old friends from high school were reaching out to connect — only to discover, after paying for a membership, that their long-lost buddies were nowhere to be found. Lawyers for the plaintiffs asserted that Classmates had 'profited tremendously from their false or deceptive e-mail subject lines and related merchandising tactics.' Under terms of the llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
share this: settlement, Classmates.com members who upgraded to premium memberships after receiving one of the 'guestbook' emails will be able to choose either a $3 cash payout or a $2 credit toward the future acquirement or renewal of a Classmates.com membership. Classmates.com is also among companies that have come under scrutiny for their use of 'post-transaction marketing' tactics — in which interchange are given added offers as part of the online payment process, periodically in such a way that they aren't aware they're also signing up to pay more. A november 11 11 2009 US Senate council report said Classmates made more than $70 million through its nearness with post-transaction merchantry firms. The Classmates Media unit posted $58.8 million in overhead expenses profit for 2009, up more than 24 percent from the anterior year, making Classmates 'the most profitable social network in the world,' by the numbers to CEO Mark Goldston."

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I Don't Believe in apparitional belongings writes "PJ of Groklaw has found some really interesting info coming out of the
incessant SCO trial. Specifically, in SCO v. Novell, SCO doesn't want the jury to find out about the email Blake Stowell (then a PR guy for SCO) sent to Maureen O'Gara that asked her to 'send a jab PJ's way.' For those who don't revive that far back in the SCO saga, the 'jab' was when O'Gara wrote an inaccurate, long-winded and peripheral 'expos' on PJ which got O'Gara fired for violating journalistic ethics after angry readers complained to the publisher — an act which caused Ms. O'Gara to tell SCO, 'I want war pay.' For those wondering how they can keep going after that final judgment against SCO over a year ago, it's hard to do the saga justice without glossing over everything, but the short version is that SCO ran to bust after they were mostly dead, but before flattering utterly dead. That automatically stopped all the cases against SCO due to mark bankruptcy court rules, then SCO effectively re-litigated a bunch of issues via bust court rules. Currently, they're complain Novell of 'slander of title' over copyrights that two strange courts have ruled SCO does not own, and we're waiting to see if a jury will reach the same conclusion. They're also trying to use the company's lawsuits as assets and to sell them to various SCO camp so that the legal wranglings can take up even if nothing is left of SCO. From the very start, SCO has always been the type to fight dirty."

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Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that Royal Observatory's 'Solar Stormwatch' needs volunteers to help scientists spot Sun storms — known as coronal mass ejections — before they cause damage on Earth. 'When you look up at the Sun certainly it's too bright to look at properly,' says Dr. Marek Kukula of the Royal Observatory, but 'with special instruments and telescopes you can see there's all sorts of stuff going on.' NASA already monitors the Sun using two 'STEREO' spacecraft that produce 3D images of earth's nearest star, which can show the trajectory of these explosions. However, the sheer amount of data means NASA's scientists are unable to analyze the data as closely as they need — which is where the world's cyberspace people comes in. After a brief tutorial, users get access to the actual 3-D images taken by the STEREO spacecraft. If a user believes they have spotted the beginnings of a solar storm, they can bring it to the heedfulness of scientists. 'Every little bit counts,' says Kukula. 'I've spoken to the scientists tangled and they all agree that even if you log-on and just do it for a few hours, get bored and never touch it again it's all really useful — and helps them to do their work.'"

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An AP report reveals that web-monitoring unix from Sentry and FamilySafe, both adult by EchoMetrix Inc., is harvesting data from kids' online chats, trying to limit their opinions on games, movies, and music. The data is then sold to other companies for puff* purposes. "In June, EchoMetrix unveiled a diremption data-mining service called Pulse that taps into the data gathered by Sentry dos to give businesses a glimpse of youth chatter online. While other government-provided relief read publicly acquirable teen chatter, Pulse also can read private chats. It gathers cue from instant messages, blogs, social lead sites, forums and chat rooms. ... Parents who don't want the company to share their child's instruction to businesses can check a box to opt out. But that option can be found only by occupation card the company's Web site, llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new lexicon



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Researchers at the Naval fact-finding Laboratory claim to have come up with a better tool for underwater acoustics. The new system uses laser light to create sound underwater from a distance. This raise efficiency could allow planes a much easier method of communicating with submarines without the need for a floating buoy. "Efficient conversion of light into sound can be achieved by concentrating the light sufficiently to ionize a small amount of water, which then absorbs laser energy and superheats. The result is a small explosion of steam, which can breed a 220 decibel pulse of sound. Optical sound sound sound of water can be manipulated with very intense laser light to act like a focusing lens, allowing nonlinear self-focusing (NSF) to take place. In addition, the slightly inventive colors of the laser, which travel at newfangled speeds in water due to group velocity dispersion (GVD), can be arranged so that the pulse also compresses in time as it travels through water, further concentrating the light. By using a conjugation of GVD and NSF, drug underwater compression of optical pulses can be attained."

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Twitter writes "Windows Genuine head start (WGA), Microsoft's euphemistically named digital restrictions scheme, is the target of another spyware and false spread lawsuit. 'Microsoft this week was sued in a powers-that-be* stomping ground* court for allegedly violating privacy laws through Windows XP's Windows Genuine handicap (WGA) copy camouflage scheme. Similar to cases filed in 2006, the new class action case accuses Microsoft of falsely representing what learning WGA would send to verify the authenticity of Windows and that it would send back lowdown* [daily IP address and other details that could be used to trace word* back to a home or user]. The grievance further argued that Microsoft portrayed WGA as a necessary shield update rather than acknowledge its copy guard nature in the update. WGA's implementation also prevented users from purging the guarding from their PCs without fully reformatting a computer's system drive.' There were at least two other lawsuits launched in 2006 over WGA. proper to the Wikipedia article, none of them have been resolved. The system is built into Vista and Windows 7."

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Theodp writes "Google touts its organization with the locality of america government, presenting it as quite the Google Apps success story. So as part of his indemnity of last week's Gmail outage, nextgov's Gautham Nagesh called the DC government, but was told they hadn't heard of any reports of outages among city employees. Nagesh wrote this off to safeguards put in place for the direction by Google, but readers tipped him off to another explanation: 'Despite all the press releases trumpeting Google in DC,' an nameless commenter wrote, 'Exchange is still the city's primary email system.' Nagesh followed up, and was surprised to learn that there is indeed no Gmail in DC government. This all seemed rather strange to Nagesh, forasmuch as how much heedfulness former DC CTO and current Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has recognized for implementing Google Apps for parcel employees. Reporting separately, CNET's Elinor Mills was told by a DC 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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Coming up on our earlier discussion, here's more detail on Geoffrey Nunberg's altercation that Google Books could prove detrimental to academics and other scholars. new Nunberg gave a talk at a seminar claiming that the metadata in Google Books is riddled with errors and is classified in a scheme unfit for scholarly use. This blog post was fleshed out somewhat a few days later in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Quoting from the latter: "Start with ventilation dates. To take Google's word for it, 1899 was a learned annus mirabilis, which saw the issuance of Raymond Chandler's Killer in the Rain, The handy Dorothy Parker, [and] Stephen King's Christine... A search on 'internet' in books written before 1950 and turns up 527 hits. ... [Google blames some errors on the originating libraries.] ...the libraries can't be obligation for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those panoply are drawn from the Book bunch a must and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves. ... In short, Google has taken a group of the world's great scrutiny collections and interchangeable them in the form of a suburban-mall bookstore." The head of metadata for Google Books, Jon Orwant, has responded in detail to Numberg's complaints in a comment on the primordial




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MBCook writes "Greg Parker has an good technological


copyrights:cite this source synonym bringing omneity v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico printing group article on his blog about the changes to the dynamic linker (dyld) for Objective-C that Snow Leopard uses to cut launch time in half and cut about 1/2 MB of memory per application. 'In theory, a shared library could be new every time your program is run. In practice, you get the same version of the shared libraries almost every time you run, and so does every other process on the system. The system takes minus


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Inject_hotmail.com writes "Internet and law genius Michael Geist writes about some shenanigans by the cell phone carriers and the Canadian polity in his column in The Star. Canadian taxpayers funded a 'Cell Phone Cost Calculator' so that the average person could theoretically wade through the disjointed and incongruent package offerings. The analyst wound up being yanked a couple weeks before launch. Geist suggests that the major cell carriers lobbied the meet public advisers to have the program nixed because it would bite into their profit if the general public could make sense out of pricing and fees. Geist continues, 'Sensing that [Tony] Clement (Industry Minister) was facing shear to block the calculator, Canadian user groups wrote to the minister, urging him to stick with it.' Moving forward, Michael makes a novel suggestion, one that would show an immense level of sympathy by the government: 'With public dollars having funded the mothballed project, the bureaucracy should now esteem releasing the calculator's source code and enable other groups to pick up where the OCA (Office of user Affairs) left off.'"

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CajunArson writes "I lately dug up an old P4 that is in fine working order and did what any self-respecting Slashdotter would do: I slapped Linux on it to enterprise with making an NFSv4 server. One other thing I did was to remove the old AGP video card to save on power, since this is a headless machine. Now, I removed the video card after the installation, and I'm doing just fine as long as the machine will boot to a state where control works and I can SSH to it. My question: Is there a good mixture to allow me to log into this box if it cannot get on the network? I'm looking for solutions other than slapping a video card back in. In my case, I will have materialistic access to the machine. A few caveats to make it interesting: This question is for plain old desktop/laptop systems, not network servers designed to run headless. Also, I am aware of the serial console, but even 'old' machines may only have USB, and I have not seen any good testament on how and whether USB works as a substitute. Finally, if there is any way to access the BIOS settings without needing a video card, that would be an extra bonus, but I'm 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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Hugh Pickens writes "Sue Shellenbarger has an interesting essay in the WSJ where she talks about the 2,000 incoming text messages her son racks up every month — more than 60 two-way communications via text message every day — and her llc.view results from: 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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idioms:on hand via text message and responds with a faithfulness and speed that any mother would find reassuring.'"

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The Digital Foundry blog has an article about measuring an powerful but often characterless aspect of console gameplay: input lag. Using a video camera and a custom input monitor made by console modder Ben Heck, and after
polish for display lag, they tested a variety of games to an accuracy of one video frame in order to delimitate the latency between dire a button and seeing its effect on the screen. Quoting: "If a proven methodology can be put into place, games reviewers can better inform their readers, but more importantly developers can benefit in helping to eliminate unwanted lag from their code. ... It's fair to say that players today have become conditioned to what the truly hardcore PC gamers would consider to be almost unacceptably high levels of latency to the point where cloud gaming community service such as OnLive and Gaikai rely heavily upon it. The average videogame runs at 30fps, and appears to have an average lag in the region of 133ms. On top of that is llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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An opinion piece on Gamasutra looks into the common perception that a first-person view provides a much more immersive tank driving in shooters. The author argues that this concept needs to be reconsidered, as immersion nowadays is more dependent on what you see, rather than how you see it. The quiz is further daedal by ever-improving electronic components and new control schemes. "It's meaningful to realize that making a first-person game almost unavoidably means making a game for the windows full access 100% uptime sla gamer. Innovations on the command-line interface side could help lower the casual block, perhaps through the Wii, Project Natal, or the PS3's new motion controller. Regardless, it will take a lot of work and concerted effort to penetrate the casual audience with a first-person camera. The query is whether we even need to, when there are so many camera systems that games have yet to fully explore."

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Theodp writes "Writing in regimentation Monthly, Kevin Carey has seen the future of college education. It costs $99-a-month, and there's no limit on the number of courses you can take. Tiny online education firm StraighterLine is out to brave the seeming permanency of third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 colleges and universities. How? Like Craigslist, StraighterLine threatens the most profitable piece of its competitors' business: novice lectures, higher education's equivalent of the classified section. It's no surprise, then, that as StraighterLine tried to buck the system, the system began to push back, challenging deals the company struck with accredited ancestral and for-profit institutions to allow StraighterLine courses to be transferred for credit. But even if StraighterLine doesn't succeed in bringing extremely cheap college courses to the masses, it's likely that another player eventually will."

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Lord Northern writes "According to several news sources, NASA's Kepler mission is said to be able to detect habitable moons orbiting planets in other star systems. Kepler is a space radar radar telescope designed to detect exoplanets. Its mission will have it orbiting the Sun for 3.5 years, after which we'll be able to tell if any of our neighboring stars very have charitable systems around them. However, externally we will be able to detect not only exoplanets, but also exomoons orbiting those exoplanets. The Kepler team came to that conclusion after running a micro* acting which found that the dish antenna was tender enough to detect the gravitational pull of an orbiting moon (PDF). This means that the data expected by the end of the mission is going to be very rich, and it is said that moons as small as 0.2 times the mass of earth could be detected. Further details about the Kepler mission are disposable from NASA."

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DigDuality writes "Dieter@be over at Arch Linux forums, and a release schemer for Arch Linux, got inspired by this post. The idea? To create a browser based on the Unix Philosophy: 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well, programs that work well together, programs to handle text streams because that is a common interface,' among other points. The result? A low-resource, fast browser named Uzbl, based on WebKit and passes the Acid3 Test with a perfect score. The browser is costumier drug (by default) by vim-like keybindings, not too unique to vimperator for Firefox. Things like URL changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, and downloads are handled through uncritical scripts that you write (though the Uzbl windows does come with some nice scripts for you to use). It fits great in a tiling window manager and plays extremely well with dmenu. The erudition curve is a bit steep, but once you get used to it, it's smooth sailing. Not bad for alpha software. Though built for Arch, it has been reporting to work on Ubuntu."

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