Beware of "Free" Travel Insurance, Warns UK Insurer (Sunday 16th of November 2008 08:00:01 PM)
With increasing numbers of UK travellers unwilling to pay for their travel insurance,
increasing numbers of them are relying on the free warrant offered by credit cards and banks.
But travelling with second-rate cover could be an high-priced recipe for ...
(more)Siemens Develops Multi-Purpose Surveillance System (Monday 25th of August 2008 12:15:07 PM)
Ekesis tips a story up at NewScientist about the ontogeny of a new surveillance system by
German social contraception mass Siemens. The system is notable for its integration of many
diverse types of automated data-gathering. It can scan "telephone calls, ...
(more)SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network (Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Snydeq writes "Jailed IT admin Terry Childs relinquished his hold over San Francisco's
multimillion-dollar FiberWAN, handing his authoritative passwords over to San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom, who was 'the only person he felt he could trust.' Childs ...
(more)Racial Disparities In Diabetes Control Not Solely Linked To Lower Treatment Adherence Among Blacks, Study Finds (Friday 16th of May 2008 05:00:00 PM)
Lower insulin-dependent insulin-dependent insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus regimen cohesion
among blacks does not fully explain racial disparities in insulin-dependent type i
insulin-dependent diabetes control, by the numbers to rule to a study published ...
(more)Record Box Office Indicates MPAA 'Piracy Problem' Hot Air (Thursday 06th of March 2008 12:45:03 AM)
Kinescope writes "The motion picture outfit* has said that its profits are at risk due to
piracy, but a record-setting 2007 box office has some wondering if the traffic
notes:the
commercial enterprise is the movie business and the business is the station ...
(more)Stem Cell Lines Derived to Avoid Immune Rejection (Friday 21st of December 2007 02:45:11 PM)
Stemceller brings us a story about an trial run* that was published online in the journal
Cloning & Stem Cells. The paper demonstrated that embryonic stem cells can be used to develop
therapeutic cells which will not provoke an immune response from a ...
(more)Can Time Slow Down? (Thursday 13th of December 2007 07:30:03 AM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Does time slow down when you are in a traffic rack-up or other
life impendent crisis like Neo dodging bullets in slow-motion in The Matrix? To find out,
researchers developed a perceptual chronometer where numbers flickered ...
(more)New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor (Friday 16th of November 2007 03:45:04 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Bruce Schneier has a story on Wired about the new official standard for
random-number generators the NIST released this year that will likely be followed by dos and
ironware developers around the world. There are four different approved ...
(more)Patterns in Lottery Numbers (Friday 02nd of November 2007 12:00:04 PM)
Markmcb writes "Most everyone is familiar with the concept of the lottery, i.e., random numbers
are selected and people guess what they will be for a cash prize. But how random are the
numbers? Matt Vea has conducted a pattern analysis of the MegaMillions ...
(more)Valve Locking Out Gamers Who Buy Orange Box Internationally (Friday 26th of October 2007 06:00:05 AM)
Via Opposable Thumbs, a post on the Consumerist site notes that some enterprising gamers who
bought the Orange Box in a territory different than the one they lived (to save a few bucks)
have now found themselves unable to play the game. "One user, Todd, ...
(more)360 And Halo 3 Push Past the Wii's Sales (Saturday 20th of October 2007 12:00:06 AM)
GameDaily has the NPD numbers for September, and they're impressive if only because for the
first time in months computer game [tm] isn't dominating the top of every list. Total sales
across the commerce hit $1.36 billion (a 74% bump over last year), ...
(more)Canada's 'universal' health care (Sunday 19th of August 2007 05:00:04 PM)
Canada's 'universal' health careWe finally have good general expenses responsive of
"universal" health care: somewhere in the universe there may be a place for you to get
treatment. And if you are lucky enough to live near the United States before Hillary ...
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