a USDA-contracted researcher's simple, blunt summary of recent academic findings on the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant infections and their link with factory animal farms. ... last Friday, the document (original link) vanished without comment from the agency's website
[fishermen] say tar balls and oil continue to roll in, and they say their job is far from done. What's worse, Eric says he and many fishermen haven't been paid the compensation BP promised to make up for tens of thousands of dollars in lost fishing income. ... The shrimp catches are as low as ever, and the market price for Gulf seafood has plummeted. With gas as high as it is, it's not worth the trip anymore.
They've been working at it reasonably for more than a decade. This article does not mention predictions by GE and Google that solar power will soon be cheaper than coal.
The reported rate is 10 Sv/hr (1,000 R/hr). A single Sievert will make you sick, so casually walking by this spot will cause injury. Lingering for half an hour would be fatal to half the victims even with good medical care. The annual US regulatory limit for workers is 5R.
S&P was telling Capitol Hill to drive a stake through the heart of the welfare state. To let us peasants know we must till the corporate fields until the day we die. Otherwise, the credit rating deities will rain downgrades upon our heads, blighting the land for future generations.
Chicago has suffered a wave of unregulated, private monopolies that have dramatically increased the price of parking, bridge crossings and schools. Next up is water.
Blacked-out sections now uncovered show that Universal believed that ISPs could spy on their users and hand over information to rightsholders in order for them to sue.
until a few weeks ago, one of the properties in Rupert Murdoch’s media portfolio was MySpace, the most popular SNS in the United States until 2008. It is disconcerting to think that control over such a treasure trove of personal information rested with a corporate group harboring the ethics and practices of NoW. ... The erection of Chinese walls between SNS providers and any corporate affiliates thus becomes crucial.
It will be interesting to see how Murdoch exploited MySpace.
Jellyfish is about corporate-information dominance. It swears it’s leaving all the spy-world baggage behind. No guns, no governments digging through private records of its citizens.
It is hard to take their promisses seriously after so many government and coproarte spying scandals, including the HP, HB Gary and News of the World incidents and ongoing lawlessness of the USA PAT RIOT act.
Cooperative networks are also needed in repressive countries at war with sharing, such as the US.
OLPC's XO has meshnetworking capabilities. And some gaming systems, such as the Nintendo DS, have mesh networking built in. But we want to look at projects that are specifically aimed at replacing or augmenting the public Internet. ... Openet ... Netsukuku ... OPENMESH ...4 More Projects to Create a Government-less Internet...Digitata ... wlan ljubljana ... Nodewatcher ...
even the Justice Department weighed in, saying genes shouldn't be patentable. However, the results of the appeal are in... and the Federal Circuit appeals court (CAFC) has reversed the lower court and said that patenting genes is just fine. The reasoning is bordering on ridiculous. ... This case is far from over. It seems likely that CAFC will quickly be asked to rehear the case en banc (with the full slate of judges in the court, rather than just a panel of three), and after that it will likely go to the Supreme Court.
The quoted part of the decision does not border on ridiculous, it's insane. The judge who wrote the decision thinks there's something magic about breaking covalent bonds, "when cleaved, an isolated DNA molecule is not a purified form of a natural material, but a distinct chemical entity." Someone please call a chemist.
Jail for those who share your network's broadband wi-fi with neighbors, share music by bluetooth from mobile phone or use software to unlock media from DVDs and watch them on your computer. That's what can happen if the House approved the bill 84/99 (known as Azeredo PL) which is being processed on an urgent basis and may be voted from Tuesday.