Monday, August 24, 2009

Pingie: TORRE: The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities Updated

TORRE: The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities Updated
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Following the earlier court defeat for Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter and the pending civil action taken by several Hollywood studios, the Swedish authorities have now ordered The Pirate Bay to be disconnected from the Internet. The site's bandwidth suppliers have been threatened with a large fine. The site is completely offline.
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Pingie: HTTP:: 5 Reasons You re Not Losing Weight

HTTP:: 5 Reasons You re Not Losing Weight
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Say you just decided recently that time was right you changed your lifestyle and lost some weight or got in a better shape. You’re eating healthy now, work out on a regular basis and stay away from all sorts of temptations, yet, for some reason or another, the scales refuse to go down below a certain threshold, which means you’re not really losing weight even if it feels that way to you. As FitSugar points out, there are five reasons why this might be happening. For starters, you must pay very close attention to what you eat. Working out burns calories, so it’s only natural that you feel hungrier after going to the gym, but that is not to say you’re to indulge just because you’ve spent the last hour or so sweating away. Most people feel the need to reward themselves after working out, research has shown, but you must be careful that your post-gym snack doesn’t pack more than 200 calories. The idea to losing weight with exercise is to even the scales, so to spe!
ak, by making sure you don’t ingest more calories than you burn in the gym. Overindulging in healthy foods may be another reason why the pounds seem to not want to come off. “Yes, a bowl of granola is healthier than a bowl of Fruit Loops, but just because a food is healthy doesn’t mean it’s calorie-f...
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Pingie: HTTP:: p2pnet World Headlines Aug 24 2009

HTTP:: p2pnet World Headlines Aug 24 2009
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My Response to Prof. Charles Nesson re Tenenbaum Excess CopyrightnConcerning the Tenenbaum case, Prof. Nesson of Harvard, who led Joel’s defense, has asked me on a closed academic list, on his blog, and on my blog “on what issue might I have prevailed had I offered what you imagine to be a good defense?” Here’s [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: BusinessSpectator sued for plagiarism

HTTP:: BusinessSpectator sued for plagiarism
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- As publishers become, “increasingly alarmed about the appropriation of their content by online businesses,” Fairfax Business Media has accused website BusinessSpectator.com.au of plagiarism for publishing abstracts of The Australian Financial Review, says The Australian.n“People have websites that are based on rewriting AFR copy,” the story has Fairfax Business Media [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith Unlockables V DS

HTTP:: Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith Unlockables V DS
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Hollywood's love affair with the gaming industry has been going on for quite some time now. Ever since the early days of the Atari or the Nintendo Entertainment System, hot movie properties have been ported and adapted so that movie-goers can spend some more money on those licensed video games.The bigger the impact on pop culture the franchise has, the more quickly it needs to be turned into a video game. This is especially true with the Star Wars franchise, which has seen a lot of video games based on its rich universe. One of the more recent ones has been directly tied to the third episode of the beloved franchise, Revenge of the Sith.The license was given by LucasArts to Ubisoft in order to create a multiplatform game that would be directly tied to the movie and appear on the same day, May 5, 2005. The title appeared for many devices including the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameBoy Advance or the Nintendo DS.Centered around Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, right at the end!
of the Clone Wars, the game features many scenes from the movie and portrays the intense fighting that happened during it. 18 levels constitute the title and you can even watch almost 12 minutes of movie footage during the cut scenes. Enemies that the two Jedi masters can encounter...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Liskula Cohen vs Skanks of New York IV

HTTP:: Liskula Cohen vs Skanks of New York IV
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p2pnet news view P2P:- The saga of Canadian model Liskula Cohen rolls on.nShe was able to get a US court to persuade Google, staunch defender of user privacy, to reveal the name of a blogger she claimed had defamed her online via Skanks in NYC.nEnter Rosemary Port (right), 29, creator of  Skanks in NYC and [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Activision Boss Says People Prefer Sequels to New Games

HTTP:: Activision Boss Says People Prefer Sequels to New Games
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The gaming industry is huge, filled with big companies that are making impressive amounts of money even in this troubled economy. One of the largest is Activision, which owns big money-making franchises like Call of Duty or Guitar Hero, which appear every year in new installments, for better or for worse. It is this strategy that has garnered the company and its CEO, Bobby Kotick, a not-so-nice reputation from many gamers around the world. But speaking with The Economist, the executive of the large corporation has revealed that, contrary to popular belief, many people really enjoy sequels and aren't that interested in new IPs. “A small segment of very vocal gamers say everything has to be new and different every year,” Kotick says. “Actually, people are happy with existing franchises, provided you innovate within them.” The executive does have a point though, fact highlighted by the huge anticipation regarding Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which promises to be !
the best-selling title of the end of the year. The game is the sequel to the original Modern Warfare, which brought a lot of innovations to the Call of Duty franchise. But while things are great for the shooter, other franchises, like Guitar Hero, don't really get a lot of innovation, as...
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Pingie: TORRE: The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities

TORRE: The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities
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Following the earlier court defeat for Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter and the pending civil action taken by several Hollywood studios, the Swedish authorities have now ordered The Pirate Bay to be disconnected from the Internet. The site's bandwidth suppliers have been threatened with a large fine. The site is completely offline.
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Pingie: HTTP:: CHEK TV closure looms

HTTP:: CHEK TV closure looms
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p2pnet news view P2P | TV:- There’s only a week to go before CHEK-TV, based in Victoria, BC’s capital, theoretically closes down after more than 50 years, p2pnet reported last month.nWe say ‘theoretically’ because although August 31 is the deadline, staff on the receiving end of pink slips want to save the station.nCanwest Global Communications [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: New Viral Binding Defense Molecule Identified

HTTP:: New Viral Binding Defense Molecule Identified
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Experts at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTSC) have recently identified a new molecule that is able to detect two of the most common respiratory viruses. Upon detecting the pathogens, the structure is able to mount and coordinate an immune-system attack on the intruders and annihilate them. Details of the find appear online, in the August 23rd issue of the journal Nature Immunology, e! Science News reports. The two organisms that the molecule can detect are the human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza A, better known as the common flu. While they can be easily defeated by an adult's immune system, they pose serious challenges to seniors, small infants, and people with a weaker immunity. The new compound could be used to create a new series of vaccines against these viruses, which could destroy them a lot faster than existing medication can. “This molecule could be used to boost host immune defenses and stimulate vaccine eff!
icacy against RSV and influenza A, especially among high-risk individuals,” UTSC Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Santanu Bose, PhD, also the senior author of the new paper, explains. Other members of the research team have been graduate student Ahmed Sabbath and research scientists Te-Hung Chang and Rosalinda...
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Pingie: HTTP:: CRTC secret do not call list talks

HTTP:: CRTC secret do not call list talks
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Canada’s national telephone marketing do-not-call  list has been a sick joke from Day One.nSaid p2pnet recently, “Run by Bell Canada, itself under attack for abusing its own customers, it’s administered by the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), which’ll peddle it to marketeers for a nominal fee.”nAccording to [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Twenty Percent of UK Bees Died This Winter

HTTP:: Twenty Percent of UK Bees Died This Winter
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According to the latest statistics provided by the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA), it would appear that one in five UK bees died over the past winter. While the number may seem manageable, the association draws attention to the fact that more than 30 percent of the total stock was lost the year before, which brings the total number to about 50 percent of all colonies in the country. At this point, beekeepers say, they are struggling to keep their hives alive, though little hope is in sight. The BBC News informs that bees in the UK are worth more than £200 million (roughly $330 million), mostly through their contribution to pollinating crops. They are also an important part of the ecosystem, and, if they disappear, the consequences could be disastrous, experts say. At this point, there are several factors that contribute to the bees' demise, including a parasitic mite, which scientists seem unable to remove from the insects, a number of viruses, and shifts in seaso!
nal temperatures. The official numbers released by the BBKA show that 19.2 percent of all colonies died during the 2008/2009 winter season, which is more than twice the number recorded in an average winter. The losses were highest in the northern parts of the country, where as much as 31 percent of stocks were lost. In eastern region...
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Pingie: HTTP:: China wants changes to Song font

HTTP:: China wants changes to Song font
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p2pnet news view P2P:- When China’s Communist leaders were wondering if they should order the ‘readjustment’ of 44 Chinese characters, they went online to find out how the move would be received.nIt didn’t go down well, says the Shanghai Daily, going on:n“After eight years, the ministry unveiled a list of 8,300 standardized characters in common [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Dragon Quest Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable Unlockables PS2

HTTP:: Dragon Quest Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable Unlockables PS2
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Itadaki Street is a series of computer games initially put together by Yuji Horri, the guy who also created Dragon Quest. The first iteration appeared in 1991 on the Famicon and a lot of sequels were released for the Super Famicom, the PlayStation, the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS.Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable was created by Armor Project and Think Garage and launched in May 2006 on the PSP, being published by Square Enix.There are quite a lot of characters from Dragon Quest appearing, including Slime, Alena, Mara (Manya in Japan), Nara (Minea in Japan), Bianca, Kiefer, Maribel, Jessica, Angelo (Kukule in Japan), Yangus, Trode, Marcello.There are also characters from Final Fantasy in the game: Cloud Strife, Sephiroth, Aerith, Gainsborough, Tifa Lockhart, Yuffie Kisaragi, Quistis Trepe, Zidane Tribal, Vaan, Ashe, Balthier, Fran, Basch, Penelo, Chocobo and Eiko Carol.Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Stree!
t Portable is very similar to the Monopoly that Western gamers are familiar with. A dice is being used to move the character around the board where they can buy properties and, if another player lands on theirs, can collect their money.The game is played with virtual currency and there ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Rhapsody Apple app

HTTP:: Rhapsody Apple app
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p2pnet news view Music:- Have you been holding your breath, wondering when RealNetworks Rhapsody “will finally be on the iPhone”?nWonder no longer.nReal was recently on the wrong end of a decision by US judge Marilyn Hall Patel in the case brought by Hollywood against its $30 RealDVD, “created to allow consumers to make copies of [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Gwyneth Paltrow Expands Next Door with 33 Room Superhouse

HTTP:: Gwyneth Paltrow Expands Next Door with 33 Room Superhouse
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The latest celebrities to expand their homes by buying the house next door and then combining the two in one super-mansion are Madonna and Jamie Olivier. Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow and singer Chris Martin have also followed on their lead by expanding next door in order to create a superhouse, in their case counting no less than 33 rooms and being evaluated at £7 million, restorations not included, the Daily Mail informs. In 2004, Martin bought the family’s current home from actress Kate Winslet for £2.5million, while the neighboring property came into their possession two years ago, for the hefty sum of £3.1million. The couple have just now decided to merge the two properties into a single one, having already started work on it, replacing windows and getting ready to tear down walls to turn the two houses into just one, the aforementioned publication says. Luckily for Gwyneth, she did not encounter the same obstacles as her best friend Madonna, who had to ce!
ase all work on her newly acquired property because she did not get the permits to tear down the walls. “It will be a massive house. What they have already is a substantial family home, but to double and add a bit on will make it a real mansion. No one objected as they are not going to change the outs...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Bridging PHP and NET PHP Toolkit for ADO NET Data Services

HTTP:: Bridging PHP and NET PHP Toolkit for ADO NET Data Services
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Microsoft has made one step forward with its interoperability efforts, namely the bridging of PHP and .NET, with the release of the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services at the end of the past week. The PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services is currently available as an open-source project on CodePlex and, although it was funded by Microsoft, it was developed by Persistent Systems. The end goal of the Toolkit is to enable developers leveraging PHP to be able to also take advantage of the .NET Framework’s ADO.NET Data Services, formerly codenamed Project Astoria. The PHP Toolkit for ADO .NET Data Services is available for download under a BSD license. “ADO.NET Data Services offer a simple way to expose any sort of data in a RESTful way,” revealed Claudio Caldato, senior program manager, Interoperability Technical Strategy team. “ADO.NET Data Services (formerly known as Project “Astoria”) is a technology used to expose a wide range of data sources through a RESTf!
ul service interface. Data sources can be relational databases, XML files, and so on. ADO.NET Data Services defines a flexible addressing and query interface using a URL convention, as well as the usual resource manipulation methods on data sources (it supports the full range of Create/Read/Update/Delete operatio...
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Pingie: HTTP:: BC bad apples blacklist

HTTP:: BC bad apples blacklist
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- There’s, “no reason to have this type of system in place to begin with,” said a Reader’s Write to the p2pnet story saying some bars in British Columbia were still collecting personal information as part of the Bar Watch program, despite the fact British Columbia’s Privacy Commissioner had [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Mac WoW Gamers Prepare for Cataclysm

HTTP:: Mac WoW Gamers Prepare for Cataclysm
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Blizzard Entertainment has announced plans to ship the third expansion to World of Warcraft, its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Windows PC and Mac OS X.  World of Warcraft: Cataclysm was unveiled at the company’s fourth BlizzCon gaming festival. WoW: Cataclysm changes Azeroth from the ground up, with the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing awakened. “In addition to revitalizing some of the most familiar and iconic areas of the game world, this third World of Warcraft expansion will add new features and a large amount of new content for players to explore,” Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, said. “We’re excited to be offering a first glimpse of Cataclysm for attendees of BlizzCon, and we look forward to sharing more information with everyone as development progresses.” According to Blizzard Entertainment, Cataclysm builds on the foundation established in World of Warcraft and its first two expansions, adding!
its own exciting content. Players are said to experience the game from a whole new perspective. The developer lists the following new features for WoW: Cataclysm. • Two New Playable Races: Adventure as the cursed worgen with the Alliance or the resourceful goblins with the Horde. • Increa...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Price of a Big Mac in 73 cities

HTTP:: Price of a Big Mac in 73 cities
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p2pnet news view | Cool:- The Economist says its Big Mac index, “seeks to make exchange-rate theory more digestible,” stating, “It is arguably the world’s most accurate financial indicator to be based on a fast-food item.”nThey can’t go wrong with that claim. nIn Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock, “documents this lifestyle’s drastic effects on Spurlock’s [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Inglourious Basterds the mewsik

HTTP:: Inglourious Basterds the mewsik
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p2pnet news view Movies | Music:- Without music, life as we know it wouldn’t merely be miserable, it wouldn’t exist.nSame goes for Quentin Tarantino’s latest, Inglourious Basterds.n“Tarantino’s latest film, ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ debuted Aug. 21, three days after its accompanying soundtrack arrived on Warner Bros. Records,” says Billboard.nTarantino uses an, “off-kilter mix of Ennio Morricone, Ray [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Explaining Upwards Lightning

HTTP:: Explaining Upwards Lightning
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No one is surprised when lightning comes down form the sky, especially during one of those intense summer thunderstorms. But witnessing a bolt of light and electricity going upwards, until it almost reaches the upper limit of the atmosphere, is completely another story. One such formation was recently observed by experts at the Duke University, in a storm some 200 miles away from their observation post, LiveScience reports. This type of formations, only one of several phenomena that were recently discovered to take place above storm clouds, was only discovered in 2001. Since then, it has fascinated planetary scientists and meteorologists alike with its amazing power and properties. Known in the scientific community as gigantic jets, only around ten such formations have thus far been directly observed, Steven Cummer, one of the team members, says. The only difference between them and regular lightning flashes is that the former go upwards, while the latter, naturally, down!
wards. “Gigantic jets are literally lightning that comes out of the thunderclouds, but instead of going down, like most lightning strokes do, these apparently find their way out the tops of thunderclouds, and then keep going and keep going and keep going until they run into something that stops them,” Cummer explains. They only stop in the ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Snow Leopard Prepared for Shipment

HTTP:: Snow Leopard Prepared for Shipment
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Apple fans and Mac users who’ve thoughtfully secured their very own copy of Snow Leopard by pre-ordering one are now reporting that their shipping status has changed to “prepared for shipment.” If this information is accurate, Softpedia has every reason to believe rumors that the next-gen OS is shipping early, particularly on August 28 (this Friday). Readers writing down their thoughts over at 9to5mac “have mentioned that their Snow Leopard shipments have been locked in and are still expected to arrive on August 28th,” a report on the respective website reads. “They can no longer make changes to the order,” the Mac-focused online publication explains. The reader is cited as saying, “My snow leopard disc went to 'PREPARED FOR SHIPMENT' today... can't modify or cancel it anymore...” Apple has (for some time) been rumored to be actively producing the Snow Leopard retail discs and packaging, as well as Install / Restore discs for shipping with every new Mac !
starting next month. Some rumors, however, say that the Mac maker is ready to ship the software even earlier than promised, spurring a flurry of other reports speculating on the matter. Softpedia too believes this is possible, especially thanks to reports signaling a glitch on the Apple online store, as well as t...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Spectrobes Beyond the Portals Hints XXV DS

HTTP:: Spectrobes Beyond the Portals Hints XXV DS
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The Nintendo DS has seen quite a few franchises flourish on it and give birth to a very successful and profitable series. An example of such a thing is Disney's Spectrobes franchise, which has seen a huge success with the first iteration when it was launched a few years ago.Realizing just what it had on its hands, the company tasked the Jupiter studio with creating a sequel to it. This new project was finalized with Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals, which was released on October 7, 2008 in North America, while Japan received it on December 11, the same year, and Europeans on February 27, 2009.The game boasts some major improvements over the first title, while continuing the story of Rallen and Jeena, two space officers who have saved their native Nanairo system from the evil Krawls. The peace after the conflict is disrupted by the abduction of one of their friends, Aldous, by a Krawl superior officer known as Maja. The fact that mysterios portals are opening around the Nanair!
o system makes the missions even more difficult, but, thanks to new Spectrobes and a new species of Dark Spectrobes, Rallen and Jeena have what it takes to get it done.Here are some of its features:- New, revamped, three-dimensional perspective;- Players can take on the role of either R...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Discovery Takes Off Tomorrow

HTTP:: Discovery Takes Off Tomorrow
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Late on Sunday, officials at the US space agency NASA cleared the space shuttle Discovery for launch on the STS-128 assembly mission to the International Space Station. The flight is scheduled to begin at 1:36 am EDT (0536 GMT), from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The shuttle has an 80-percent chance of good weather during take-off, an increase from the 70 percent recorded on Saturday. Discovery's flight will last 13 days, Space reports. Mission controllers have been concerned with the foam insulation on the shuttle's external tank over the past couple of weeks. In previous flights, such as the one conducted by shuttle Atlantis to the Hubble Space Telescope, and shuttle Endeavor to the ISS, large pieces of the stuff broke off and fell on the shuttles, fortunately without any major damage to their heat shields. However, officials were not about to take that chance again. Using high-power X-rays and other observation tools, NA!
SA engineers spent many hours on the fuel tank, closely analyzing the foam layer. They determined that it posed no dangers to Discovery. The experts couldn't find anything wrong with it, not even defects as small as micro-cracks. “We are go for launch,” the Head of Discovery's mission management team, Mike Moses, said Sunday night. The spacec...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Japan Finally Eases Stem Cell Regulations

HTTP:: Japan Finally Eases Stem Cell Regulations
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On the 21st of August, a new set of rules and regulations related to embryonic stem cell research came into effect in Japan. The new laws leave more leeway for researchers to conduct their experiments, but some voices say that the measures come too late, and that the time the country lost in a field that was once a big source of national pride will not be easily recovered. Other countries have moved way ahead of Japan in this field of research, so it remains to be seen if the new laws will have any effects. Upon first inspection, the laws that were set in the country in 2001 were fairly permissive. Researchers could use home-grown embryonic stem cell lines, or they could import them. However, there was a catch. The teams conducting such investigations needed to get approval for their studies, from both local institutions and Science Ministry commissions. This was a real stumbling block. In addition, they had to conduct their experiments in separate facilities from teams c!
onducting work on other types of stem cells, Nature News reports. The measures had the effect of costing Japan the leader position in the international stem cell research community. It was, for example, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University who first managed to obtain induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) from differentiated, adult cells, but...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Windows 7 Future Releases to Fix Post RTM Issues

HTTP:: Windows 7 Future Releases to Fix Post RTM Issues
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Windows 7 has been a remarkably polished operating system even as early as Beta Build 7000 and Release Candidate Build 7100 development milestones. But even after the platform was released to manufacturing, Microsoft confirmed that there were additional rough corners to be softened, and that it would do so with what the company referred to as future releases. This is the case of incorrect shutdown reason codes that are written to System Event Log (SEL) in scenarios involving user-initiated shutdown actions from computers running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. “The System Event Log is the database of events in the baseboard management controller (BMC) hardware. The SEL adapter conveys these events to the operating system,” the company noted. “Microsoft will address the problem in future releases,” reads the message from the Redmond company associated with the erroneous shutdown reason codes in SEL. No word from the software giant on what “future releases”!
means, but chances are that the company is pointing to the first service pack for Windows 7. Microsoft traditionally delivers SP1 for Windows releases approximately one year after the general availability deadline. In this regard, Windows 7 users should expect SP1 by the end of 2010, or early in 2011 at the latest. ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Penelope Cruz Doesn t Care How She Looks Onscreen

HTTP:: Penelope Cruz Doesn t Care How She Looks Onscreen
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Although often topping most international polls of beautiful people, actress Penelope Cruz says beauty is nothing when it comes to her art, to making a character believable and more convincing. As a matter of fact, the star adds, she sees her face as a piece of “clay” that she molds to suit the role she’s playing at a given moment, therefore she simply doesn’t care if she comes across as ugly or not in the final project, as China Daily can confirm. Speaking with the British media, as cited by China Daily, Cruz reveals that she’s not the one to place too much emphasis on good looks, all the more so when looking pretty is not a part of the character she may be playing at one moment. In her long and successful acting career, Penelope has learned that she has to stop being selfish and just give the part her best, even if that means she has to renounce her famous good looks. Making movies is not about onscreen beauty, the star points out, but about making a character!
real. “I am never concerned if I have to look bad. I don’t care if I look good. You do whatever is necessary to give the character what it needs. It’s important not to be selfish. You get used to looking at yourself. I make sure I am a piece of clay and give whatever that character needs inside...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Environmentally Friendly Nanoparticle Production Method Created

HTTP:: Environmentally Friendly Nanoparticle Production Method Created
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Zinc oxide has been in use in the nanotechnology industry since its early days, and researchers in Saudi Arabia have now devised a non-toxic and environmentally friendly method of producing it en masse. In a paper published in the International Journal of Nanoparticles, the scientists show that this class of nanoparticles can be used safely for medial and other sensitive applications from now on, ScienceDaily reports. Zinc oxide is mostly obtained in the form of nanorods. These rods usually have less than 100 nanometers in diameter, which means that they have a lot of uses in many areas of science. They are employed, for instance, in breakfast cereals, where they act as a source of zinc, which is essential for the good functioning of the human body. They also appear in a large array of cosmetic products, sunscreens and lotions, and are known to efficiently protect the skin against harmful UV radiation, which can damage DNA and trigger the formation of skin cancer. The c!
hemical also plays an important part in gas-detector technologies. When gas molecules are absorbed in such devices, the oxide modifies their electrical properties in a detectable manner. It has also played a major part in the appearance of a new class of lasers and LEDs, and has been successfully used as a a biomimic me...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Lead poisoning haunts Chinese smelter communities

HTTP:: Lead poisoning haunts Chinese smelter communities
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FENGXIAN, China (Reuters) - Ask people about lead poisoning in the lush mountains of northwestern China's Shaanxi province, and nearly everyone can recall a case.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: iPhone Owners May Use VoIP on AT T s 3G One Day

HTTP:: iPhone Owners May Use VoIP on AT T s 3G One Day
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In its response letter to the FCC, Apple claims it was the sole decision maker in holding off the approval (not rejection) of the Google Voice app in the App Store. However, Apple also reveals that it and AT&T have an agreement to block VoIP apps from using the US carrier’s cellular networks, therefore VoIP apps can only use Wi-Fi on the iPhone. AT&T has provided the Federal Communications Commission with some clarification on its own. “[...] AT&T and Apple agreed that Apple would not take affirmative steps to enable an iPhone to use AT&T’s wireless service (including 2G, 3G and Wi-Fi) to make VoIP calls without first obtaining AT&T’s consent. AT&T and Apple also agreed, however, that if a third party enables an iPhone to make VoIP calls using AT&T’s wireless service, Apple would have no obligation to take action against that third party,” an excerpt from the document reads, according to ZDNet. “The parties’ concurrence on this p!
rovision was particularly important in light of the risks the parties assumed in bringing the iPhone to market.” “[...] The parties’ willingness and ability to assume the risk of their investments in the iPhone and of their pricing strategy were predicated, in significant part, on certain assumptions about the mo...
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Pingie: HTTP:: A List Stars Are Losing All Box Office Appeal Report Says

HTTP:: A List Stars Are Losing All Box Office Appeal Report Says
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Just a couple of years ago, the names on movie posters were sometimes enough to sell tickets and pack large theaters with fans, not just for the premiere weekend, but throughout the entire theatrical run of a film. These days, moviegoers are easier and easier deterred from coming out of the house to go and catch a film in theaters, which translates into A-listers losing their hold of the box-office, a recent piece in the New York Times says. Spring and summer numbers reveal that most household names have taken a serious hit in terms of popularity in recent months, which inevitably leads to the question of whether the same will happen to Brad Pitt, whose latest film, the Tarantino R-rated “Inglourious Basterds,” opened this Friday. As the likes of Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, John Travolta, Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler no longer have the power to command many millions' worth of sales in the opening weekend, studios are beco!
ming increasingly worried about the situation, trying to find a way out. So what will happen to “Basterds,” the NY Times asks, when the entire marketing campaign for the film has been centered on Pitt? Or, more importantly, what is it that makes it that A-list stars, the crème de la crème o...
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Pingie: HTTP:: China says climate talks stymied by political interests

HTTP:: China says climate talks stymied by political interests
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Little progress has been made so far on a new pact to combat global warming, with "commercial and political interests" continuing to prevail, China's senior climate change official said on Monday.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: Endoscopic Robot Treats Thyroid Cancer

HTTP:: Endoscopic Robot Treats Thyroid Cancer
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With an estimated 37,000 new patients every year, thyroid cancer is among the leading types of the terrible disease. Treating it most often implies removing parts of the thyroid gland, or even the entire formation, and this is usually done through a three- to five-inch incision in the front of the neck. Now, a new method may soon make this course of treatment obsolete. The robot-assisted, minimally invasive endoscopic technique works faster, better, and more aesthetically pleasing than surgery. The new method was devised at the Yonsei University College of Medicine, in Seoul, South Korea, and experts there have already used it on some 200 patients, with optimal results. Details of how it functions are published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. This is not the first time robots are used for treating variations of the disease. In fact, the method is fairly widespread in courses of treatment aimed at other types of cancer, but the delica!
te anatomical layout of the neck and the head have prevented the use of such methods in these areas for a long time. The new method also has several advantages over existing surgical techniques. For instance, the robots provide a 3D view of the area that is being operated on, and also filter out unwanted hand motions that inexperienced or tir...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Sources CIA report alleges prisoner abuse

CNN.C: Sources CIA report alleges prisoner abuse
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CIA interrogators threatened an al Qaeda prisoner with a gun and an electric drill to try to scare him into giving up information, according to a long-concealed inspector-general's report due to be made public on Monday, sources familiar with the report confirmed.
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Pingie: CNN.C: Deadly Hurricane Bill heads to Canada

CNN.C: Deadly Hurricane Bill heads to Canada
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Hurricane Bill's center was expected to pass near or over southeastern Nova Scotia, Canada, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Greek fire slows as winds abate

HTTP:: Greek fire slows as winds abate
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Firefighters get respite but officials warn blaze still threatening areas near Athens.
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Pingie: CNN.C: Suspect in models murder found dead

CNN.C: Suspect in models murder found dead
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Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a reality TV contestant suspected in his wife's slaying in California, was found dead in a hotel in British Columbia, Canadian authorities announced.
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Pingie: CNN.C: New photo shows healthier Fidel Castro

CNN.C: New photo shows healthier Fidel Castro
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A new photo of ailing Cuban Communist leader Fidel Castro surfaced on Sunday -- the second in 10 days -- revealing a more healthy-looking man than in prior photos.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Tree cover far bigger than expected on farms study

HTTP:: Tree cover far bigger than expected on farms study
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OSLO (Reuters) - Almost half of the world's farmland has at least 10 percent tree cover, according to a study on Monday indicating that farmers are far less destructive to carbon-storing forests than previously believed.n n
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Pingie: TORRE: ISP Friendly BitTorrent Tracker Doubles Download Speeds

TORRE: ISP Friendly BitTorrent Tracker Doubles Download Speeds
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A new Open Source BitTorrent tracker set to be released in September promises to boost download speeds by up to 150% and decrease the load BitTorrent users put on ISP networks by 20 to 50 percent. Based on the widely used OpenTracker software, the new BitTorrent tracker aims to overcome many of BitTorrent's current limitations.
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