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This is on the website of Republican Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas who, oddly enough, is running for reelection shortly. It’s one of the milder anti-Dem, anti-Obama things I have a feeling we’re going to be pummeled with in the coming months. Personally, I’d rather hear Repubs present positive, constructive plans for doing something (anything?) rather than ‘Party of No’, negative attacks on Obama.
As for health care, I wonder if we’ll see this sort of thing here.
Melbourne, August 3 : If you love dairy products, it’s time for you to rejoice – a new study claims that not only they are harmless, they may even cut down risk of cardiovascular-related death. The Australian study by Dr Jolieke van der Pols from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) said that certain fats in dairy might be protective for cardiovascular disease.
“We found that people with the highest intake of full-fat dairy had 70% less chance of death by heart disease or stroke than those who had the lowest intake of full-fat dairy,” van der Pols said.“It is possible that milk fat may contain nutrients that counteract the expected negative effects of the saturated fat in dairy products,” van der Pols added.
Will this sort of thing ever end?
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – A town on New York’s Long Island is using Google Earth to find backyard pools that don’t have the proper permits. The town of Riverhead has used the satellite image service to find about 250 pools whose owners never filled out the required paperwork.
Violators were told to get the permits or face hefty fines. So far about $75,000 in fees has been collected. Riverhead’s chief building inspector Leroy Barnes Jr. said the unpermitted pools were a safety concern. He said that without the required inspections there was no way to know whether the pools’ plumbing, electrical work and fencing met state and local regulations. “Pool safety has always been my concern,” Barnes said.
But some privacy advocates say the use of Google Earth to find scofflaw swimming pools reeks of Big Brother. Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., said Google Earth was promoted as an aid to curious travelers but has become a tool for cash-hungry local governments.
I am beginning to hate Google. Before you gloat you might want to check your local zoning ordinance before you build little Tommy’s tree house, or Fido’s luxury dog hotel.
CNN tech
Lucasfilm Ltd. is backing away from the threat of legal action over a powerful handheld laser it had argued is too similar to the science-fiction franchise’s iconic lightsaber.
In June, Lucas sent a cease-and-desist letter to Wicked Lasers, demanding that it change or stop selling the latest model in its Pro Arctic Laser series.
“We are aware that, during this time you have made several statements to the media insisting that your product is not intended to resemble a lightsaber and is not marketed by your company as either a lightsaber or as having any connection with ‘Star Wars’ or Lucasfilm,” reads a letter dated July 27 and provided to CNN.com.
The potential for confusion is now “significantly reduced,” according to the letter.
“We appreciate the clarifying public comments that you have made,” Lucasfilm said in the most recent letter, from attorney David J. Anderman. “We have noted that apparently in response to your public comments the press coverage has changed since we issued our cease and desist notice.”
But the company repeated a claim that the laser is unsafe, calling it a “highly dangerous product.”
Wait until someone’s eye gets put out.
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In a letter to Wikipedia (PDF) dated July 22 and posted by The New York Times, the FBI demanded that its official seal be removed from a Wikipedia article about the FBI because the agency had not approved use of the image.
“The FBI has not authorized use of the FBI seal on Wikipedia,” the letter said. “The inclusion of a high quality graphic of the FBI seal on Wikipedia is particularly problematic, because it facilitates both deliberate and unwitting” copying and reprinting of the FBI’s seal.
The letter goes on to threaten legal action if its demand is ignored: “Failure to comply may result in further legal action. We appreciate your timely attention to this matter.”
Cindy Cohn, the legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Times that Wikipedia has a First Amendment right to display the seal with the accompanying article and called the dispute “silly” and “troubling.”
You can see Wikipedia’s FBI official seal image here. It’s definitely high-res and so far, they haven’t taken it down.
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Or are the Japanese less reliant on antidepressants because they consume a lot of soy sauce and fish sauce which tend to have a high salt content?
Physiologist Alan Johnson of the University of Iowa found that sodium-deprived rats take less pleasure in daily activities – they can’t be bothered to drag themselves across the cage to push a bar that releases a dose of sugar water.…But let the rats have salt again and “they’re all happy” Johnson said.
Very low sodium in rats, humans, and other land animals may induce something similar to depression—and that eating more salt may make us happier, Johnson thinks. He points to one study of people with chronic fatigue syndrome. Many of the patients were found to have reduced their sodium intake for health reasons. Increasing sodium in their diets alleviated many of the patients’ symptoms.
The Wall Street Journal
The online habits of most people who use the world’s dominant Web browser are an open book to advertisers. That wasn’t the plan at first.
In early 2008, Microsoft Corp.’s product planners for the Internet Explorer 8.0 browser intended to give users a simple, effective way to avoid being tracked online. They wanted to design the software to automatically thwart common tracking tools, unless a user deliberately switched to settings affording less privacy.
That triggered heated debate inside Microsoft. As the leading maker of Web browsers, the gateway software to the Internet, Microsoft must balance conflicting interests: helping people surf the Web with its browser to keep their mouse clicks private, and helping advertisers who want to see those clicks.
In the end, the product planners lost a key part of the debate. The winners: executives who argued that giving automatic privacy to consumers would make it tougher for Microsoft to profit from selling online ads. Microsoft built its browser so that users must deliberately turn on privacy settings every time they start up the software.
Found by Cinàedh.
This is one large image, to say the least.
Yes, an unused Microsoft Bob Frisbee was buried in one of my closets. Wow. Priceless collectible. Yes?
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A Wisconsin woman who thought she had landed a job shipping clothing to Russian orphans inadvertently found herself at the center of an international weapons smuggling ring, unwittingly sending stolen sniper scopes, night-vision goggles and military gear to Russia, according to police.
Police say the woman, who received the work-from-home job offer through a Website, was likely a patsy in a scheme to ship sensitive equipment purchased with stolen credit cards…
“If ‘ABC Arms Dealer’ in California sends a package with a rifle scope directly to Russia that is going to raise a red flag and likely get stopped and searched,” Capt. Bill Wallner of the Ripon Police Department told ABC News.com. “But a package being sent from a private citizen in Wisconsin might not get searched. That’s why they were using her. They were paying her to change the packaging and address labels.”
Har!
The industry has also argued that sugar is sugar.
Heaney said his team found otherwise. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose.
Tumor cells thrive on sugar but they used the fructose to proliferate. “Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different,” Heaney’s team wrote.
“I think this paper has a lot of public health implications. Hopefully, at the federal level there will be some effort to step back on the amount of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in our diets,” Heaney said in a statement.
The evidence keeps mounting against HFCS. The corn lobby made this happen. Vegetarians and Vegans eat a diet high in fructose and HFCS..
- Social media sucking up most of people’s time online.
- Email fading.
- Android sales topping iPhone in sales. The crossover should stick. But therein lies the rub.
- Dvorak’s advice: do not drop an iPhone4.
- Meanwhile, a new easy jailbreak is available.
- Motorola Droid updated this week.
- MSFT does early patch for shortcut flaw.
- Win 7 passes Vista.
- Kindle is sold out.
Right click here and select ‘Save Link As…’ to download the mp3 file.
AppleInsider
A hacker who uses the handle “comex,” a member of the iPhone Dev Team, released the hack through a website, jailbreakme.com. Users can visit the site in their iPhone browser to begin the jailbreaking process.
The software modification is the first release for Apple’s latest handset hardware, the iPhone 4. Some users reported that the jailbreak managed to break FaceTime and MMS functionality on the device.
Comex, via twitter, said that he was able to reproduce the issues, and is working on a fix. The latest jailbreak does not work with iPads running iOS 3.2.1.
Unlike previous jailbreaks, which required users to run software on their Mac or PC and tether their iPhone to their computer, the latest hack is done entirely within the Safari browser. Users simply visit the URL to begin the process, which modifies the iOS mobile operating system found on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Apparently, the demand for ‘Jailbreak’ is so large that the site (JailbreakMe.com) is severely congested.
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