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Found by Misanthropic Scott.
- MSFT tablet looks like a reader. Also look for the iREX reader.
- Nintendo dropping price of Wii.
- Google doing something dumb. Hear about it here.
- India finds water on the moon.
- South Korea allows iPhone.
- Intel developers forum underway. Lots of hot products.
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A federal judge ruled on Monday that the USDA failed to adequately assess the environmental impact of Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) sugar beets before introducing them into the food supply.
The CFS has expressed concern that GM beet pollen could contaminate non-GM and organic crops because sugarbeets are wind pollinated.
Where is Adam’s Monsanto clip when you need it?
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Found by Brother Uncle Don
This is my third article in the series from purchasing the phone to evaluating it. I have finally concluded that the phone is unusable and I’m returning it. Basically nothing on this phone works right and I am really disappointed.
Computer World – September 22, 2009:
They aren’t selling personal supercomputers at Best Buy just yet. But that day probably isn’t too far off, as costs continue to fall and supercomputers become easier to use.
Silicon Graphics International Corp. on Monday released its first so-called personal supercomputer. The new Octane III system is priced from $7,995 with one Xeon 5500 processor. The system can be expanded to an 80-core system with a capacity of up to 960GB of memory.
An Octane III with a 10 dual socket, four cores, Xeon L5520 processors, for 80 cores, 240GB of memory and integrated Gigabit Ethernet networking is priced at about $53,000.
This new supercomputer’s peak performance of about 726 GFLOPS won’t put it on the Top500 supercomputer list, but that’s not the point of the machine, SGI says. Rather, a key feature is the system’s ease of use.
This market is mostly “made up of people who typically don’t have HPC experience, and so the transition to these systems has to be easy,” said Conway. He said SGI has a good history of producing systems that work well out of the box.
This embiggens me to take my dusty old SGI 320 Workstation out of the attic for old times’ sake!
So cute.
Tech Dirt – Tue, Sep 22nd 2009:
While other religious and political leaders around the world are busy creating moral panics around violent video games, it appears that one Buddhist leader feels quite differently about them. The third ranking Buddhist, Ogyen Trinley Dorje (and, according to the article, the only Buddhist leader recognized by China, Tibet and India), apparently sees video games as therapeutic and a way to let out aggression:
Well, I view video games as something of an emotional therapy, a mundane level of emotional therapy for me. We all have emotions whether we’re Buddhist practitioners or not, all of us have emotions, happy emotions, sad emotions, displeased emotions and we need to figure out a way to deal with them when they arise.
So, for me sometimes it can be a relief, a kind of decompression to just play some video games. If I’m having some negative thoughts or negative feelings, video games are one way in which I can release that energy in the context of the illusion of the game. I feel better afterwards.
The aggression that comes out in the video game satiates whatever desire I might have to express that feeling. For me, that’s very skillful because when I do that I don’t have to go and hit anyone over the head.
In response, the interviewer asks “shouldn’t meditation take care of that?” to which he replies: “No, video games are just a skillful method.” So, kids, next time some politician says that violent video games are bad, why not point out that one of the most peaceful men in the world uses them to let out some aggression in ways that meditation cannot provide.
“I only use my iPhone for fun.
Wanna play, too?”Forget that Apple has been carefully courting businesses and business users; forget that the iTunes App Store has over 78 pages of business-specific applications. Apple is insisting to one very disappointed Swedish customer, J. Martin Wehlou, that its iPhone Apps aren’t business tools and are not meant for business use.
The incident began when Mr. Wehlou contacted Apple seeking details on how he could deduct taxes on the apps he purchased for his business use. Though the apps were obviously business oriented, Apple perplexingly responded, “The iTunes Store sells only to customers as end-users for personal, noncommercial use.”
Further, Mr. Wehlou complains that Apple told him, “the specific terms of your agreement with Apple when purchasing from the iTunes Store is that the content may not be used for commercial purposes… any attempts to claim your purchases for tax reasons would be in violation of the terms of sale.”
We have all been led to believe that cholesterol is bad and that lowering it is good. Because of extensive pharmaceutical marketing to both doctors and patients we think that using statin drugs is proven to work to lower the risk of heart attacks and death.
But on what scientific evidence is this based, what does that evidence really show?
Roger Williams once said something that is very applicable to how we commonly view the benefits of statins. “There are liars, damn liars, and statisticians.”
Read the article for a list of what statins can and can’t do.
So why did the 2004 National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines expand the previous guidelines to recommend that more people take statins (from 13 million to 40 million) and that people who don’t have heart disease should take them to prevent heart disease. Could it have been that 8 of the 9 experts on the panel who developed these guidelines had financial ties to the drug industry? Thirty-four other non-industry affiliated experts sent a petition to protest the recommendations to the National Institutes of Health saying the evidence was weak. It was like having a fox guard the chicken coop.
 
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Daily Herald | Cops can’t resist a frame or two of Wii bowling — One word: Florida.
LAKELAND, Fla. — Some central Florida police officers may be disciplined after surveillance video caught them playing a Wii video bowling game during a drug raid. Video obtained by WFLA-TV in Tampa shows various officers enthusiastically playing the video game after storming the house near Lakeland armed with a search warrant in March.
Unbeknownst to the officers of the anti-drug task force, video surveillance had been set up in the home of convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco, who was already in custody.
Found by Tom Lothian.
We discussed this a couple of weeks ago when it was making its way through the state legislature. You can read the bill here: Pandemic Response Bill 2028.
If someone can find confirmation that the bill has passed, please leave a link in the comments below.
Courier is a real device, and we’ve heard that it’s in the “late prototype” stage of development. It’s not a tablet, it’s a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They’re connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre.
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