Jan. 10th, 2005
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Jan. 10th, 2005 11:28 am
A giant ridge girdles Saturn's satellite Iapetus - making the moon look like a walnut shell - reveal the latest images from the Cassini-Huygens mission. Scientists are at a loss to explain the feature, which is unique in the solar system.
The Cassini spacecraft flew past Iapetus on New Year's Day, approaching to within 123,400 kilometres of the moon's surface. Its camera captured the most detailed images of Iapetus yet, revealing wisps of dark material and two-tone craters. But the ridge is the greatest surprise to scientists.
It extends for at least 1300 km, following the equator exactly. In places the ridge breaks into mountains at least 13 km high - far taller than Mount Everest on Earth and among the highest known on any world.
Perched atop a fairly amateurish model tank made from cardboard, the shapely young woman wears a comical dinosaur mask - and nothing else!
Sounds like some sort of warped kiddies show, right? Wrong! In fact, this woman in the mask like Barney is making beds rock, and the filthy film she's appearing in will reach its climax as her male co-star makes her dinosaur mask glisten with the rubble from his flint stone.
The woman is, starring in "Kyoryu Sensha," what could probably be called a Dinosaur Tank fetish flick, one of the growing number of freaky flesh fads now sweeping through Japan.
Sounds like some sort of warped kiddies show, right? Wrong! In fact, this woman in the mask like Barney is making beds rock, and the filthy film she's appearing in will reach its climax as her male co-star makes her dinosaur mask glisten with the rubble from his flint stone.
The woman is, starring in "Kyoryu Sensha," what could probably be called a Dinosaur Tank fetish flick, one of the growing number of freaky flesh fads now sweeping through Japan.
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Jan. 10th, 2005 12:28 pmFundie loon attempts to stop sex education in California
on the grounds that it's a "recruiting ground" for homosexuals, necrophiliacs, peophiles, furries, and other undesirables.
If his proposition goes on the ballot in Walnut Creek and is passed, no information on sex could be presented in school other than through individual confidential counselling with the school psychologist or a police officer.
on the grounds that it's a "recruiting ground" for homosexuals, necrophiliacs, peophiles, furries, and other undesirables.
If his proposition goes on the ballot in Walnut Creek and is passed, no information on sex could be presented in school other than through individual confidential counselling with the school psychologist or a police officer.
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Jan. 10th, 2005 01:23 pmNew IE exploit will affect even a fully-patched XP SP2 system with no user intervention.
You can download the fix for this problem Here.
You can download the fix for this problem Here.
Looks like they've found R'lyeh
Jan. 10th, 2005 01:35 pmAmerican Los Angeles class attack sub runs aground - in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 350 miles from the nearest land mass.
University of Toronto scientists have invented spray-on solar panels - that are approximately five times as efficient as the best existing solar panels.
Ted Sargent, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university, and other researchers combined specially-designed minute particles called quantum dots, three to four nanometres across, with a polymer to make a plastic that can detect energy in the infrared.
Sargent said the new plastic composite is, in layman's terms, a layer of film that "catches'' solar energy. He said the film can be applied to any device, much like paint is coated on a wall.
The film can convert up to 30 per cent of the sun's power into usable, electrical energy. Today's best plastic solar cells capture only about six per cent.
Ted Sargent, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university, and other researchers combined specially-designed minute particles called quantum dots, three to four nanometres across, with a polymer to make a plastic that can detect energy in the infrared.
Sargent said the new plastic composite is, in layman's terms, a layer of film that "catches'' solar energy. He said the film can be applied to any device, much like paint is coated on a wall.
The film can convert up to 30 per cent of the sun's power into usable, electrical energy. Today's best plastic solar cells capture only about six per cent.
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Jan. 10th, 2005 04:12 pmA 20-year anecdotal history of USENET.
It's telling, and sad, that the first mass crossposted spam was both religious in nature AND quoting the King James Bible heavily.
It's telling, and sad, that the first mass crossposted spam was both religious in nature AND quoting the King James Bible heavily.
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Jan. 10th, 2005 05:53 pmScientists say they have uncovered an important clue to understanding the origins of the Aids epidemic.
They have pinpointed crucial differences in a gene found in rhesus monkeys that can prevent HIV infection, and its human counterpart, that cannot.
It appears that only a single change to the human gene is needed to enable it to block HIV infection.
The scientists say their work indicates that HIV would not have become established in the human population if mankind carried the same version of the gene found in rhesus monkeys.
Lead researcher Dr Jonathan Stoye said: "This discovery has significant implications for the development of effective gene therapy to combat Aids.
"In theory, it should be possible to take cells from an HIV-infected individual, make them resistant to HIV infection with the modified gene and reintroduce them into the patient. These cells could then block progression to Aids.
"Alternatively we could seek for drugs that activate the human gene against HIV."
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Warren Ellis' headline upon seeing this article: "Filthy Gene-Hoarding Monkeys Doom Human Race"
I love Warren Ellis.
They have pinpointed crucial differences in a gene found in rhesus monkeys that can prevent HIV infection, and its human counterpart, that cannot.
It appears that only a single change to the human gene is needed to enable it to block HIV infection.
The scientists say their work indicates that HIV would not have become established in the human population if mankind carried the same version of the gene found in rhesus monkeys.
Lead researcher Dr Jonathan Stoye said: "This discovery has significant implications for the development of effective gene therapy to combat Aids.
"In theory, it should be possible to take cells from an HIV-infected individual, make them resistant to HIV infection with the modified gene and reintroduce them into the patient. These cells could then block progression to Aids.
"Alternatively we could seek for drugs that activate the human gene against HIV."
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Warren Ellis' headline upon seeing this article: "Filthy Gene-Hoarding Monkeys Doom Human Race"
I love Warren Ellis.
People comment that I post a lot. Here's how to keep reading me without letting me swamp your friends page, because I *like* using this thing as a brain dump.
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=102
"If you create a custom friends group named "Default View", visiting your standard Friends page will display only entries from members of the "Default View" group. To see entries from all of your friends, you would need to visit http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/friends/?filter=0. "
Go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/friends/filter.bml
Create a "Default View" group. Add everyone but me (and any other large-volume posters you want to filter) to it.
Voila. Friends page without the volume people, by default.
Create a "WeaselsAreTheGreatestOfAllMammals" group. Add me and any other, lesser high-volume posters to it.
Go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/modify.bml
And add a link on your Friends page to here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/friends/WeaselsAreTheGreatestOfAllMammals
Poof! Now, your Friends page shows everyone but the high-volume people, by default, and then you have a clickable link to pop up all the high-volume people, too, on their own page. If you want no filters at all, hit the one linked above.
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=102
"If you create a custom friends group named "Default View", visiting your standard Friends page will display only entries from members of the "Default View" group. To see entries from all of your friends, you would need to visit http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/friends/?filter=0. "
Go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/friends/filter.bml
Create a "Default View" group. Add everyone but me (and any other large-volume posters you want to filter) to it.
Voila. Friends page without the volume people, by default.
Create a "WeaselsAreTheGreatestOfAllMammals" group. Add me and any other, lesser high-volume posters to it.
Go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/modify.bml
And add a link on your Friends page to here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/friends/WeaselsAreTheGreatestOfAllMammals
Poof! Now, your Friends page shows everyone but the high-volume people, by default, and then you have a clickable link to pop up all the high-volume people, too, on their own page. If you want no filters at all, hit the one linked above.