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| Posted by Kanzen on 09:19 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Cyber attack preceded invasion: Georgia's Web infrastructure hit, but was it Russia? News item submitted by ev1l0ne. Weeks before physical bombs started falling on Georgia, a security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the country in cyberspace. Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks in Lexington noticed a stream of data directed at Georgian government sites containing the message: win +love+in+Rusia. Other Internet experts in the United States said the attacks against Georgia's Internet infrastructure began as early as July 20, with coordinated barrages of millions of requests — known as distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attacks — that overloaded cer... (More) |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:18 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Burger King worker who bathed in kitchen sink all washed up News item submitted by t0ne. What a whopper! A teenage Burger King worker and his buddies were fired after he celebrated his birthday by taking a bubble bath in an oversized sink at the fast food joint in Ohio. "It's my birthday and I'm taking a bath in the sink at Burger King," the teen goofs in a four-minute MySpace video. "Somebody bring me a beer!" A grumpy county health official wasn't amused. "It's a sophomoric, childish stunt," Mark McDonnell told reporters. "The biggest problem we had with it was the potential for food equipment contamination." |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:18 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland News item submitted by Tarquin. GENEVA (AFP) - A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday. The art work, titled "Complex S(expletive..)", is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner. For the full article, check the source.... (More) |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:18 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Aussies crack cancer secret AUSTRALIAN scientists are hoping to cure leukaemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis after their breakthrough discovery of how to stop killer blood cells growing. The team has unlocked the secrets behind the protein which controls the way the blood cancer cells spread when it is damaged - and have found a way to stop its deadly process. Work is now starting to design a drug to prevent the damaged proteins operating, effectively stopping the cancer as well as asthma and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. After spending a decade uncovering the structure of the receptor protein, which ... (More) |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:17 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Danielsville man with homemade vibrator arrested on drug charges A deputy investigating a call about a broken windshield arrested a Danielsville man on a variety of drug charges this week. Charlie Van Wilkes Jr., 31, was charged with Violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act (VGCSA), possession of tools for the commission of a crime and dangerous drugs. Deputy Timothy Nix drove to the home of Charlie Wilkes Jr. on Hudson River Church Road Monday to investigate a report that someone’s windshield had been broken by a large object that reportedly fell off a work truck. According to the incident report, as Nix got out of his patrol car, he noticed that Wilk... (More) |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:17 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Ikea to start selling solar panels. Eponymous big-box colossus IKEA has shown some great green developments lately, from flat-pack bike trailers to eco-friendly lines of housewares. Now the patent purveyor of all things flat-pack has announced plans to invest $77 million into its GreenTech energy fund with the goal of eventually producing solar panels, efficiency meters, and energy efficient lighting. Granted its massive distribution network, IKEA’s uptake of green tech could pose a monumental shift in the accessibility and affordability of these technologies. As far as big-box retailers go, it’s hard to dispute the sphere of influence that IKEA casts over the wo... (More) |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:17 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Hackers hacked at infamous DefCon gathering In the end, it was hackers at DefCon that got hacked. After three days of software cracking duels and hacking seminars, self-described computer ninjas at the infamous gathering in Las Vegas found out Sunday that their online activities were hijacked without them catching on. A standing-room crowd cheered admiringly as Tony Kapela and Alex Pilosov showed them how they were "pwned" by a simple technique that could be used to "steal the Internet." "Pwned" is popular computer and video game culture slang playing off the word "owned" and is used to describe someone being totally dominated or humiliated online or in-game. |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:16 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Polar bear eaten by shark: who's top predator? OSLO (Reuters) - Already threatened by a thaw of ice around the North Pole, the polar bear's title as the top Arctic predator may under challenge from a shark. Scientists researching how far sharks hunt seals in the Arctic were stunned in June to find part of the jaw of a young polar bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark, a species that favors polar waters. "We've never heard of this before. We don't know how it got there," Kit Kovacs, of the Norwegian Polar Institute, told Reuters of the 10 cm (4 inch) bone found in a shark off the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. "We can't say whether... (More) |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:16 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Radio Signal Detected from Beyond Solar System On the evening of 28th July 2008, at 21h14 local time the Indlebe Radio Telescope, situated on the Steve Biko campus of the Durban University of Technology, successfully detected its first radio source from beyond the solar system. A strong source was detected from Sagittarius A, the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 30 thousand light years away. It should be noted that this is not an intelligent source, i.e. it is not a source that could be considered as having been transmitted by alien intelligence. Furthermore, it is certainly not a new discovery. The electromagnetic radiation emanating from Sagittarius A is well... (More) |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:15 PM 08/13/2008 |
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New Material Could Make Objects Invisible Scientists have taken another step toward the goal of rendering objects invisible using high-tech cloaks that redirect light. Researchers for the first time demonstrated that a new material can bend visible light the wrong way in three dimensional tests. It builds on research that cloaks objects in the microwave wavelength. The research, announced today, will be detailed later this week in the journals Nature and Science. The metamaterial, as it is called, produces what's known as negative refraction of visible light. That means light is made to travel in the opposite direction from how it normally... (More) |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:15 PM 08/13/2008 |
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Cloned puppies may have exposed 31 - year mystery SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She's the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave. Dog lover Bernann McKinney acknowledged in a telephone call to The Associated Press on Saturday that she is indeed Joyce McKinney, who in 1977 became a British tabloid sensation when she faced charges of unlawful imprisonment in the missionary case. She jumped bail and was never brought to justice. ... (More) |
| Posted by Kanzen on 09:15 PM 08/13/2008 |
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New gene technique 'stops HIV in its tracks' HIV can be stopped dead in its tracks using a revolutionary technique for "silencing" genes, a study has shown. The discovery raises the possibility of a treatment for HIV that does not involve potentially toxic anti-viral drugs. Scientists have found that RNA interference – where genes are artificially silenced using a natural molecular switch in the cell – can inhibit the replication of HIV in human blood cells. Professor Premlata Shankar of Texas Tech University, who carried out the work when she was at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said: "RNA interference has great potential as an antiviral treatment... W... (More) |