Sports gaming takes a major leap forward with daily roster updates that affect the outcome of plays
- 9月 18 週四 200823:18
So Long, Tecmo Bowl
Sports gaming takes a major leap forward with daily roster updates that affect the outcome of plays
- 9月 18 週四 200816:20
Google Android rumored to cost $199
The first mobile phone to use Google's Android mobile operating software will cost $199, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday.
The phone, which features a slide-out keypad, is being manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corp and will be sold by Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA unit, which plans to unveil the device at an event in New York on September 23.
AT&T Inc., the only U.S. operator selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone, set the price of the latest version at $199 in July, setting a benchmark for smartphones that can surf the Web, manage email and other multimedia features.
- 9月 18 週四 200814:22
Exotic animals hidden in hotel
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- 9月 17 週三 200820:59
health
Who's affected?
IBS is the most common gut condition and affects one in five people at some time, mostly people aged between 25 and 45. Women are more often affected than men.
Although the exact cause is unknown, and it isn't possible to prevent IBS from developing, there are certain things that trigger attacks and so should be avoided, including stress, irregular mealtimes and, in some cases, a lack of dietary fibre. Some people develop IBS following gut infections and food poisoning.
- 9月 17 週三 200816:51
'Climate crisis' needs brain gain
By Jonathan Amos
Science reporter, BBC News,
- 9月 17 週三 200800:57
Double trouble for Nepal's tigers
Conservationists in Nepal say efforts to save the nation's dwindling tiger populations are facing a twin attack.
They have recorded a significant decrease in the number of the endangered species in some of the protected areas of the country.
- 9月 17 週三 200800:57
Double trouble for Nepal's tigers
Conservationists in Nepal say efforts to save the nation's dwindling tiger populations are facing a twin attack.
They have recorded a significant decrease in the number of the endangered species in some of the protected areas of the country.
- 9月 16 週二 200820:26
Colossal Squid Revealed
Strange facts about the ocean’s most mysterious creature
- 9月 16 週二 200819:54
Nerd on Nerd Cyber-Violence
Hackers attack LHC network. Is computer geeks/physicists the new Jets/Sharks?
I'm in Ur System, Greeking Ur Site: Photo by Telegraph
Last Wednesday, after years of construction and months of planning, the Large Hadron Collider, which you just might have heard about, turned on its proton beam for the first time. At the same time, a team of Greek hackers was planning to break through the security of the world’s largest experiments. First reported by the British newspaper the Telegraph, the attack targeted a project website, defacing the website with a long message in Greek.
"Overall, it wasn't very dramatic,” said LHC spokesman James Gillies, “One person's account was compromised. It was detected rather rapidly and dealt with, and it was nowhere near the sensitive machines running the LHC."
The hackers, who called themselves the “Greek Security Team”, attacked a website related to the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment. The website, which Gillies would neither confirm nor deny to be password-protected, relayed data from the experiment and was not designed for public view. Since the attack, the website has been moved within the same firewall protection that protects more important systems.
While the hackers did fail to damage any programs critical to the operation of the LHC, it is not clear whether or not that was their intention in the first place. The Greek message that replaced the website claimed that the attack was conducted to alert the security personal at the LHC to the vulnerability of the system before more malicious hackers could do actual damage. To this end, the hackers actually succeeded, as the LHC has since tightened up its online security.
"We are 10,000 scientists, 500 institutions, 80 countries, and network security is something we take seriously,” said Gillies, “this kind of thing keeps us on our toes."
Yet despite their claims of magnanimity, the hackers almost certainly launched their attack for publicity. Penetrating a computer system run by the world’s foremost scientific minds is akin to winning the Kentucky Derby on a mule, and the hackers sent out a press release about the attack to several journalists to publicize their attack.
In the end, the attack just became another story distracting from the activation of the proton beam. Reports of the hacker attack, along with similar news stories about the possibility of the LHC instantaneously destroying the world, took up almost as much space as stories about the successful test of the machinery. However, since the world was not destroyed and the defaced website is back up, maybe the reporting will begin to focus on the physics again.
- 9月 16 週二 200819:34
Mission to the North Pole
In anticipation of opened oil wells beneath the melting arctic, an ownership-mapping mission makes its way across the seabed
Ever since Russia planted a flag under the North Pole last year, the issue of sovereign rights under an increasingly slushy arctic has tensed. In a race to claim ownership of some of the arctic seabed, a two-ship caravan of Canadian and U.S. scientists is sailing around the Arctic Ocean right now. Their mission, which will last from September 6th to October 1st, is to measure the seabed and the continental margins in an attempt to solidify our possible rights over the far north—an area that will become accessible to oil drilling and mining as the earth warms and arctic ice melts.
PopSci reported a few months ago on a map from Durham University researchers, showing the complicated web of conflicting arctic claims. At least six nations could own part of the arctic. Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (what a mouthful), nations own the rights 200 meters out from the edge of their continental shelf—not the exposed coast, but the undersea lip of the continent. Unfortunately, there is no geophysical consensus on where those shelf edges are, hence this joint voyage.
The U.S. ship, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy will use a multi-beam echo sounder to map the sea floor, sending out sound pulses, which return at different times depending on the depth. The Canadian ship, the Louis S. St. Laurent will follow doing complementary measurements of the sub-sea floor. The hope is that the whole of the arctic does not in fact belong to Russia, and that we, or Canada might own a piece of the pie as well. Go team.
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U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy : Photo by NOAA
Ever since Russia planted a flag under the North Pole last year, the issue of sovereign rights under an increasingly slushy arctic has tensed. In a race to claim ownership of some of the arctic seabed, a two-ship caravan of Canadian and U.S. scientists is sailing around the Arctic Ocean right now. Their mission, which will last from September 6th to October 1st, is to measure the seabed and the continental margins in an attempt to solidify our possible rights over the far north—an area that will become accessible to oil drilling and mining as the earth warms and arctic ice melts.
PopSci reported a few months ago on a map from Durham University researchers, showing the complicated web of conflicting arctic claims. At least six nations could own part of the arctic. Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (what a mouthful), nations own the rights 200 meters out from the edge of their continental shelf—not the exposed coast, but the undersea lip of the continent. Unfortunately, there is no geophysical consensus on where those shelf edges are, hence this joint voyage.
The U.S. ship, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Healy will use a multi-beam echo sounder to map the sea floor, sending out sound pulses, which return at different times depending on the depth. The Canadian ship, the Louis S. St. Laurent will follow doing complementary measurements of the sub-sea floor. The hope is that the whole of the arctic does not in fact belong to Russia, and that we, or Canada might own a piece of the pie as well. Go team.
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