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Estonian ISP cuts off control servers for Srizbi botnet
An Estonian Internet service provider that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, which is responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts. Starline Web Services, based in Estonia's ...
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Update: Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks
The terrorists who attacked various locations in southern Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks. Investigations by the Mumbai police, including the interrogation of one captured terrorist, suggest that ...
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U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025
A U.S. government intelligence agency thinks robots may be so capable by 2025 that questions such as "Would you like fries with that?" may be uttered by a smiling machine at the order counter. In a report titled "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" that was released last week, the National ...
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They're robots, but not as we know them
Robots with genes and robots that can change their shape were among research presented at the 15th ICONIP (International Conference on Neuro-Information Processing), hosted by AUT University’s Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI), in Auckland last week. Applied in real ...
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Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31
Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers - the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack - isn't changing. But the chemicals ...
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Update: Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Will India and other nations restrict access or "munge" maps (as the USSR did)? Never mind that tourist maps could just have well been used ... -
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U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008This is Computer World's gee-whiz summation of the report, whose primary link has already been posted by others to Twine ... for instance at http://www.twine.com/item/11ncnp5bs-p/global-trends-2025-a-transformed-world -
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Antioxidants are unlikely to prevent aging, study suggests
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Whoa Nellie! If this proves to be true (antioxidant aging improvement theory debunked!), how much money, research, and hope will have turned out to be wasted on antioxidants? How many pharma and health supplement companies that specialize in that "therapy" will suffer or even go under? -
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It's Official: U.S. In Yearlong Recession, Economy Fell Into Recession In December 2007, National Bureau Of Economic Research Says - CBS News
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Amazing, isn't it that during an election year the current administration and its party's candidate couldn't figure this out? Oh yeah - the economy was "fundamentally sound". Self-serving blindness, incompetence, or basically just "asleep at the wheel"?
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Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31