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40440 No.7396   [Reply]

"An experimental transplant of cells into the eyes of patients with failing sight improved vision in most of them, US researchers say.

The retinal cells, taken from aborted foetuses, were implanted into 10 people with retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.

The American Journal of Ophthalmology study found seven had better - although still seriously impaired - vision.

A UK expert said successful retinal transplant is science's "holy grail"."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7501510.stm

>> No.7407  

Awesome news, thanks for posting this.


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33200 No.7398   [Reply]

"Viacom wants to know which videos YouTube employees have watched and uploaded to the site, and Google is refusing to provide that information, CNET News has learned.

This dispute is the reason the two companies, and lawyers representing a group of other copyright holders suing Google, have failed to reach a final agreement on anonymizing personal information belonging to YouTube users, according to two sources close to the situation. "

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9989783-93.html?hhTest=1&tag=nefd.top

>> No.7406  

That's funny. Google had no problem selling us out but when it came to protecting their own asses they told Viacom to kiss off and decided that now would be a good time to try and buddy-buddy with us again.

Best part of the article: YouTube's employee information could prove crucial to Viacom's case against Google, as it could go a long way to proving how much knowledge YouTube has about piracy on the site. If YouTube employees knew what was uploaded to the site--or posted pirated clips themselves--YouTube could lose its protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

I'll go grab some popcorn.


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23775 No.7388   [Reply]

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology detailed a technique that can boost solar cell output and turn colored windows into solar panels.

Published in Science magazine on Friday, the researchers have developed a way to use dyes painted on glass to redirect light.

By pushing light to the edges and filtering it, they can concentrate the light and squeeze more electricity from photovoltaic solar cells."

"By borrowing laser technology, the MIT researchers said they adequately direct and concentrate light to the point where they can boost solar cell output ten-fold."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9988923-54.html

>> No.7392  

Wow, that is pretty damn awesome.


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19218 No.7366   [Reply]

"TOKYO - The Japanese government said Thursday it will support Sony Corp., Sharp Corp. and other domestic companies in joint development of super-thin TVs based on organic light-emitting diodes.

The group will aim to develop a 40-inch OLED display sometime after 2015, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, or NEDO, said in a statement. NEDO is a Japan government agency that promotes research into new technologies.

OLEDs use light-emitting organic compounds similar to those found in fireflies. TVs using OLEDs don't require a backlight and can be made thinner than those based on traditional liquid crystal or plasma displays."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080710/ap_on_hi_te/japan_tv_alliance

>> No.7372  

TITTYSAMB-

wait, nope.

I heard OLEDs are not effective for long-term use, and will start failing after 300 hours of use, or something like that. I had an MP3 player that used OLEDs, and it the screen stopped working after about 8 months of use. Not sure if that's related, as the MP3 I had and the TVs are totally different, but yeah.

>> No.7374  

>>7372

I heard you're a fag, confirm/deny

>> No.7375  

>>7372
"The biggest technical problem for OLEDs is the limited lifetime of the organic materials. In particular, blue OLEDs historically have had a lifetime of around 14,000 hours (5 years at 8 hours a day) when used for flat-panel displays, which is lower than typical lifetime of LCD, LED or PDP technology – each currently rated for about 60,000 hours, depending on manufacturer and model. But in 2007, experimental PLEDs were created which can sustain 400 cd/m² of luminance for over 198,000 hours for green OLEDs and 62,000 hours for blue OLEDs."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oled

>> No.7376  

>>7372

It's actually close to 30,000-50,000 hours of use.

>> No.7386  

Oh. I was mistaken.


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37894 No.7236   [Reply]

"Four Iraqi men say they are suing US military contractors for torturing them while they were detained at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

The men, who were all released without charge, have brought separate lawsuits in four US courts.

One of the men said he was beaten, threatened with dogs and given electric shocks during four years at the prison.

CACI International, one of two companies named in the lawsuits, dismissed the claims as "baseless"."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7482617.stm

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>> No.7290  

No, >>7275. Just, no.

Eye for an eye, and the whole world is blind, man...

>> No.7293  

>>7249

I concur wholeheartedly. How DARE they do such heinous things such as shooting American soldiers!? Don't they realize that's some mother's darling baby boy? Don't they understand that soldier is fighting for our American way of life? I mean, it's not like we invaded their country for no reason and tried to drastically change their way of life. We helped them. We SAVED them. We got rid of the evil Saddam Hussein. Shouldn't they love us? What wouldn't they love about a predominantly Christian country that actively discriminates against their religion in our country coming in and killing their Muslim-supporting leader? Defending their land MY ASS. All they're doing is killing our brave soldiers, and for that these sub-human pigs deserve nothing but torture and death!

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>> No.7304  

Actually, my dad always seems more excited and happy once he finishes watching some fox news, especially the Bill O'Reilly show, or whatever.

>> No.7318  

'homeland security' - term gains popularity within circa 1930's nazi propaganda media to justify installment of security state (police) that would become Adolf and the Third Reich. Homeland defined by the furher was sorta geographically all of the world. new world order
naturally follows, somebody pull my finger?

>> No.7362  

>>7293

All they have to do is stop being terrorists. It wouldn't kill them to do so. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa & Vaclav Havel never resorted to violence, and look at what THEY did?

Terrorism FAILS every time.

>> No.7364  

>>7362

That's quite a revolutionary thought. Stop being terrorists.

Durr, they are not going to stop being terrorists.

Uh-oh, looks like we're back to square one.

>> No.7367  

>>7364

But then, moronic terrorists never learn from their mistakes. Probably why they've never succeeded. And they never will. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel et al however...

>> No.7369  

>>7367
But they didn't die and get 72 virgins.

>> No.7377  
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>>7369

>But they didn't die and get 72 virgins.

Only morons believe in religious superstitions. Atheists DON'T.


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26346 No.7355   [Reply]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that he sees no possibility of a war between his country and the United States or Israel.

He also predicted Israel would collapse without Iranian action.

"I assure you that there won't be any war in the future," Ahmadinejad told a news conference during a visit to Malaysia for a summit of developing Muslim nations.

The Israelis "are a complex political group, but you should know this regime will be eventually destroyed and there is no need of any measure by Iranian people," he said when asked to comment on whether he has called for the destruction of Israel.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820899,00.html

>> No.7356  

if there is a war with iran, i have a feeling itll be more of a join-coalition style (like the gulf war) than a repeat of iraq. or maybe it's the hope of a deluded fool that it will turn out that way

>> No.7360  

>>7356
Problem is, who would want to join? Who would want to send troops to fight when they got nothing out of it?

>> No.7361  

>>7355

MyMood ImMadInTheHead: A legend in his own mind.

>> No.7363  

If the US went to war with Iran, it would probably be the first legitimate war in a very long time.

By legitimate I mean without money being the motivation to go to war.

Unless Iran has a lot of opium farms I don't know about, which is entirely possible.

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>>7356
A coalition of the 50 United States, perhaps. Is anyone out there STUPID enough to get into a war with Iran?
I mean anyone ELSE stupid enough?
>>7363 without money being the motivation to go to war.
If money != oil, then maybe you could say that.

>> No.7373  

>>7370

Well, drugs is also a thing that THE MAN looks for in his potential enemy's list of assets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lucas_(drug_lord)

This guy took advantage of that, during the Vietnam war. He made tons of cash. Same shit's happening today, but on lesser scales, and the people that do it never seem to get caught/punished, it's all part of the status quo... It's no conspiracy, it's just people with power taking advantage of the natural order of things on the streets.

Also, my name has nothing to do with Frank Lucas, just putting that out there.


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29352 No.7326   [Reply]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2261307/Toddlers-who-dislike-spicy-food-racist%2C-say-report.html

Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency.

The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

>> No.7357  

And the Brits fail again....

>> No.7359  

>>7357

Let's see you eat Oysters, Frogs' Legs, Sheeps' Eyes etc without saying 'YUK!' then? Besides, such cases wouldn't go to court anyway (a waste of time & money, to say nothing of the press outcry. And said 'guidance' isn't legally enforceable anyway).

>> No.7368  

>>7359
Molest me not with your apologetics. This is fucking ridiculous and they shouldn't be trying to infer ANYTHING from a person's dietary preferences, least of all children who don't have fully developed pallets.

>> No.7371  

hurr durr what's commen sence hurr?

>> No.7381  

Oh Torygraph...


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7803 No.7365   [Reply]

"Police in the US have uncovered cocaine with a street value of $400,000 (£200,000) - in a police car.

An undercover officer in Dallas discovered nearly 50lb (22kg) of the drug as he was cleaning the car his squad had been using for two months.

The cocaine was hidden in hydraulically controlled secret compartments.

The vehicle was seized at a crime scene earlier this year. It was put into police service after a search by the narcotics squad found nothing unusual."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7499631.stm


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13155 No.7335   [Reply]

"YouTube users have decided to fight back following a decision which will force Google’s video sharing site to hand over user logs to Viacom."

"YouTube users have reacted by posting a series of videos in response, calling for a boycott."

http://www.dbtechno.com/internet/2008/07/08/youtube-users-fight-back-against-viacom-ruling/

>> No.7336  

"Viacom may be tempted to dismiss these videos as adolescent venting, but a great many eyes and ears appear to be receptive to such complaints. At the time this article was filed, "Viacom is a Copyright Bully" had attracted 17,226 views, "VIACOM VS YOU = BOYCOTT" had been seen 103,400 times, and a video with an expletive in the title had racked up 299,136 views."

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208803047

>> No.7358  

>>7335

>YouTube users have reacted by posting a series of videos in response, calling for a boycott

And nothing of any real worth was lost. YouPube's quality was always shitty. And 99.9% of the content posted there even more so. If it wasn't for the few episodes of BBC TV's 'Staggering Stories of Ferdinand De Bargos' (which I couldn't find elsewhere*), YouPube being 'boycotted' has no real impact upon my life.

*- Another reason why YouPube FAILS: no download facility. Why should you have to use a third-party site (KeepVid) to download from such?


No.7330   [Reply]

HELP!!

Not sure if this has been asked but anybody know the news of the mysterious M's next to image boards? I guess I haven't been here in a while because I don't remember those being here.

News
Photo/HiRes
Requests M
General Anime:
Anime M
Cute Females
Cute Males
Cute Women
Female/Female
Het. Romance

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>> No.7331  

I'm guessing it means "Moved"

>> No.7354  

Some boards had to relocate.


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