Fallout 3 (X360)
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eldavojohn writes “While the RIAA is busy changing its image to a snake eating its own tail, one man is busy digitizing out-of-print 78s. ‘There’s a whole world of music that you don’t hear anymore, and it’s on 78 RPM records,’ he stated to Wired. Right now, you can find about 4,000 MP3s on his site, with no digital noise reduction implemented yet.”
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sciencehabit writes “A Science Magazine investigation uses clues from a key document unveiled last week to reconstruct the trail that led the FBI to Bruce Ivans. Among the revelations: Anthrax fingerprinting was not critical to the investigation, as many reports have suggested. Rather, brute-force genetic sequencing, with the help of the J. Craig Venter Institute, helped crack the case. New potential motivations by Ivans are also revealed.”
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “There are now at least three complaints being investigated in Michigan against the RIAA’s unlicensed investigator, SafeNet a/k/a MediaSentry, one of which was filed by Central Michigan University itself. Two other complaints have been filed by students, one from Northern Michigan University and one from University of Michigan. This appears to be part of the growing sense of exasperation colleges and universities are feeling over the RIAA’s harassment.”
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Hugh Pickens writes “For a long time, humans were pretty dumb, doing little but make ‘the same very boring stone tools for almost 2 million years,’ says Philipp Khaitovich of the Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai. Then, 150,000 years ago, our big brains suddenly got smart. We started innovating. We tried different materials. We started creating art and maybe even religion. To understand what caused the cognitive spurt, researchers examined chemical brain processes known to have changed in the past 200,000 years. Comparing apes and humans, they found the most robust differences were for processes involved in energy metabolism. The finding suggests that increased access to calories spurred our cognitive advances, although definitive claims of causation are premature. In most animals, the gut needs a lot of energy to grind out nourishment from food sources. But cooking, by breaking down fibers and making nutrients more readily available, is a way of processing food outside the body. Eating (mostly) cooked meals would have lessened the energy needs of our digestion systems, thereby freeing up calories for our brains. Today, humans have relatively small digestive systems and allocate around 20% of their total energy to the brain, compared to approximately 13% for non-human primates and 2-8% for other vertebrates. While other theories for the brain’s cognitive spurt have not been ruled out, the finding sheds light on what made us, as Khaitovich put it, ’so strange compared to other animals.’”
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GNAVI: The GNU Ada Visual Interface, GWindows - GUI Framework, GNATCOM - ActiveX/COM and the GNAVI IDE for RAD Development. The Open Source Answer to Delphi and VB
Automated configuration backups and version control for Cisco IOS-based devices, Nortel Alteon Web Switches and Nortel Alteon Application Switches, implemented over SNMP and TFTP.
