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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 28 2013 @ 11:35 PM EDT |
The Obama administration and members of Congress are pressing India
to curb its generic medication industry. The move comes at the behest of U.S.
pharmaceutical companies, which have drowned out warnings from public health
experts that inexpensive drugs from India are essential to providing life-saving
treatments around the world.
Low-cost generics from India have dramatically
lowered medical costs in developing countries and proved critical to global AIDS
relief programs; about 98 percent of the drugs purchased by President George W.
Bush's landmark PEPFAR AIDS relief program are generics from India.
Before
Indian companies rolled out generic versions priced at $1 a day, AIDS
medication cost about $10,000 per person per year.
But India's generic
industry has also cut into profits for Pfizer and other U.S. and European drug
companies.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 29 2013 @ 03:44 AM EDT |
"CEO pay relative to pay of top 0.1 percent wage earners grew even more, from
2.55 in 1989 to 4.70 in 2010, a rise (2.15) equal to the pay of more than two
very high earners."
http://www.epi.org/blog/mankiw-kaplan-ceo-pay/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, June 29 2013 @ 09:26 AM EDT |
Only just seen this.
While it’s humiliating if, as rumoured, the sale fell through
because Microsoft wanted a lower price. Now we see what Mr. Flop was
put in to do, however so far he has flopped, because the price is not yet low
enough to satisfy Ballmer. The plan is that M$ need a mobile manufacturer so
they can compete with Apple, however Ballmer is way behind reality, as Android
is outselling everything else together several times over, which is why it is
under constant attack. But with the market as it is, there is no hope at all of
any newcomer achieving very much. Timing is all important, and M$ are very,
very late, having flopped twice with the Kin and then Winbloat 8.The decline
of M$ is irreversible, regardless of what Ballmer does now, and they will be
followed closely by Apple. Very sad for the remaining Nokia employees, who may
not have much of a future, unless they can get rid of Flop and rapidly develop
some decent Android phones. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 29 2013 @ 01:29 PM EDT |
http://www.restorethefourth.net/
Amendment
IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported
by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 29 2013 @ 05:10 PM EDT |
Orwell would despair that Snowden's revelations will reinforce the
belief of the US gun nuts,
rednecks and assorted paranoiacs that their
Government really is out to get them
NZ Herald
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 29 2013 @ 09:29 PM EDT |
Have you heard a lot of Internetular argle-bargle about Pandora's
crazy-low royalty rates? How they compare unfavorably to satellite rates, and
how the company's trying to cut them? You have?
Me too. Turns out
(unsurprisingly), it's RIAA lies.
Cory
Doctorow, Boing Boing
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 01:04 AM EDT |
We look at CIA-backed coups against governments which had
nationalized a considerable amount of foreign investment. Using an event-study
methodology, we find that private information regarding coup authorizations and
planning by the U.S. government increased the stock prices of expropriated
multinationals that stood to benefit from the regime change.
The presence of
these abnormal returns suggests that there were leaks from the CIA or others in
the executive branch of government to asset traders or that government officials
with access to this information themselves traded upon it.
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism
That was then:
what's happening now? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 01:34 AM EDT |
"For the past few years, trying to get tax-exempt status
for your open
source project has been a non-starter for many.
And now we know why. Since at
least 2010, the Internal
Revenue Service has flagged applications by open
source
organizations seeking tax except status, according to
internal IRS
documents released by Congress this week."
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 03:18 AM EDT |
"Thordarson was long time volunteer for WikiLeaks with
direct access to
Assange and a key position as an organizer
in the group. With his cold
war-style embassy walk-in, he
became something else: the first known FBI
informant inside
WikiLeaks."
"For the next three months,
Thordarson served two
masters, working for the secret-spilling website and
simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government
in exchange, he
says, for a total of about $5,000. The FBI
flew him internationally four
times for debriefings,
including one trip to Washington D.C., and on the last
meeting obtained from Thordarson eight hard drives packed
with chat logs,
video and other data from WikiLeaks." link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 04:41 AM EDT |
"This article has been taken down pending an
investigation."
link | link | link
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Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 11:03 AM EDT |
Your
mission Jim, should you decide to accept it... --- The following
program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Boundless on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 12:54 PM EDT |
Comments are apparently closed on the "Naturally Occurring Human Genes Not
Patentable" thread (it sends me to the front page). PJ had a remark in the base
article I wanted to respond to:
"I lost two grandmothers to breast
cancer, and I want to say thank you to Dan and ACLU for taking this on for
us."
Anyone with an interest in cancer, and certainly anyone who has it,
or is at high risk for it, needs to be aware that it it highly likely that the
gene (SM) theory of cancer is completely mistaken, and that consensus cancer
researchers are digging in the wrong place. At best, gene analysis may provide a
risk indicator, but is not going to lead to a cure. And even the risk indicator
may turn out to be largely unneeded.
As part of research into low carb
diets, some reports of startling late stage cancer remissions led me to
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease by Thomas Seyfried (ISBN-13:
978-0470584927). He presents what I found to be a convincing case that the
genetic chaos in cancer is a side effect. The real cause is mitochondrial
damage, and the cells ceasing respiration, and reverting to
fermentation.
The fermentation requires glucose, or to a lesser extent,
glutamine. Healthy cells can run on ketone bodies from nutritional ketosis (KD,
an extremely low carb diet). Cancer cells, apparently of all kinds, are glucose
brittle. Glucose levels can be driven down via KD. Glutamine can't yet be
directly controlled, so they add caloric restriction to manage that. People are
beginning use KD-R to kill tumors. It's not yet a cure, because if you revert to
a typical glycemic diet, the cancer may come back. But it is likely to handily
best chemo and rad, which damage mitochondria and are likely to cause new
cancers all by themselves.
The risk connection?
It may turn out that
everyone, high risk or not, can drive their cancer risk to very low levels with
a less extreme low carb diet.
Race for the cure?
Don't get your hopes
up for patentless gene research doing much more for cancer than it has already
done. It may turn out that cancer is a largely optional ailment, and avoided by
the same diet that is dramatically helpful in a great many other common
ailments.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 05:45 PM EDT |
Bundestag allows police access to private PINs and
passwords
The law means, “that police and intelligence services
will in the future be allowed to obtain extremely personal information about
mobile phone users, and do so with the press of a button and without having to
face any major legal hurdles”.
The innocuous sounding term, “inventory
data”, should not detract from the fact that the issue involves direct access to
people’s private lives. “Not only names, addresses and bank account details will
be sent to the police. But also the PINs of the mobile phones, and passwords
blocking e-mail inboxes and accessing services like Dropbox and dynamic IP
addresses”.
Johann
Müller wsws.org[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 07:34 PM EDT |
I can't think of any other way to explain it. If you do not set up a
Google account when activating your Android phone, but later
go and buy something from Google's store, this then requires
an account. From that moment on your gmail and youtube
accounts are alive, and require only opening the app to access
"your" data.
I have a Google account that I did not access at setup of my phone.
I have had to enter my password for a purchase from the app store.
Yesterday I thought I might try to setup gmail on my phone.
I started the gmail app, and was dropped straight into my inbox,
no password required.
Some web searches later it turns out this is a feature, not a bug.
There was a flurry of questions on various forums about two
years ago. I found no definitive answer from Google, but a couple
of posts that sounded authoritative said a smartphone is regarded
as a personal device, and as such convenience of use is more
important than hassling users to enter passwords on a tiddly
screen; and mobile devices as personal devices do not need
the same security features of multi-user OSes.
So it doesn't matter where on the phone, or if, the password
is stored, encrypted or plain text. What matters is that you never
let the device out of your hands if it's open and running, and
probably never would be best. The feature cannot be turned off.
It has spawned an industry in third party apps that will enforce
a requirement for a password to open specified apps.
Tracking cookies are child's play next to this ...
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- Here's a Tool - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 04:35 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 30 2013 @ 10:53 PM EDT |
Yahoo! Mail has prepped their users for the past 12 months or so for an overhaul
of their mail services.
Lately they have put a nag screen in place that prompts users to choose either
the Prime service (video-in-mail etc.) or a Basic version.
Their new (basic) version has a more than passing resemblance to Gmail and only
comes in purple(!).
The commentators are uniformly on the negative side, pleading for a return to
their 'old' YM.
Seem banner ads are getting in the way of people seeing parts of their mail
interface and a number of often used features are missing.
Mostly people are wondering why Yahoo! is fixing something that ain't broke.
The general mood among users seems to be one of "this sucks, I'm
leaving", is good old Microsoft heading for yet another rocky shoal...?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 02:10 AM EDT |
krebsonsecurity
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Authored by: JamesK on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 08:32 AM EDT |
I accidentally found myself on www.ibiblio.org and noticed they have an IPv6
address. Since that's who provides the server for Groklaw, when will there also
be an IPv6 address for Groklaw? It might be as simple as adding the AAAA record
to the DNS.
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The following program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 10:02 AM EDT |
Yeah, I know some people don't like el
reg but [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 10:28 AM EDT |
Here is just the latest one.
Microsoft's latest browser is faster than all
others LOL.
Is It a flaw or a feature?
Of course
the test is FIXED in Microsofts favor using a non standard flaw in the Microsoft
productike this. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 11:55 AM EDT |
U.S. court throws out Google digital books class status
Yahoo Finance article
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on
Monday said a lawsuit against Google Inc's effort to create the world's largest
digital books library should not have been allowed to proceed as a class
action.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said Circuit
Judge Denny Chin erred in prematurely certifying a class of potentially hundreds
of thousands of authors, saying he should have first determined the merits of
Google's "fair use" defense. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 01 2013 @ 12:07 PM EDT |
When it opens this fall, the Utah Data Center will be one of six major centers
the NSA operates.
National Security Agency centers in the United States [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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