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In what has to be one of the biggest violations of common sense and burden of proof in motoring news this year, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that officers can “visually estimate” how fast a person is driving… and give them a ticket for it.

Thanks Ohio Supreme Court for giving cops the green light to make up speeding tickets.

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28-year-old Neil Harbisson has achromatopsia, which means he only sees in black and white. You'll notice in his photo however, that he's wearing a camera mounted to his head. This converts colors into soundwaves—making him "hear" colors.

It's almost like a form of synesthesia, where one of the forms makes people see colors for specific letters or numbers. Harbisson became a "cyborg" after meeting a fellow student while at university in England, who worked on it with a Slovenian software developer, fine-tuning it to the point where he can now see 360 color hues, as well as color saturation. Continue reading "Neil the cyborg" »

It might be protein restriction instead, or even more specifically, the amino acid, methionine, which is common in meat.

I wouldn't change my diet until they get something conclusive, because they seem to be making totally retarded conclusions about the whole thing. Read the article and you'll see what I mean

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Like, did they think it was calorie restriction that was doing the trick, because they just happened to be reducing proteins as a result of reducing calories? And even more specifically it's only methionine that needs to be reduced? I hate when they don't make any obvious connections like that.

Aiyana was shot in the head after police entered the home, according to police and witnesses. Roach said the girl's grandmother made physical contact with one of the officers, but the nature of the contact isn't yet clear.

Police say the officer's gun accidentally discharged. That officer is on administrative leave pending the investigation.

Roach has said that a film crew with A&E’s “The First 48” was taping with officers from the police department’s special response team during the incident.

An A&E spokesman declined comment today on the matter.

Ron Scott of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality today called for the officers involved to be immediately fired and prosecuted in Aiyana's death.

He also said sources are telling him using a flash-bang in such a situation was highly unusual.

“We've never heard of this happening,” Scott said of using a stun grenade to make a homicide arrest. "I think there needs to be some serious look at policy in relation to how this situation happened."

Also, there's a map by the CATO institute of botched paramilitary police raids in the US, see if there's one near you! http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

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It was a crime because his lordship — installed president teleprompter reader and chief narcissist Barry Obama — was returning to town and the Secret Service declared the pedestrians to be a threat to his motorcade. It is said the men refused direct orders from the Uniform Division of the Secret Service to clear the street.

“A Secret Service spokesman said the 2 men were arrested and charged with assault of a police office and failure to obey a lawful order,” the AP reports. This is now standard procedure — people get attacked by the cops and then charged with assault.

No word yet if they will be sentenced to years in the prison-industrial complex for the crime of walking in the street as the anointed one approached in his bullet-proof limo.

It's very bad. Why? Continue reading "Battle.net 2.0 is bad" »

This is a breakthrough not only because it may give us a cure for an uncurable, incredibly nasty virus, but also because the same method might work for other viruses, and because we have woefully few effective antiviral treatments. We can treat bacterial infections with antibiotics, but for most viruses, we have either a vaccine or nothing. And a vaccine, wonderful as it is, doesn’t help you after you’re already infected.

The scientists, led by Thomas Geisbert at Boston University, used a relatively new genomics technique called RNA interference to defeat the virus. Here’s how it works. First, a little background: the Ebola virus is made of RNA, just like the influenza virus. And just like influenza, Ebola has very few genes - only 8. One of its genes, called L protein, is responsible for copying the virus itself. Two others, called VP24 and VP35, interfere with the human immune response, making it difficult for our immune system to defeat the virus.

Geisbert and his colleagues (including scientists from Tekmira Pharmaceuticals and USAMRIID) designed and synthesized RNA sequences that would stick to these 3 genes like glue. How did they do that? We know the Ebola genome’s sequence – it was sequenced way back in 1993. And we know that RNA sticks to itself using the same rules that DNA uses. This knowledge allowed Geisbert and colleagues to design a total of 10 pieces of RNA (called “small interfering RNA” or siRNA) that they knew would stick to the 3 Ebola genes. They also took care to make sure that their sticky RNA would not stick to any human genes, which might be harmful. They packaged these RNAs for delivery by inserting them into nanoparticles that were only 81-85 nanometers across.

In the key experiment, the scientists infected rhesus monkeys with a dose of Ebola that was 30,000 times greater than the normal fatal dose. They injected the siRNA treatments 30 minutes later, and again each day for 6 days. All the monkeys survived with no long-term effects.

"After seeing the cops swing their batons at riders, jump in front of riders, attempt to stick batons in wheel spokes, and kick bikes to cause the riders to go down I started filming. When I was spotted recording the cops they tackled me down for no reason what so ever...."