Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Terminator Arm Dad!
A father who lost his arm in an accident six years ago has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech bionic hand which is so precise he can even type again! (also, i'd suggest not fooling around with this man's daughter).
Nigel Ackland, 53, has been fitted with the Terminator-like carbon fibre mechanical hand which he can control with movements in his upper arm. The new bebionic3 myoelectric hand, which is also made from aluminium and alloy knuckles, moves like a real human limb by responding to Nigel's muscle twitches.
Incredibly, the robotic arm is so sensitive it means the father-of-one can touch type on a computer keyboard, peel vegetables, and even dress himself for the first time in six years.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cf6_1352136453
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Germany Wants to See its US Gold
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann wanted to personally convince
Peter Gauweiler that the German gold was still where it should be. Early
this summer, the head of Germany's central bank took the obstinate
politician from the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), a party
that is a member of the government coalition in Berlin, and a number of
his colleagues into the Bundesbank's inner sanctum: the gold vault.
There, 6,000 gold bars are stacked on industrial-strength shelves in a
purpose-built building in Frankfurt. An additional 76,000 bars of
bullion are stored in four safe boxes, in sealed containers.
But even this personal inspection wasn't enough to reassure the
visiting member of parliament -- on the contrary: "The Bundesbank
monitors its domestic gold in an exemplary fashion," Gauweiler says,
"and this makes it all the more incomprehensible that the bank doesn't
look after its reserves abroad."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-politicians-demand-to-see-gold-in-us-federal-reserve-a-864068.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-politicians-demand-to-see-gold-in-us-federal-reserve-a-864068.html
New '100% accurate' test diagnoses schizophrenics simply by checking their gaze
Scientists have developed an almost 100 per cent accurate test to detect schizophrenics - by checking their gaze.
Impaired eye movement has long been thought to be associated with schizophrenia.
Now a new study has reported a model of testing which demonstrated 98 per cent accuracy in distinguishing between those with and without schizophrenia.
Using 'simple viewing tests', researchers at Aberdeen University explored the ability of eye movement tests to sort schizophrenics from healthy people.
People with schizophrenia showed well-documented deficits in the ability to track slow moving objects smoothly with their eyes.
Their eye movements tended to fall behind the moving object and then catch up again using rapid eye movements called 'saccades'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2225792/New-100-accurate-test-diagnose-schizophrenics.html
Impaired eye movement has long been thought to be associated with schizophrenia.
Now a new study has reported a model of testing which demonstrated 98 per cent accuracy in distinguishing between those with and without schizophrenia.
Using 'simple viewing tests', researchers at Aberdeen University explored the ability of eye movement tests to sort schizophrenics from healthy people.
People with schizophrenia showed well-documented deficits in the ability to track slow moving objects smoothly with their eyes.
Their eye movements tended to fall behind the moving object and then catch up again using rapid eye movements called 'saccades'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2225792/New-100-accurate-test-diagnose-schizophrenics.html
Deep Web
The Deep Web (also called the Deepnet, the Invisible Web, the Undernet or the hidden Web) is World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines.
It should not be confused with the dark Internet, the computers that can no longer be reached via Internet, or with the distributed filesharing network Darknet, which could be classified as a smaller part of the Deep Web.
Mike Bergman, founder of BrightPlanet, credited with coining the phrase,[1] has said that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed.[2] Most of the Web's information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines do not find it. Traditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web—those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. The deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web#Crawling_the_deep_Web
It should not be confused with the dark Internet, the computers that can no longer be reached via Internet, or with the distributed filesharing network Darknet, which could be classified as a smaller part of the Deep Web.
Mike Bergman, founder of BrightPlanet, credited with coining the phrase,[1] has said that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed.[2] Most of the Web's information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines do not find it. Traditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web—those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. The deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web#Crawling_the_deep_Web
Prison, $7 billion fine for French rogue trader
PARIS (AP) -- A former junior trader for France's second-largest bank
who was ordered Wednesday to pay back a staggering €4.9 billion (about
$7 billion) in damages to his ex-employer is painting himself as the
victim of a financial system that runs on greed.
Only the Bill Gates or the Warren Buffetts of the world could come up with the breathtaking sum an appeals court demanded Jerome Kerviel reimburse to Societe Generale as punishment for committing one of the biggest trade frauds in history. Kerviel says he will fight back with a new appeal to France's highest court.
The court upheld in full the initial 2010 guilty verdict and sentence, which includes a three-year prison term, against the 35-year-old rogue trader.
He sees himself not as a fraudster but as a victim of a system that turned a blind eye to his colossal positions in late 2007 and early 2008 as long as they made money for the bank.
Hours after the verdict, Kerviel announced his plan to appeal, which he has until Monday to file.
"I will continue to fight," he told RTL radio. "I think the judgment is protecting Societe Generale."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/prison-7-billion-fine-french-121400218.html
Only the Bill Gates or the Warren Buffetts of the world could come up with the breathtaking sum an appeals court demanded Jerome Kerviel reimburse to Societe Generale as punishment for committing one of the biggest trade frauds in history. Kerviel says he will fight back with a new appeal to France's highest court.
The court upheld in full the initial 2010 guilty verdict and sentence, which includes a three-year prison term, against the 35-year-old rogue trader.
He sees himself not as a fraudster but as a victim of a system that turned a blind eye to his colossal positions in late 2007 and early 2008 as long as they made money for the bank.
Hours after the verdict, Kerviel announced his plan to appeal, which he has until Monday to file.
"I will continue to fight," he told RTL radio. "I think the judgment is protecting Societe Generale."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/prison-7-billion-fine-french-121400218.html
The FBI in the Palm of Your Hands
With the release of iPhone 5 and its clear success, Apple is making great strides to entrench itself as the most widely used smartphone. What is surprising is that iPhone sales have been strong since release despite the fact that a few weeks prior, it was reported that the FBI may be tracking iPhone users.
According to various news outlets, 12 million iPhone and iPad device identifiers were swiped from an FBI computer by hackers associating themselves with the group Anonymous. Luckily for consumers the hack was meant to expose the tracking that was going on and not to compromise any individual accounts. To further credit this attack, the hackers posted one million unique identification numbers that were verified by a third party.
This begs the question, why is the FBI monitoring and tracking people via their iPhones? On what grounds is this legal?
http://www.venusplusx.org/?p=11721
Young Blood Reverses the Signs of Aging
A new study by researchers at Stanford University shows that injections of young blood can reverse the signs of aging in mice.
The experiment is as simple as it sounds. Give an old mouse a syringe
full of blood from a young mouse, and run some tests. Leader of the
research team Saul Villeda and his team found that the boost of youth
improved learning and memory in the older mice. Villeda shared his
research with the Society for Neuroscience conference in New Orleans on
Wednesday and did not understate its implications for conditions that
are caused by deteriorating brain function. "I think any sort of disease
that has that component, there is a chance this might help," he
said. "What I am thinking is if we can address it earlier, when our body
still has the control to prevent this from happening, then we might not
have to cure Alzheimer's, we might just be able to stop it."
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/10/young-blood-reverses-signs-aging/58079/
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/10/young-blood-reverses-signs-aging/58079/
Why Baby Carrots Are Killing You
It may shock you that baby carrots do not come out of the ground that
way. There is no little baby carrot garden where these are harvested.
Manufactured baby carrots are a result of taking all the broken and
“ugly” big carrots they can’t put in the package, grinding them all up,
processing them into the “baby” carrots and giving them a bath in
chlorine to give them a bright happy orange color. There are also “Cut
& Peel” baby carrots that are widdled
into a miniature form.
If you look on the package it doesn’t say “Chlorine”, because it was added as part of manufacturing and not added as an ingredient…why is that?
Packaged foods contains lots of chemicals both in the ingredients and in
the manufacturing process. The tricky part is chemicals added as part
of the manufacturing process are not considered to be an ingredient
therefore does not have to be listed on the food label. So there is no
way to tell what else is hiding in that box or package.
If you look on the package it doesn’t say “Chlorine”, because it was added as part of manufacturing and not added as an ingredient…why is that?
Thursday, October 25, 2012
6 hours ago
Magnitude: 5.7
DateTime: Thursday October 25 2012, 10:32:20 UTC
Region: Near East Coast of Honshu, Japan.
5 hours ago
Magnitude: 4.6
DateTime: Thursday October 25 2012, 11:46:31 UTC
Region: Off East Coast Of Kamchatka
6 hours ago
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Region: Taiwan.
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Region: Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Region: Fiji Islands Region.
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