Friday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 25, 2005 at 3:48:01 PM
I'll have a review to post soon. Check for it on Sunday.
Websites safe for political discussion, for now.
Adobe Reader 7 comes out for Linux.
T-rex blood vessel found. DNA used to clone and kill everyone.
Choose your baby's sex.
There is a full moon tonight. The moon yesterday was amazing.
Websites safe for political discussion, for now.
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When the Federal Election Commission kicked off the process of extending campaign finance rules to the Internet on Thursday, the public document was substantially altered from one prepared just two weeks earlier and reviewed by CNET News.com. The 44-page document, prepared by the FEC general counsel's office and dated March 10, took a radically different approach and would have imposed decades-old rules designed for federal campaigns on many political Web sites and bloggers.
Adobe Reader 7 comes out for Linux.
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There is now one less thing for Windows and Mac users to point to when claiming desktop usability superiority. While not officially listed in Adobe's download page, you can get Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux from the company's FTP server according to this article at The Inquirer , which also has a review. The upshot is that Reader 7.0 for Linux is as bloated as its Windows and Mac siblings, but it loads much faster and is more useable than version 5. I imagine that this will get loads of comments about how Reader for Linux headed downhill after version 4. Or was it 3?
T-rex blood vessel found. DNA used to clone and kill everyone.
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Palaeontologists have extracted soft, flexible structures that appear to be blood vessels from the bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex that died 68 million years ago. They also have found small red microstructures that resemble red blood cells.
Choose your baby's sex.
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The controversial document makes many other bold suggestions on human reproductive technologies. It does not rule out human reproductive cloning in the future; it backs the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for research; and it challenges the UK government's intention to strip the anonymity from future sperm and egg donors.
There is a full moon tonight. The moon yesterday was amazing.
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Traditionally, the March full Moon is known as "Worm Moon," supposedly because when the ground softens the earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of the robins. Other lunar monikers included "Crow Moon," (when the cawing of crows signals the end of winter), "Crust Moon" (because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night) and "Sap Moon," (marking the time of tapping maple trees).