Two Mexican mummies had ulcers when they were alive Remnants of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori were discovered in gastric tissue from the mummies: related news

Two Mexican mummies had ulcers when they were alive. Remnants of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori were discovered in gastric tissue from the mummies.

Tissue from two mummies found in present-day Mexico bore evidence of the bacterium that causes ulcers.

Ulcers Discovered in Mummies

Tissue from two mummies found in present-day Mexico bore evidence of the bacterium that causes ulcers. Credit: Yolanda Lopez Vidal and Gonzalo Castillo-Rojas

Back in my day, we had 2D graphics and were thankful for them!

Dads like to share stories of how rough they had it when they were kids. Now there’s an exhibit proving them right, at least when it comes to video games. A vintage video-game exhibit at the McCullough-Price House in Chandler, AZ is allowing dads to show their kids just how clunky the games looked and operated back in the day. Displays also take visitors through the evolution of game consoles, from Atari to Xbox.

One Arrested and Two Sought By Police After Arts Festival Robbery

If you read the newspaper or check online news sources frequently you have probably already noticed that there has been a lot of strange criminal activity going on lately. Many of these criminal escapades have been so odd in fact that I can only conclude that most of these crimes are driven by narcotics in one way or another. For example the Fire Arts Festival in Los Angeles that was held in the 1200 block of Seventh Street is where two women were leaving and returning to their vehicle when they were accosted and robbed. In connection with this robbery and assault one man has been arrested and police are seeking two other people that were involved in the incident.

Video Game Developer Talks To Pirates: Realizes He Can Compete With Free

Slashdot points us to an interesting story of a video game developer in the UK, Positech Games, who put up a blog post recently, asking people who "pirated" the company's software to explain why they did it. They did... in droves. Now there's a new post up discussing both the results and how the company is responding. While the guy sounds surprised about the results, they don't really seem all that shocking: people hate, hate, hate DRM of any kind (which should serve as a counter to the guy who showed up here last week insisting that DRM is here to stay). That was the thing they were most vehement about. After that, they were upset about the high price of games and the short demos that were offered that weren't representative of the game.

Genetic link between Crohn's and asthma discovered

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The Coker Tour Blog 3

Tuesday morning we were up and rolling early. We had a 1 PM appointment in York, Pa at the Harley-Davidson assembly plant. From Charlottesville, Va. where we had stayed the previous night it was a four hour drive. The morning trip took us through the beautiful Virginia countryside then into Pennsylvania through the Gettysburg area. We arrived at the Harley-Davidson Assembly facility at 12:30 and at 1PM we took the one hour tour. Assembly had already begun on the 2009 models and they were going to debut in one week at the Harley dealers convention in Las Vegas. We were not able to see the 2009 models up close but did get a detailed look at the stamping area for fenders and the new 6 gallon tanks. It was a very interesting tour and nice to see that there really are still things that are "Made in America"

Mark Hacking

Mark Douglas Hacking, 28, and Lori Kay Soares, 27, were inseparable from the moment they met while on a trip with some friends to Lake Powell, Utah in 1994, Debbie Howlett reported in a July 29, 2004 USA Today article. For the ten years they had been together, their friends and family were impressed with their strong, intimate relationship. They were young, deeply in love and preparing to move to

Game Group first half ahead of expectations

For the first 22 weeks to 28 June 2008, total Group sales were up by 54.0 per cent. Like for like Group sales (including Gamestation from 1 May 2008) for the same period were up by 24.8 per cent. In the UK and Ireland, total sales were up by 58.2 per cent and lfl sales were up by 28.1 per cent. In the International business, total sales and lfl sales were up by 43.9 per cent and 16.9 per cent respectively.

CentOS on the systems intrusions at Red Hat

Earlier in the day today Red Hat made an announcement [1] that there had been an intrusion into some of their computer systems last week. In the same announcement they mention that some of the packages for OpenSSH on RHEL-4 ( i386 and x86_64 ) as well as RHEL-5 ( x86_64 ) were signed by the intruder. In their announcement they also clarified that they were confident that none of these, potentially compromised, packages made their way into or through RHN to client and customer machines. As a security measure a script [3] was made available along with a semi-detailed description of the issue [2]. We take security issues very seriously, and as soon as we were made aware of the situation I undertook a complete audit of the entire CentOS4/5 Build and Signing infrastructure.

Some Pictures Worth a Thousand Words - Caldera OpenLinux Lite

"Interestingly, the CD's Credits file mentions Ralph Yarro, among others. The copyright information states that they used Red Hat's Linux and then added some tweaks of their own to it, and they list files and applications that were not under the GPL, and none of the files in the screenshots are listed as excluded. All the rest, they say, were distributed under the GPL. The Announce file is particularly interesting, because it mentions ELF directly, and that speaks to whether SCO knew what they were distributing under the GPL. I asked Dr Stupid to look at the screenshots and tell me what it means to him, and here's what he told me:

The Google black hole.

Consider the fate of Dodgeball, an innovative mobile service that was a predecessor to Twitter, Jaiku, and the many "location-aware" apps that now clog up the iPhone. The company, which launched in 2003, enabled people to send texts indicating where they were hanging out. In response, you'd get texts telling you which of your friends (or friends of friends) were nearby. In 2005, Dodgeball's creators, Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert, had just finished up grad school at NYU and were looking for investors in their service, which had become popular among techies in Manhattan. Of all the prospective offers they heard, Google's seemed to come with the fewest strings. Google paid Dodgeball a small outlay of cash and stock—the exact terms weren't disclosed—and Crowley and Rainert moved into Google's New York office.

Fair Trade Coffee & Open Source Java

"When Starbucks grew from regional powerhouse to cultural phenomenon, there was one small problem: the coffee they sold did not jive with their brand. So much so that in 2000 they printed millions of pamphlets in the US explaining why it was that even though they really, really wanted to sell organic, shade-grown, fairly traded coffee, that due to lack of adequate supply, customers should be delighted that they were at least committed to finding a way to sell some fairly traded coffee somehow. Over time, Starbucks has offered more and wider varieties of fairly traded coffee, and while many fair trade NGOs continue to complain that Starbucks is not all the way there, they appear to be making progress (not without some back-and-forth). And as a customer who prefers Starbucks when traveling (quad grande latte, thanks) and who also feels stro

Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked

A complete newb writes "London's Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated. But — hold on — it's not necessarily as bad as you think. The faked fireworks were actually set-off at the stadium, but because of potential dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot." To me, the reasoning behind the faked display is no consolation or excuse — it seems hard to swallow that NBC was unaware of this televised deception. I'm glad that it was good-naturedly "revealed" this weekend (according to that Telegraph article), but it's disheartening that such a large crowd can watch (in person, and around the world) such a display and have

Turns Out People Say They're Concerned About Privacy, But They're Not

Well, this shouldn't surprise very many people, but following on plenty of earlier studies that have made it clear that most people don't do much to protect their privacy, a new study out of the UK pretty much states the obvious: people say they're concerned about privacy, but they sure don't act that way. The study found 84% of users say they carefully guard their info online -- but when tested, 89% of people actually did give away info in the same exact survey. To be fair, the specific set of questions was first asking people if they carefully guard their income info, followed later by a question asking them what income bracket they fell into. It's reasonable to think that some folks believe that the bracket is not the same as giving away their actual income -- which is what the first question implied.

French iPhone Carrier Throttles HSDPA to 384kbps - Users only start noticing once Wired analyzes global speeds...

Earlier this week, Wired News posted the results of a survey comparing iPhone speeds across various global 3G networks. This led to several cases of users in various countries realizing they were getting, well, crappy service. Customers of France's Orange were particularly annoyed to find out that their carrier was artificially restricting downstream speeds of their HSDPA network to 384kbps (HSDPA's theoretical maximum downstream speed is 7.2Mbps). Orange says they were simply "preserving the stability of the network," but customers believe Orange was preserving the integrity of their pocketbook. Thanks to Wired's data, Orange says they'll increase downstream speeds to 1Mbps starting September 15.

Frotz: Zork On The iPhone

frotz.jpgThis is going to date me in a big way, but during the years when I was about 12 to 15 years old I spent a little more time than I’d care to admit playing games like Zork and Planetfall on my Commodore 64. These games had no graphics. They were text based, or as the company that made them often said, “the graphics are in your mind.� Infocom, now an all-but forgotten division of Activision, was the company that put them out, and they were for an early generation of computer users, the games of choice. Intricately thought out, yet humorous in a goofy 1980s computer-geek sort of way, finishing an Infocom game was as joyous and yet at the same time bittersweet as finishing a good book. They required a kind a patience that is too rarely found these days.

American Teen: Teen Angst as Art

American Teen is a documentary that follows the true lives of four teenagers: a mean girl, a basketball star, an artsy girl and a geek through their senior year at an Indiana high school. I liked the movie, but every once in a while I had to remind myself that for these kids it was real life; they were not actors. They were just high school kids who agreed to be followed on camera. If my nieces and nephews asked me if they should appear in a movie like this, I´d tell them to run for cover. They´d never know what a camera and an enterprising filmmaker might do to achieve cinematic glory at their expense.

Blog cafe A dog's legacy

Eyebrows were raised when Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog in her will, and they were raised even farther when it was learned recently that she had signed a "mission statement" indicating her wish that the charitable trust created by her will, which has an estimated $5 to $8 billion in net assets, be devoted to the welfare of dogs. The judge supervising the implementation of her will cut the bequest to her dog from $12 to $2 million, and it is uncertain how much of the charitable trust will actually be devoted to dogs.

Wii will develop surgical skills

When Trauma Center: New Blood was released with the Nintendo Wii, gamers who were lucky enough to find the console were able to pretend to take part in complex "medical" procedures requiring fine motor control and a steady hand. While the missions in the game had only a passing resemblance to anything a real doctor would perform, many gamers wondered how they would fare in the real world. It turns out that, with a bit of additional training, they might do pretty well. At least one hospital is now using the Nintendo Wii to improve the hand-eye coordination of their surgeons and finding that the improvements seen in game-trained doctors are striking.

Google Gadgets an Open Door for Attack

Gadget lovers were dealt a blow on Wednesday when two researchers outlined what they called a "hole" during a Black Hat presentation. "The attacker can forcibly install Google Gadgets; they can read the victim's search history once a malicious gadget has been installed in some specific circumstances; they can attack other Google Gadgets; they can phish usernames and passwords from victims, and so on," said Robert Hansen, also known as RSnake, a founder of security consultancy SecTheory. "Really, the sky is the limit, once the browser is under the control of an attacker. And that point is exacerbated by the fact that people trust Google be a trustworthy domain, making the attacks even easier."

Two nabbed for selling fake DVDs

Two men were arrested in Daveyton after they were found selling 60 fake DVDs, Gauteng police said on Thursday.

Two nabbed for selling fake DVDs

Two men were arrested in Daveyton after they were found selling 60 fake DVDs, Gauteng police said on Thursday.

Astronomy group hosts moon-ogling bash to acquaint Lebanese with space science

BEIRUT: There were bright lights, loud music and a crowd of people on Beirut's Corniche Saturday night. But these revelers were not rollerblading or playing soccer, they were astronomers. The Lebanese Astronomy Group held the bash to introduce the public to space science. Lured by dance music and free juice, people clustered around two telescopes, trained on the craters of our moon and on four of Jupiter's as the giant planet rose above McDonalds at 10 p.m.

Google Gadgets An Open Door For Attack

CIO — Gadget lovers were dealt a blow on Wednesday when two researchers outlined what they called a "hole" during a Black Hat presentation. "The attacker can forcibly install Google Gadgets; they can read the victim's search history once a malicious gadget has been installed in some specific circumstances; they can attack other Google Gadgets; they can phish usernames and passwords from victims, and so on," said Robert Hansen, also known as RSnake, a founder of security consultancy SecTheory. "Really, the sky is the limit, once the browser is under the control of an attacker. And that point is exacerbated by the fact that people trust Google be a trustworthy domain, making the attacks even easier." Hansen said that users who are most vulnerable to attack are those who use Google and specifically Gmail since the Web-based e-mail serv

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