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It’s all relative

Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity

Oringally posted on Slashdot: “…a new paper by scientists at the University of Victoria has demonstrated that one of the prime observational justifications for the existence of dark matter can be explained without any dark matter at all, by a proper use of general relativity!”

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Assuming this is true (which I think it could very well be) – it’s nice to see that Occam’s Razor, and Einstein’s amazing foresight have been proved effective once again.

And, if you’ll allow me to take a somewhat tangential remark, take it further to a metaphysical point of view and it can segue to an “it depends” situation… and we all know how popular an answer that is.

What camera is the best? What’s the best car? What is the ideal man/woman? Is x form of government good? What’s the best conduct for competition?

I’m beginning to wonder if this too, is answer the age-old question: Why are we here?

I must be really bored… to be coming up with [pathetic, corny] digressions such as these.

Seriously, going back to the actual topic, I dare anyone to try visualizing the paper’s abstract. I wish they’d include pictures so my small brain would understand it better.

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Symantec Brings Complaint Against MS to EU

In one of the comments in my past post, the commenter said I should focus more on tech stuff since blogging about the personal stuff can get quite… uninteresting. Although I don’t really understand what her conception of a “blog” is, I would say it was a personal journal unless specified otherwise. But yes, I do like talking about tech stuff too so how ’bout this post to call it even 😉

Symantec Brings Complaint Against MS to EU

linumax writes “Symantec has made a complaint against Microsoft to EC anti-trust regulators over the software giant’s entry into the security market. The “informal” complaint allows the Commission to consider whether or not an anti-trust case is merited. The Commission is the executive branch of the European Union (EU).” From the article: “The news comes on the day Microsoft announced plans to begin offering business users an integrated anti-virus and anti-spyware product called Microsoft Client Protection. A beta version of this product is expected to be released by year’s end. The company is already offering some customers a beta version of its Windows OneCare consumer security software. At issue is Microsoft’s plan to bundle its security software with Windows Vista, the next major version of the Windows operating system due next year.”

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Spy caught in the White House!

Spy caught in the White House!

Aragoncillo, a naturalized citizen from the Philippines and US marine, used his top secret clearance to steal classified intelligence documents from White House computers. Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history.

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I don’t know wether to laugh or cry. We surely have a way of applying our ingenuity to all the wrong things. I swear, we don’t deserve our freedom hahahaha.

On the bright side, we could be proud of that Pinay Head Chef in the White House.

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NPR’s Science Friday

I’ve subscribed to this podcast recently. It’s really good! Kinda like Skepticality, but more in depth on a single particular topic set for that session.

And the range of topics being discussed is pretty broad. From discussing Einstein’s relativity paper (which had tons of trivia on it), to truth in Vitamins, to Religion vs. Evolution vs. Intelligent Design.

One of my favorite topics so far was the Physics of Superheroes, which is actually an introductory to physics book created to put a positive spin on an otherwise boring subject.

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RE: MS Gadgets and everything else

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has confirmed that they indeed get their ideas from the Macintosh

Q: Some Microsoft critics say that many of the features in “Longhorn” already exist in other operating systems. How do you respond to that?

A: I don’t hear that from enterprise customers. They don’t look at the Mac. They just don’t. Some people will say some of the features are kissing cousins to features they’ve seen elsewhere, and that is true. I’m not apologetic about the fact that we should, in a way that doesn’t offend anyone else’s intellectual property, study and learn and benefit from the work others have done.

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