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NETHAPPENINGS RESOURCES AND HEADLINES 4/6/06


enjoy,

<Karen>


1)
And life created continents...
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925444.200&print=true
LIFE on Earth may have driven the evolution of the planet itself.
The idea is that ancient microbes provided the chemical energy to
create the Earth's continents - a nod to the Gaia hypothesis, in
which life helps create the conditions it needs to survive.

2)
A brain primed for violence?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925444.300&print=true
PEOPLE with a gene variant known to be linked to aggression may
have been born with key brain differences that could make them more
likely to snap under pressure.

3)
Half virus, half beast  it's a 20-sided freak
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925441.400&print=true
AT FIRST sight, the industrial city of Bradford in the north of
England looks an unpromising place to discover new and exotic forms
of life, but appearances can be deceptive. Two years ago, French
researchers announced that a mysterious beast plucked from one of
the city's cooling towers years previously was something mightily
unusual - a giant virus that seemed to break all the rules.

4)
Chronic fatigue is not all in the mind
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725093.700&print=true
AT LONG last, we are beginning to get to grips with chronic fatigue
syndrome. Differences in gene expression have been found in the
immune cells of people with the disease, a discovery that could
lead to a blood test for the disorder and perhaps even to drugs for treating it.

5)
Structure exposes the evolutionary roots of language.
Where do words come from?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/evolution.asp
LANGUAGE structure may reveal more about human origins than
vocabulary. Traditional techniques for studying the history of
languages have relied on evolutionary trees based on word-type, but
the speed at which lexicons change means such techniques cannot
look further back than 10,000 years.

6)
THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/whatresearch2.asp
How do babies begin to acquire language? Rhythmic patterns
underlie the human language. Rhythmic patterns underlie the human language.
How children learn the meanings of words. Grammer is hard wired.
Letters are shaped that way for a reason. Rhythm and pitch give the meaning.

7)
ABOUT THE BRAIN
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/whatresearch3.asp

HOW DOES THE BRAIN WORK?
Brain Based Learning, IQ development
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/brain.html

8)
DHS Spokesman Is Accused of Soliciting Teen Online
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040401973.html
The deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security was
arrested last night on charges that he used the Internet to seduce an
undercover Florida sheriff's detective who he thought was a
14-year-old girl, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
Brian J. Doyle, 55, was arrested at his Silver Spring home at 7:45
p.m. and charged with seven counts of using a computer to seduce a
child and 16 counts of transmitting harmful materials to a minor,
according to a sheriff's office statement.
Agents with the department's Inspector General's Office, the U.S.
Secret Service, the Montgomery County police and the Polk County
Sheriff's Office served a search warrant and seized his home computer
and other materials, the statement said.

9)
The Air Force has selected Symantec's LiveState Client Management
Suite and the company's professional services consulting to support
its Air Force Standard Desktop Configuration.
http://www.fcw.com/article92832-04-04-06-Web

10)
NHTCU disappears into new crime agency
Home Secretary Charles Clarke has formally launched the Serious
Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), which will handle high-tech crime along
with drugs trafficking, immigration crime, money laundering and
identity fraud.
IT industry observers, meanwhile, said criticisms of the previous
anti-cybercrime approach had not yet been addressed.
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5713

11)
Do not trust your cell phone
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/cell_phone.html
Maleware records information about the victim's phone calls
and SMS messages, then sends them to a remote server.

12)
Chavez offers long-term oil contracts at $50/bbl - and Exxon
refuses.
<http://tinyurl.com/kugzw>
· Price could see Venezuela producing for 200 years
· Country's reserves may exceed Saudi Arabia's

13)
Political podcasts and streaming video feeds will be banned during
Singapores next general election, a government minister said Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/macworld/20060404/tc_macworld/podcast20060404_0
"In a free-for-all Internet environment, where there are no rules,
political debates could easily degenerate into an unhealthy, unreliable
and dangerous discourse flush with rumors and distortions to mislead and
confuse the public."

14)
Apple now offers free software that lets you limit the volume on your iPod,
free update, available for video iPods and all iPod Nano models,
also includes a parental lock option.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/ears.html

15)
Catching Digital Cheaters
iPods loaded with study guides could be smuggled into classrooms.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/plagiarism.html

16)
Apple releases Official "XP on a Mac" instructions
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
"Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC.
That means it'll be subject to the same attacks that plague the
Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest
Microsoft Windows security fixes."
"Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to
handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are
stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the
Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries."
Cautions and other interesting non-features at
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303572

17)
BitTorrent search site hits back
"The MPAA is in essence trying to outlaw the torrent file format."
Security Tools
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/tools.html

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