Date: 09/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

In a study published last year in the journal Ear and Hearing, Dr. Brian Fligor of Harvard Medical School looked at a variety of headphones and found that, on average, the smaller they were the higher their output levels at any given volume control setting. Compared with larger headphones that cover the entire ear, some insertable [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ipod-may-cause-hearing-loss/

Date: 09/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

I was feeling sick and tired reading the sad reports on the death and devastation initiated by Katrina and the lawlessness, lack of timely help and administrative apathy that followed it. And then it struck me. We are going to see another war. This time it is war against Nature, no less. 9/11 massacare was (blatantly?) [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-war-against-nature/

Date: 09/03/05     Keywords: google

Randall Robinson reported in The Huffinton Post that "black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive". Note: I briefly searched google news for corroborating evidence/reporting. I couldn't find any. However cannibalism or not the present situation in New Orleans is sad, very sad and appalling. Four days after the storm, thousands of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cannibalism-in-new-orleans-the-aftermath/

Date: 08/31/05     Keywords: no keywords

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 50's, 60's and 70's! - I found it in Craigslist thanks to John C. Dvorak. What the post doesn't mention is that such kids were also not on Ritalin and they did fine. Enjoy! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/to-all-the-kids-who-survived-the-50s-60s-and-70s-without-ritalin/

Date: 08/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

The misuse and overuse of antibiotics has led to the rise of superbugs - bacteria that have developed a resistance to widely used antibiotics. They pose a serious threat to public health. The threat is compunded for immuno-compromised patients. At a presentation given yesterday at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, D.C., [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-antibiotics-against-super-bugs/

Date: 08/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

European scientists collide head-on with diametrically opposite views on health risk with mobile usage.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cellphone-cancer-link-two-european-studies-with-exactly-opposite-results/

Date: 08/28/05     Keywords: spam

Four Spammers down, hundreds to go. James R. Schaffer, Jeffrey A. Kilbride, and Jennifer R. Clason were each charged on Thursday with two counts of fraud and one count of criminal conspiracy under the U.S. law known as CAN-SPAM, short for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act. CAN-SPAM law, in effect since January 2004, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hunting-spammers-the-legal-way/

Date: 08/28/05     Keywords: google

Some interesting tweaks to enhance Google Talk (IM).

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fun-and-useful-tweaks-with-google-talk-im/

Date: 08/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

That is the conclusion of a team of medical researchers in Britain and Switzerland, who reviewed a mountain of published evidence. They compared 110 trials of homeopathic remedies against a placebo with 110 trials of conventional medicines, which were also tested against placebos. I beg to differ. The ailments being treated in these trials included respiratory-tract [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-homeopathy-quackery/

Date: 08/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

According to Salon Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged more than 10 million in past 5 years to the Discovery Institute, the Seattle think tank that is leading the charge to bring "intelligent design" to the masses. I can see three possibilities. 1. They are so flush with money that they will donate to anything [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bill-gates-support-for-intelligent-design-think-tank/

Date: 08/27/05     Keywords: google

Russell Beattie informed that Google has opened up signing up for GMail accounts to everyone. When I went to check GMail I realized that the link to create a GMail account is displayed only to users connecting from US. And it is for obvious reasons. You need a valid US cellphone to open a new [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/open-gmail-signup-for-non-us-users/

Date: 08/26/05     Keywords: mysql, sql, security, web, hosting

One of the strong security concerns in shared hosting environments is whether your sensitive data like MySQL server login/password or other login/password is actually safe from other users sharing the same web hosting machine. Few shared hosting providers do not provide telnet/ssh. They are normally more secure. However I would not recommend them for two [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-determine-if-your-sensitive-data-is-safe-in-shared-hosting/

Date: 08/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor in Venezuela, offered on Tuesday to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline. "We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States," the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba. Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/venezuelan-president-hugo-chavez-offers-cheap-gas-to-poor-in-us/

Date: 08/26/05     Keywords: spam

I enjoyed this short informative movie about preventing hacking and protecting your computer from Sunrise, a broadband provider from Switzerland. It talks about firewalls, IP address blocking, spamming, trojans etc. in a easy to understand format. It can be a refreshing reminder for experienced and a good starting point for new users. Check it out.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/short-movie-about-computer-hacking/

Date: 08/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

Exective Summary: There aren’t any. The first potential alternative is a promising breakthrough in the biotech world of stem cell research with the news that Harvard scientists reported taking skincells to generate embryonic stem cells. Researcher Kevin Eggan and his colleagues achieved this dramatic medical advance by fusing individual adult skin cells and bone cells to embryonic [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-truth-about-embryonic-stem-cell-alternatives/

Date: 08/25/05     Keywords: java

Seattle's Melodeo Inc., a two year old startup, will release free Java ME enabled Mobilcast service which will allow you to search and download (and obviously listen) to Podcasts on your cell phone instead of or in addition to your iPod. It will first be released as a Symbian application for Nokia Series 60 phones, then [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/you-podcast-we-podcast-ipodcast-for-your-java-me-cell-phone/

Date: 08/24/05     Keywords: php, rss, xml

After briefly scanning the eleven defects fixed in 1.5.2 (an interim release before WordPress 1.6) I identified the changed files. They are: xmlrpc.php comment-functions.php wp-admin/post.php pluggable-functions.php registration-functions.php wp-admin/categories.php wp-commentsrss2.php wp-includes/template-functions-category.php edit-page-form.php I am shortly planning to provide a patch update from 1.5.1.3 to 1.5.2. Hang on.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/files-changed-from-wordpress-1513-to-wordpress-152/

Date: 08/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

A Korean husband-and-wife scientist team has made headway in adult stem cell research by discovering a gene in charge of differentiating the parent cells in human bodies. “Up until now, researchers have dug up many factors involved in the differentiation of adult stem cells. But this is the first time that a gene modulating all of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/key-to-holy-grail-of-stem-cell-research-found-by-korean-scientists/

Date: 08/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

The US-based Cryo-Cell International (CCI), a family cord blood bank, has announced that it has processed and cryogenically preserved cord blood stem cells for over 100,000 clients and the company believes that it is the first and only family cord blood bank in the world to achieve this milestone. Read more on the The Stem Cell [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/milestone-in-family-cord-blood-bank/

Date: 08/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

In recent years, cord blood transplants, peripheral blood stem cell transplants and bone marrow transplants have become mainstream treatments for patients with certain life-threatening blood, genetic or immune system disorders. They offer hope of remission or cure for people with diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, severe aplastic anemia, severe combined immunodeficiency, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, thalassemia [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bone-marrow-stem-cell-cord-blood-transplants-offer-hope-of-remission-in-life-threatening-blood-genetic-or-immune-system-disorders/