Tasunke's Random Ramblings

Just yesterday, Steve Jobs posted an article to Apple’s website entitled “Thoughts on Music” which addresses DRM and why it is currently necessary for the iTunes music store. That being that the big four music companies insisted on it being used and effective (meaning that Apple must patch any holes that show up in it), or they will pull their music libraries from the iTunes store. He also addresses the issue of it being kept proprietary, and why that is a necessity. My intent is to briefly explain some of the arguments presented in that article and give my own commentary on such. (more…)

Newscientist.com reports that a drug that is commonly used to treat certain rare metabolic disorders has been found by a group of University of Alberta scientists to cause cancer cells to self-destruct. Cancer cells have shut off their mitochondria, and thus don’t get the usual signals sent by mitochondria that tell an abnormal cell to die. This drug turns back on the mitochondria, which causes the cancerous cells to die. This has been tested on both human cells cultured outside of the body, and on rats, no clinical trials on humans have been conducted yet.
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