Hackers strike against Swedish websites

(AP) ? Hackers have struck at least two Swedish government-affiliated websites, shutting down one of them in a denial-of-service attack and leaving links to profane messages on the other.

The attacks come just days after police on Monday raided a Stockholm-based webhosting company, PRQ, and a video was posted on YouTube ? allegedly made on behalf of the hacker group Anonymous ? warning Swedish authorities of repercussions.

Police spokesman Anders Ahlqvist says the website of Sweden's Courts Administration was swamped with false users, while links to a foul message was left at the National Board of Health and Welfare. Both sites are running again.

PRQ Head Mikael Viborg says his company previously hosted servers for file-sharing site the Pirate Bay and still houses some servers for the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks.

Associated Press

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Report: Some dietary supplements illegally labeled

This undated photo released by the Office of Inspector General of Department of Health and Human Services shows a label from a dietary supplement. Federal watchdogs say many dietary supplements marketed to help consumers lose weight or boost their immune systems are illegally labeled and rely on shoddy evidence to support their health claims, according to a new report on government oversight of the $20 billion supplement industry. (AP Photo/Office of Inspector General of Department of Health and Human Services)

This undated photo released by the Office of Inspector General of Department of Health and Human Services shows a label from a dietary supplement. Federal watchdogs say many dietary supplements marketed to help consumers lose weight or boost their immune systems are illegally labeled and rely on shoddy evidence to support their health claims, according to a new report on government oversight of the $20 billion supplement industry. (AP Photo/Office of Inspector General of Department of Health and Human Services)

This undated photo released by the Office of Inspector General of Department of Health and Human Services shows a label from a dietary supplement. Federal watchdogs say many dietary supplements marketed to help consumers lose weight or boost their immune systems are illegally labeled and rely on shoddy evidence to support their health claims, according to a new report on government oversight of the $20 billion supplement industry. (AP Photo/Office of Inspector General of Department of Health and Human Services)

(AP) ? Dozens of weight loss and immune system supplements on the market are illegally labeled and lack the recommended type of scientific evidence to back up their purported health claims, government investigators warn in a new review of the $20 billion supplement industry.

The report, released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general, found that 20 percent of the 127 weight loss and immune-boosting supplements investigators purchased online and in retail stores across the country carried labels that made illegal claims to cure or treat disease.

In addition, many of those and other supplements lacked the scientific studies recommended to support their suggested uses.

Some products went so far as to state that the supplements could cure or prevent diabetes or cancer, or that they could help treat people with HIV or AIDS, which is strictly prohibited under federal law.

Consumers may not just be wasting their money on pills or tablets, but they could be endangering their health if they take a supplement in place of a drug thinking it will have the same effect, the report concluded.

"Consumers rely on a supplement's claims to determine whether the product will provide a desired effect, such as weight loss or immune support," the report said. "Supplements that make disease claims could mislead consumers into using them as replacements for prescription drugs or other treatments for medical conditions, with potentially dangerous results."

The market for dietary supplements ? which can include anything from Vitamin C tablets to capsules of echinacea ? is a huge one with hundreds of products. The inspector general's investigation focused on one segment that officials said is booming.

Federal law doesn't require supplements to go through rigorous testing to prove they are safe or even that they work. The Food and Drug Administration can act only after consumers get sick or a safety issue comes to light.

The Office of Inspector General found that in numerous cases, when companies did submit evidence to back up their health claims, it fell far short of government recommendations.

One company submitted a 30-year-old handwritten college term paper to substantiate its claim, while others included news releases, advertisements and links to Wikipedia or an online dictionary, according to the report.

Overall, the review raises questions about whether the system is allowing companies to mislead consumers, investigators said, and recommended that FDA ramp up its oversight. The report did not name individual brands or products, and also did not estimate the total number of dietary supplements on the market.

In response, the food safety agency said it would consider asking Congress for more oversight powers to review supplement companies' evidence proving their products' purported health benefits. FDA agreed that the agency should expand surveillance of the market to detect spurious claims that supplements can cure or treat specific diseases.

Investigators also found that 7 percent of the weight loss and immune support supplements they surveyed lacked the required disclaimer stating that FDA had not reviewed whether the statement on the label was truthful.

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NEWSMAKER-Baseball-Tigers' Cabrera boosts Hall of Fame credentials

Oct 3 (Reuters) - Miguel Cabrera is the talk of Major League Baseball (MLB) after becoming the first player in 45 years to hit for the Triple Crown on Wednesday, but the Detroit Tigers slugger was not part of any champagne-filled celebration.

Mindful that Cabrera has had a well-publicised battle with alcohol, tubs of ice in the Detroit clubhouse are stocked with alcohol-free beverages just as they were on Tuesday when the Tigers secured a second consecutive division crown.

After winning the battle of the bottle, Cabrera has won a place in the record books with a season for the ages that could one day propel him into the Hall of Fame as chants of "MVP, MVP, MVP" are finally drowning out whispers that the 29-year-old Venezuelan was a superb athlete but troubled man.

The seven-time All-Star has 321 home runs and 1,123 RBI in 10 major league seasons, underlining his value by helping the Florida Marlins to a World Series title in his rookie year.

But away from the ballpark, Cabrera has made headlines with a string of worrying drink-related offences.

Despite the red flags, Detroit traded for the big-hitting infielder in 2007 and signed him to an extension that made him the fourth-highest paid MLB player at the time, a clear gamble that his off-field problems were a thing of the past.

They were not.

In October 2009, with Detroit battling for the AL Central crown, Cabrera's wife filed a domestic violence complaint against him after an alleged night of drinking that resulted in an off-season spent in an alcohol treatment program.

Prior to 2011 Spring Training, Cabrera was in trouble again, arrested on charges of drunk driving and resisting arrest.

But Cabrera rewarded the patience and loyalty of the Tigers organisation by carrying the team through large stretches of a challenging 162-game regular season.

When Detroit signed prized off-season free agent Prince Fielder, Cabrera graciously accepted a move from first base to third base to accommodate the new arrival.

Combining the brute power of a classic slugger and the pure finesse of a leadoff hitter, Cabrera is now the first player to lead his league in batting average, home runs and runs batted in since Boston's Carl Yastrzemski in 1967.

Perhaps Cabrera's most remarkable quality has been his consistency. He has driven in over 100 runs in each of the last nine seasons and hit more than 30 homers in eight of those.

"He's a once-in-a-lifetime player," gushed Tigers General Manager Dave Dombrowski, who knew better than anyone about the tremendous upside Cabrera could bring to a team having signed him to the Marlins as a raw 16-year-old talent.

Cabrera arrived on the major league scene with a bang, slamming a walk-off home run in his Marlins debut in 2003. In his first game with Detroit in 2008, he celebrated his arrival again with a home run.

Tigers fans hope there will be plenty more to reasons to party in the coming weeks as Detroit makes a run at the Motor City's first World Series title since 1984.

But if the Tigers do win the Fall Classic, any celebration involving Cabrera will be quenched by non-alcoholic drinks.

"He had problems, well-documented, and he's turned things around," said Tigers ace Justin Verlander. "He doesn't drink anymore, he doesn't go out, and he doesn't get in trouble." (Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto; Editing by Frank Pingue)

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'Lost' 1983 Steve Jobs tape shares vision of iPad

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About six?months before the first?Macintosh was unveiled,?Steve Jobs spoke to the?International Design Conference in Aspen, with the conference theme being "The Future Isn?t What It Used To Be."

It was a fitting title, and the first part of Jobs' remarks were referenced?in a recent?Smithsonian Magazine piece by Jobs' biographer Walter Issacson.

But the?nearly 40-minute, question-and-answer session after the speech?with Jobs had not been publicly shared until now.

It became?available this week by Marcel Brown, who received a copy of the cassette tape???yes, cassette tape???of the speech from one of his clients who attended the the event?in June 1983,

You can hear the digitized version of the whole thing on Brown's website, Life, Liberty and Technology. With Friday marking a year since Jobs died, the release of the tape???and Brown's efforts to "present this recording to the world so that it may be preserved indefinitely"???reminds us of Jobs' passion, salesmanship, arrogance, insight and beyond; yes, the V-word: vision for products that really did come true. Chief among them, the iPad, introduced by Apple in 2010.

In talking about the physical?form that computers would take one?day, Jobs said that that while they were about the size of a breadbox at that time, "We will find a way to put it in a shoebox, and sell it for $2,500, and finally, we'll find a way to put it in a book."

That book, he said, would be one that "you can carry around with you that you can learn how to use in 20 minutes."

That computer?pricing of $2,500 has pretty much held true for the past nearly 30 years for many of Apple's "shoebox"-scale desktops and laptops. Though Jobs perhaps didn't know how to forecast the price of a "book" computer, the iPad, of course, first priced in at $499.

Jobs also envisioned the iTunes Store (started in 2003)?and the App Store (2008), as he spoke about the-then?current models of selling software???via boxes and on brick-and-mortar store shelves???as outdated and cumbersome.

Ten years before America Online made email???"You've got mail!"???a hit with the masses, Jobs also talked of electronic mail's importance, as well as that of the Internet-to-come's value to society, something that didn't really take hold until the mid-1990s:

We are all bombarded with information every day ??our ability to turn all that information into something useful for us is very low???if we're really interested in ...?a society where the ability to understand things, and distill information that is possess-able by everyone, the first thing is to get tools to everyone.

Jobs said he saw a time where he could come home to his computer and find, via filtering, for?example, "any congressional testimony?that has to do with gun control, any journal articles published, any newspaper articles published" on the topic, and "I can find out that my congressman gave some testimony last week about gun control that I didn't agree with, so I can?...?write him a pretty nasty letter and zing it on the email system and make sure that one of his aides will read it tomorrow."

He was right about all?that, except for one thing: Now constituents' emails are so numerous, it's unlikely an aide?is going to read them so quickly???or at all.

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    The Down & Dirty welcomes Mike Richards, host of the latest version of The Pyramid, a classic game show dating back to the '70s, and now appearing on the Game Show Network. Mike has worked with Dick Clark, and has also produced programs such as The Price is Right and The Weakest Link.

  • Joining The Callywood Nation is Darcy Donavan with over 300 credits in film, television, print, and music, as well as over a million internet hits weekly. Celebrity Darcy Donavan is a force to be reckoned with.

  • Alveda is the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She?ll be sharing her experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, marching by her Uncle's side at age 16. She will also share her story of being arrested at the time for marching for what she believed in.

  • Travel Brigade cruises out of Southern California. We'll talk about pre and post-cruise activities in the port cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and Long Beach. We'll also talk with Disney Cruise Lines about their new Pixar-inspired California Coastal Cruises.

  • The Chefs welcome Mike Yorkey, author of 75 books including Linsanity and the Playing With Purpose series, to discuss his new book with Eric LeGrand entitled Believe: My Faith and the Tackle That Changed My Life. Yorkey also was a 2010 Christie Award Nominee.

  • Laura Theodore, the Jazzy Vegetarian welcomes Dr. Pam Popper to talk about the effect of carcinogens on cancer.

  • Lenore Luca welcomes Adam Irigoyen to Teen Groove On The Move. Adam is stopping by to talk about his role of Deuce Martinez on Disney's Shake It Up. He currently recording an independent album as well and will tell us about his upcoming single, La Colegiala!

  • The Halli Casser-Jayne Show covers the topic of Burlesque, an art form on the comeback trail with neo-burlesque performer Angie Pontani, 86 year-old Queen of Burlesque Dixie Evans, Sam Goldwyn's granddaughter, Liz Goldwyn, author of Pretty Things and so much more.

  • Host Marie Stroughter interviews the man behind the hit movie, Obama's America: 2016, Dinesh D'Souza; then fresh from her visit to The View, guest Ann Coulter discusses her new book, Mugged.

  • America's Most Haunted Radio welcomes Aaron Sagers, author, journalist, raconteur, hat-wearer, NYU professor, proprietor of ParanormalPopCulture.com, and most recently host and co-exec producer of Paranormal Paparazzi on Travel Channel.

  • The Lane twins showed great courage coming out as gay to their strict Southern Baptist mom in ultra conservative North Carolina, followed their dreams to New York, then to Hollwood, won Fear Factor & WipeOut and now have a new documentary, Hollywood to Dollywood!

  • VividLife Radio's Ed and Deb Shapiro welcome Congressman Tim Ryan author of Mindful Nation to discuss How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit.

  • Emmy Award winning actor Eric Braeden, best known for his role as Victor Newman on the CBS Daytime soap The Young and the Restless, joins World Footprints to share his travel experiences, early childhood memories and his adventures after immigrating to the US.

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    Visionary transparent memory a step closer to reality

    Wednesday, October 3, 2012

    Researchers at Rice University are designing transparent, two-terminal, three-dimensional computer memories on flexible sheets that show promise for electronics and sophisticated heads-up displays.

    The technique based on the switching properties of silicon oxide, a breakthrough discovery by Rice in 2008, was reported today in the online journal Nature Communications.

    The Rice team led by chemist James Tour and physicist Douglas Natelson is making highly transparent, nonvolatile resistive memory devices based on the revelation that silicon oxide itself can be a switch. A voltage run across a thin sheet of silicon oxide strips oxygen atoms away from a channel 5 nanometers (billionths of a meter) wide, turning it into conductive metallic silicon. With lower voltages, the channel can then be broken and repaired repeatedly, over thousands of cycles.

    That channel can be read as a "1" or a "0," which is a switch, the basic unit of computer memories. At 5 nm, it shows promise to extend Moore's Law, which predicted computer circuitry will double in power every two years. Current state-of-the-art electronics are made with 22 nm circuits.

    The research by Tour, Rice's T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of computer science; lead author Jun Yao, a former graduate student at Rice and now a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard; Jian Lin, a Rice postdoctoral researcher, and their colleagues details memories that are 95 percent transparent, made of silicon oxide and crossbar graphene terminals on flexible plastic.

    The Rice lab is making its devices with a working yield of about 80 percent, "which is pretty good for a non-industrial lab," Tour said. "When you get these ideas into industries' hands, they really sharpen it up from there."

    Manufacturers who have been able to fit millions of bits on small devices like flash memories now find themselves bumping against the physical limits of their current architectures, which require three terminals for each bit.

    But the Rice unit, requiring only two terminals, makes it far less complicated. It means arrays of two-terminal memories can be stacked in three-dimensional configurations, vastly increasing the amount of information a memory chip might hold. Tour said his lab has also seen promise for making multi-state memories that would further increase their capacity.

    Yao's discovery followed work at Rice on graphitic-based memories in which researchers saw strips of graphite on a silicon oxide substrate break and heal when voltage was applied. Yao suspected the underlying silicon oxide was actually responsible, and he struggled to convince his lab colleagues. "Jun quietly continued his work and stacked up evidence, eventually building a working device with no graphite," Tour said. "And still, others said, 'Oh, it was exogenous carbon in the system that did it!' Then he built it with no exposure to carbon on the chip."

    Yao's paper detailing the silicon oxide mechanism appeared in Nature's Scientific Reports in January.

    His revelation became the basis for the next-generation memories being designed in Tour's lab, where the team is building memories out of silicon oxides sandwiched between graphene ? one-atom-thick ribbons of carbon ? and attached to plastic sheets. There's not a speck of metal in the entire unit (with the exception of leads attached to the graphene electrodes).

    The marriage of silicon and graphene would extend the long-recognized utility of the first and prove once and for all the value of the second, long touted as a wonder material looking for a reason to be, Tour said. He noted the devices not only show potential for radiation-hardened devices ? several built at Rice are now being evaluated at the International Space Station ? but also withstand heat up to about 700 degrees Celsius. That means they can be mounted directly atop integrated processors with no ill effects.

    The lab is also building crossbar memories with embedded diodes to better manipulate control voltages, Tour said. "We've been developing this slowly to understand the fundamental switching mechanisms," he said. "Industries have flown in and looked at it, but we're doing basic science here; we don't package things nice and pretty, so what they see looks rudimentary.

    "But this is now transitioning into an applied system that could well be taken up as a future memory system," he said.

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