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I only just read about this topic where cancer patients were given doses of medicine that were too small. The usual dose of carboplatin is between 200 milligrams and 300 milligrams, with variations made depending on the patient. But a flat dose of 100 milligrams was given to head or neck...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-29/obesity-health-crisis-new-modelling/7888554 Key points: New Modelling predicts one in three adults will be classified as obese by 2025 Young adults gaining more weight than they were in previous generations Women will fare worse, with one in...

A young boy has fallen from one escalator to another about five metres below at a Gold Coast shopping centre. Paramedics rushed to the Robina Town Centre after reports the four-year-old fell about 2.30pm on Tuesday. It is believed the incident happened inside David Jones. Queensland Ambulance...

Private astronomer Owen Bennedict from Wappa Falls Observatory said he'd received reports from around a 100-kilometre radius, indicating "whatever it was, it was big". He said reports indicated the space rock either hit earth or exploded in the sky above the planet, causing shockwaves to...

Someone broke into Opera's servers. The Opera browser has a handy feature for synchronizing browsing data across different devices. Unfortunately, some of the passwords and login information used to enable the feature may have been stolen from Opera's servers. Opera's sync service is used by...

Just pointing out here that I noticed a thread was locked and another one with the same name started so I didn't read either of them since I was last here earlier today. All you people have someone to support you in your lives. Most would have had parents who were supportive, and many have a...

https://www.google.com.au/?#q=windows+8.1+"critical+stop"+random Does anyone else have random beeps from their Windows computer? "Critical Stop" is a sound event which Windows plays after an error occurs. It's a nasty noise, and I changed the wav file for this one to something less jarring...

Didn't this happen in that documentary "2001 - A Space Odyssey" ? http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/nasa-is-monitoring-an-enormous-dark-region-spreading-across-the-surface-of-the-sun/news-story/09ee8292bfb45461d1f33773a06d303b

http://www.ibtimes.com.au/danish-study-warns-men-drinking-4-cups-cola-day-reduces-sperm-count-21-million-milliliter-1521171 Coke sales should triple! All those young men who don't want nuffin to do with a baybee have the solution!

Don'cha hate the way that nobody is up front and honest with faults?

What's that Advert ? Going down and staying down. :poke

Well eggs, anyway.. Your free range eggs might get a little crowded in the carton. Below is the egg carton at the CSIRO. The new egg cooker here is going great, now I just need a bacon cooker!

Scientists observed Jupiter’s X-ray aurora – its “northern lights” – for the first time during the onslaught of a solar storm, with parts flaring to eight times as bright as normal.

A Trojan program, dubbed USB Thief by researchers at security firm ESET, infects USB drives that contain portable installations of popular applications such as Firefox, NotePad++, or TrueCrypt, and it also seems to be designed to steal information from so-called air-gapped computers. "In the...

That's the age of the youngest galaxy seen so far. :happy One of the holy grails of cosmology is to measure, directly, exactly when the first stars and galaxies formed in our Universe. The Hubble Space Telescope has been pushing the distance record farther and farther back, with its...

Interesting! Two engineers from Cisco and Google have raised the problem of IPv6 networks that drain smartphone battery life and issued a series of tips for other network admins on why and how to properly configure their networks. The problem is because of Router Advertisements (RAs). These are...

Fishers and conservationists urge release of herpes virus to kill Murray river carp :laugh:

A $5 million lawsuit filed in New York federal court alleges that Apple's iOS 9 mobile operating software significantly slows down the iPhone 4S. According to the complaint: "The update significantly slowed down their iPhones and interfered with the normal usage of the device, leaving Plaintiff...

I was posting earlier and clicked on the strikethrough option on the black plus - and my words came out with a line through them (as they should) - but I couldn't turn it off again! I tried clicking on strikethrough a second time to toggle it off again - no good, words still had lines through...

There's a Nexus 6P 64GB Silver at Costco - and I'm not recommending it at all, just that it's supposed to be cheap. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/227497 I'm a little amused at the cheap price tag, because it it $799 and my mind takes me back to where my first car cost me $300. Even these...

I wonder how many of the people who were involved in this report have worked on the weekend for a long while? I bet any Sunday work they had was limited to driving to their holiday house in their BMW. :D Sunday penalty rates for cafe, restaurant, entertainment and retail workers should be...

A new bug in Outlook allows attackers only to send you an email, and without clicking or downloading attachments, a user's computer can be compromised. The bug is because Outlook allows Flash objects to be previewed without a sandbox. Flash files are demon spawns and attackers can put exploits...

According to the Associated Press, "A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, a difference the authors contend undermines the government's position that more cases have been...

What you call them depends where you are I guess... but I just went to Spotlight and got two of these Brampton House 50/50 Wool Polyester Quilt There is a fantastic colour selection - check it out! I have no idea if they are good value - I needed one and drove to the closest place. :lol...

Edward Snowden, the former contractor who leaked National Security Agency secrets publicly in 2013, is now getting attention for an odd subject: aliens. In a podcast interview with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Snowden suggested that alien communications might be encrypted so well that...

I find this a little amusing - world powers having disagreements about national security allowing them to do anything. I guess it could fragment the internet in many ways... As the Snowden revelations have shown, personal data stored in the United States of America is not protected from the US...

Kidding. This is an interesting story though: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity—which uses geometry to describe how gravity shapes the universe and celestial motions—has withstood every test scientists have thrown at it. But one festering problem is starting to raise eyebrows...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - At least 717 people were killed, and 863 were injured, in a stampede near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday morning. jeebus!

Hundreds of properties stretching along the route of the cross-city Melbourne Metro Rail project from North Melbourne to South Yarra will be compulsorily acquired by the Andrews Government. The Melbourne Metro Rail Authority on Monday sent letters to 21,000 residents and businesses along the...

Two blokes stole a trailer and then drove around filling it up with more stolen goods. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/thieves-nick-trailer-then-drive-through-melbourne-stealing-looting-and-loading/story-fnglenug-1227538049884 Someone is going to dob them in for sure!

A significant number of Apple customers are reporting their mobile devices have crashed after attempting to upgrade to the new iOS 9 operating system Twitter and other social media were awash with disgruntled customers reporting two distinct faults, with one appearing to be linked specifically...

The latest Android (lollipop) phone flaw... Locked phones require a passcode. But there's a way to get around that. Just type in an insanely long password. That overloads the computer, which redirects you to the phone's home screen. Google has acknowledged the flaw, saying that the hack lets...

There is a major vulnerability in a library in iOS and OS X that allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on a target device and, when used in conjunction with other techniques, install a signed app that the device will trust without prompting the user with a warning dialog. Mark Dowd...

Researchers from Purdue University have developed a software tool for Android smartphones that purportedly slows down battery drain when handsets enter a sleep state. With the software tool installed, the researchers claim that smartphone battery life can be extended by nearly 16 percent. Called...

Police officers are trained to shoot for the center of mass, not necessarily to kill, but to stop – although the end result can often be one and the same. "The Alternative" is designed to give officers a less lethal option in the form of a clip-on "air bag" for semiautomatic pistols that reduces...

Happy Father's Day for you blokes wot have em!

Security researchers from G DATA have published research (PDF) into Android phones produced in China, which found that a large number of devices ship with pre-installed malware and spyware. Affected models include the Xiaomi MI3, Huawei G510, Lenovo S860, Alps A24, Alps 809T, Alps H9001, Alps...

http://www.msy.com.au/qld/slackscreek/input-device/13039--logitech-mx800-920-006244-wireless-performance-combo-kmms.html Wireless illuminated keyboard - with mouse I bought one - different to the older illuminated keyboard keytops, a little more plastic, but I still like it and it's similar in...

Antelopes - 120,000 suddenly died. :wtf: International experts are investigating the sudden deaths of more than 100,000 endangered saiga antelope in Kazakhstan, officials said Wednesday, raising fears that a species that has been around since the Ice Age may be at risk of dying out. Around...