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A man accidentally brought his loaded .40 caliber gun onto an airplane. He didnt know he had it. Neither did the TSA, who completely missed it during its scan and allowed that plane to fly. Apparently, this happens a lot.Farid Seif, a Houston businessman, usually carries the weapon around for protection. He didnt realize he had kept the glock in his carry-on computer bag until he was mid-flight. Once he landed, he immediately reported the incident and was stunned he was able to get it on board without hassle. That something like this happened should be scary in itself, but authorities tell ABC News says that that sort of incident isnt exactly uncommon:Experts say every year since the September 11 attacks, federal agencies have conducted random, covert tests of airport security.A person briefed on the latest tests tells ABC News the failure rate approaches 70 percent at some major airports. Two weeks ago, TSAs new director said every test gun, bomb part or knife got past screeners at some airports.We put up with the TSA and their foolish methods in the name of security but if theyre not keeping us secure, well shit, why do we put up with it? Heres the news report on the incident:

via The TSA Let a Loaded Gun Get on an Airplane.

By Donald Melanson posted Dec 15th 2010 at 3:44PM

Been waiting for a carrier to shave a bit off the price of the Galaxy Tab before you took the plunge? Well, you now have your first option to consider — T-Mobile has just knocked $50 off the on-contract price of the tablet, bringing it own to $349.99 for those willing to sign a two-year term (the off-contract price unfortunately remains unchanged). Incidentally, T-Mobile has also dropped the price of the Samsung Vibrant down to $150, although that’s not the first time a Galaxy S device has been discounted. Of course, while T-Mobile is the first to start discounting the Tab, it almost certainly won’t be the last. We’ll keep you posted on any other changes.

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Man For the first time ever, a man has been cured of HIV. The remedy may nearly have killed him, but it opens a door—just a crack—to hope that we may someday kill off the scourge for good.Strangely enough, the diagnosis that most concerned Timothy Ray Brown in 2007 was acute myeloid leukemia. HIV has been increasingly thought of as a manageable disease, though certainly a terribly burdensome one. What brought the 42-year old Brown under the care of Germanys Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin hospital was the more immediate threat his cancer posed.The treatment Brown underwent was aggressive: chemotherapy that destroyed the majority of his immune cells. Total body irradiation. Finally, a risky stem-cell transplant that nearly a third of patients dont survive—but that appears to have completely cured Brown of HIV.Doctors were savvy when they chose a stem cell donor for Brown. The man whose bone marrow they used has a particular genetic mutation, present in an incredibly small percentage of people, that makes him almost invulnerable to HIV. With Browns own defenses decimated by treatments, the healthy, HIV-resistant donor cells repopulated his immune system. Three years later, having taken no antiretroviral drugs since the transplant, extensive testing shows no signs whatsoever of HIV.Hes cured.What does this mean for the future of treatment? Its not as though every HIV patient can or wou

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7 Million People Actually Believe that Facebook Will Become a Pay Site Theres a new Facebook group called “We Will Not Pay To Use Facebook. Need As Many Members Possible To Stop This!.” The members of this group apparently believe that this is true. I would usually brush something like this off, but the group has 2.7 Million members! All of these people apparently think Facebook is on its way to becoming a pay site. The info on this group states that because of Facebooks popularity that Mark Zuckerberg will sell the site, and that the people he sells it to “WILL turn it into a paysite.” How does the creator of this group know for sure that the buyer “WILL” do this? He doesnt. Zuckerberg hasnt sold it so far, and while it is a possibility, there is no way that anyone would expect 200 million users to begin paying for the service. More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once a day. Thats an incredible number that would drop significantly if everyone had to begin paying. Theres a business model in the new age of “Social Media,” and it includes providing a free service while making ad revenue

via 7 Million People Actually Believe that Facebook Will Become a Pay Site | KOSSOME MEDIA.

Beginner Tip: How to reset Your iPhone keyboard dictionary by Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Dec 10, 2010, 9 Comments Frustrated that your iPhone auto-correct dictionary has “learned” an incorrect word and curious how to reset it? Worried you might have a damnyouautocorrect moment when SMS’ing that important contact? Apple doesn’t give you very many options when it comes to editing dictionary entries but if your iPhone has learned to incessantly auto-correct something that isn’t right, there’s an easy way to fix it. We’ll show you how after the break.Until Apple gives us the option to individually edit entries into the keyboard dictionary, the only option we have is to reset it. Not ideal, but it does fix any incorrect entries the phone may have learned. As a side note, you can also do this on the iPad and iPod Touch as well.Go to Settings: General: ResetTap Reset Keyboard Settings. Your keyboard dictionary will reset back to factory default. I’ve had a few times where my iPhone or iPad has learned an annoying word combination from me either entering a word wrong and dismissing the

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