Friday, May 29, 2009

Funny Google Street View Images 3

A collection of the funny Google Street View images taken from a variety of websites. More funny Google Street View images: 


Google Street View kills donkey

Scooter gang chases Google Street View

Woman gives birth in street

Cop chases Google Street View

Google Street View gets mooned

Google Street View gets mooned, again

Google Street View chases moose

Google Street View goes cosplaying

Google Street View in the mirror

Google Street View runs over moped

Google Street View: The Documentary

Google Street View gets caught speeding

Google Street View tricycle

Guy with gun chases Google Street View

Guy checks out girl in Miami

Gucci parents let baby crawl alone on sidewalk

Google Street View captures guy grabbing his crotch

Guy on moped checks out girl

Guy lays out Google Street View arrows

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Lawsuit Filed Over Patenting Cancer Genes

When Genae Girard attempted to get a second opinion about her risk for ovarian cancer she found out that Myriad Genetics had patented two genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 associated with cancer and there was no other tests. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging the patent and Girard is joined by several others in the lawsuit: four other cancer patients, by professional organizations of pathologists with more than 100,000 members and by several individual pathologists and genetic researchers. Similar to the AACS encryption key controversy, Myriad Genetics has patented a specific piece of knowledge which is otherwise readily available, here is the DNA sequence for BRCA1. As Jan A. Nowak, president of the Association for Molecular Pathology, says in article "You can’t patent my DNA, any more than you can patent my right arm, or patent my blood." The US National Institutes of Health reported that some 20 percent of the genome, amounting to thousands of genes, has been included in patents claims. For those of you keeping track, there are only about 25,000 genes in the human genome.