Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- China is risking a Japan-style bubble unless the country?s regulators tighten liquidity conditions, BNP Paribas said. ?We?re entering a phase where China could experience similar asset bubble that we saw in Japan in the 1980s,? said Erwin Sanft , head of China and Hong Kong equities research at BNP Paribas.

BEIJING, Nov 23 (Reuters) - China should immediately halt some of its real estate stimulus policies, or risk inflating a bubble that in its bursting would wreak financial and even social trouble, a government newspaper said on Monday.

BEIJING, Nov 23 (Reuters) - China should immediately halt some of its real estate stimulus policies, or risk inflating a bubble that in its bursting would wreak financial and even social trouble, a government newspaper said on Monday. An opinion piece in the Financial News, a newspaper published by the central bank, said rampant speculation in the country's property market was akin to a time ...

Will a growing real estate bubble in China result in the pop heard 'round the world?

As rising property prices in China threaten to become a bubble, policymakers are faced with difficult choices

Israel will anger all Muslims if it does not resolve Jerusalem's disputed status, Egypt's president warned his Israeli counterpart on Sunday.

Israeli stocks were steady on Sunday, with strength in the drugmakers and the telecom companies offset by weakness in the banks and Israel Chemicals.

Israeli planes have bombed two weapons factories in Gaza in retaliation for the launch of a Palestinian rocket into southern Israel.

Israel will anger all Muslims if it does not resolve Jerusalem's disputed status, Egypt's president warned his Israeli...

The Post rightly notes the abject failure of President Obama?s current policies toward Iran (?O?s F on Iran,? Editorial, Nov. 15). Obama?s overall strategy, however, is quite simple: Do nothing, wait for Israel to bomb Iran and then blame Israel for ...

PC World - When Google unveiled its open source Chrome OS on Thursday, many commentators were quick to dismiss the new operating system as unimpressive and underwhelming.

InfoWorld - Ruby, the popular open source dynamic language, is making headway not only on Java but also on the Windows and Mac platforms.

PC World - The open source version of Google Chrome OS was released on Thursday, and tech wizards didn't waste any time turning the code into a workable test version of the new operating system. If you don't want to wait until next year to see what's going on with Chrome OS, then follow this handy guide to find all the information you need to get the new system up and running on almost any computer.

PC Magazine - Not surprisingly, developers have already snapped up the code to Google's open-source Chrome OS, known as Chromium, then compiled it and put it on the Web for users to download.

PC Magazine - Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, one of the more user-friendly versions of Linux around, has agreed to assist Google with its Chrome OS.

0xdeadbeef writes "Two weeks ago, MIT artist-in-residence Joe Davis use the Arecibo radio telescope to send a message to three stars in honor of the 35th anniversary of the famous Drake-Sagan transmission to M13 in 1974. It was apparently allowed but not endorsed by the director of the facility, and used a jury-rigged signal source on what will now be known as the 'coolest iPhone in the world.' The message encoded a DNA sequence, but no word yet on whether it disabled any alien shields. You can get the low-down on Centauri Dreams: Part 1, Part 2."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/013255/After-35-Years-Another-Message-Sent-From-Arecibo?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/23/013255"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/23/013255/After-35-Years-Another-Message-Sent-From-Arecibo?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YvRIThEFB73rQ8XtCsFGc0g68LQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YvRIThEFB73rQ8XtCsFGc0g68LQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YvRIThEFB73rQ8XtCsFGc0g68LQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YvRIThEFB73rQ8XtCsFGc0g68LQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/BkQmGoX30oM" height="1" width="1"/

pdclarry writes "A recent study by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University found that a piece of tuna sushi may not be tuna at all: 'A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a health hazard,' wrote the authors. 'All three of these cases were uncovered in this study.' The study, published in PLoS ONE examined 68 samples of tuna sushi purchased from 31 restaurants in Manhattan (New York City) and Denver, Colorado. Some of these were from endangered species, others were not as labeled, and some one not tuna at all. Of these last 5 samples labeled as "white tuna" were from a toxic fish, Escolar, which is a gempylid species banned for sale in Italy and Japan due to health concerns. "It can cause gastrointestinal symptoms range from mild and rapid passage of oily yellow or orange droplets, to severe diarrhea with nausea and vomiting. The milder symptoms have been referred to as keriorrhea [i.e. flow of wax in Greek]." Fraud in sushi is not new; Slashdot also reported study on mislabeling in 2008. This new study shows that some sushi can actually make you sick. The study was also reported in Wired."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2313225/Is-That-Sushi-Hazardous-To-Your-Health?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/22/2313225"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2313225/Is-That-Sushi-Hazardous-To-Your-Health?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G_C2oryBVBTielIhS0_58OCvpqY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G_C2oryBVBTielIhS0_58OCvpqY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G_C2oryBVBTielIhS0_58OCvpqY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G_C2oryBVBTielIhS0_58OCvpqY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/wHnYy9uyVrU" height="1" width="1"/

ElectricSteve writes "Scientists at Cornell University report they can now use a light beam carrying a single milliwatt of power to move objects and even change the optical properties of silicon from opaque to transparent at the nanometric scale." As the article says, such an advancement "could prove very useful for the future of micro-electromechanical (MEMS) and micro-optomechanical (MOMS) systems."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2238227/Light-Resonators-Used-To-Move-Nano-Sized-Objects?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/22/2238227"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2238227/Light-Resonators-Used-To-Move-Nano-Sized-Objects?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sGtj6zyb5es2P-oHJyHBb7LCWm4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sGtj6zyb5es2P-oHJyHBb7LCWm4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sGtj6zyb5es2P-oHJyHBb7LCWm4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sGtj6zyb5es2P-oHJyHBb7LCWm4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/3muGg1fOQUw" height="1" width="1"/

MeatballCB writes "Hey folks. Being the 'technical' guy of the family, I often get calls from friends and family members when they're having PC issues. Most of these folks are not technical, so trying to troubleshoot problems over the phone can often be a challenge. Anyone know of a simple to use, and preferably free, service that would allow for remote viewing/control of their PC's. I know there's WebEx and GoToMyPC, but I hate to pay for something I'd use once every two months. I also know about VNC, but trying to walk someone through opening up ports on their router that thinks their Internet is broken when their homepage gets changed is not realistic. Anyone know of anything that would be easy to set up and use?"pa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2037219/Simple-Free-Web-Remote-PC-Control?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/22/2037219"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2037219/Simple-Free-Web-Remote-PC-Control?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JzVL56gfvy-2dhwb1g76gwxB4rQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JzVL56gfvy-2dhwb1g76gwxB4rQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JzVL56gfvy-2dhwb1g76gwxB4rQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JzVL56gfvy-2dhwb1g76gwxB4rQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/_IvD9Bm6QBs" height="1" width="1"/

theodp writes "Google has actually managed to patent displaying patents. The USPTO issued US Patent No. D603,866 to six Google inventors for their Graphical user interface for display screen of a communications terminal. Among the six inventors is the guy who introduced Google Patents. Ironically, Google Patents can't seem to find the new Google patent for Google Patents."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2019219/Google-Patents-Displaying-Patents?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/22/2019219"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/2019219/Google-Patents-Displaying-Patents?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MgrpKyCQZvEREkqDuDi73Z5kjpc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MgrpKyCQZvEREkqDuDi73Z5kjpc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MgrpKyCQZvEREkqDuDi73Z5kjpc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MgrpKyCQZvEREkqDuDi73Z5kjpc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/C977EqP4Cck" height="1" width="1"/