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Would You Like Drugs in Your Rice?

Posted by michael on from the why-yes-i-would dept.

Digitus1337 writes "Wired has the scoop on a new type of rice that was just approved for production by a narrow vote. 'Ventria believes growing drugs that produce proteins like lactoferrin and lysozyme in rice could be a cheaper way to develop drugs than building and maintaining expensive manufacturing plants... Opponents say growing the crops in open fields endangers organic and conventional crops, as well as human health...'" Update: 03/30 23:15 GMT by T : That should probably read "growing rice that produces proteins like lactoferrin and lysozyme."

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  1. Hey... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Am I imagining things, or did somebody just let one rip in here?

  2. testing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    testing

  3. Let's make fun of "M$"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...when meanwhile, buffer overflows galore in OSS, like GLSA's recent announcements for Apache 2. This is just Apache2! See www.linuxsecurity for endless buffer overflows and exploits, hundreds PER WEEK compared to how many per month that Windows has? So much for everyone making fun of IIS all the time:

    Multiple security vulnerabilities in Apache 2

    A memory leak in mod_ssl allows a remote denial of service attack against an SSL-enabled server via plain HTTP requests. Another flaw was found when arbitrary client-supplied strings can be written to the error log, allowing the exploit of certain terminal emulators. A third flaw exists with the mod_disk_cache module.

    For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

    UUDeview MIME Buffer Overflow

    A specially-crafted MIME file (.mim, .uue, .uu, .b64, .bhx, .hqx, and .xxe extensions) may cause UUDeview to crash or execute arbitrary code.

    For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

    Multiple remote buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Courier

    Remote buffer overflow vulnerabilites have been found in Courier-IMAP and Courier MTA. These exploits may allow the execution of abritrary code, allowing unauthorized access to a vulnerable system.

    For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

    Multiple remote overflows and vulnerabilities in Ethereal

    Mulitple overflows and vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal which may allow an attacker to crash the program or run arbitrary code.

    For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

    oftpd DoS vulnerability

    A remotely-exploitable overflow exists in oftpd, allowing an attacker to crash the oftpd daemon.

    For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

    Buffer overflow in Midnight Commander

    A remotely-exploitable buffer overflow in Midnight Commander allows arbitrary code to be run on a user's computer

    For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement

  4. MDMA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We need more MDMA.

  5. Timothy's update by bonch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it "should probably read" that, why don't you just change it?

  6. Re:Pharmin Phool by spRed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +1 ROFL.

    You might have added a 'dumbass' so mods would notice (reading comments before moderation doesn't seem to be a popular habit).

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  7. Shut the fuck up, Michael by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    See subject.

  8. No, I'd just like her to testify by weston · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Would You Like Drugs in Your Rice?

    No, I'd just like her to testify for the damn 9/11 commission already.

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  9. We Need To Ban DHMO by btakita · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Its far more dangerous than GM food.