Cognitive Enhancement Drugs

Neil Halelamien writes "The LA Times has an article on various cognitive enhancement drugs which are currently undergoing clinical trials. These include ampakines which amplify the strength of electrical signals between neurons, HT-0712 which enhances the transfer from short-term to long-term memory, and gene therapy which revitalizes existing neurons. The article also describes successes with the drug Modafinil, which seems to sharpen attention and mental agility. The side effects of these sorts of drugs are not yet fully known, although many neuroscientists think that they may lead to 'mental clutter' or task-obsessiveness."

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Multiple Firefox Security Flaws Discovered

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad I can't trust Firefox due to the fact that Firefox is full of gaping security holes. Firefox has so many security flawys you could drive a truck through them. To wit:

-Installing Firefox requires downloading an unsigned binary from a random web server
-Installing unsigned extensions is the default action in the Extensions dialog
-There is no way to check the signature on downloaded program files
-There is no obvious way to turn off plug-ins once they are installed
-There is an easy way to bypass the "This might be a virus" dialog

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Re:Multiple Firefox Security Flaws Discovered

[Anonymous Coward]

off topic but seriously, that MSDN blog thing is hilarious. this guy is blaming his own incompetence and inability to properly download software on firefox's design. dumbass

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[Anonymous Coward]

nuff said

Re:This is dangerous

[anonymous cowherd (m]

I, for one, welcome our new rich, buggy overloads.

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[flibberdi]

My cats breath smells like catfood :)