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  1. Re:So, is HIV still the cause?? on Researchers Crack Major HIV Mystery · · Score: 1
    Why have so many diseases found a comfortable niche as chronic, but treatable?

    Did we not, in years gone by, use to occasionally create cures and preventative vaccinations?

  2. Re:Shooting the messenger on Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of a home owner with a mortgage already in place complain about the value of his home going up.

    Unless the new level of taxes prices a tight budget out of the local housing market.

    I assumed that the protestors were people who couldn't afford their rent because their landlords set higher prices (after their contracts were up)

    I understand what the dynamic of mixing rising prices with static income can do to borderline solvent families. It's a problem in any area that experiences a boom as there are folks on fixed incomes who do not benefit: teachers, city workers, retirees, etc.

    People who rent space for a living are going to raise rates to whatever the market will bear... it's like a pay raise for them.

  3. Re:Ok, ok... on Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims · · Score: 1

    (cannot sift through the whole book, sir).

    Ah, but you could.

  4. NASA is an ugly place for a grading curve. on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1, Insightful
    "Monitoring of the situation is essential for future planning."

    As A poor young man driving a $500 '73 Ford Pickup, I remember carefully monitoring oil consumption, water level, and tread wear on the five dollar maypops I could afford to put on my baby's feet.

    It is common knowledge that NASA has one initial too many for the Brobdingnagian budget, but I was poor as two Mongolian goat herders.

  5. Re:Ok, ok... on Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims · · Score: 1

    "Front of the line." Luther Laurence, "The Given Day"

  6. Re:a finer point on Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims · · Score: 1
    A pristine four.

    There are forces at work beyond my ken.

  7. Re: To all those who reply to privacy concerns... on Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And if the powers that be allowed for community service hours to be worked off in this fashion, there would be a run on drunken collisions with the police station.

  8. Re:Time to sell List of CEOs home addresses on Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims · · Score: 1

    I would concede that some implicit license should be given for information that is of significant public interest vs. purely commerce

    Well at the very least, let's leave enough vagueness in it so the interpretation can be argued by scholars of the law.

    What the hell kind of World will we have if they slip out of the 1%.

  9. Re:Tobacco has the same effect as VX-765 on Researchers Crack Major HIV Mystery · · Score: 2

    It inhibits Caspase 3, necessary for apoptosis... I believe Caspase 1 is necessary for pyroptosis.

  10. Re:Both Science and Nature? on Researchers Crack Major HIV Mystery · · Score: 1

    Induces cellular level suicide, if you will... It could also be a Caspase 1 inhibitor.

  11. Re:Quite a bit different than NSA tracking on It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1
    That 'warrant' thing has been watered down to probable cause with regard to the search of an auto where we reside.

    Probable cause has been watered down to the eye-of-the-beholder method, often adjudicated by a 20 year old with a marine haircut.

  12. Re:Glad to see my tax is being spent wisely on It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1
    "...duck and pheasant shooting"

    We sapiens would find something to fight over even if religion and race were non-existent.

  13. Re:The really exciting thing about this... on Company That Made the First 3D Printed Metal Gun Is Selling Them For $11,900 · · Score: 1

    This. As to the initial offering price tags: If only you can wait... The AMPEX-VRX 1000, the first commercially successful video tape recorder, sold for 50,000 dollars in 1956. I remember paying $89 for the movie Platoon on VHS in the 80's.

  14. Re:Bigger than Jesus? on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 2

    Jesus had a 2000 year head start. 40 million since 2009 is quite an opening, but in any system that returns 630 million hits in .42 seconds for a justin bieber search is just fatally flawed.

  15. Re:Law & Order: DCU on Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit · · Score: 1

    Well done, ac, well done.

  16. "Microsoft has a private police force" on Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit · · Score: 1

    Not nearly quite as unsettling as the government having a public one.

  17. Re:don't connect everything to the internet! on Target Has Major Credit Card Breach · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Of course, my bet is an inside job. With the right people involved, you can bypass almost anything."

    Temp holiday hiring season combined with the traditionally busiest time of the year... the perfect storm for a well organized attack.

  18. Good post. The jury is still out on Snowden as far as I'm concerned, but, it is undeniable that there has been a turn in public sentiment in his favor. It seems unlikely a thirty-year-old system administrator would have foreseen all the geopolitical ramifications of his revelations, but if he acted altruistically (as he claims), he is either very brave or very stupid....conditions not proven to be mutually exclusive.

  19. Nice on Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Say what you will about America, but there's hope here yet. If Snowden is stock, most investors have not only stopped selling, he's fast becoming a savvy "Buy".

  20. Some appointments are forever! on Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality · · Score: 2

    Don't count on the judicial branch to come riding in on a White Horse. legalzoom

  21. I'm surprised at this coming from a Scandinavian country. It sounds much more like something you'd hear from a U.S. court.

    Evidently, no single country has a monopoly on ludicrous.

  22. Re:Tough negotiations, for sure on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    If twelve dollars an hour ($11.70 or so) is the threshold for the poorest 20% of a country, most countries in the world would happily trade places with you. global rich list

  23. Re: Excellent on Playstation 4 Vs Xbox One: Which Shares Better? · · Score: 1

    While I occasionally dabble in the disposal of tobacco in a small series of fires, I am no cigarettte.

  24. Re:Tough negotiations, for sure on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    I have the ability to be funny, but that's not the tone my comment was shooting for.... if only you could've seen my facial expression while I typed. Walmart will be fine without Deutschland, and Deutschland will be fine without Walmart. Admittedly, I'm profiling right, but a search of sauerkraut on Amazon returns 1291 results. Amazon uber alles. Sprechen sie Deutsch, Jerry?

  25. Re:Tough negotiations, for sure on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but surely Bezos will consider the additional loss of inventory in a kleptocracy along with any perceived savings on the labor cost.