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  1. We can hope or we might be getting Clippy popping up while gaming on you XBox saying "looks like you head shot '420-4everF4gg07N00B69Y0lO' do you want help posting a video of tea bagging them to twitter?" everytime you play a game.

  2. And it's surprisingly simple. And they need it, because they have so many more cells than people do they would have a high risk of cancer without some sort of defense.

    http://www.nature.com/news/how...

    To summarize the contents of the link, elephants just have 20 copies of the p53 gene. To incite cancer, all the copies would have to be disabled, via the most common cancer generating mutation mechanism.

    If you want to engineer people to be cancer resistant, it might be as simple as introducing more copies of the p53 gene into our genome.

    the p16 and p27 genes of the naked mole rat perform a similar function and we human have just the p16 and a crappier version too.

  3. you just described a cellular drm scheme you need to be distoried before the MPAA get ahold of you.

  4. Re: and then block porn / 3rd party candidates / f on GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet they will ban Stormfront...

    why would they block the first Dresden files book

  5. Re:They're boring in a good way on Colin Powell's Private Email Account Has Been Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All his comments look relatively restrained and not particularly "juicy," but that never stopped a good news story before.

    He refers to Hillary as "unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home." That didn't bore me at all!

    chispito said "juicy" not "what everybody already suspected/knew".

  6. Re:Prepare to be on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Only after you reverse the neutron flow of course. See? I watch Doctor Who.

    but you may have to eject the warp core to avoid the tacyons stream created by your flow reversal from blowing up the wormhole. I watched ST:DS9 recently

  7. Re:Prepare to be on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hoverboards, flying cars, self-lacing shoes. Re-watch Back to the Future II for a complete list.

    I would but I am to busy watching the villain of that movie run for president

  8. Where is Padme?! What's going on?!

    she is being covered in hot grits right now.

  9. Re:Venus should be habitable higher up on Venus May Have Been Habitable, Says NASA (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    all this cloud stuff is nothing but hot air

  10. What is up with the Softpedia? Isn't that the website that distributes malware laden software?

    I though that was sourceforge

  11. This is how I keep track of my shit. I have a list I go through on the way out the door out of the car and when I get where I am going.
    Wallet
    Keys
    Cellphone
    Tablet
    Headphones
    Name Badge (when coming to / going from work)
    Backpack
    Jacket
    When I and the wife have a spawn it will be on the list until it is old enough to open car doors on its own.
    As for keeping pets in the vehicle only assholes bring their dog everywhere.
    \beginRant
    Having worked retail. The workers hate you if you bring your "precious" little shit factory inside. They bark and growl piss shit and and make nuisances of themselves. The only reason they don't tell you to take your dog out and not come back until you can figure out how to leave the thing at home is because corporations are afraid of the Americans with Disabilities Act biting them in the ass. Because they aren't allowed to ban service animals and even if they are unmarked. And customers will lie to claim they are service animals and lie to managers that will fire associates that ask or tell customers no non service animals allowed even when it is company policy.
    I remember one time I had a customer who repeatedly brought their non service animal in and it would try to attack other customers but managment wouldn't see anything out of fear even the company policy said no dogs allowed.
    \endRant

  12. just like the Nobel Prizes.

    Excuse me! That would be just the Nobel Peace and Literature prizes. The real Nobel prizes are awarded for science, not politics.
    Of course the science prizes are outdated. e.g. the era of individuals making breakthroughs in physics has gone.

    Yeah the Nobel Prize('s) in the sciences go to the tenured professor that signed his name on the bottom of the paper researched and written by his undergraduates that only let him so they can get their results published in a journal that would otherwise ignore them.

  13. Re:So it's Google then? on This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Your line is vague at best.

    Other people still know what I'm like. And get paid for it.

    no not really.
    google is passing on ads to people the fit the desired critera of the agency placing the ad
    this company selling your info giving this info to those companies.

    your data never leaves google to the advertiser.

  14. Re:So it's Google then? on This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How the fuck is there a difference?

    Each is selling your personal info for money. How they collect it is minor at best.

    there is actually.
    Google doesn't sell their data set. It is part of their secret sauce, they decide what ads you see and the companies advertising just give google the demographic they want to target. So only google knows that you have a fetish for short Asian women wearing hulk hands, so marvel pays google to show adds for avengers toys to people likely to buy them and never know about you or your weird interests. As opposed to this company that simply sells of that info to anybody willing to ask for it.

  15. Re:and the point here? on Avast Suckers GOP Delegates Into Connecting To Insecure Wi-Fi Hotspots (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    So devices automatically connected to spoofed names.. how is that 'news' or relevant to the convention? How would anyone really know if you hit a spoofed wifi like xfinity?

    The only thing of note here is that everyone should be using vpn if they are using public wifi.

    So what if it s fake? check sites that you login to have a valid https cert. if the cert is bad most major browsers will give you repeated warnings not to trust the site. if you are just browsing reddit or slashdot or watching youtube who cares.

  16. Re:I look forward to DNC results on Avast Suckers GOP Delegates Into Connecting To Insecure Wi-Fi Hotspots (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Surely they plan to do the same thing at the Democratic convention - does anyone doubt the results would be similar? People in general, no matter political affiliation, are prone to connect to insecure WiFi. How is that even news?

    I use free Internet but because unless I am buying something or using account that is attached to my bank account/credit card I don't care. When I want to use them I just use Tor anyway so it doesn't matter anyway. When I had a server i would just use it as a VPN by tunneling all of my traffic over it.

  17. Re:And this is why my primary browser isn't Firefo on Firefox To Block Non-Essential Flash Content In August 2016, Require Click-To-Activate In 2017 (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that there will always be wget and emacs

  18. That's the only way to use a cellphone. They can be very convenient, but if you leave them on and not muted, it allows people to annoy you with calls at inappropriate times. Kids who have grown up always-connected may be fine with that, but many of us don't want to be reachable 24/7.

    Or put it on vibrate. It is loud enough I can notice it ring when setting on the (counter || end table || desk || what have you), but quiet enough I can ignore it and go back to (reading || sleeping || gaming || fishing || not giving a f*ck) if its not my wife or a work emergency.

  19. Re:Wow, MPAA did not grease the correct hands in F on Google and Bing Have No Obligation To Censor Searches For Torrents (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    These organisations are not worthy of feeling anything for them. Essentially, if they drown the most they an have from me is a glass of water.

    I say water is to good for the MPAA. Drink the water then drown them with it after.

  20. Re:Just started playing minecraft out of curiosity on Minecraft Movie To Compete With Avengers and Star Wars In 2019 (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    (And if you want to see how bad a public server can get without any kind of protection or moderation, just look up "2B2T")

    last time I was there i was being hunted by the other players and had to spend a half hour hiding in a giant swastika shaped castle someone built in the sky I then had to walk for over a hundred thousand of bocks just to get far far away from other players and find any terrain totally barren of useful resource because the denizens of that server have a scored earth policy.

  21. Re:Just as well on Intel x86s Hide Another CPU That Can Take Over Your Machine -- You Can't Audit it (boingboing.net) · · Score: 5, Informative

    AMD is a cheap knockoff whose entire design philosophy revolves around avoiding patent and copyright lawsuits from Intel. Its in house technology is extremely inferior. The only good thing they can possibly do for the market now is to completely open up all development resources.

    And, let's bring back the alpha chip. It already is superior to Intel. Always has been.

    And GODDAMMIT! Where's our 3D printers that can print homemade computers? We were supposed to have that shit 30 years ago.

    Really...
    Its not like they are the one that made the AMD_64 instruction set that was then in turn licensed to intel...
    While its manufacturing technique is inferior that is because the brain-dead executives sold off their fab and they now have to contract with someone else to do it.
    As for bringing back ALPHA it may have been superior then they stopped developing it in 2001. Intel/AMD have come a long way in 15 years.

  22. Re: The ego... on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    To be honest, the "I think any free-tiered service is not fair." quote gives the game away here; it's not stolen content Reznor is concerned about, it's free content. The moaning about stolen content is just a red herring. What they really want is for all free sources of music to start charging, or otherwise increase monetization, and give them a nice fat cut.

    Yeah I bet you won't hear him saying the same thing about AM/FM radio which is also free.

  23. And the US Naval Research laboratories created TOR looking for a secure way of transmitting highly encrypted military communications. They released their work to the general public because it did not meet their stated goals.

    no they released it because they need enough traffic on it to hide their own traffic. One lone tor connection stands out like a sore thumb. a one in a million is just lost in so much noise.

  24. Re:That list... on Terrorists No Longer Welcome On OneDrive, Outlook, Xbox Live (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    The CIA isn't a terrorist organization. They are the ones protecting your rights to say stupid things on the Internet and allowing Allu Akbar from chopping your head off for belonging to the wrong religious group.

    Yes they are. Look at who they have funded over the years Osam bin ladin and his Mujahideen aka the Taliban.
    Then there is the whole international drug trade were they where distributing heroin opium and more
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. Re:Criminally negligent/incompetent on CIA Watchdog 'Mistakenly' Destroyed Its Only Copy Of A Senate Torture Report (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    If the CIA were a person (or smaller less corrupt organization) they'd be held liable (and possibly in contempt) with massive punishments.

    I guess it's not just the banks that can be TBTF.

    This is the most shameful aspect of Sovereign Immunity.

    US Citizens pay the CIA via taxes. Yet, when this tax-payer organization 'goes rogue', we have no Constitutional avenue of redress to punish them for their War Crimes.

    Also as a result of CIA actions (over the last 40 years), many US Citizens have died – the ones who pay their salary. Innumerable people from foreign nations have died at their hands, too.

    I thought the CIA was funded by illicit drug/weapons dealing