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  1. Re:It works at least as well... on Thousand-Year-Old Eye Salve Kills MRSA · · Score: 2

    The trick is in DNA itself. Whilst it might seem huge and whole lot can be done, it can not do everything and every time it changes to succeed in one area it must expose a weakness in another area (only so much DNA available to carry the genetic program of on and offs and more importantly the follow up 'how turned up the DNA switch is' buried in the so called junk DNA). So that salve being a very complex arrangement of many simultaneous anti-biotic attacks, is affective because whilst many elements of it fail, other elements succeed. So you follow the same example in modern anti-biotics, rather than a single molecule, you target the infection with many smaller doses of mutually supporting molecules and while some fail, others working together succeed.

    So you change the nature of anti-biotics to composite forms. The additional benefit, is not only will you increase efficacy but you should substantially reduce side affects, unless you are really incompetent in creating suitable composite affect formulations. Likely the formulation will also work more rapidly, able to tackle various strains within an infection more readily.

  2. Re:Like a breath of fresh air on SCOTUS: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately, fortunately, the rich want to lie, cheat and steal and they need privacy to do so, especially when corrupting government. So any laws that are equally applied are blocked in preference to newer laws that are not equally applied. Easy example of totally biased law, steal from a poor person and it is petty larceny, steal from a rich person and it is grand larceny and the investigation, prosecution and penalties hugely differ. In the case of the poor victim, meh tough luck suck it up where as for the rich, yes sir/,maam, we will catch them and prosecute them and punish the severely and they do.

    So they will rewrite interpretations of the 4th amendment to ensure the rich get privacy and the poor get none. Likely distorted twists about corporations being routinely able to break the fourth amendment whilst government is banned from doing the same.

  3. Re:Contradiction in article summary on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: -1

    A real change has occurred in the industry. The inability of main stream media to control the mind scape as a result of the internet, which turned actors back into what they really are, muppets skilled at telling lies. Actors only appear as good as the writers write them, as the directors direct them, as the camera person shoots them and often now as the animator makes up for their inability to act. Actors are not the heroes they portray, they are empty muppets and they reality of who they are, often pulls down the story, that writers and directors try to tell. Celebrity has been replaced with psuedo celebrity, no one really buys into that crap from the last century, it all really was quite silly.

    Now there are thousands upon thousands of narcissistic players out there and they are required to compete because the main stream media public relations bullshitters can no longer sell them to the same degree to make up for shitty writers and crappy directors and as such movie bombs bomb regardless of the 'named muppets' in them.

    Future opportunities are gone, long gone and they will never return. In fact animation will likely eliminate them all together apart from limited stage work. Why should writers, directors and animators, bother with the endless demands and tantrums of muppets, when they no longer have to. That era is over and so is all the bullshit associated with it. Those narcissistic muppets can whine about it all they want but it is not coming back.

  4. Re:Boo hoo on NSA Worried About Recruitment, Post-Snowden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reality is, the initial premise is a total lie. The NSA is a failed organisation and they are not looking for the same kind of people. They are looking for 2nd raters, people who specialise in breaking stuff and not in making stuff. The reality is securing stuff in computers is an order of magnitude harder than breaking security. The breakers are always second rate compared to makers, it is inherent in their cerebral makeup and the 2nd rate breakers know it to the core of their being, hence instead of making, their jealousy drives them to breaking.

    The NSA were not particularly skilled at hacking, their targets were not focused enough on security and were easy to break into. Now of course the NSA script kiddie perverts are finding life much more difficult as companies become much more focused on security and are hiring the most skilled makers to make better security. The NSA stuck is now failing and that failure is far worse on the securing things side because of their chosen focus on breaking stuff on employing egoistic perverse script kiddies, incapable of securing stuff.

    The US government was warned again and again and again, that in order to effectively secure their systems they must completely separate defensive operations from offensive operations but they were locked into arrogance mode and only listen to their own bullshit and now they are stuck.

    If you are bright and interested in security, the real skill and challenge is in defensive operations, 24/7/365 operation of skills, abilities and knowledge, real investigatory skills on any exposed breaks or weaknesses and preventing them from happening again and creating a defence in depth system, giving greater opportunity to catch hacks are earlier less damaging levels. The people do not play well with breakers, not at all, the whole psychology is different.

  5. Re: Not everyone on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    This holds especially true during the primaries when a truly tiny percentage of those eligible vote and basically allow the corporations to stack the elections, so no matter which team wins, they win. Foolish gullible Americans have already lost the elections before they have even started, just an empty show. The only real focus of the US government is to drive out all politicians who will actually represent their electorates and of course reading the speeches provided to them by their controlling corporations and voting as directed on the legislation as provided by lobbyists.

  6. Re:And why not? on Nation's Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play For Carbon Credit Cash · · Score: 2

    Now exactly how fucking long would the list of failed corporations be. How long would the list of corporate prosecutions be. Government fails sometimes, corporations always inevitably fail. I rather take maybe over the certainty. PS governments tend only to fail when they are corruptly controlled by, you guessed it, private interests and cease to represent the majority.

    CORPORATIONS ALWAYS FAIL.

  7. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    Accurately ascertaining failure allows you to action to prevent similar future failures, doing nothing, does exactly that, nothing. Why not an uninteruptable live stream from all commercial aircraft cockpits of a certain size, that two way communication could allow authorities to dissuade the suicider and remind them of the harm they are causing to others. That data traffic could be routed around the world along with aircraft telemetry, in this day and age it is a tiny amount of data. What you do in your bedroom is yours to keep private, what you do when in control of the lives of hundreds (possibly thousands) of others most certainly is not.

  8. Re:Oh goody on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know what is really stupid, pointing to those lying slave keeping genocidal animals as being some one special, ohhh, look the founders with mind you an hugely limited 18th education and truly horrible background as human beings. 'Founding Fathers' is simply meaningless PR marketing bullshit, with their words and writings routinely being distorted, with their ignorance some how put ahead of the knowledge gained in the last 250 years. Americans are fucking idiots to keep pointing at those people from centuries ago as if they still have meaning.

    Fuck the founding genocidal slavers, what citizens think to day based upon the knowledge of today and what we will pass to future generations is far more important. Pointing to the thieves who stole the country from the thieves who sent them to steal it, as being holey saints is just so fucking stupid, only in America. The sheer level of marketing bullshit in US politics is staggering, religious nonsense, founding fathers, greed is good, marketing as truth and double speak as the United States main art form. You people are arguing about shit whilst your country collapses about you.

  9. Re:Complete article on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 1

    Until moronic thoughts. Now where were the coastal cities, where were the hundreds of millions of displaced humans who will be screaming for blood (and they will get it). It does not matter the cause, we are forced to attempt to control climate change, regardless. Go back further moron and the earth was a cloud of dust waiting to form into a planet how about it's climate then, huh, what about climate during the early earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadean), huh, what about climate when the sun expands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth), huh, seriously, piss off with that stupid shit.

    We have what we have now and we have to deal with what we have now and we need to protect 'HUMAN' coastal environs and the hundreds of millions of people who live there.

    What the experts now fear is the methane surge, quite a major catastrophic climate event. sure averages over the century are going to rise slowly but that methane surge could be seriously catastrophic for a short period within that longer term. Forget 1 degree a huge global surge far higher than forecast, as not only existing methane is released into the atmosphere but more is generated by a broken down ecology rotting in the heat.

    The methane will break down and the impact will be short lived (years) and the planet will settle to more expected temperature levels but the damage in the interim will be enormous. It is all kind of funny and sad, it will happen and no amount of lies will stop in from happening, they just prevent efforts being taken to minimise the impact. The consequences for those who participated in the lies will not be pretty, crimes against humanity always ends up with harsh punishments.

  10. Re: Not everyone on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who gives a crap about the phone shit. What it revealed was that US government executives routinely lie to the public and attack members of the public with slander and false arrest when members of the public try to expose the criminal activities of above the law government departments.

    The US department of State, the CIA, the NSA, the Secret Service and even the FBI at the highest levels all routinely consider themselves above the law. This horrifically extends to the corporations that controls which politicians get elected and who will be selected to take the highest administrative positions in government not as agents of the public but as agents of the corporations who arranged for their appointment.

    The US government has become an empty teleprompter reading mouthpiece for those corporations who pay to get their colluding and conspiring pet politicians elected. The Snowden leaks exposed the underlying reality of how far the Public Relations show of the US government differs from corporate controlled reality of government agencies.

  11. Re:And why not? on Nation's Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play For Carbon Credit Cash · · Score: 2

    Their is nothing wrong with nuclear power however there is something wrong with major corporations, they are all broken. Myopic focus on short term profits with a total disregard for consequences. Repeated failure by governments to prosecute corporate executives not some times but by far most of the time to the extent of having failed to prosecute culpable individuals thousands upon thousands of times. Nuclear power but government owned and controlled and publicly audited, definitely not in the hands of deregulate everything now, profits this quarter only and golden parachutes for the top executives for inevitable failures their psychopathic attitudes create.

    When a corporate executives decisions kill then they should be facing extended imprisonment and confiscation of assets to pay for damages.

  12. Re:Need the ISS on Russia Wants To Work With NASA On a New Space Station · · Score: 1

    Nah, permanent moon base and yep, free for all mines. You get there first and you stake your 1km by 1km mine and develop it within a decade, then it is yours. Want to stake a hundred, you had better develop them all and get them in production, else you will lose them. Think that is unfair, exactly how easy or hard do you expect it to be to develop a mine on the moon and that mine to start producing the materials for a larger moon base, a real space colony station and then a much larger space ship than people would expect for a trip to Mars, more a mobile space station.

    We can either turn inward and become slaves to the greed of the 1% consuming the planet to death or we can reach out to the stars, focus on a sustainable planet and space as the only opportunity for growth.

  13. Re:Waste is heat! on Measuring How Much "Standby Mode" Electricity For Game Consoles Will Cost You · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yep, media pans a game console, ohhh, look at the power it consumes when you a playing with a pretend mega yacht but when it comes to the sheer insane waste of an actual mega yacht not just lost resources, a corrupted economy necessary to pay for it but the sheer volume of pollution generated in say one minute consuming the energy of a game in stand by mode for a year and this the quisling shit heads celebrate. Ever hear of main stream media picking on private jets, now how much energy do they waste not only during run time but during operation in year, what something like 10,000 game consoles and TVs to watch the output, again the whine about the energy use of us nobodies but when a somebody consumes at rates 10,000 times the average they through parties and celebrate. Want to see real waste, that is us, letting the 1% exist.

  14. Re:Prepare to restore from backup often on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    When you cut and paste, the length and hence complexity will significantly increase ie a 15 character password can become a 128 character password. Now should that become default, the entered password no longer needs to be characters at all but can be a straight up bit stream of significant length. They then of course need access to your device to break down your password.

  15. Re:What difference does it make on Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    Where the point in reality is to readily selectively destroy people's lives if they don't vote right. So, the government can readily check you political allegiances and if you didn't vote right, prevent you from ever gaining government employment. Now, seriously, you don't think all right wing governments will be trolling through meta data to exclude left wing employees to ensure all government departments are stacked with ring wing employee, so even when the left wins their policies purposefully fail. That is why they are keeping meta data, when filtering millions to exclude thousands with out them knowing, to gain and maintain total control. Not only wont you be getting that government job if you don't vote right but you will be excluded from corporate employment, they will economically destroy you. The message, thinking left, see it makes you are failure, think right to succeed. It is as truly evil as it appears to be.

  16. Re:Running joke on How Professional Russian Trolls Operate · · Score: 2

    No that is not true at all. In this case the reality is they get fully funded by the government and their activities are only reviewed annually at budget time. Also they incorporate already full time career, paid staff, with university educations.

    That's right radio free Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is owned by the US government, the worlds staunchest defender of the truth, bwa hah hah hah. You guys so funny, it's like you're not even trying any more. Here read this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... I mean seriously, dudes, be a little more artful in your subterfuges. Yes, all US government sources of information have been permanently tainted, well, at least until significant reform in the US electoral process has been seen and that starts to reflect in government administration.

    Bwa hah hah hah (those full timers are spies, not very good ones it seems but yes NSA and/or CIA not sure how well those two play together, each seeking to grab their own power base). No I am not Russian nor am I paid by Russia, not that I would be averse to being paid by Russia, there ain't anything evil in that. The evil is in what you do and the means used always justify the ultimate end (not that short term one you think you win but the real consequences you end up with).

  17. Re:Cher gouvernement on Quebec Plans To Require Website Blocking, Studies New Internet Access Tax · · Score: 1

    If you are going to have not-gambling (in reality just betting until the odds guarantee you lose), then isn't it better that only the government be allowed to play and that money go to pay for social services, rather than lining some slimy shit head greedy piece of shit arsehole's pockets as well as the lying advertisers who promote losing at those establishment whilst pretending you are winning.

    Really it should be law, that all for profit gambling, should actually be an equal odds gamble and both sides should share the exact same chance of losing. When the government does it, should it not be only for tax services, to pay for social services. Allowing the other in full knowledge of the reality of what is actually going on is the epitome of corruption.

    The reality of course about website blocking is the thin edge of the wedge to allow, corporations via their control of government to allow full and total censorship of the internet unless you can pay significant sums for access. Every single corporate controlled right wing government continually relentlessly pushes the censorship line and the argument is it must be safe for sheep 'er' children.

  18. Re:it could have been an accident on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    The flip side of your claim is of course, if you are going to murder someone and make it look like suicide, after doing every thing else right, you make the mistake of shooting them in the head twice.

    Problem here seems to be a global of problem of right wing cheapness and stupidity resulting in a collapse of proper mental health services. Perhaps certain roles, police, pilot, teacher, doctor, nurse, politician should undergo regular mental health check ups as well as of course at initial application to make sure they are in the proper mental state to carry out the role. Perhaps there should not be such great stigma associated with mental health and shock horror, government paid temporary payments whilst a person is recovering should be made, because of duration of illness and time to assure reasonably safe access back to work. Perhaps mental health services should be much more accessible and fully covered by universal health.

    care. Nah, that's just to damn expensive, cheaper to 'PRETEND' to care how the poor and middle class die and make token efforts that look like they might have affect and then let the suckers die. Just fly private jet with pilots that we do check and dump at the slightest hint of mental illness.

    Yep, we are dying all over the place directly because of a right wing cheap ass attitude to mental health services and will continue to do so if we believe stupid things like, lock the cockpit door to keep terrorist out but allow it to be opened from the outside, how about arm the crew yep the whole crew, shoot out in the plane will save everyone. Nah, just stick with PR=B$ to make them believe we are doing something about the problem while actually doing not much at all.

  19. Re:I wouldn't mind the NSA so much if... on NJ School District Hit With Ransomware-For-Bitcoins Scheme · · Score: 1

    The US does not back coups https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., bwa ha ha, except when they do https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

    Now if was done to an insider corporation or corporate executive, you can bet, they all would go all out to track the criminals down and have it solved in short order.

  20. Re:Prepare to restore from backup often on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 2

    I have a even simpler option. Use a pass phrase that you can easily remember. Now before you use that pass phrase, pass it through an encryption program that will encrypt it in the same manner every time. Then use that encrypted content as the actual password. Now that encryption is done locally on the fly and it never passes across the internet nor is it stored any where, except locally. By the addition of one step it becomes very complex whilst still in reality being easy to remember. When you want to access the password, simply type in your easy to remember phrase, access the encrypted password and preferably cut and paste it in. You could use a separate encrypted password for every site all actually based upon you one preferred password, each encrypted password being different based upon including the site name into the encryption algorithm. You could build all of this into the browser, so you only need a local master password to access many different sites with many different passwords. This could be a core function of web browsers, rather than an add on. So 'easytoremeberpassword' becomes '23d5n039tn310(ME))()@JFjfjfs@#%NFI@' now good luck with that. It works better because password checking programs could double the processing time between each failed password attempt (it doesn't tale make attempts to slow the process way down) and if they have the password, when text recognition programs try to figure out that it is the password and not just another failed encrypted pass, simply fail to recognise when they have the password.

  21. Re:What difference does it make on Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Law · · Score: 2

    To stupidly force the creation of apps that will run on people's computers randomly accessing all kinds of sites all over the internet to flood the databases with hundreds of thousands of bogus entries. Nothing does more to destroy databases than bogus entries that poison it to death. When 90% of your browser data requests are fake and cancelled prior to retrieving the data, what are they left with, apart from a massive bill ten times bigger than they expected. Let's just flood the crap out of meta-data, they want to pry, let them pry into an completely fake illusion.

  22. Re:Why not? on Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    Because the more people who vote for the non-colluding parties the sooner change will occur. Doing nothing, surprise, surprise, surprise achieves exactly fucking nothing. Want change then start working towards, don't have to win, you just have to try and who knows you might have some fun annoying the crap out of them.

  23. Re:Using PayPal to pay for a nuke... on PayPal To Pay $7.7 Million For Sanctions Violations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So paypay needs to do exactly what mastercard does when it comes to paying bribes and laundering money. Issue business debit cards that are not in the persons name. They give the bribe recipient the card and the bribe recipient can spend the money available, with all expenditures going against the laundering companies income tax and all purchase by the bribe recipient are hidden. So basically they give birth to fake people, as corporations and the corporate pretend person spends the money not the real individual who is actually the corporation. Why do you think they bother with all that paperwork, lie, cheat and steal, it is simply how they deal.

  24. Re: it always amazes me on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can not think of any one worse than North Korea having one and wait, yes they have them and nothing what so ever is happening. Now, why is this so? Easy, asshat chick hawks the world over are happy to send people to kill and die to feed those chicken hawks own pocket books and egos but when it comes to those chicken hawks risking their own precious skins, well, a great big fat fucking no, no, no, on that. The reality is, no one on this planet is safe from nuclear weapons, even the chick hawks lives would be at risk and as such, no matter how autocratic, how insane, how destructive, how psychopathic, they always protect their own precious skins and don't use nukes, well, at least as long as the other side doesn't have any, then of course it is killer babies and the need to wipe them out.

  25. Re:The stupid is strong with these people! on Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reason for the law "The DTCA is intended to simplify trade between Australia, the US and the UK" that being imports from the US and UK. So yeah, it basically kills research in Australia on purpose, to force it into import only mode, to ensure those other two countries can buy primary resources and lots of land with funny money from two countries rapidly sliding into bankruptcy. Note the same political party is looking to raise university fees to US levels and open market the education loans. Australians are only meant to be servants for the future owners of Australia (after he made sure his daughter got a scholarship from a soon to be fully funded private university and a no work job and the person who tattled, to ensure they aligned with US styled freedom of information, was prosecuted). They did fund medical research though, but want to make big cuts universal health care, the rich only will get the use of Australian tax payer funded medical research.