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  1. May not quite be ready for prime time on Adult Stem Cell Growth Treats Cornea Disorders · · Score: 2, Insightful
    from tfa:

    The results to date achieved amongst the group of rabbits, with induced limbic insufficiency and which then had a transplant of adult stem cells, showed recovery of the corneal epithelium in 60% of the treated animals
    Not knowing anything about the risks, alternative treatments available, and potential effects of non-treatment, 60% might not be particularly good. I mean, a 60% success rate is a 40% failure rate. On the other hand, this treatment is new and likely could be further optimized.
  2. One thing I don't get... on Richard Stallman Talks On Copyright Vs. the People · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is there no transcript? I'm not saying I couldn't download the video and watch it, but I'd rather not spend at least an hour downloading it and then have to watch it.

  3. Re:Mail Fraud? on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't wire fraud be more applicable
    If...
    a) This is fraud
    and
    b) This is actually happening
    yes
    However, I suspect this isn't actually happening, and even if it is, it's probably shady and bad service but not fraud.
    DISCLOSURE: I am not a lawyer
  4. Re:Exaggeration? Naaah. on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I hear their spam filter sucks. I never said their attempt was particularly successful.

  5. Re:Exaggeration? Naaah. on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, because Hotmail is a pseudo-governmental entity with special rules governing it. Now, they might be liable if discarding the attachment caused some sort of damages. I suspect this may be partly because of an attempt at spam filtering since many spammy emails have attachments.

  6. Re:Interesting vulnerabilites on the site on Auction Site To Sell Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1
    hmm... the memory "leak" seems to be an information leak from fthe friendly vulnerability:

    This PoC will demonstrate the Linux kernel CVE-2007-1000 vulnerability and will search for patterns inside memory.
    from a description of CVE-2007-1000 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE- 2007-1000

    The ipv6_getsockopt_sticky function in net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.20.2 allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory via certain getsockopt calls that trigger a NULL dereference.
    Certainly seems (locally) exploitable to me.
  7. Microsoft marketing fud on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From TFA:

    (Stallman insists that "GNU/Linux" is the proper name, and he refuses to give interviews to reporters unless they promise to call it that in every reference. In part for that reason, he was not interviewed for this article.)
    Is there any reason they included the reason he wasn't interviewed like that other than to try to make him look like a zealot?
  8. Useless on A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing? · · Score: 1

    A new top-level domain wouldn't prevent cross-site scripting. This is just a money grab just like every other new TLD.

  9. Sometimes the jokes write themselves on Russia to Halt Public Access to .RU Whois Data? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Currently online RosNIIROSa (www.ripn.net) on the WhoIs contact name and contact telephone owner of a site in the cloud. For example, you can find out what famous site compromat.ru owns Sergei Gorshkov

    In Soviet Russia, compromat.ru own YOU!
  10. Junk science on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1
    from the friendly article

    Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and CSRWatch.com. He is a junk-science expert and advocate of free enterprise, and an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
    The author's one of the corporate shills who are trying to argue such bs as global warming is a myth and DDT isn't lowering South African men's sperm counts
  11. Shooting themselves in the foot on MS Requiring More Expensive Vista if Running Mac · · Score: 1

    If you want to use a strict definition of virtualization... no processor since the Pentium 1 can run the cheap version of Vista because the processor core is RISC and all instructions are translated from IA32 to RISC. Good move, Microsoft.

  12. Won't work on Web Scanning Technology for Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    None of their previous ventures into web spidering's worked very well. It's likely all that will be needed to create a false negative in this case is a little name obfuscation, and there will be an unacceptable rate of false positives...

  13. Would it even be wrong? on Newton's Second Law, Revisited · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there's a force that hasn't been taken into account in his calculations...

  14. Re:LETS GIVE UP ALL FREEDOMS IN THE NAME OF TERROR on Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working · · Score: 1

    Terrorism isn't that big of a threat. It's a lot more likely that someone you live with will kill you than a terrorist.

  15. I smell a rat on Bad Web Sites Can Cause "Mouse Rage" · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Rackspace Managed Hosting commissioned the study. The U.K. firm's managing director, Jacques Greyling, said the study shows that businesses selling online have a duty to provide an Internet experience "as stress-free as possible." He added, "The message is clear: Businesses need to provide simple and easy-to-navigate layouts, whilst focusing on speed and uptime."
    Hmm, a web hosting company paid for this study. I don't have any less suspicion about the validity of its conclusion than I have about the Microsoft-funded "Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux" studies
  16. One thing that I don't see mentioned on Greatest Task of Web 2.x: Meta-Validation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For metadata to be useful at all, there has to be some way to come to a consensus, and the most logical way to come to a consensus is by what the majority thinks. However, there are too many examples where the majority is wrong for metadata to be truly useful in my opinion.

  17. Trojan horse, anyone? on RIAA President Decries Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Has any member label of the RIAA ever said or done anything in favor of fair use? I don't think so.
    /me wonders what the RIAA has up their sleeves

  18. Breaking news on Vista Gets Official Release Dates · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unseasonably cold temperatures predicted for November 30th in Hell.

  19. Re:PlaysForSure? on Zune Won't Play Old DRM Infected Files · · Score: 1
    So i can't fly over to Russia, buy a pressed cd for $2 and bring it home into the states?
    I am not a lawyer, but I believe that it is legal to import pirated music into the US for personal use due to a specific exception in copyright law. Also, I believe some were using that argument to say that allofmp3 was legal. (Your mileage may vary of course)
  20. Obligatory slogan hijack on Comcast Blocks Yet Another ISPs E-Mail · · Score: 1

    It's Comcastic!

  21. Re:Confusing on French Lawmakers Approve 'iTunes Law' · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're kidding, right? The iPod doesn't even play music correctly, it inserts gaps where there shouldn't be gaps. REAL music lovers listen to the Rio Karma IMO.

  22. Re:It goes to lilo on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 2, Informative

    IANAL, but if that's true, it's fraud.

  23. Re:OOoh. How original. on Merriam-Webster Launches Open Dictionary · · Score: 5, Informative

    actually, wikitionary is open in the open-source way like wikipedia is.

  24. more FUD on Computer Rebates Not As Sinister As You Think · · Score: 3, Informative

    The interviewer from TFA interviewed someone from "The NPD Group" which (from http://www.npd.com/about.profile.html ) "provides global consumer and retail information that helps manufacturers and retailers make more informed, fact-based decisions in order to optimize their businesses". Maybe it's me, but that sounds like a retail industry mouthpiece to me.

  25. Re:WOW on Internet Immunization · · Score: 1

    Secure is relative. Nothing's 100% secure. That, and they're on the internet and the reports are going on this separate, secure, dedicated network.