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Comment Re:How do they target cancer cells? (Score 1) 37

The paper doesn't seem to discuss just how they are going to get these molecules into cancer cells, but not in healthy cells. That seems like the more important issue. After all, if you can get a particular chemical inside of cancer cells, while avoiding healthy cells, there are any number of ways to kill them.

Exactly! Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/

Comment Re:I hope she was fired. (Score 5, Interesting) 60

“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. “No”, I replied. “I just spent $600,000 training him – why would I want somebody to hire his experience?” -- Thomas John Watson Sr., IBM

https://blog.4psa.com/quote-da...

Comment Re:How do you destroy society? (Score 1) 218

Notably, such society would be a lot more violent, as anger is one of the more prevalent feelings and rational rules and laws constrain people acting out in anger.

Caring about people's anger does not imply allowing people to express their anger violently in any manner they may choose. It implies accepting that people will feel anger, and then understanding and addressing the reasons they feel that.

Long term, caring about people's feelings of anger should result in us minimizing a lot of the problems that cause people to feel anger.

Comment Re:what? me worry? (Score 1) 206

Yeah, this service will be opt-in - base cost of insurance will go up, but if you opt-in you can get your old price back...

Which will then immediately increase well past the cost without the privacy violation. Then if you opt out again, your cost will go up yet again!

Comment Re:Sure but... (Score 1) 175

Being the only source of accessories is not an issue - you are a monopoly, but you are not abusing your position as a monopoly provider. Being a monopoly is not a crime, nor is it an ethical problem.

Using your monopoly position to exclude competition is the problem.

In your example, preventing others from providing accessories for your devices is an abuse of your monopoly position.

Comment Re: Why are we being told about this? (Score 1) 235

Slashdot posts articles about technology. Linux and AMD are technology. Therefore the fact that the inventor of Linux is switching after 15 years is posted on Slashdot. Additionally, it illustrates through the actions of a credible technical expert, Linus, that AMD is very far ahead of Intel and that has real consequences.

Far ahead? Not really, except in raw numbers of cores.

This would be meaningless for most of us anyway, but because LInus is pretty much doing one highly parallel task (Building the LInux Kernel), it will run a bit faster.

A bit faster? Linus said 3x faster than his previous Intel system for his workload. If that kind of speedup doesn't matter to you, then go ahead and underclock your 3 GHz system to 1 GHz, then come back and tell me you can't tell the difference.

Comment Re:Looks like he's about to get sued! (Score 1) 377

No, we want to create an appropriate legislative framework, law enforcement process, judicial process, and social contract for online activity which mirrors the legislative framework, law enforcement process, judicial process, and social contract for offline activity, accounting for the lower barriers to socially unacceptable behaviour online.

Comment Re:To give email new life, you'd really have to... (Score 1) 45

Modern email is protected by end to end encryption

Where?

SMTP between mail servers *might* be encrypted under TLS, and SMTP/IMAP between client and server is probably protected by TLS. But the message is received in the clear at each hop. There is no end-to-end encryption.

Lotus Notes defaulted to signing and encrypting messages within an organisation, but even it has to fall back to cleartext messages once it wants to send to anyone else. And everyone loves to hate Notes.

PGP provides the ability to do end-to-end encryption, but no-one cares about PGP today.

So how is "modern email" encrypted "end-to-end"?

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