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Submission + - Experimental Drug Compound Found to Reverse Effects of Alzheimer's in Mice (gizmag.com)

Zothecula writes: While there has been progress made in the fight against Alzheimer's, our understanding of the dispiriting disease remains somewhat limited, with a definitive cure yet to be found. The latest development comes at the hands of researchers from Yale's School of Medicine, who have discovered a new drug compound shown to reverse the effects of Alzheimer's in mice.

Submission + - Oracle Database Redaction Trivial to Bypass (threatpost.com)

msm1267 writes: Researcher David Litchfield is back at it again, dissecting Oracle software looking for critical bugs. At the Black Hat 2014 conference, Litchfield delivered research on a new data redaction service the company added in Oracle 12c. The service is designed to allow administrators to mask sensitive data, such as credit card numbers or health information, during certain operations. But when Litchfield took a close look he found a slew of trivially exploitable vulnerabilities that bypass the data redaction service and trick the system into returning data that should be masked.

Comment Re:We're only talkin' two Red Line subway stops (Score 1) 205

Then you won't be saving time, or money, commuting between MIT and Harvard by using your own private car. My point had to do with the proximity of the two universities and what realistic, low cost, and frequent transportation options between classes exist, relative to the text of the article; and I provided citations for others.

Comment We're only talkin' two Red Line subway stops (Score 2) 205

Not to discredit, but to clarify TFA:

While students at MIT and Harvard do cross-register, the logistics of travel from one campus to another limit the extent to which this is practical. Online makes it possible for students to take classes from across universities more conveniently.”

We're talking two subway stops. Or they can rent a bike, which are all over the place and very well maintained: http://www.thehubway.com/stati...

Comment Re:This is how we learn (Score 0) 150

As a working stiff seriously just trying to keep up with my rent, I'll ask the Slashdots, is this idea kickstarter worthy, because I can't actually finance the application myself at this time? As always, I'll set the default answer at NO. But oh so how I wish I was proven wrong, yet there's that cynicism kicking in again. Have a nice day y'all, and thanks for the complement, while I get back to bulking SSL certificates. Ho hum.

Comment Servers equals The Body in this argument (Score 2) 54

In a homicide investigation, it really helps if you actually have a dead body with which to continue working with. What the defense here is saying effectively, "you haven't found the body, have you? So where is your case then? And certainly, what exactly are the legal merits of your case based upon the legal evidence available, so you claim?"

Comment Re:This is how we learn (Score 2) 150

Technology Students in Southern California and Florida have managed to achieve a breakthrough in cloud-storage. Imagine for a moment, if you could possibly harness the entire storage volume of The Cloud, and then increase that by a trillion-fold! That's exactly what these students have achieved by a technique having to do with their ability to create an environment with sustained, extremely cold temperatures over a lengthy period of time. Imagine all the clouds you could see across the Wyoming horizon, and then holding all of them in something a lot like an ordinary ice cube tray. That's the power of the cloud, where the lightening comes from(tm)!

However I'm still somewhat foggy as to how they implement it. I've even heard there's even a subgroup of those technology students that "likes to crush the cloud", whatever that's supposed to mean.

Now excuse me while I water that last patch of grass you're standing on please, using only cloud energy, of course as I'm write publicly on The Slashdots to be read worldwide and forever.

Comment Re:No they cant. (Score 1) 151

A crew of us was flying into Dallas one rime, circling the field. That was when pagers were big and cell phones were not.

We all got a Sky Page about a Dallas flight circling DFW because of unknown mechanical failure and a crash landing was inevitable.

Our buddies in Virginia thought it was funny.

Oh wow, what a classic old school hack! I'd have smacked them all first chance possible, but I'm in admiration for their thought, concern, and effort still. They must really, really like you and the rest of the team, and it shows.

Please just don't tell me this was SITA text, or I'm gonna die laughing too hard (having worked with SITA before). SITA text will never die.

http://www.sita.aero/products-...

Comment Re:No they cant. (Score 1) 151

The hackers could broadcast a fake NBC news TV report that 'inadvertently' made its way to the plane video system. The news report would obviously declare that particular plane is known to carry the Ebola virus and no one onboard could be trusted as safe anymore, and chances for their survival are small, yet the risk to the larger world very great. I'll leave the plot continuation to the next bored slashdotter. (Obviously matters must be taken into hand)

Comment Qatar is in an arms race with Saudi Arabia, What? (Score 3, Insightful) 402

The summary says Qatar is worried of being attacked and overtaken in a technological arms race, by Saudi Arabia. Really? Since when?

From TFA:

Politics is behind Qatar’s willingness to pay for Hamas’ cyber-system. The Saudis believe that Qatar is behind efforts to unseat the Saudi royal family — using social media and the Al-Jazeera satellite channel — and Riyadh earlier this year recalled its ambassador to Doha, after he refused to pledge that it would “not interfere in others’ internal affairs,” according to Eli Aviad, who formerly headed Israel’s Economic Liaison office in Qatar.

I'd like something a little more substantive to back this up. The paragraph concludes:

While they are primarily interested in cyber self-defense, Aviad said, they are also interested in assisting their Muslim Brotherhood allies — and hence their willingness to fund the Hamas terror program. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Sorry, I gotta take any news value coming from TFA with a chunk of salt.

Submission + - NSA was the sole editor of ISO crypto-PRNG standard

Sara Chan writes: A Congressman, Alan Grayson, has sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. The letter asks several questions, in particular, this one: "How did the NSA become the sole editor of the ISO 18031 specification?" ISO 18031 specifies a model for a pseudorandom number generator that is suitable for cryptography. Thus, according to the letter, the NSA was the sole editor of an ISO cryptographic standard. The letter will probably not do much, though, given Clapper's prior perjury.

Submission + - CDC Issues Ebola Guidance for Airlines

theodp writes: In response to the Ebola outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued Interim Guidance about Ebola Virus Infection for Airline Flight Crews, Cleaning Personnel, and Cargo Personnel. "Ebola virus is transmitted by close contact with a person who has symptoms of Ebola," the CDC explains. "Close contact is defined as having cared for or lived with a person with Ebola or having a high likelihood of direct contact with blood or body fluids of an Ebola patient. Examples of close contact include kissing or embracing, sharing eating or drinking utensils, close conversation (3 feet), physical examination, and any other direct physical contact between people. Close contact does not include walking by a person or briefly sitting across a room from a person."

Submission + - Researchers Create Virtual Reality 'Parties' to Treat Drug Addiction

Jason Koebler writes: To help people overcome drug addiction, researchers at the University of Houston’s Graduate School of Social Work are building hyper-realistic virtual worlds to recreate situations that trigger cravings for nicotine, alcohol, weed, and now, hard drugs like heroin.
Traditional relapse therapy usually involves roleplaying: Therapists often pretend to be a friend or some other familiar person and offer the patient their drug of choice in order to teach them avoidance strategies. By strapping patients into a virtual reality headset and running them through a familiar scenario where they commonly use the drug, like a party, the treatment can be much more realistic and effective, researchers say.

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