Or in the case of one customer I maintain a server for, I thought I would never see them again after the project was completed, and Plesk was the only thing available at the hosting company they insisted on using.

So I configured Plesk so it could only be accessed through the server's private IP address, only opened http and ssh ports on the firewall. So now they can click on one icon to establish a ssh tunnel with https port forwarding to the server's private IP address, then click on a bookmark to open a browser that connects them to the Plesk control panel.

So I don't really care if there is a Plesk exploit, it's never available on a public connection.

Here is an interview with a formerly pro-GMO scientist talking about why he is against GMO now. He claims the entire GMO field is operating on a 70 year old hypothesis of genetics that has since been proven wrong; and that being wrong about it can have some serious consequences.

For the last 4 years I have lived right next to two crop fields that are worked, but not owned, by a local family that has been farming here for many generations. They have never rotated crops in the time I've been here. One field is always corn, and the other is always squash. Every year they plow in fertilizer, flood irrigate, and spray who-knows-what on everything. What's more, they rarely harvest any of it. At the end of harvest, they always tell us we are welcome to pick whatever we want. Did that once and never did it again; everything was completely flavorless. Then they plow it all under and do it again the next year!

I can think of only two possible reasons for this behavior. One is that they would lose subsidies and the land owner would lose tax discounts if they don't grow anything on the land. The other is the big increase in deportations since Obama got in office and tougher state level regulations have made getting farm labor to pick stuff more difficult.

With millions of pounds of food uneaten and wasted every day around the world, I don't think crop yield is a problem. Economics and logistics are the problems in getting food from the field to the people that need it, when they need it. The business model of companies like Monsanto, getting rid of small local farmers in favor of big industrial farms and prosecuting seed savers, makes those problems worse, not better.

Not my words... copied from an article.

The Modular Prosthetic Limb, developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides 26 degrees of motion, including independent movement of each finger, in a package that weighs about nine pounds and has the dexterity of a natural limb. In 2012, a patient at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center successfully demonstrated that the arm could be controlled by the user’s thoughts. Several patients, including a decorated Afghanistan war hero, are helping researchers further develop the prosthesis. In 2013, the MPL will continue to be tested and refined in a clinical trial at the California Institute of Technology.

These guys are a bit late to the party. The military is already providing thought controlled artificial limbs that are far more complex than a quad-copter.

Corporate-speak bullshit keywords...

• * incentivized
• * diversity[sic] their experimental capital
• * change that innovation curve
• * social enterprise
• * consumerization of IT

I could hardly get through the summary without puking.

Let's plug it into this and see what happens!

After 10,000 years only 0.000167% of the bonds would still be intact. What are the odds of correctly piecing together what's left of that into a complete sequence, and then getting that all the way to a living clone? I'm betting the odds are pretty close to zero. Any takers?

Not exactly. The article is about being able to retrieve any pieces of DNA, not fully intact DNA . To clone something, you will need it all, fully intact. After 521 years, half the bonds will be broken. By 10,000 years, only 0.000167% of the bonds would still be intact. So good luck trying to piece together fragments of DNA the right way into a complete sequence. Not to mention needing a host to bring it to term without it being rejected as an invading organism.

The half life of all DNA is 521 years. What kind of 2-bit "scientists" are these that think they can clone an animal that died 10,000 years ago?

Simple solution: Rewrite all security warnings to reward the user with lolcats if they pick the secure option.

How about a runtime simulator to simulate execution of the decryption function, then analyze the decrypted results with any variety of other analysis techniques?

Actually, Democrats only kind of had a super majority for about 4 months starting at the end of 2009. But only if you count 2 independents and the blue dog Democrats as voting with them, which they don't. So instead, you had the Republicans using the filibuster more than any Congress in history. Oh, but wait, the only way they've been able to filibuster so often is because they just expressed their intent to filibuster without actually doing the time consuming work of a filibuster. That way they can quickly get on with the business of expressing intent to filibuster even more.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/201311071754973439.html

http://www.texasobserver.org/seeds-of-discontent/

http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/farmers-sue-monsanto-over-seed-contamination.aspx

http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-court-plaintiffs-seed-747/