Comment Re:Most Secret War (Score 1) 77
Although I'm old enough to have seen Churchill's funeral
Doubleplus unyoung!
Hibernation Protein May Halt Alzheimer's 79
BarbaraHudson writes The BBC is reporting that tests show a protein called RBM3, involved in hibernation, may hold the key to regenerating synapses. In the early stages of Alzheimer's, and other neurodegenerative disorders, synapses are lost. This inevitably progresses to whole brain cells dying. But during hibernation, 20-30% of the connections in the brain — synapses — are culled as the body preserves resources over winter, and are reformed in the spring, with no loss of memory. Memories can be restored after hibernation as only the receiving end of the synapse shuts down. In a further set of tests, the team showed the brain cell deaths from prion disease and Alzheimer's could be prevented by artificially boosting RBM3 levels. Prof Mallucci was asked if memories could be restored in people if their synapses could be restored: "Absolutely, because a lot of memory decline is correlated with synapse loss, which is the early stage of dementia, so you might get back some of the synapse you've lost."
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Comment Ob (Score 3, Funny) 122
Dear Sir/Madam
This letter is not intended to to cause any embarrassment but just to contact your esteem self-following the knowledge of your high repute and trustworthiness.
I am Huevo Ranchero,the son of the late Cuban Rum Minister who died on the 8th of June 1998.If you are conversant with world news,you would understand better,while I got your contacts through my personal research.
You must have heard over the media reports and the Internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money deposited by my late father in different Banks and security firms abroad.
I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund into your Bank account for safekeeping. This arrangement is known to you and my junior brother (Abbas) only. So I will deal directly with you.I am proposing a 20% share of the fund to you for your kind assistance.I shall provide for you all the documents of the fund deposit with the security firm, and raise a power of attorney to enable you claim and receive this fund into your bank account.
etc...
Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 562
Look at what happened to the last two on that list.
Takeaway: Nobody likes a smartass.
Comment Re: No. (Score 1) 562
There are no case of an all out war between the government and the people where the government won.
That's because there's never been an all out war between the government and the people, anywhere, ever.
Comment Re:No, the premise is that we want to avoid civil (Score 1) 480
Politics as a sublimated, ritualised substitute for war. Not sure I agree 100% (Clausewitz probably wouldn't) but worth thinking about nonetheless. Would mod you up if I could.
Comment Re:Secret Ballot? (Score 1) 480
You're the one who claimed it was all rose petals and unicorns in the early 1800s, it's down to you to provide the citation.
But hey, let's just go back a bit earlier and just do what that fat German with the gold hat tells us, eh?
Comment Re:Secret Ballot? (Score 1) 480
Actually I do know what it means. You're the one who's ignorant about history if you think the age of robber barons & rotten boroughs is something to aspire to.
Going back to women for a moment, what do you think? Over 30s, with the husband's (or father's) permission?
Comment Because (Score 0, Troll) 592
Because you're bisexual, obviously.
Comment Re:In before (Score 1) 335
I tried reading it, but when it started going on about non-white left-handed females born under an earth sign who prefer pepsi it made my head spin.
I might have to draw a Venn Diagram.
Comment Re:Maybe the NRA was right? (Score 1) 151
You want something that turns or tumbles in flight so it sweeps a big area. Like a bolas or chain-shot.
My particular application is as an ATWAD (Anti Two Wheeled Asshat Device).
Being Pestered By Drones? Buy a Drone-Hunting Drone 151
schwit1 writes, "Are paparazzi flying drones over your garden to snap you sunbathing? You may need the Rapere, the drone-hunting drone which uses 'tangle-lines' to quickly down its prey."
From The Telegraph's article: It has been designed to be faster and more agile than other drones to ensure that they can't escape - partly by limiting flight time and therefore reducing weight.
“Having worked in the UAS industry for years, we've collectively never come across any bogus use of drones. However it's inevitable that will happen, and for people such as celebrities, where there is profit to be made in illegally invading their privacy, there should be an option to thwart it,” the group say on their website.
This seems more efficient than going after those pesky paparazzi drones with fighting kites (video), but it should also inspire some skepticism: CNET notes that the team behind it is anonymous, and that "Rapere works in a lab setting, however there aren't any photos or videos of the killer drone in action. The website instead has only a slideshow of the concept."
Comment Re:Pay attention, everyone! (Score 1) 83
But if we do that it'd be neocolonialism, which is even more worser then rascialism!!!!
Comment Re:Long Game + Lazy Prosecution (Score 1) 562
Data is physical evidence.
Obligatory car analogy:
You have a locked building. The cops turn up with a warrant to search it. You can give them the key, open the door, or they'll break in by force.
An encrypted drive is a locked building with an indestructible door and an unfindable key. Could they have even imagined such a thing back in 1776?
Comment Re:well as every kid raised in the tv generation (Score 1) 562
God to be a fly on the wall if anyone brought this type of thinking back to the 1960's congress.
It would have passed unanimously. We must use all means possible to oppose the red menace, etc.
