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Comment Re:hit and miss (Score 1) 668

A lot of natural or "old wives cures" are not really alternative medicine, many when scientificaly studied lead to the discovery of medicinal substances that add to the range of drugs that can be prescribed.
Many plant extracts contain active substances which are analogs of established active pharmacological substances.

My favorite is "bitter mellon gourd" which has been used in se asia for thousands of years for treating many conditions, its a known antioxidant, and contains an enzym that acellerates glucose absorbsion from the bloodstream. Im sure multiple drug companies are studying it for its effects.

Having said all that homeopathy is total bullshit...

Comment Re: If Snowden could do it, so could many, many ot (Score 2, Interesting) 157

There was no suggestion he was a problem, in fact i belive he is a hero too, i was just pointing out that other goverment actors may not be using him or the people with access to his trove as a source of inteligence, but as cover for activities they have already undertaken, as bruce has implied.

Comment Re:Bruce Schneier the paranoid cryptographer (Score 4, Interesting) 157

They are probaly on machines that accessed by other machines that may either permenatly or tempoarily connected to the internet. You can build malware that could be used to infect a laptop that waits until it is connected to an internal network and then grabs files for later transmission when its reconnected to the internet.

Remember that the incompetance of any goverment agency is dependant on its weakest link and tends to infinity..

Comment Re:f**k the World Cup (Score 1) 194

If you look up the screen, you will see a nice big "back" button, press that, and off you go an play in the next article, and leave the grown ups alone to get on with thier discussion...

It might not interest you, but others are more well rounded individuals, and we can cope with hold a discussion of a corrupt official using youtube ( a technology much loved and loathed by nerds ) to beg for money and display his stupidity.

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