BTW, if you register with FT you can get a limited number of articles a month for free (5?), although I had to go to the front page first before it would let me look at the story.

We'll never know for certain but one theory is that, being just a couple of developers doing it in their own time for no money, and perhaps with family and other concerns, they just got sick of it. However it would have been nice if the bastards could have at least given us a clue as to why they left.

One big disappointment for me is that the audit did not cover the plausible deniability function of Truecrypt, something that could be crucial if you live in an authoritarian right wing state — such as the UK.

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Think of Larry Niven's "wire head' addicts and the Puppeteer's Tasp in Ring World. There are potentials for both private and governmental abuse.

"AUSTRALIAN scientists have made a breakthrough in the treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that can restore memory loss. Researchers at the University of Queensland’s Brain Institute hope to trial a planned “cheap, mobile’’ ultrasound device for humans in two years after the technique was found to work on mice.

The drug-free treatment uses ultrasound waves to break apart the neurotoxic amyloid plaques that cause memory loss and cognitive decline." etc.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/queensland-scientists-in-alzheimers-treatment-breakthrough/story-e6frg8y6-1227259862721?nk=e25c14dcb475b0b5c10d7a87301af65d

Oops, too late.

Undo mods

Although it would break with Slashdot tradition, I wish the complainers would read the fucking article. This product is designed to address ONE of the problems/duties associated with bee keeping.
The promoters clearly advise anyone without bee keeping experience to contact and join a bee keeping club if they don't know what they're doing. They clearly state that the hives will also have to be inspected for diseases, pests etc, but that's not the specific problem this product is designed to solve.

"For example, the researchers found that users who are more comfortable taking risks are also more susceptible to virus infections"

That also applies to real life and STDs. In that case anyone sleeping with your receptionist should use a lot of latex protection.,

That's actually Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer's other attribute, when he gets horny.

Or just drink some milk for the calcium and go for long walks when you're in your teenage years (especially for females), and of course later as well.
You could add some wrist and ankle weights to enhance the effect, oh, and get some sun for the vitamin D.

Our bones don't have to be as strong as our ancestors were, they just have to be strong enough to get us through our lifetimes without breaking down.

You've got to be joking! Everyone buys a ticket and gives a huge profit to Sony and Fox?

Fuck that, I don't think so.

Heh. What makes you think you have the choice? They probably already are.

Beer Goggles?

Most of the "waste" from pressurized water reactors still has about 97% of its extractable energy left in it. It could fairly easily be reprocessed and reused in a PWR again, or used almost as-is in the future generation IV design fast neutron reactors.

The reason most used fuel is not reprocessed now, apart from the NIMBY complaints about the processing plants, is that "virgin" fuel is so cheap and abundant that the small extra cost is not deemed to be worth it.

Tech Reportchecked a bunch of SSDs for write durability and virtually all of them made it to 600 terabytes of data writes or better.

For an ordinary desktop user, write durability is not a problem. Now what about storage durability? With 3 bits per cell, how long before the data fades?