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Comment Re:Something must go (Score 4, Insightful) 180

The difference is that we don't know what these particular particles will do to our bodies yet, and this was something rather unanticipated with 3d printers. Ultimately more research needs to be done, and it may well turn out that these particles are harmless, but considering that we don't know much about their interactions with our biology, it's best to assume the worst until we know better.

With cooking, candles, etc., we've been doing it for so long that we can probably safely assume that the resulting particles aren't causing any significant harm.

Comment Re:doesn't help people take games seriously either (Score 1) 737

Feminist objection to this has nothing to do with them being sexy. It has to do with them being objectified, which means being denied agency. In other words, their primary role is there to look sexy to promote a product--of which they likely have not been trained on because they are only expected to bring in attention. They are denied their humanity beyond being sexy.

Comment Re:What am I missing? (Score 3, Interesting) 255

It would be a huge upset if they did.

Actually, I'm pretty sure a lot of them would have the opposite reactions. When the Higgs Boson was finally found, a lot of physicists were actually disappointed because it meant there wasn't really much in the way of new physics to be discovered.

Submission + - Mozilla is considering revoking TeliaSonera trust for sales to dictators (theregister.co.uk)

ndogg writes: Mozilla is considering pulling TeliaSonera from its list of root certificate SSL providers. They have asked for comments on this on their mailing list. They're concerned about the use of the certificates by those governments for spying on its citizens, particularly in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan — where TeliaSonera operates subsidiaries or is heavily invested. Mozilla's concern is that TeliaSonera has possibly issued certificates that allow hardline government servers to masquerade as legitimate websites — so-called man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks — and decrypt web traffic. This alleged activity would contradict Mozilla's policy against "knowingly issuing certificates without the knowledge of the entities whose information is referenced in the certificates".

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