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Comment OK. Challenge accepted. (Score 1) 393

1. What if - on the event horizon of black holes - when particles and antiparticles are created, only the antiparticles are sucked into the black holes and the particles (matter) is able to escape the event horizon?

Over time, (a crapload of time), there will be a surplus of particles in the universe.

2. Also, we can only see the universe as far as light has traveled to us since the universe started.

We don't really know its extent. What if antimatter and matter are compartmentalized in different regions of the universe, with only a smattering of "the other" in areas where one is prevalent?

Comment Re:Liberals are still butthurt... (Score 1) 156

Well, I also agree with your point, but I stand by mine.

The problem, as I see it is that "opinion" and what is called "news opinion" has been blurred with what is "news".

In that case, people can spout opinion all they want while the look like news people and then corporations make money on the creation of infighting in society who feel this opinion is real and accurate.

The companies and people who do this perform a great disservice to society.

Submission + - Tamiflu-resistant influenza: parsing the genome for the culprits (actu.epfl.ch)

An anonymous reader writes: From the article.

It doesn’t take long for the flu virus to outsmart Tamiflu. EPFL scientists have developed a tool that reveals the mutations that make the virus resistant, and they have identified new mutations that may render ineffective one of the few treatments currently available on the market.

Open access to the paper in PLOS Genetics

Submission + - Corrupt Judge lets rich child rapist skate...

An anonymous reader writes: Delaware Judge Jan Jurden was recently in the news for letting Super Rich Dupont heir Robert H Richards IV get away with raping his 3 year old daughter. Read about it here...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Judge Jan Jurden is also a Sociology professor at University of Delaware. If you wish to discuss the inappropriateness of this sentencing, you may be able to catch here as her Campus number...

http://leadferret.com/director...
http://leadferret.com/director...
Jan Jurden
Job Title Supplemental Faculty, Sociology
Phone (302) 255-0665

Alternatively, you may perhaps send her a nice letter, explaining the message it sends to the rest of society when the super rich get special treatment while defenseless child rape victims get robbed of justice. This is her address of record...

http://www3.nccde.org/parcel/d...

Interestingly, the last two transactions on the purchase of their home was listed at $10. I wonder how much local tax they skirted with that. Guess being a Judge has many benefits aside from letting Rich people skate.

Maybe we should ask her Wife Cheryl. She seems like a sympathetic lady. Here is her facebook page. Maybe she has the special insight into how much more put upon Mr Richards would be by prison rape than his daughter was by paternal rape.

https://www.facebook.com/chery...

Sadly, Jan does not have a facebook page. Its SOP for the perveyers of so called 'justice' to hide from the public today. Now, I know what you are thinking, and you are right. I am not advocating cyberbullying here. But we, as members of the public have few avenues to be heard, and we should be. It is appropriate to 'speak truth to power', but please, be respectful. Or simply share this with someone else and let them speak.
#Occupy

Submission + - Apple buys iFixit, declares repairable devices "antiquated". (ifixit.com) 2

ErichTheRed writes: Apparently, Apple is buying iFixit. iFixit is (was?) a website that posted teardown photos of gadgets and offered repair advice. According to the website: "Apple is working hard to make devices last long enough to be upgraded or irrelevant, making repairability an antiquated notion." It's all clear now — I can't replace the batteries, hard drives or RAM in new Macs because I'm expected to throw them in the landfill every 2 years!

It made it to CNN, so it has to be true, right?

Submission + - Ancient Virus DNA Discovery Could be a Breakthrough in How Diseases are Treated (ibtimes.co.uk)

concertina226 writes: Understanding how retroviruses are passed down through our DNA could be the key to helping researchers re-programme normal cells to become stem cells for treating diseases.

Researchers from Canada and Singapore have discovered that the ancient viruses which entered our ancestors' genomes thousands of years ago have altered the way our cells behave; the material left by dead viruses in our cells is the answer.

1,000 copies of one particular class of retroviruses, known as the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-H, is still in our genome, and while the HERV-H retrovirus DNA is dead and cannot replicate itself, it continues to send out messages telling the embryonic stem cell how to become other cells in the body, and this is what makes the cells pluripotent.

Submission + - The Spam Battle Report 2014

Esther Schindler writes: Like anything else, spam evolves, as do the means by which it gets delivered to your e-mail inbox and the manner in which sysadmins prevent it from doing so. If your thoughts on spam-fighting are a few years old, it's time for an update.

For instance, starting with the good news: According to Kaspersky, in 2013, the proportion of spam in email flows was 70%, which is 2.5 percentage points lower than in 2012. The bad news is that spam that does get through is far more dangerous. According to John Levine, chairman of the Internet Research Task Force's Anti-Spam Research Group and president of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, "The ongoing threat is that spam is now essentially 100% criminal, and it's as likely to try to plant bank-account-stealing malware either directly or via links to compromised websites as to sell you something." As one example:

The content of spam is evolving to become more dangerous in new ways. For instance, Nick Gonzalez, a spokesperson for the security company Barracuda Labs, observes, “One new way we’ve seen are campaigns that use embedded Excel spreadsheets. The spammers break the words into individual cells to bypass the anti-spam tools. When viewed in an email it looks like a typical HTML attachment but it’s much more difficult to analyze."

So, here's the current state of the spammy art, and what you ought to know to fight it effectively.

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