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Comment Re:No, you don't have "chronic Lyme disease" (Score 1) 30

It is a fact that a significant amount of people chronically suffer from symptoms that are perfectly in line with the symptoms of Lyme, after having definitely had Lyme. So, that is 'a thing'. Whether the cause is indeed recurring Lyme, a yeast infection or damage to the body doesn't really matter all that much to those with the symptoms. Being dismissed as 'kooky' or being told to 'get over it' by assholes as yourself does matter.

Lymes triggers a body-wide continuous red-line overload of the immune system. That's the source of the majority of the horrible symptoms. Adrenalin 24/7 and an immune system on such a hair trigger that it attacks *you* at the least excuse - or without one.

Anything that provokes the bone marrow mast cells can cause that to happen. Chronic infections (lymes), damage to the immune system, genetic defects, and some cancers can (one very rare leukemia is know for it).

So the classic 'lymes' symptoms aren't specific to lymes at all. And that symptom set is 'whatever your immune system is attacking today' so it's everywhere and nowhere, but a least part of the time presents as clearly auto-immune damage or as adrenal fatigue. Our current medical system does a terrible job for these kinds of problems. I know a doctor with those symptoms who was getting a 'there is nothing wrong with you, you just have bad allergies' run-around. It took her 10 years (!!!) to get a correct diagnosis because even as a doctor she couldn't get taken seriously. (The rare leukemia was her problem)


So the symptoms are real, but most are down stream results of breaking the volume knob on an auto-immune system feedback loop. Treatment requires finding the individual cause for each patient.

Comment Re:So... to summarise: (Score 1) 269

The destruction of that data is required by law.*

*only when it conveniently helps the government.

Report any data harmful to the NSA as having been destroyed by an automated process per policy. No person is took any objectionable action, and 'policy' is responsible.

Actual destruction of data is optional. Archive it on another classified system and nobody else can reach it.

Comment Re:The Real Story Should Be... (Score 4, Interesting) 286

We'll need a follow up to see if they change the markings back in a year. Every 3-6 months the same intersections in Houston have missing signs with an officer standing by to issue citations. After a few days that sign is returned and the office moves to the next intersection on the list that 'just happened' to lose it's sign *again*.

The traffic light and painted arrows say it's a turn lane? Well, the fine print of the traffic law says it isn't without a sign too, so pay your fine. I feel safer already, and felt even better when I found several more intersections they were playing the same trick with round robin.

Comment Re:No Way! (Score 1) 261

I want a curved monitor.

A new 4k 50" set on my desk would have edges enough further from my eyes that when I focus on the center the edges will be out of focus. A curved monitor could make the image the same distance from my eyes all the way across, which would be awesome!

Comment Re:Hypocritical (Score 1) 297

Oddly enough, the NSA's MANDATE is "foreign signals intelligence". Note that word "foreign" - it's important.

Also oddly, EVERY OTHER spy agency on the planet spies on *gasp* FOREIGNERS!

For the NSA, anyone who isn't powerful isn't in the 'club', and that's foreign enough. Other spy agencies are valuable as propaganda cover though. If the NSA facilitates domestic spying by them then 'swaps' intel, both agencies claim they aren't spying on citizens! And if they pay or coerce local businesses to spy and turn over the data, why the intel is laundered so it's clean. And clean means it's ok!

Comment Re:Corporate directed not volunteer direct ... (Score 3, Informative) 403

the API surface will be smaller, the module will be better sandboxed, there will be real security and work to ensure users privacy (Andreas CTO at Mozilla promised this in his blog post on the topic).

Real security from Adobe? Bwahahah! Name an Adobe security success in the past decade!

And we'll get user privacy from the zombie tracking cookie company? Adobe actively opposes privacy as a business! Either your not too bright, or your a shill taking us for morons.

Comment Re:Undefined (Score 1) 800

Swerve in front of the Apple patent lawyer, clip and deflect his car into the Justin Bieber fans knocking them into the telephone pole. Apple's car will doctor dash cam video to clearly show the accident was caused by stolen 'rounded corner' tech Samsung thieves included in 'telephone pole' - which also clearly incorporates Apple mobile telephone IP including the use of 'wire' and 'copper' to complete a phone call.

Comment Re:Microsoft make up your mind! (Score 1) 293

Because it's the only way to get the message across to corporate fucktards that we are in the internet era and updating your software is FUCKING MANDATORY.

Not enough of you are signing up for MS Live and MS Store. That's like stealing. Some corps have even blocked MS Store. That's why we've blocked offline updates to 8.1, made it mandatory and available via MS Store only. YOU WILL AGREE TO THE MS STORE Ts & Cs! In short, you will comply with whatever poison pill we care to server or we'll throw you to the malware thieves. Oh, and have a nice day!

Comment Re:Missing an important information... (Score 1) 67

The issue isn't the scanning, it is the abuse (potential) of humans inserting themselves into the process to data mine on SPECIFIC users, without any other controls in place. I don't care about my data being aggregated, I care about my data being mined to be used against me. Given enough data, all of us are vulnerable.

Technology isn't the problem. It never was. The problem is humans, and always will be.

How much are the emails of your competitor's best salesmen worth to you? What if they were scanned to forward only those between him and his customers? What if you got alerts when a new prospect emailed? There is so much profitable data in email if only you fully monetize it! (and resell it through a Business Intelligence '3rd party' so you can claim to be the victim when caught!)

Comment Re:Missing an important information... (Score 1) 67

The summary should read

Google will no longer scan the email messages of students [...] for advertising purposes

. The Google blog post does not mention other types of scanning (neither to confirm or deny their existence, nor to announce that they will cease).

Facilitating scanning for any purpose by '3rd parties' is still on the table too.

Comment Re:Need laws on effects, not technologies (Score 1) 108

Thus they'll have the pictures from drivers license photos. They'll make it mandatory for exercising your constitutionally guaranteed rights(* exclusions apply, complaints accepted in 'free speech' zones only) - so press passes, licenses of all types (esp. for guns) will require it.

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