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Imgur.com: Why We Dumped GoDaddy-> 3

Submitted by Velcroman1
Velcroman1 writes "On the eve of what has been dubbed “Dump Go Daddy Day,” imgur.com — the massive image hosting sites is responsible for an astonishing 28 terabytes of bandwidth and nearly 200 million page views per day — has already changed its registry entries, foreshadowing the potential negative effect of a boycott set to begin Thursday morning. GoDaddy.com originally supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) — RackSpace called it "a deeply flawed piece of legislation" that will hinder free speech and infringe on first amendment rights — but quickly recanted its position when the call of a boycott circulated. “The outcry kind of forced our hand,” imgur founder and owner Alan Schaaf said. “I’m against the SOPA act and imgur as a company is against it. We just feel it is terrible that GoDaddy.com would support this legislation.”"
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Comment: Kills the infected cell... (Score 1) 414

by Cyclloid (#37049614) Attached to: New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection
I don't know about cell infection rates of viruses but I worry about a drug that can kill off your own cells.
For instance: a virus(or multiple viruses) has infected 50% of you cells. Your cells continue to work normally for the most part(after all viruses use the normal cell operations to replicate). Then you take DRACO, your infected cells die within 24hrs. Again 50% infected cell is likely high(?). Do you think that you would feel an effect if 20% were infected? 10%?

As far as the detection of the viruses. They use a method of causing the cell to die when it detects long dsRNA(don't know what the ds stands for, wasn't covered in my high school science class) with strands >30 base pairs(They note that mammal cells generally don't produce dsRNA strands longer than 21~23 base pairs). So since viruses which contain only RNA get killed(along with the cell they infect). Though this leads to the possibility of viruses that have shorter RNA strands appearing(maybe?) or viruses that generate a blocking mechanism that prevents the collapse of the cell.

Comment: Re:Better security: Give users an admin account to (Score 1) 145

by Cyclloid (#33465266) Attached to: Facebook To Add Remote Logout
But what are the chances that the user uses the exact same username/password for both the admin account and regular account? I would say the odds are pretty high.

The world is not as security minded as the average /. reader.

Facebook would also have the problem of the majority of their users complaining about needing two passwords for a single account or having to login with different accounts/passwords to get to certain functionality.

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