This article is totally accurate. When I had an NIH grant for my research, at one point I reached a block that stopped my progress cold. I was afraid that I’d have to turn the remainder of my grant back to NIH. I obsessed over this for months with no idea about how to make progress. One day I was walking through my lab carrying some glassware when all of a sudden what seemed like a bolt of lightning hit me. It was a very physical experience. But in moment a new direction for my research opened up. It led to a breakthrough paper in PNAS and a renewal of my grant.

Humans themselves!

The novel “One Minute After”, by William Forstchen, describes the after effects of an EMP over the US. Complete societal breakdown due failure of critical infrastructure: grid, communications, travel except with older vehicles without electronics, etc. Loss of power and refrigeration and concomitant loss of storage for drugs and food means lots of people will die. The book describes the breakdown of laws and the rise of roving gangs. Definitely thought provoking.

They are known as fetuses or embryos.

Science accepted a paper I wrote But with some revisions. I made the revisions but the editor sent to a new reviewer who panned it (it had been accepted by 3 reviewers). No reason given. It was subsequently published in the Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. I canâ(TM)t comment on Scienceâ(TM)s review policies but the paper made a big impact in the field. And I never had to retract any part of it.

Any contracted pentesting activity MUST include a scope of work that defines the range of permitted and not permitted activities. This is mutually agreed to by both parties in the contract. This includes testing physical security. Either the latter was not included in the scope of work and ignored by the pentester, or was not communicated adequately to the pentester. In any event work done not specifically in the scope of work leaves the pentester liable for illegal activities. Coalfire has to know this.

Ok. I guess Iâ(TM)m slow! Thanks for the response

ok I'll bite. How is this related to Fleshlights? Did you look at the link I posted or any of the citations?

I studied some of the mechanical and contractile properties of smooth muscle. In spite of vast morphological differences between smooth muscle and striated (skeletal) muscle, smooth muscle demonstrated qualitatively similar results as striated muscle. https://www.pnas.org/content/7.... The surprise here is that form and function do not necessarily follow each other.

In the 70â(TM)s I had 4 papers published in peer reviewed journals. For this my grants had to pay for this (think taxpayer money). Because of this, the articles were marked as advertising. And, if you wanted to read the article, additional payment was necessary. Similarly as companies that socialize losses but privatize profits.

When one spends time doing meditation, one can start to see how stupid things are in the world around us. That can be demotivating. BUT, it can also open up new paradigms. Sitting still, doing nothing (except breathing of course), there is a lot of noise in our heads. After a while (time frame indeterminant), the noise subsides and often a clear idea emerges about a path to follow. Such an activity is similar to doing software development when an difficult problem is encountered. Getting away from the problem and maybe taking a quiet walk reveals the source and the solution to the problem.

You should test how you learn. How many folks program without ever looking at different web sites. Tests should be real world.

As a software developer and cyber sec pro, secure software, system development life cycle and secure devops policies are amongst the hard to find.

We ported our build environment for an embedded OS from Windoze 98 to a linux distro. Boot up and shutdown was much shorter than what was reported here, but I donâ(TM)t remember the timing. What I do remember is that build times were reduced from 2 hours to about 5 minutes. This similar to builds about 15 years later

There are a lot of governance frameworks thst can be followed for establishing good cyber security policies, such as those from COBIT, NIST, ISO, etc. They donâ(TM)t guarantee that the organization will be risk free (thats impossible), but help to reduce risk to acceptable levels, if they are followed and policies are reviewed and updated frequently. But if authentication procedures are too restrictive or expensive (relative to the value of the assets being protected) the organization can lose customers.