I'm still in development of my own one man indie thing (no link cause you deserve better) and I was going to do the same thing. Well, the more the merrier!

http://epic.org/foia_notes/foia_doc_20_snap.PDF

Apparently "(5)(b)" is the only thing we're allowed to know about this project. What the hell?

I suspect that there would be enough viral debris and intact viruses that an immune system would be able to at least notice something was happening.

DRACO doesn't kill the virus, it kills the cells that are incubating the virus. So there would be 'free floating' and live viruses that your immune system would deal with.

The main reason viruses screw with us is because our immune system can't see them inside our own cells, those cells make a bunch of viruses and then release them to infect others. Our immune systems only have a small window of time to catch the viruses before they find a new cell and hide again.

AFAIK the only way the body can cure a virus once it goes totally rampant inside of your cells is to overheat to the point that it doesn't kill you but it kills the virus (Fever) since your immune system can't contain the viral load anymore and are simply outnumbered. The reason vaccines work and how you can catch, recover and then be immune to a virus is because the virus never gets to the 'rampant' stage, it's noticed and killed immediately by the immune system while your immune system outnumbers it millions to one.

So to answer your original question: This can only be an incredibly good thing if it works as advertised.

p.s. Many vaccines work by injecting DEAD viruses into you. Your immune system sees them and does its thing, pumping out antibodies as if it were a real threat - once that's done you're effectively immune until the antibodies die out but even then, afaik, there's still some lingering defence.

Philosophical Theory: Not to be taken literally

Just in case anyone wanted to know 'Marooned off Vesta' was the title of Isaac Isamov's first published (short) story. As I remember it was fairly good.

So dropping a physical bomb from a physical drone flying above a group of physical people who get turned into smaller physical components when the bomb lands is not a hostile act against the nation that it happens in YET hacking into or damaging a computer network in a nation is an act of war?

So it would be legal for terrorists to use drones to drop bombs on americans but an act of war for the US to release Stuxnet against Iran.

Woohoo?

I mean, I'm just a jobless IT professional in Vancouver, Canada and I figured these 'loopholes' out, how the fuck could the people making these kinds of declarations not realize the potential flaws here?

Most of the new Battlestar Galactica was just actors in starkly lit metal boxes talking fiercely at each other with a few minutes per episode of (relatively inexpensive looking but still workable) cgi and almost bad-looking cgi cylons (the metal ones I mean, not the meatbag ones)

Yet everyone loved that series until the lolfinal episode.

I thought the PBS hack group was distinct and separate from Anonymous? I mean, obviously the lines are a little muddy, but didn't the hackers basically say "We're not the Anonymous you're thinking of." when they did the hack? It would be like everyone blaming Al-Qaeda for a terrorist attack that Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out just because they're both interested in calling themselves islamo-terrorists and have ideas and goals that at a glance seem similar with outward appearances that might be confusing for an uninformed observer.

I can imagine a southerner saying "Them thar' terr'rsts" in one breath and "That them anonamouse" in the other.

Okay so a revolution can stop an out of control government.

What stops an out of control corporation?

Better untrustworthy governments than irresponsible and rapacious corporations.

Actually it sounds like fascism to me.

One of socialism's (purported) goals is to reduce levels of government and government power overall in place of individual or collective power.

It's funny that the submitter chose the words "risk of armed robbery by criminals" to describe the dangers posed to grow warehouses since, by law, Federal agents are allowed to and frequently do raid Medical Marijuana stores and warehouses in states where it's legal.

Since the Feds usually kick the doors down, wave their guns around and take all the weed it seems to me that if you described the situation to someone and didn't mention that the aggressors had DEA written on their hats then the person you described it to would probably agree that it sounded like an armed robbery by criminals.

No diamonds?

They shipped him from Estonia to Atlanta? Poor guy. No crime is worth going to Atlanta.

I don't know if that was sarcastic or not so allow me to clarify. I'm not suggesting that earth or anything goes through cycles of life that are identical but go faster each time.

What I am talking about is for example how all life on earth was for a time anaerobic until the release of oxygen by aerobic creatures killed them off and other similar dieoffs including the Great Dying 250 million years ago and then that whole incident with the end of the dinosaurs.

More importantly however, and despite my efforts I can't remember the details, there have been die-offs at varying levels of life development that may be unique to our planet, or at least uncommon.