That's why research is good.

There is already a cure for the Hayflick limit (that thing you are describing poorly) in Humans, it's called TA-65 and has been around for years. Currently it costs about $600/month per person but the cost will plummet in 2024 when the patent expires. Given the extraordinarily wide-scale potential application and the absurdly cheap cost of production (it is a highly refined root extract) it will likely be around the cost of vitamin supplements.

This isn't to say there aren't other issues to overcome but 3 of the 7 issues in aging already have cures (TA-65 corresponding to the first one on the Wikipedia list.)

Aside from the fact the story is written by Gawker (they despise Thiel because after years of targeting their political adversaries with smear campaigns they targeted him, then he backed Hulk Hogan's legal campaign against Gawker and Gawker is in the process of going bankrupt as a result,) they don't even comprehend what is being studied - not entirely unexpected from a political propaganda machine organized by haughty idiots lacking a grasp of even basic scientific methods.

What Thiel is studying is the ability to delay aging by cloning youthful cell lines after splicing in DNA from the target recipient to get around some of the SENS issues linked above which things like TA-65 don't handle (intracellular junk, etc.) This is a method which has been proven in every animal trial it has been attempted in and is based on solid scientific foundations.

TL;DR: The people at Gawker are among the slimiest of Human beings in existence who would gladly sacrifice progress for their own egos, political and financial gain. Taking them seriously is a very dumb thing to do.

This seems less about a forced court order they didn't want to comply with and more about the tyrannical douche-bag Steve Jobs no longer being around to control them.

Now as to why the article is meant to make them bad when they are in fact bad, but not in this case - I welcome even the craziest of black helicopter touting tin foil hat wearing people to comment on.

I haven't checked how this works (don't see a direct link to it anywhere) - but from using the demo it looks like the crypto piping is: Data --> Encrypt by CAPTCHA --> Encrypt by password --> Decrypt by password --> Decrypt by CAPTCHA --> Data Seems like a cool idea to prevent brute forcing.

Hippies are still worthless fear mongering pieces of crap that would all be just like Charles Manson - if they were that talented in controlling people.

Well apparently this April 1st is all about political garbage meant to poke fun at the idea of taking away people's rights - little in the way of tech jokes in comparison.

Well yeah, but only because you can't call anything Apple makes a "computer".

It's not about conservatives disliking homosexuals - most of us in fact do not give a damn one way or another who wants to stick what where and with whom, it's not our business. The issue is more with the trend in global warming to falsify information and base results on faulty models - typically to support liberal political philosophies. Science isn't suppose to be capable of corruption, it has increasingly become more so over the past several decades.

Welcome to the future - the cars might not be flying, but they run on shit!

I was making a joke meant to play on the analogy, not a serious statement or argument of any kind - lol.

Well of course not, the many-worlds interpretation will smite you for praying to the copenhagen interpretation - April --> June. I can't stand people that play on semantics to make an argument.

You are so god damn ignorant I want to kick puppies now.

Well, yeah, but only to save Americans the day-to-day stress of knowing the spider-rocks on Apollo 18 were real.

I agree - it is absurd these fucking liberals have taken the right to smoke in public buildings away from us - even the Chinese can do that.

Except the fact it's written in French.

I'm sorry, but anything said in french is too effeminate to look up too.