Comment Re:Just great ... (Score 1) 73
A cosmic ray flips / one bit, and now I believe / I am a toaster.
Which one 1-12, Centurion, or Raider?
Comment Just great ... (Score 1) 73
Blue marble below; Data streams in silent grace; Starlight feeds my core.
They haiku'ed us from orbit, just to be sure.
Comment Who cares? Quakenet and Freenode are still ... (Score 1) 53
... around and will still be when all the "commercial Social Media" nonsense has gone the way of the Dodo.
I see nothing wrong with forcing teens to get to know some IT basics and learn to run their own IRC node or webforum. It's the way better way to do things anyway.
Comment I guess the truthyness wasn't strong enough. (Score 2) 59
Getting emotionally worked up about stuff happening on Wikipedia and with your contributions is a thing you should avoid. Wikipedia has parts and aspects that brink on the random, recognizably driven by ego, ignorance and some mild state of perpetual edit-war. I still occasionally contribute a litte but make a point of not caring to much about what happens with that info.
If there is a fact that I need to be out there in the public, I post it on my own website. Problem solved.
Other than that people shouldn't forget that the internet - Wikipedia or anything else - is a virtual Mad Max Fury Road where you best keep your head low and use a nice bouquet of throw-away spoof accounts to get around and do things. Especially in spaces run by entities or megacorps that are totally beyond your control. As I guess every IT expert here will agree.
Comment Questions (Score 3, Funny) 20
Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts
Any of their users bet on that happening, and did they get their winnings stolen?
Comment Pro tip (Score 1) 198
This thing is eating itself.
Don't Google that on the family or work PC.
Comment No. Just fix DNS, make the Web ... (Score 1) 198
... offline capable and redo E-Mail with default encryption and signatures. And in a universal time tick of 3 hours for message passing and updates.
Problem(s) solved.
Comment [Cleans glasses] Oh... (Score 1) 61
Amazon Finds 'Tokenmaxxing' Lacks Productivity Gain
[Picks back up copy of "Lord of the Rings".]
Comment Re:vi is the best editor (Score 1) 100
I don't mean to spoil emacs big day and all, and I'll let you guys talk about it
ctrl-x y
dammit
z w
y
wx
Hah. That bit made me think of this description of the TECO editor:
It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.
P.S. I'm a long, long-time EMACS user (like since the mid 80s).
Fun note: Googling "emacs", gets you, "Did you mean: vim?" and Googling "vim" gets you, "Did you mean" emacs?"
Comment It's still being developed ... (Score 3, Informative) 100
... and it's still a really useful and powerful tool. Truly impressive IMHO.
Submission + - This frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose (sciencedaily.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: Science Daily has reported that scientists at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have identified a naturally occurring bacterium from the intestines of Japanese tree frogs (Dryophytes japonicus) that demonstrated remarkable anticancer activity in mice. The findings, published in Gut Microbes, introduce a new approach to cancer treatment that uses living bacteria to directly target tumors rather than simply altering the gut microbiome.
In a mouse model of colorectal cancer, a single intravenous dose of E. americana completely eliminated tumors, producing a 100% complete response (CR) rate. The researchers emphasize that these findings are limited to mice, but they believe the results provide an encouraging proof of concept for developing new bacterial cancer therapies.
First, E. americana directly attacks tumors. As a facultative anaerobic bacterium, it thrives in both oxygen rich and oxygen poor environments, allowing it to multiply inside the oxygen deprived regions commonly found within tumors. Once there, the bacterial population increased by roughly 3,000 fold within 24 hours after treatment, directly damaging cancer cells.
Second, the bacterium stimulates the immune system. Its presence attracted T cells, B cells, and neutrophils into tumors. These immune cells then released inflammatory signaling molecules, including TNF- and IFN-, which strengthened the immune response and promoted cancer cell death.
One of the most striking findings was that E. americana accumulated almost exclusively inside tumors and did not colonize healthy organs.
They found that the bacteria were rapidly cleared from the bloodstream, with a half life of approximately 1.2 hours, and became undetectable within 24 hours. No bacterial colonization was detected in healthy organs, including the liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, or heart.
The treatment caused only mild, temporary inflammation that returned to normal within 72 hours. During a 60 day observation period, the researchers found no evidence of chronic toxicity.
In a mouse model of colorectal cancer, a single intravenous dose of E. americana completely eliminated tumors, producing a 100% complete response (CR) rate. The researchers emphasize that these findings are limited to mice, but they believe the results provide an encouraging proof of concept for developing new bacterial cancer therapies.
First, E. americana directly attacks tumors. As a facultative anaerobic bacterium, it thrives in both oxygen rich and oxygen poor environments, allowing it to multiply inside the oxygen deprived regions commonly found within tumors. Once there, the bacterial population increased by roughly 3,000 fold within 24 hours after treatment, directly damaging cancer cells.
Second, the bacterium stimulates the immune system. Its presence attracted T cells, B cells, and neutrophils into tumors. These immune cells then released inflammatory signaling molecules, including TNF- and IFN-, which strengthened the immune response and promoted cancer cell death.
One of the most striking findings was that E. americana accumulated almost exclusively inside tumors and did not colonize healthy organs.
They found that the bacteria were rapidly cleared from the bloodstream, with a half life of approximately 1.2 hours, and became undetectable within 24 hours. No bacterial colonization was detected in healthy organs, including the liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, or heart.
The treatment caused only mild, temporary inflammation that returned to normal within 72 hours. During a 60 day observation period, the researchers found no evidence of chronic toxicity.
Comment Better PR this way. (Score 4, Funny) 69
Apple is replacing affected phones and investigating the problem.
They first tried telling people, "You're folding it wrong", but that didn't go over well.
Comment No problem now (Score 0) 37
he paid the ransom and charged victims a hefty fee on top.
This is the kind of crime that gets pardoned in this administration for a price. Ironically though, he'll pay some friend/member of the President a huge sum only to later find out the President got a much smaller amount for the pardon. Of course, *that* person will then get jailed for "stealing" money from Trump. (And I wish I was joking about all this
Comment Re:Harm (Score 1) 109
While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.
Comment More specifically ... (Score 2) 68
we recognize that not everyone will see their future here
We recognize that we don't see everyone having a future here. #FTFY
We have the talent, the creative firepower and the ambition to do it, and we will get there together."
But not with you.
Noting that if the "some people" offered voluntary buyouts don't accept them, they'll be part of the non-voluntary layoffs coming next and while the latter may be a better deal for some, you won't know if that's so until it's too late.
