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Comment Re:What does Manjaro bring to the market? (Score 1) 17

Not sure what IPR means, but the reasons I use Manjaro are:
  • MHWD making it very easy to install/remove/switch drivers and kernels: https://wiki.manjaro.org/index...
  • It comes decently configured and ready to use, similar to how I configured my Arch install, so with new installs or reinstalls there's less work to get it to how I want it.
  • There's a usable live medium (with X and everything) in the install ISO.
  • Manjaro testing is not far behind Arch (or unstable if that's important to you).

Submission + - CRISPR Gene-Editing May Offer Path To Cure For HIV, First Published Report Shows (npr.org)

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An anonymous reader writes: Chinese scientists have published the first report in a scientific journal of an attempt to use CRISPR-edited cells in a patient — a 27-year-old man who is HIV-positive. While the treatment did not rid the man of the AIDS virus, the researchers and others are calling the report promising. That's because it indicates that so far the gene-editing technique seems to safely and effectively make the precise DNA change intended. The case was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In the new report, the researchers attempted to use CRISPR to recreate the experiences of two men known as the Berlin patient and the London patient. In those cases, HIV-positive men were declared effectively cured after they received stem cell transplants from people born with variations of a gene known as CCR5 that makes people naturally resistant to HIV. The variation disables a molecular gateway HIV uses to enter and destroy key immune system cells. In the new case, [Hongkui Deng, a professor of cell biology at the Peking University] and his colleagues used CRISPR to edit the CCR5 gene on stem cells to recreate the naturally occurring protection against HIV. They then used the edited cells to perform a stem cell transplant for the patient. The man also had acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a form of blood cancer. The transplant appears to have put the patient's leukemia into remission, the researchers reported. He suffered no apparent adverse side effects from the gene-edited cells, which have persisted in his body for more than 19 months, according to the report.

Submission + - New Simjacker attack exploited in the wild to track users for at least two years (zdnet.com)

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campuscodi writes: Security researchers have disclosed today a major SMS-based attack method being abused in the real world by a surveillance vendor to track and monitor individuals. "We are quite confident that this exploit has been developed by a specific private company that works with governments to monitor individuals," security researchers from AdaptiveMobile Security said in a report released today. "We believe this vulnerability has been exploited for at least the last 2 years by a highly sophisticated threat actor in multiple countries, primarily for the purposes of surveillance."

The attack, named Simjacker, works by attackers sending SMS messages to victims' phones. The SMS messages contain STK instructions that are run by a victim's SIM card to gather location data and the IMEI code, which is then sent through an SMS message to a logging system. Researchers said they've seen Simjacker being abused to track hundreds of victims for two years, yet it is unclear if the victims are criminals tracked by law enforcement, or dissidents tracked by oppressive regimes. Over one billion smartphone users use SIM cards deemed vulnerable to this attack.

Comment Re:How do they measure the "costs"? (Score 1) 1022

by Tanath (#58551804) Attached to: 'Universal Basic Income Doesn't Work'
They're lying about the cost.

the International Labor Office, which estimates average costs equivalent to 20-30% of GDP in most countries.

This is ten times the reality: https://www.weforum.org/agenda...

Cost of UBI in US would be around half a trillion for 12k each. The cost of poverty is over 3 trillion.

https://theconversation.com/wh...

imagine a room with 15 people who want to set up a UBI for the room of $2 per person. The upfront cost of the policy would be $30. The ten richest people in the room are asked to contribute $3 each towards funding it. After they each put in $3, raising the total $30 needed, every person in the room gets their $2 universal basic income. But because the ten richest people in the room contributed $3, and then got $2 back as the UBI, their real, net contribution is in fact $1 each. So the real cost of the UBI is $10.

to fund a UBI of US$12,000 per adult and US$6,000 per child every year (while keeping all other spending the same) the US would have to raise an additional US$539 billion a year – less than 3% of its GDP. This is a small fraction of the figures that get thrown around of over US$3 trillion (the gross cost of this policy).

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