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Comment Re:food colouring WTF (Score -1) 200

titanium dioxide is nano particles. get them into the body. pollute it. long ago i decided that the empirical evidence was thus: the goal apparently of large corporations is to kill as many people as possible, as slowly as possible, and do so in a way that nobody's hands ever appear dirty. i wouldn't take back what i know now for anything, but it's been a long long hard road. (over 30 years of observation, changing diet, cause, effect, discussion, research, biomedical papers, books, old books, medical journals, fringe sites, etc).

(science viewpoint: it helps the stuff get in further and deeper and more completely and because less is excreted as metabolites, it must be working better, see?!) only problem is they cross organ membranes they're so small, the agglomerate in places they should never be in the first place, and lastly and most importantly the body doesn't know how to get them out.

EDTA chelation, however does get it out.

or to a lesser degree so does eating food that naturally chelates, like cilantro.

Comment might pay for (Score -1) 145

either a gas generator to put in the trunk and plug into the power charger part, or a portion of the garage when the thing spontaneously catches fire when either not home or in the middle of the night and burns part of the house down. EV's are not safe. toyota imho had it right with the hybrid stuff. plus, ev fans, where do you gander all that electricity comes from? you're just offsetting carbon, and telling someone with law making egress that you're okay being bought off and ditching something that works and offers more freedom of movement, because they decided to pool together with hundreds of other lawmakers over the last few decades, and convince everyone the world is destroying itself (typically every 10 years they predict a massive crisis and not one has ever come to pass.) look it up. i predict this comment recieves no good karma, but someone please surprise me. i may say things that are unpopular here, but none of them are unfounded.

Submission + - UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Britain’s passport database could be used to catch shoplifters, burglars and other criminals under urgent plans to curb crime, the policing minister has said. Chris Philp said he planned to integrate data from the police national database (PND), the Passport Office and other national databases to help police find a match with the “click of one button." But civil liberty campaigners have warned the plans would be an “Orwellian nightmare” that amount to a “gross violation of British privacy principles”.

Foreign nationals who are not on the passport database could also be found via the immigration and asylum biometrics system, which will be part of an amalgamated system to help catch thieves. The measures have been deemed controversial by campaigners as the technology could get a match even if images are blurred or partially obscured. Speaking at a fringe event of the Conservative party conference hosted by the Policy Exchange thinktank, Philp said: “I’m going to be asking police forces to search all of those databases – the police national database, which has custody images, but also other databases like the passport database – not just for shoplifting but for crime generally to get those matches, because the technology is now so good that you can get a blurred image and get a match for it.

“Operationally, I’m asking them to do it now. In the medium term, by which I mean the next two years, we’re going to try and create a new data platform so you can press one button [and it] lets you search it all in one go. Until the new platform is created, he said police forces should search each database separately. [...] Philp said he has already ordered police forces that have access to the passport database to start searching it alongside the police national database, which stores custody images. Officers will be able to compare those facial images against CCTV, dashcam and doorbell technology to help find a match for criminals as prosecution rates are at record lows. He later added: “I would also just remind everyone that the wider public, including shop staff and security guards, do have the power of citizen’s arrest and where it’s safe to do so I would encourage that to be used. Because if you do just let people walk in and take stuff and walk out without proper challenge, including potentially a physical challenge, then it will just escalate.”

Comment mosquitos (Score -1) 89

well if they stopped producing them in labs and releasing them, all genetically engineered and supposedlyh resistant to something or another, im certain we would have less of a mosquito problem. # of times science has gotten natural design wrong by misunderstanding it (too numerous to list here.) # of times this has backfired = numerous.
mosquitos are typically only a natural issue if there is standing water, in marshy places, or with poor sanitation, etc.
anyway, i dont expect much from this crowd, but i had to say something.

Submission + - The Billionaire Keeping TikTok on Phones in the U.S. (wsj.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Financier Jeff Yass made a big bet on the app, and he’s a top donor to lawmakers who support it

Yass’s investment company, Susquehanna International Group, bet big on TikTok in 2012, buying a stake in parent company ByteDance now measured at about 15%. That translates into a personal stake for Yass of 7% in ByteDance. It is worth roughly $21 billion based on the company’s recent valuation, or much of his $28 billion net worth as gauged by Bloomberg.

Yass is also one of the top donors to the Club for Growth, an influential conservative group that rallied Republican opposition to a TikTok ban. Yass has donated $61 million to the Club for Growth’s political-spending arm since 2010, or about 24% of its total, according to federal records.

Club for Growth made public its opposition to banning TikTok in March, in an opinion article by its president, at a time when sentiment against the platform among segments of both parties was running high on Capitol Hill. Days later, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) stood up on the Senate floor and quashed an attempt to fast-track a bill by Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) to ban downloading of the TikTok app.

Submission + - Chinese Hackers Have Unleashed a Never-Before-Seen Linux Backdoor (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen backdoor for Linux that’s being used by a threat actor linked to the Chinese government. The new backdoor originates from a Windows backdoor named Trochilus, which was first seen in 2015 by researchers from Arbor Networks, now known as Netscout. They said that Trochilus executed and ran only in memory, and the final payload never appeared on disks in most cases. That made the malware difficult to detect. Researchers from NHS Digital in the UK have said Trochilus was developed by APT10, an advanced persistent threat group linked to the Chinese government that also goes by the names Stone Panda and MenuPass.

Other groups eventually used it, and its source code has been available on GitHub for more than six years. Trochilus has been seen being used in campaigns that used a separate piece of malware known as RedLeaves. In June, researchers from security firm Trend Micro found an encrypted binary file on a server known to be used by a group they had been tracking since 2021. By searching VirusTotal for the file name, libmonitor.so.2, the researchers located an executable Linux file named “mkmon.” This executable contained credentials that could be used to decrypt the libmonitor.so.2 file and recover its original payload, leading the researchers to conclude that “mkmon” is an installation file that delivered and decrypted libmonitor.so.2.

The Linux malware ported several functions found in Trochilus and combined them with a new Socket Secure (SOCKS) implementation. The Trend Micro researchers eventually named their discovery SprySOCKS, with “spry” denoting its swift behavior and the added SOCKS component. SprySOCKS implements the usual backdoor capabilities, including collecting system information, opening an interactive remote shell for controlling compromised systems, listing network connections, and creating a proxy based on the SOCKS protocol for uploading files and other data between the compromised system and the attacker-controlled command server.

After decrypting the binary and finding SprySOCKS, the researchers used the information they found to search VirusTotal for related files. Their search turned up a version of the malware with the release number 1.1. The version Trend Micro found was 1.3.6. The multiple versions suggest that the backdoor is currently under development. The command-and-control server that SprySOCKS connects to has major similarities to a server that was used in a campaign with a different piece of Windows malware known as RedLeaves. Like SprySOCKS, RedLeaves was also based on Trochilus. Strings that appear in both Trochilus and RedLeaves also appear in the SOCKS component that was added to SprySOCKS. The SOCKS code was borrowed from the HP-Socket, a high-performance network framework with Chinese origins.

Submission + - Underocean desalination resolve many problems (latimes.com)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: Locating desalination plants at the bottom of the sea:

Reduces energy consumption because the sea itself provides the necessary osmotic pressure
Reduces brine production because it only removes 10% of fresh water from the salt water
Reduce land usage

Comment debiaaaaaaaaaan (Score -1) 147

I would just install Debian with a friendly window manager, something like xfce4, or lxde (if they're a tinkerer type.)
if they're full blow win-tard they might want kde.
i hear good things about gnome-throwback, but i refuse to try it after watching what installing regular gnome does to clog-up and modify an otherwise perfectly fresh install.

Submission + - Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found (chemistryworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A world-beating deposit of lithium along the Nevada–Oregon border could meet surging demand for this metal, according to a new analysis.

An estimated 20 to 40 million tonnes of lithium metal lie within a volcanic crater formed around 16 million years ago. This is notably larger than the lithium deposits found beneath a Bolivian salt flat, previously considered the largest deposit in the world.

‘If you believe their back-of-the-envelope estimation, this is a very, very significant deposit of lithium,’ says Anouk Borst, a geologist at KU Leuven University and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. ‘It could change the dynamics of lithium globally, in terms of price, security of supply and geopolitics.’

New in situ analysis reveals that an unusual claystone, composed of the mineral illite, contains 1.3% to 2.4% of lithium in the volcanic crater. This is almost double the lithium present in the main lithium-bearing clay mineral, magnesium smectite, which is more common than illite.

CHINA HAD BETTER HURRY AND BRIBE SOME GREEN ACTIVISTS TO BE SURE WE CAN’T EXPLOIT IT

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Comment whaaa? re: title of submission. (Score -1) 50

by doctorbeans (#63817988) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do Streamers Waste More Time Deciding What to Watch?
people watch streamers on youtube?
i guess they do.
I'd rather be doing aaaanything else. quite literally. watching the speed of someone's brain in realtime is not only terrifying, it exponentially slows when they're trying to leverage a decision making process against ego, vanity, appeasement of their percieved "audience," and all that....
literally, cannot be bothered, and it's painful to watch.

my two cents, humble at that.

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