Comment More Users Are Shunning Facebook? (Score 1) 368
So I'm thinking Google marketing must have been driving all of those More Users Are Shunning Facebook "news" stories recently.
Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers 481
An anonymous reader writes "A particularly nasty Wikipedia vandal has forced a discussion to take place over whether to block edits from an address range used by over 67 million Verizon customers. Verizon has not responded to abusive Wikipedia users on their network before, even though the abusive Verizon users have released private information (phone numbers, etc.) of numerous individuals, and made countless threats that have also been reported to law enforcement. Wikipedia has done something similar in the past with users on the AOL network, which used proxy servers and thus allowed vandals to continue disrupting the site. Discussion is also taking place on alternate solutions to deal with abuse from this Verizon user, named 'Zsfgseg' on Wikipedia. If a block of millions is enacted, Verizon could potentially change how they assign IP addresses, or be forced at least to address a PR nightmare."
Comment Fantasy World (Score 1) 213
Words have meaning. Threats have consequences.
Chambers and his supporters seem to live in a fantasy world and do not understand this.
Comment New Form (Score 2, Interesting) 565
Your proposed solution to general social economic problems will fail because:
[X] It requires investors to care about something other than short term profits
[ ] It requires corporations to care about something other than short term profits
[X] It requires politicians to care about citizens rather than corporations
[X] It requires laws without loopholes
[X] It requires investors to care about something other than short term profits
[ ] It requires corporations to care about something other than short term profits
[X] It requires politicians to care about citizens rather than corporations
[X] It requires laws without loopholes
Comment Cylon Detector (Score 3, Funny) 197
Will this detect Cylons?
Comment Re:"surgical" (Score 1) 107
Me too. Live Bookmarks surgically removed the Tumor from the RSS title.
HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials 385
amigoro writes with the happy news that a possible vaccine against HIV is nearing readiness for clinical trials. The compound could provide a 'double whammy' by not only inoculating the patient against future infection, but destroying an HIV infection in progress. "The vaccine is an artificial virus-like particle whose outer casing consists of the TBI (T- and B cell epitopes containing immunogen) protein constructed by the researchers combined with the polyglucin protein. This protein contains nine components stimulating different cells of the immune system: both the ones that produce antibodies and the ones that devour the newcomer."
