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Comment An Obvious Cure! (Score 1) 72

by jdmark (#63311157) Attached to: 5th Person Confirmed To Be Cured of HIV
This was a blatantly obvious cure. Destroying the immune system with chemo therapy and then replacing the defective cells with cells from a donor with natural immunity seemed obvious 10-20 years ago when stem cell therapy began kicking off. Take cells from person with natural immunity (we've known about the natural immunity since the 1980's) + put patient through chemotherapy to destroy defective cells + IV stem cell treatment with immune cells = HIV Cure and a cure for a whole lot of other diseases

Comment Re:Crypto Scam Collapses (Score 1) 36

by jdmark (#63271241) Attached to: Binance To Suspend US Dollar Bank Transfers This Week
Like who, Tom Brady? The biggest sucker in the entire world! Idiot!!! He deserved to have 650 million dollars pulled out from under him for his worthless greed filled gamble, what a pathetic sucker! Hey Tom Brady, this one is for you being the biggest idiot in the entire history of civilization to lose $650,000,000 to an obvious ponzi/pyramid scheme.

Comment Poor Browser Performance (Score 1) 408

by jdmark (#61788761) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users?
FireFox wasn't even usable for about four years. In fact, after upgrading from an Athlon 3.8GHz CPU with 32GB RAM to an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X with 48GB RAM the performance of FireFox was literally the same and hadn't changed after a fresh install and brand new top of the line hardware with a fresh Windows 10 Edu install. The first thing I did after that was go directly into the #FireFox IRC channel on Libera and complain AGAIN about the extremely poor performance of FireFox and explained to them the situation. The performance of FireFox had been boggy and slow with 5 tabs open with nothing but FireFox running which made the browser unusable. What am I suppose to do limit my browsing experience to having five tabs open? Suffice to say I wasn't able to use FireFox for anything other than the bookmark editor for almost 5 years and shortly after the major hardware upgrade and complaint in IRC FireFox magically got considerably faster within a few months.

Comment BeauHD Owns Salonis Coinz? (Score 5) 55

by jdmark (#61750377) Attached to: Why the Solana Cryptocurrency Is Surging
Of probably 20 years of reading Slashdot I've made less than 5 comments total, without a doubt. Probably more like 3. I've also watched Slashdot change hands a total of three or four times. I've literally read Slashdot every single day for almost two decades. I'm not kidding. The third or fourth owners of this publication, the current ones, decided to write an article or at least link to an article, and I'm familiar with embedded advertisements pretending to be news articles like this one. So my question is to who ever owns this facade publication called "Slashdot" (remember it's changed hands three times), how much of that fucking shitcoin that you are attempting to pump do you fucking idiots own? You are obviously attempting to manipulate the price of your shitty blockchain protocol fork.
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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

Posted by samzenpus from the nice-feed dept.
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
Education

US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal 490

Posted by CmdrTaco from the talking-to-you-cliff dept.
theodp writes "Many US colleges and universities have notices posted on their websites informing US companies that they're tax chumps if they hire students who are US citizens. 'In fact, a company may save money by hiring international students because the majority of them are exempt from Social Security (FICA) and Medicare tax requirements,' advises the taxpayer-supported University of Pittsburgh (pdf) as it makes the case against hiring its own US students. You'll find identical pitches made by the University of Delaware, the University of Cincinnati, Kansas State University, the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University, and other public colleges and universities. The same message is also echoed by private schools, such as John Hopkins University, Brown University, Rollins College and Loyola University Chicago."
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Verizon Asks Court To Affirm 'Most Reliable' Claim 111

Posted by samzenpus from the can-you-sue-me-now dept.
suraj.sun writes "Verizon has asked a court to affirm its claim to be 'America's Most Reliable 3G Network.' From the article, 'Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone Group PLC, asked a US court for a judgment that its advertising claims to be "America's Most Reliable 3G Network" were truthful, which rival AT&T called "misleading" on Monday. In papers filed in US District Court in Manhattan, Verizon said assertions on July 1 by AT&T Mobility LLC, a unit of AT&T, that its advertising was false could not be supported. AT&T, which has its principal business in Atlanta, had filed the challenge with the National Advertising Division of the Council for Better Business Bureaus. Verizon Wireless said its claims of having "America's Most Reliable 3G Network" and "America's Best 3G Network" and "America's Most Reliable Wireless Network" are "truthful, accurate and substantiated" and do not violate the trademark law known as the Lanham Act. It said that AT&T's challenge "relies on the incorrect premise that speed is an essential element of the standard for measuring network reliability.'" I can only hope that at some future date a court will decide which light beer truly is the best tasting.

Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq 263

Posted by Zonk from the someone-call-for-an-exterminator dept.
NightFalcon90909 writes "You may have heard that armed robots were yanked from Iraq after a gun started to swivel without it being told to do so. 'A recent news report that armed robots had been pulled out of Iraq is mistaken, according to the company that makes the robot [Foster-Miller] and the Army program manager. 'The whole thing is an urban legend,' says Foster Miller spokesperson Cynthia Black, of the reports about SWORDS moving its gun without a command.'"
Transportation

Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic 296

Posted by kdawson from the no-relation dept.
Pickens writes "Metallurgists studying the hulk of the Titanic argue that the liner went down fast after hitting an iceberg because the ship's builder used substandard rivets that popped their heads and let tons of icy seawater rush in. They say that better rivets would have probably kept the Titanic afloat long enough for rescuers to have arrived, saving hundreds of lives. The team collected clues from 48 Titanic rivets and found many riddled with high concentrations of slag, a glassy residue of smelting that can make iron brittle. To test whether this extra slag weakened the rivets, scientists commissioned a blacksmith to make rivets to the same specifications as those used to join steel plates in the hull of the Titanic. When the plates were bent in the laboratory, the rivet heads popped off at loads of about 4,000 kg. With the right slag content they should have held up to about 9,000 kg. Even a few failures because of flawed metal would have been sufficient to unzip entire seams, because as faulty rivets popped, more stress would have been placed on the good ones, causing them to break in turn. The shipbuilder, which is still in existence, denies it all."
Science

Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm 167

Posted by kdawson from the ionized-path-between-the-clouds-part-deux dept.
esocid writes "A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm. At the top of South Baldy Peak in New Mexico during two passing thunderstorms, the researchers used laser pulses to create plasma filaments that could conduct electricity. No air-to-ground lightning was triggered because the filaments were too short-lived, but the laser pulses generated discharges in the thunderclouds themselves up to several meters long. Triggering lightning strikes is an important tool for basic and applied research because it enables researchers to study the mechanisms underlying lightning strikes. Moreover, triggered lightning strikes will allow engineers to evaluate and test the lightning-sensitivity of airplanes and critical infrastructure such as power lines. Research into laser-triggered lightning has been going on for some years. Until now, no experiment was able to produce a long enough plasma channel to affect the electrical activity inside clouds."

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