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Comment quick - grab the steering wheel (Score 1) 222

by tpthompson on Friday May 14, 2010 @02:33AM (#32204394) Attached to: What the Mobile Patent Fight Is All About

c'mon...can you imagine a car without one?

heres a recommendation: reasonable license fees - with creation credit - aka royalties.

the more ludicrous and innovation destructive the lawsuit, the more seriously revision of intellectual property law becomes a priority

rather than wait for a change in law, vote with your paycheck: buy something else

Gene Therapy Restores Sight To Blind 157

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @02:31AM from the falling-scales dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like we have found a cure for genetic blindness (clinical trial — abstract — paper [PDF] — ABC News video). This gene therapy treatment increases both cone and rod photoreceptor-based vision. These engineered viruses are implanted to do our bidding to restore vision. Clinical trials on 6 children and young people proved the therapy and didn't find any notable side effects." Any blind person, especially any adapted and competent one, who wants to gain the sense of sight would be well advised to study Oliver Sachs's classic piece "To See and Not See."

Comment Re:Play with fire (Score 1) 193

by tpthompson on Sunday April 25, 2010 @02:24PM (#31976456) Attached to: Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts

Permanently delete FB account (inside)

Given the 2010 track record of FB this sends the 'correct message'...the captcha during delete is something else (ymmv)...takes 14 days inactive before they comply with request.

Log-in, then paste the direct link: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
which will auto rewrite to https for two stage authentication post actions

Explain page> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703

Comment Re:I'm glad.. (Score 1) 287

by tpthompson on Saturday April 24, 2010 @06:09PM (#31969706) Attached to: Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public

..that I left that sinking ship (Facebook) a long time ago. It wasn't easy (litterally), but worth it.

Self-determinism is the sinking ship taking privacy with it...I locked all (again).Facebook is the new AOL (bigger and badder portal), the Goldman-Sachs of social networking. Too big to fail, everyones favorite, for now.

Firms with everything at stake in cloud/service "offerings" understand they DO NOT OWN hosted data and have SLA around all security facets. Only explicit "opt-in" ultimately works to benefit both the end-user and those corporations aggregating a data platform revenue stream around demographic business intelligence.

The FB "opt-out" strategy sets precedence: if a deactivated account is found to have ANY associative data still accessible, FB may have to kiss their precious bottomline goodbye...

The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 22, 2009 @11:59AM from the take-your-pick dept.

igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."

Comment Re:A non-issue! (Score 1) 483

by tpthompson on Monday March 10, 2008 @02:33AM (#22697684) Attached to: Drugs In Our Drinking Water

This latest water pollution finding is certainly interesting, yet rather than being dismissive of the report as purely sensationalist, IMO it should be another "case in point" towards a refocus of our attention towards what is happening within both the food and drug supply chains: creation, consumption, by-products, and unintended consequences.

The implications of long-term consumption of both drug-saturated animals and GMO botanical products - many speculated and some examined - all confer a sense of adverse risk within the larger eco-system to humans and animals.

A prudent approach of engaging in active going-forward monitoring of these conditions, concurrent with on-going examination for causal relationships, is needed to determine corrective actions (if any). Ultimately there may never be any performance by authorities to do anything other than collect and disseminate the data.

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