davidj

The real question is, red pill or blue? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6qG4yn-Ps

those posts are my honest replies. I don't invoke name calling and try to backup everything with sources. I do get downvoted a lot here, I do not have multiple accounts or use my account "as a troll account." My postings are sincere and I honestly have a dissenting viewpoint in general both online and offline. My friends often remark that I like debates. If you disagree with me, let me know. My philosophy in debating is that I either abandon my argument by learning new facts about what I was wrong about, or my argument stands. I live in the Portland Oregon area and if you would like to meet me for a beer I can attest to this. Thanks

Thimerosal may have been removed from vaccines in 2001/2003, but because it was used as a preservative, vaccines made before then were not taken off the shelf and recalled and still used! According to this link below some up until 2007. Then, the swine flu had Thimerosal which was given to children as well.

"One point that was repeatedly stated was that except for the flu shot, all vaccines that have been offered to parents since 2003 have been thimerosal free. This is not the case.

Because parents in the autism community are very concerned about the prospect of their children getting mercury in their vaccines, many of them routinely ask to see the packaging before their child gets a shot. What some parents are finding is that vaccines with the full 25 micrograms of mercury are still being distributed in doctors offices, some with an expiration date of 2007."

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2005/08/still-finding...

Basically the first paper states, from what I can understand, "Some people are born with a genetic defect in their cells, specifically in the mitochondria part of the cell. When these people are injected with Thimerosal, they get autism. Others don't." My proposed solution: Check to see if the kid has this genetic defect, and if so, don't inject them with mercury, inject them with the mercury free vaccine and they will be fine.

I'm not anti-vaccine at all, just anti-mercury in the vaccine. Also they did not remove Thimerosal from vaccines. In fact, the swine flu shot had Thimersal and if you remember, children and pregnant women were encourage to take it first. This caused a 700% increase in miscarriages. http://hubpages.com/hub/thirmerosal_in_vaccines

Vaccines do cause autism. Here is a peer reviewed paper in the journal of Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, the abstract:

Mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired oxidative-reduction activity, degeneration, and death in human neuronal and fetal cells induced by low-level exposure to thimerosal and other metal compounds Authors: D. A. Geiera; P. G. Kingb; M. R. Geierc

Abstract Thimerosal (ethylmercurithiosalicylic acid), an ethylmercury (EtHg)-releasing compound (49.55% mercury (Hg)), was used in a range of medical products for more than 70 years. Of particular recent concern, routine administering of Thimerosal-containing biologics/childhood vaccines have become significant sources of Hg exposure for some fetuses/infants. This study was undertaken to investigate cellular damage among in vitro human neuronal (SH-SY-5Y neuroblastoma and 1321N1 astrocytoma) and fetal (nontransformed) model systems using cell vitality assays and microscope-based digital image capture techniques to assess potential damage induced by Thimerosal and other metal compounds (aluminum (Al) sulfate, lead (Pb)(II) acetate, methylmercury (MeHg) hydroxide, and mercury (Hg)(II) chloride) where the cation was reported to exert adverse effects on developing cells. Thimerosal-associated cellular damage was also evaluated for similarity to pathophysiological findings observed in patients diagnosed with autistic disorders (ADs). Thimerosal-induced cellular damage as evidenced by concentration- and time-dependent mitochondrial damage, reduced oxidative-reduction activity, cellular degeneration, and cell death in the in vitro human neuronal and fetal model systems studied. Thimerosal at low nanomolar (nM) concentrations induced significant cellular toxicity in human neuronal and fetal cells. Thimerosal-induced cytoxicity is similar to that observed in AD pathophysiologic studies. Thimerosal was found to be significantly more toxic than the other metal compounds examined. Future studies need to be conducted to evaluate additional mechanisms underlying Thimerosal-induced cellular damage and assess potential co-exposures to other compounds that may increase or decrease Thimerosal-mediated toxicity. Keywords: autism; glial; lead; mercury; mercuric; neurodevelopmental

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a910652305~...

The PDF of the paper is on the page.

This is a peer reviewed article.

Here is another one:

"Vaccines May Cause Brain Changes Found in Autism" - Journal Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis 2010

http://www.autismny.com/2/post/2010/08/vaccines-may-cause-br...

Nether of these papers were written by Wakefield. Just because we have a bad scientist doesn't mean the science is flawed.

In fact, the "vaccine doesn't cause autism" scientist have been caught creating fruad as well: Scientist who "debunked mercury vaccines" caught in fraud, steals $2 Million, skips town A Danish scientist who was a key researcher in two studies that purport to show that mercury used in vaccines and the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine do not cause autism is believed to have used forged documents to steal $2 million from Aarhus University in Denmark according to reports in the Copenenhagen Post Online and a statement from Aarhus University.

Poul Thorsen, MD PhD, headed up a research unit at Aarhus University that was hired by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prepare a series of studies that would exonerate thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative and adjuvant used in vaccines, and the MMR vaccine from any role in causing autism. The veracity of the two studies he co-authored is now in doubt.

These studies formed the foundation for the conclusions of several Institute of Medicine reports that claimed that it was highly unlikely that thimerosal or MMR were implicated in autism.

In a statement Aarhus University officials said that believe Thorsen forged documents supposedly from the CDC to obtain the release of $2 million from the University. Thorsen resigned abruptly in March 2009 and left Denmark. Since then Thorsen has held several jobs in the US, first at Emory University in Atlanta and then at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Documents show that as late as January 22, 2009. Thorsen was employed at Drexel. Any reference to Poulsen has now been deleted from the Drexel website. http://info-wars.org/2010/03/11/researcher-who-said-mercury-...

they can just ban all hTTPS and whitelist banks, paypal, facebook etc

what a waste. They could have bought IBM BladeCenter solution with the same processors, but with Infiniband and more memory.. instead they have a big toy.

whats really weird is that at last years Defcon Dan Kaminsky did a demo showing that DNS lookups were actually faster in TCP than UDP. His explanation of why: "... and I have no idea."

ha, my Sager 8xxx was a great laptop and lasted quite a while. Would you like to buy it for parts? When it died I switched to a thinkpad t42 from 2004 that I bought for $100.

turn on mysql connection pooling and install Google Web Accelerator, you'll have to switch to apache to do Google Web Accelerator though.

maybe if you tried putting a better screenshot on your game, with enemies or something, live action fire or whatever you game does it might be more downloads? I don't have an app so I don't really know, just a guess.

except.. you can't just go buy one, yet. And then you can't just drive away on the highway, right away. You will have to buy the $2500 240volt charging station, and have it installed. And the oil burned in a gas car is replaced with coal burned to generate electricity in your electric car. Essentially you have converted your car to run on coal for a majority of Americans whose electricity is generated by coal. Plus you will have to pay the gas tax somehow, although I'm sure the law hasn't caught up to that one yet -- but they will; my guess is, legally speaking, you may only drive "off road" until they figure this out. You might need to upgrade your house wiring as well. But +1 for your enthusiasm.

I don't trust Bill Gates. He believes that "if we do a really good job, with vaccines and healthcare ... we can reduce the worlds human population by 10 or 15 percent." OK, did you really just say you want to kill 15% of the worlds population with vaccines? 2:17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQtRI7A064

I can't find the reference off hand, but I once heard that it takes 7 years of operation for a solar panel to generate the same amount of energy to build a panel, .. and the energy that it takes to build one comes from ... guess what .. coal and gas.

I'd invest it and hopefully get 20k a year, live very frugally off the dividend do odd jobs and build up skills. Then, when the recessions over I'd look into launching a product and take advantage of offshore labor.

Netflix stock up 5% on the news

Red Hat is for enterprise solutions and is not for toy startups. RHEL 2.1 still rocks the business world and is a great operating system.

Basically from what I understand, all of this is happening now because of the Comcast Vs Netflix war, where Comcast is trying to pass network charges on to Netflix via sending a bill to Level 3. So if Comcast/AT&T and others get their way, Netflix subscriptions should go up due to the increase cost passed on to it by Level 3, and Comcast's eventual goal will be to put them out of business in a few years. The irony of this is that this encourages piracy because some consumers will be priced out and forced find their movie/tv show online if they want to watch. So then I predict Comcast will attempt to convince the government ban freeloder streaming tv/movie sites (probably via DHS/ICE DNS banning) after they take down Netflix.

"The NSA is believed to have strengthened DES" No they didn't they cut the key size in half, and where can I find on a source that shows me that the s-box changes were intended to make DES stronger?

"A theory isn't completely abandoned just because of a single contradicting observation."

Uhhh, yes it is.

red shift

"Big Bang is currently accepted to the extent that it is because it has managed to fit the facts best. "

well the problem is is that it doesn't. And in science, if you find a contradicting fact in a theory, then that theory is totally abandoned. The problem with the big bang is that multiple facts have come up debunking the big bang theory, but it is still accepted as a science. I could give you a few facts debunking the big bang theory, but the real question is: If I could prove to you a fact that disagreed with the big bang, would you then abandon the theory or would you not accept my evidence, and believe in two contradicting facts at the same time? When two facts contradict in simultaneously in a scientific theory, it is no longer a science but religion. Therefore, the big bang is actually religion disguised as science.

another article trying to perpetuate the big bang myth by fitting evidence around a predetermined conclusion. We really need to abandon the big bang theory and just admit we just don't know yet instead of fitting evidence to our conclusion. If the paper concludes no single bang, and no singular event, then no big bang happened.

Yeah the NSA modified the DES S-Box in its development, they made the final tweeks to the GSM A5/1 algorithm, another person points out the Clipper Chip, etc. You are clueless if you didn't know these things, do you think the NSA just sits on their butt?

sorry I didn't mean to appear to disrespect Bruce Schneier, I've met him, gone to his book signings, own all his books, I even buy his books for gifts to my friends. I'm a huge fan of his work. We need people like him who have done highly advance studies in the security field; he is the best and an amazingly lucid writer. I never said he was a random academic or that his overall research should be disregarded. I really don't think you understand my original comment. Theory is not practice; they are two separate things. I guess I should have just said that. do you see my point now?

he didn't add anything new to the discussion but his opinion. Crypto scholars are excellent at cryptography and security theory, but when it comes to actually implementing secure systems (exception being crypto algorithms), and securing systems, Crypto scholars are horrible. For example he mentions that it would be better to just find an existing vulnerability instead of planting an FBI backdoor in the OpenBSD code: good luck Schneier, obviously you don't know that much about OpenBSD security culture and history. Plus the NSA has a history of putting backdoors into solutions. This is just my opinion from experience.

This wasn't in 2002, this was back in the 90s, I want to say 1996 or 1997. The source code was back-doored. The advisory you found was for completely different break-in in 2002.

Fixing security holes without disclosing the problem to the public.. yup I've seen that before from openbsd

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-24.html I am still looking for the break-in that predates this breakin, my memory is fucking horrible. I apologize. It will take me a while for me to find it.