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Comment I like FF, still (Score 1) 55

by Orrin Bloquy (#64761814) Attached to: Firefox 130 Now Available With WebCodecs API, Third-Party AI Chatbots
Disclaimer: I'm a web dev so I kind of have to keep up with Blink/Gecko/WebKit. Still, for the most part I'm comfortable using FF for a number of tasks. I will say that the Android mobile team have been dragging their feet on implementing some things because they can't decide which toolkit to do it in.

Comment novelty of patent in question (Score 1) 56

The use of a nonce to prevent record/replay attacks was not new in 2011, it had already been a practice for preventing Flash streaming media playback from being spoofed by that point and I doubt Adobe were the first to think of it. The PTO were idiots to grant that patent but they're clear that they don't take responsibility for establishing novelty. To be blunt, most of the IP patents related to the Web between 2000–2015 are questionable at best; the Microsoft Word XML patent splitting raw text from formatting has direct prior art in Nisus Writer (which used plain ASCII text files, storing formatting in the files' resource forks; its former developers refused to comment on all requests regarding this) and many of the rest are submarine patents from noncoders.

Submission + - SPAM: More And More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery, Showing We're Still Evolving

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An anonymous reader writes: An artery that temporarily runs down the center of our forearms while we're still in the womb isn't vanishing as often as it used to, according to researchers from Flinders University and the University of Adelaide in Australia. That means there are more adults than ever with what amounts to be an extra channel of vascular tissue flowing under their wrist. "Since the 18th century, anatomists have been studying the prevalence of this artery in adults and our study shows it's clearly increasing," Flinders University anatomist Teghan Lucas said in 2020. "The prevalence was around 10 percent in people born in the mid-1880s compared to 30 percent in those born in the late 20th century, so that's a significant increase in a fairly short period of time, when it comes to evolution."

To compare the prevalence of this persistent blood channel, Lucas and colleagues Maciej Henneberg and Jaliya Kumaratilake from the University of Adelaide examined 80 limbs from cadavers, all donated by Australians of European descent. The donors raged from 51 to 101 on passing, which means they were nearly all born in the first half of the 20th century. Noting down how often they found a chunky median artery capable of carrying a good supply of blood, the research team compared the figures with records dug out of a literature search, taking into account tallies that could over-represent the vessel's appearance. Their results were published in 2020 in the Journal of Anatomy. The fact the artery seems to be three times as common in adults today as it was more than a century ago is a startling find that suggests natural selection is favoring those who hold onto this extra bit of bloody supply.
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