That Windows is slowly starting to look a lot like Linux, or Mac OS for that matter.

I like it, but you can tear Arch Linux with LXDE and Openbox from my cold dead fingers. K thnx bye.

Cryptocurrency is technology, this is a tech news site. I don't particularly care about crypto, but it's having its moment right now, I guess. It's amusing that you find a conspiracy in what is just a tech trend.

No I am not. I am a self-organizing system forever on the edge of criticality. Give me an information theoretic approach to self organization and slowly driven nonequilibrium systems, and then maybe we can talk about Turing Machines.

But, the evidence does not indicate it was manufactured. At most, it indicates a wild virus was being studied in the lab and escaped on humans. Anyway, technically it would be human modified, it's not synthetic, it has natural origins at some point. We're not talking synthetic biology here.

That is indeed rare in large parts of the US. In my state, there are two choices, and it's not really much of a choice because the one provider, Frontier, is notoriously horrible.

Maybe Bezos should sell more of his stock to fund the company then. It shouldn't be up to taxpayers to fund it when it's owned by the world's wealthiest person.

I'm sure we all wish we could ask Congress for billions in bailout money, but they only give us peons a few thousand, and only after the economy crashes from a pandemic.

Considering that many people currently rely on debit and credit cards or mobile payment apps, how is it different?

This being Slashdot, someone will surely come along and say, "that's why I have a suitcase full of twenty dollar bills under my bed", to which I say, what if you lose power and your house burns down?

Yes, because an un-peer reviewed observational study based on self reports of drinking will have high validity. I can't possibly think of any confounding variables. /sarcasm

Do it right. Double blind, control group versus experimental, multiple levels of IV (amount consumed). Ideally, would look at more specific structural changes, like prefrontal cortex size or connectivity (alcohol addiction has massive effects on PFC, would be interesting to see what effect there is from more casual consumption). Ideally, this needs to be a longitudinal study with many participants to increase likelihood of finding a significant effect size.

I suspect the companies who decide to pay these huge ransoms are reasoning thusly: how much money do we lose by being down for x amount of time? Is that greater than the ransom demand? If yes, then pay the ransom.

This might change if the government passed laws that levied huge penalties against companies that pay the ransom, then it might not be in their favor to pay it, and maybe instead they will invest in the security and training necessary to mitigate the risk in the first place.

How does "to split" personify something? You seem overly focused on the first meaning, "to give birth to".

Spotify is pointing fingers at Apple while they are busy paying music artists meaningless sums to stream their art, from which Spotify is making a killing. See how that works?

I always thought the mega corps portrayed in science fiction were plausible, I just never expected to see them during my lifetime.

Damn near killed em!

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Seriously though, there has to be better ways to test this without torturing and killing various small mammals (when I did behavioral neuroscience research we called it "sacrificing" as if that made it better). Take samples and study those? It's something going on at least at the cellular level, or a number of interacting levels, it shouldn't take torture and death to figure that out. What are we barbarians? Oh, nevermind. Sometimes we are just that.

That countries with some of the lowest life expectancies and highest rates of HIV infections are the last to get access to the vaccine? The leaders of places like Chad could care less, they are busy lining their pockets with money!

It's too bad Alexander Shulgin didn't live to see this. Both he and his wife Ann were early advocates for the use of MDMA in therapy for trauma and other issues (relationship problems, for one).

Whenever these kinds of articles pop up here I see a lot of ignorant or asinine comments which just goes to show the effect the drug war has had on the American psyche. Many of these substances have great potential (more so than the medications commonly prescribed such as SSRIs), if used in carefully controlled environments by trained clinicians on willing subjects who are struggling with serious mental health issues. Yes, there is always a risk of misuse, of improperly trained doctors, etc. That exists now, even as compounds like MDMA are restricted. Just look Sackler Pharma garbage with opioid prescriptions.

One advantage of MDMA in particular is that it's not physiologically habit forming like opiods, or Paxil (an SSRI commonly prescribed for depression) for that matter. Paxil has well-known withdrawal effects, and yet it is widely prescribed. My point is, given the restricted circumstances in which this will likely be employed for the foreseeable future, the benefits likely outweigh the risks by a large margin.