Manhattan College
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ROFL, calling a Brother “Mister”, I know that at the Prep that would result in some immediate “behavior modification”.
And, they still have Brother S as President.
That’s hugely out of date.
Everything on the inet is trustworthy!
Inspires confidence in everything else you find.
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http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/3876/64/
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AT T Starts Throttling Heavy iPhone Data Users on Unlimited Plans (Image courtesy of TipB.com) Earlier this year AT T indicated that they’d begin to throttle customers in the top 5 percent (content/view/3748/64/) of data users that are on unlimited plans. This won’t affect anyone that is on a newer tiered pricing plan, but could be unwelcome for customers that stuck with AT T because they were locked into unlimited service. However, if you don’t use a lot of data then there’s probably nothing you need to worry about. You’ll know right away if you’ve used to much data because AT T will send you a text that reads Your data usage is among the top 5 percent of users. Data speeds for the rest of your current bill cycle may be reduced.†In AT T’s original announcement this plan would only effect jailbreakers using third party software through Cydia. Related Links: AT T Starts to Throttle Wireless Users This Week (content/view/3748/64/) AT T Kills Unlimited 3G Data for iPad iPhone (content/view/3234/64/)
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Guess “unlimited” ain’t so “unlimited”.
And I’m sure the FCC, FTC, DOJ, and all the politicians ‘n’ bureaucrats will be right on this.
(To get paid off by the regulatee!)
Argh!
I wouldn’t buy AT&T anything. Not that the other ISPs are much better. But, changing the rules after the contract is signed.
Where’s Judge Judy?
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Huh!?!
What’s going on?
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/0046230/microsoft-can-remotely-kill-purchased-apps
Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 08, @09:54PM
from the killing-distance dept.
Meshach writes “The terms of service for Microsoft’s newly launched Windows Store allows the seller to remotely kill or remove access to a user’s apps for security or legal reasons. The story also notes that MS states purchases are responsible for backing up the data that you store in apps that you acquire via the Windows Store, including content you upload using those apps. If the Windows Store, an app, or any content is changed or discontinued, your data could be deleted or you may not be able to retrieve data you have stored.”
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Better you than me!
I won’t be buying any apps in the MICROSOFT app store. And, neither should anyone.
Sorry, best way to “help them understand” that this is unacceptable is to boycott!
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/gc/order-email?ie=UTF8&ref_=gc_lp_4ways_email_top
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Not that I’m panhandling for either. But this strikes me as the difference between “having a gift” and “giving a gift”.
Lot’s of very well-meaning loving relatives give me gifts. But do they really understand that it’s not necessary.
Holidays are a bad time. For a lot of people.
For me it begins in childhood when ANY holiday (didn’t matter; Saint Patrick’s Day, Fourth of July, Columbus Day) was for another occurrence of parents fighting. Usually with alcohol involved. So for as “happy a time” as it’s supposed to be, it’ll never be for me.
So call me Ebenezer, but I ain’t gonna be your typical “holiday person”.
It’s interesting thought that the techie trend for email gift cards and wish lists can make gifts STRANGELY more personal.
I always thought it was funny when her relatives gave Frau Reinke Barnes & Noble or Borders gift cards. ROFL! Actually I made out cause she give them to me. For safe keeping. (She lost everything.) Eventually, when I’d drag her kicking and screaming into a bookstore, usually for a “books on tape” (She never called them “on disc”?), I get something for me.
So here we have the technology solution to how to know what your recipient really really wants.
And, there’s a good search function for by name and town.
If your at loss, you can always email me a gift card. I’m an ITSJ (Yeah, I know it’s ISTJ, but as an IT guy, I like ITSJ. And no it’s not too profane.) And, I don’t like people much anyway. I’ll email you a TY. (TY = a quick Thank You; I can’t be bothered to type it all out.)
So is this “service” good or bad?
Time will tell.
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Firefox: LastPass OK; not as fast as Opera
Chrome: LastPass OK; seems to have slow downs.
Opera: LastPass OK; seems faster; doesn’t do a toolbar of bookmarks. Doesn’t display gmail header correctly all the time.
Safari: LastPass doesn’t show up anywhere. NG!
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https://joindiaspora.com/users/invitation
Fill out their invitation, enter, and get:
That’s rude. Did NOT!
Argh!
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http://gallerystudio.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3072
Where’s the access to the address book from the first screen?
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Recently you requested personal assistance from our on-line support center. Below is a summary of your request and our response.
If this issue is not resolved to your satisfaction, you may reopen it within the next 7 days.
Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you.
Subject
Feedback for Answer ID 3072 (Rated: Not Helpful)
Response Via Email (Roberto E.) 12/04/2011 11:27 AM
Dear Reinke,
Thank you for contacting the KODAK Gallery Customer Service Team.
We understand your interest in locating your address book. We’ll be glad to assist you in this matter.
You’ll need to click the “Contacts” link in order to see your address book. To do so:
1. Sign into your account at http://www.kodakgallery.com
2. Click “My Gallery”
3. Click “Contacts” next to the blue “Upload Photos” button
4. Your address book will display along with your contacts and groups.
Our teams are continuously researching and creating new ways to provide you with the highest quality in Prints, photo products, and services.
We thank you for being a Gallery member and look forward to continuing to be your photo sharing partner.
If you have any further questions or concerns, please let us know.
Sincerely,
Roberto E.
The KODAK Gallery Customer Service Team
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Any surprise that I rated it “unsatisfactory”.
I don’t want two clicks. I want one after I sign in.
Repeating how to do it is just torture.
And, I suspect a “canned” bot.
No wonder they are going broke.
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Incident title:
GLobal print
Support request number:
1166454853
Severity rating:
Severity C (Minimum business impact)
Type of response:
Email to reinke@reinke.cc
Response time:
Your expected response time is: 1 Business Day
Monday – Friday 6:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. PST
Note:
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A Microsoft support professional will contact you within the response time specified for the support that you chose.
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Full name:
Fedinand Reinke
E-mail address:
reinke@reinke.cc
Contact numbers:
(732) 798-0508
Product:
Microsoft HealthVault (All Languages)
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http://www.jasperjottings.com/2011/jj2011W49.html
Lots of techie problems this week and it shows. Took almost 5 hours to do what normally takes 45 minutes.
Biggest problem is that GOOGLE READER changed. Silently, no notice. Now I can NOT cut ‘n’ paste an expanded series of stories.
No way; no how.
Chrome, Firefox, and Opera — all act the same.
Why I don’t like “the cloud”!!!
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From: Google Wave <wave-noreply@google.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:15 AM
Subject: Google Wave Sunsetting in 2012
Dear Wavers,
More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.
If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.
For more details, please see our help center.
Yours sincerely,
The Wave Team
© 2011 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Wave account.
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This should make anyone wary of depending upon any “free” services. “Cloud” translates to “Could disapear at the providers’ whim”. Yeah, this could never happen to “GMail” or “Yahoo” or … or … — time to wake up folks. If you ain’t paying for it, you may not have it. And, even that’s no guarantee. ?????
And how or why would you try to copyright an email like this? A lawyer’s wet dream!
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$4.23 a day: On the timing of a Black Friday iPad 2 purchase | Crave – CNET
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It appears that waiting until March next year to buy an IPAD3 is a good idea.
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From: Postbox Support <noreply@postbox.zendesk.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Subject: Archive messages under subfolders named after year received
There is a new comment in topic Archive messages under subfolders named after year received
Jeff Gehlhaar
I agree with James. On the Mac, where Time Machine does my backups, this is a big issue. These per year mailboxes quickly get HUGE. This is a feature which is already part of the Thunderbird base code and it would seem straightforward to port the core logic. In talking with customer support, they said this feature is not on the roadmap as it runs counter to the direction they want to move the product.
For my part, if this feature were on board and some of my favorite plugins were supported (or their functionality supported natively), I’d probably jump in and buy postbox, but for now, I’m going to stick to Thunderbird.
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This is what I experienced with POSTBOX. Almost immediately after installing and using it I had space problems. Since almost all of my email accounts were defined as IMAP, I was at a loss as to why I was always “out of space”.
I bet this software was making hidden backups.
Argh!
I’m gonna eventually have to wipe and upgrade to Lion.
WINDOZE has the same problems that require a clean reinstall to restart with a clean slate. This was the exact problem that I was hoping to avoid with the MACBOOKAIR.
Clearly there’s still much improvement need in computing appliances needed.
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http://nicholasnigro.blogspot.com/2011/11/destined-to-be-crossed-out.html
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Destined to Be Crossed Out…
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Slightly off-topic—but nonetheless inspired by my perusing this physical phone and address book—I cast my eyes to the future and ponder what, for instance, people’s Facebook friends list might look like in ten, twenty, and thirty years. Of course, I conduct this speculative endeavor of mine in a metaphorical laboratory. Foremost, I assume that all things remain equal—i.e., pretty much as they are now on the Facebook frontier in, say, 2020, 2030, and 2040—which is highly unlikely. I also presume an unfathomable reservoir of long-term patience for inappropriate behavior, the bane of countless people’s Facebook walls, and not a bountiful human trait.
Okay, it’s the year 2035, and that guy with 1,263 friends in 2011 is down to 347. He hasn’t heard a peep from at least 163 of his remaining friends for more than a few years, and 42 of them have only recently disappeared from sight and sound, seemingly vanishing from both the virtual ether and face of the earth. And since Facebook doesn’t comb through obituaries and the Social Security Death Index, nor readily delete accounts, many of these missing in action friends are very possibly deceased, and more than a few are living in assisted living homes or—worse still—in nursing homes sans any access to Wi-Fi. Who would have thought that a Facebook page enduring long after one’s death might be an individual’s best chance at immortality? Life is full of surprises…and so is death…especially now in the Information Age…
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It’s well know that FACEBOOK and LINKEDIN don’t clean out the “dead”. Including in that, the accounts that are never logged on to.
Argh!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vkk8kMm08cA
Ping pong robots
Written by Lucy Black
Friday, 11 November 2011 13:00
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Meet Wu and Kong – the latest in ping pong playing robots. They may not achieve exciting matches at the moment, but the fact that they can do the job at all is an indication of how fast things are moving.
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Hmm, seems like their nerds are ahead of our nerds. Except that they have a nerd girl!
Guess one should NOT plan to specialize in anything a robot can do!
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In a recent test of the Emergency Alert System, the Verizon DVR stupidly assumed that there was a new recording of a series. So I lost LMAD and VARNEY. The test was at 1053. SO I now have a few minutes of recording of each show. I only save one on the theory of if I don’t watch it within a day, I won’t get to it. Except for power failures and EASs. Argh!
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Sunstone satnav: How Vikings used mysterious crystal to guide them to America
Norse warriors located sun through clouds with Iceland spar crystal
By SIMON TOMLINSON
Last updated at 12:44 PM on 2nd November 2011
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Ancient legends of Viking mariners using mysterious sunstones to reveal the position of the sun on a cloudy day may well be true, according to a new study.
Before the invention of the compass, Norse adventurers travelled thousands of kilometres across the oceans toward Greenland and most likely as far as North America centuries ahead of Christopher Columbus.
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Fascinating stuff. And, that the knowledge and wisdom was lost for centuries.
Why?
That’s even the better story.
And, what else have we lost?
Also, could this “trick” be useful today? It’s not like no gets lost.
How else can we use it? How did these “primitives” explain it to themselves and what does that tell us?
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“A consortium of eighty companies and developers have developed the StreetScooter, a modular electric vehicle developed in a year using open-source methodologies. With a top speed of 74mph and an 80-mile range, the vehicle is expected to cost $7000 and be available in Germany in 2013.”
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And, apparently no Gooferment money involved?
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AOL To Discontinue LISTSERV
by Soulskill
alphadogg writes “On December 1, AOL will shut down its free LISTSERV-based mailing-list hosting operations, the company has told mailing list administrators. ‘If your list is still actively used, please make arrangements to find another service prior to the shutdown date and notify your list members of the transition details,’ an email notice sent out by AOL stated. At the peak of the service’s popularity in the late 1990s, AOL was the third-largest provider of mailing lists, serving more than a million users.”
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Irishman sent a message in a bottle as the Titanic sunk
Jeremiah Burke from Co. Cork sent his family a note of farewell
By JORDANA KOZUPSKY, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Saturday, October 29, 2011, 10:41 AMUpdated Saturday, October 29, 2011, 10:41 AM
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And the message wound up on a beach near his home and it got through.
Amazing?
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The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all.
About | Elements of the DPLA | Secretariat | Steering Committee
The DPLA planning initiative grew out of an October 2010 meeting at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which brought together over 40 representatives from foundations, research institutions, cultural organizations, government, and libraries to discuss best approaches to building a national digital library. In December 2010, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, convened leading experts in libraries, technology, law, and education to begin work on this problem; a two-year process of intense grassroots community organization, beginning in October 2011 and hosted at the Berkman Center, will result in a realistic and detailed workplan for launching the DPLA, as well as unveiling of a prototype of the system with specially digitized materials.
The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s, but it has not yet materialized. Efforts led by a range of organizations, including the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive, have successfully built resources that provide books, images, historical records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with Internet access. Many universities, public libraries, and other public-spirited organizations have digitized materials that could be brought together under the frame of the DPLA, but these digital collections often exist in silos. Compounding this problem are disparate technical standards, disorganized and incomplete metadata, and a host of legal issues. No project has yet succeeded in bringing these different viewpoints, experiences, and collections together with leading technical experts and the best of private industry to find solutions to these complex challenges. Users have neither coherent access to these materials nor tools to use them in new and exciting ways, and institutions have no clear blueprint for creating a shared infrastructure to serve the public good. The time is right to launch an ambitious project to realize the great promise of the Internet for the advancement of sharing information and of using technology to enable new knowledge and discoveries in the United States.
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What about the Internet Archive, Google’s book capture, and the myriad of other such efforts?
I guess time will sort it all out.
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http://www.impactlab.net/2011/10/20/amazon-signs-up-writers-pushes-out-publishers/
October 20th, 2011 at 10:55 am
Amazon signs up writers, pushes out publishers
in: Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News
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Readers have been taught by Amazon.com that they do not need bookstores. Now Amazon is encouraging writers to cast aside their publishers.
Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are also its most prominent suppliers.
It has set up a flagship line run by a publishing veteran, Laurence Kirshbaum, to bring out brand-name fiction and nonfiction. It signed its first deal with the self-help author Tim Ferriss. Last week it announced a memoir by the actress and director Penny Marshall, for which it paid $800,000, a person with direct knowledge of the deal said.
Publishers say Amazon is aggressively wooing some of their top authors. And the company is gnawing away at the services that publishers, critics and agents used to provide.
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Publishers caught a glimpse of a future they fear has no role for them late last month when Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire, a tablet for books and other media sold by Amazon. Jeffrey P. Bezos, the company’s chief executive, referred several times to Kindle as “an end-to-end service,” conjuring up a world in which Amazon develops, promotes and delivers the product.
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The days of the “publisher” are over. “Dead Man Walking”.
I “LULUed” (i.e., self-published) “CHURCH 10●19●62”. Just by getting it listed on Amazon, I was automagically invited to ebook it for the Kindle. I gave the OK and they did all the work. And, then did it for Europe. Translation and all. (Wish I read German just to see how good a job it did on ½ a million words. It can’t be good, but it might be funny.)
Then, with their KINDLE DIRECT PUBLISHING program, you can get content out there for the KINDLE and get 70% of the proceeds.
It’s amazing. It’s transformative. It’s destruction and disintermediation!
Too bad for the dinosaurs.
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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37800
GIVEN: There’s a lot of good old content for youngsters on PROJECT GUTTENBERG.
FIND: If it was on the IPAD, then maybe the child would read it.
SOLUTION: Overlooking the issue of content selection for the moment …
I found an appropriate text — at least appropriate to this fat old white guy injineer — so I fowarded the link to the appropriate Mommy for approval.
(Our Girl’s Rule #1 for dealing with children: “Everything must be mommy approved first!” Boy, I miss her.)
So while awaiting approval, and being the grumpy old techie skeptic, I sprung to my IPAD — okay, so “sprung” is an exaggeration — for a test.
Fired up the safari browser, punched the link for the “book”, and what to my wondering eyes do appear … an error message about “FRAMES interrupted”.
(Nothing is ever as easy as it should be when it come to technology.)
So remembering how I got my novel “CHURCH 10●19●62” on to my IPAD, before Amazon listed it for the Kindle, …
I downloaded the illustrated epud format file to my mac.
Created an email with and attachment and sent it to “fat old white guy injineers ipad @ reinke dot cc”. (That’s an email address defined on the iPad.)
Open the email on the iPad.
Double tap on the attachment.
Select open with iBooks.
Voila!!!
It is there like a “real book”.
As a follow up, I’m going to ping an apple fanboy that I know for his interpretation of this story. (I’m sure it’s something like “tap the bezel while temporarily suspending Angry Birds, then with your left thumb stuck … in your right ear, while humming any Sousa melody for Dragon, poke your right eye out with the stylus. And it’ll work perfectly. You shouldn’t have reset the yada yada yada. And, that’s why Steve Jobs should be canonized.)
YMMV
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And, interesting rant about software, how is someone else the “mayor” of 51 Fremont?
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SLINGBOX sucks.
I bought it with the intention that Our Girl would be able to watch her soap in the hospital.
Couldn’t get it to connect to the (at the time) Comcast router.
(At the time, I was working for Comcast and their official supprt reaction was “good”. No surprise there.)
SO, needless to say that was a waste and “Non returnable” to the Sling folks.
(Isn’t the first time I’ve gotten stuck with a “whte elephant” by a vendor. But like the elephant, I never forget. I have alist of “folk I’ll never buy from”. Hardware, software, carpet, windows, home improvement, cars, etc. etc. I get screwed a lot.)
Down the shore, I have a cable router that I can’t cancel for another year. So, let me see if I can get it working down there. Now it connects to the net, but when I go to register the website won’t give me anything other than “invalid password”. (How can any password be invalid?)
Go over to support, can’t get support on anything unless it’s within 90 days of purchase.
Argh!
(Maybe it’s time to annoy some Gooferment bureaucrats?)
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http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/16/0215224/dna-sequenced-of-woman-who-lived-to-115
DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 16, @02:20AM
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chrb writes
“The DNA of W115 — an anonymous woman who lived to the age of 115 years and left her body to science — has been sequenced. Despite her old age, W115 showed no signs of dementia or heart disease, and tests at the age of 113 showed she had the mental abilities of a woman aged 60-75 years. Dr. Henne Holstege of the Department of Clinical Genetics at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam has suggested W115 had rare genetic changes in her DNA which protected against Alzheimer’s and other late-life diseases.”
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Is this the secret of longer life?
I remember a Heinlein SciFi novel that postulated the premise that long life was genes. You wither had them or you didn’t.
Hmm?
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