Friday, November 21, 2014

Make Super Healing Synthesized Platelet-like Nanoparticles ✓


Fast Healing Blood Clotting 
  Synthetic Platelets

   Is the new milestone of many breakthroughs scientists, inventors and researchers have checked off the list for "The Future!"


 I imagine there really is a list around inside a lab coat pocket somewhere I swear, but if there isn't, these super platelets are checked off my list with hover-boards and telekinesis machines. After watching so many sci-fi movies and video games show super healing in little potion like bottles, syringes to sprays, pulse guns, nano-robots and you name it, healing has only been a small little dream I’ve had for maybe 2050. Man has never gotten as far as now to practically, accelerated healing.

 The human body has its own coagulation process in which blood platelets accumulate at the site of a wound to form a plug and stop blood flow.  It’s a primary concern for patients and medical personnel to control blood flow in many situations such as trauma injuries to surgeries and illnesses. Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Center for Bioengineering (CBE) at UC Santa Barbara have created nanoparticales that were inspired by the human body’s own coagulation. The nanoparticles mimic the shape, flexibility and surface biology of the body’s own platelets but they’re different because the physics of their shape and their response to chemical stimuli let them reach an injury and call other platelets immediately to the site of the injury quicker. For severe injuries anti-coagulation medication and people who have an impaired ability to make clots the nanoparticles can be pretty useful. They add to a patient’s own natural platelet supply, stem the flow of blood, initiate the healing process quicker, and heal injuries quicker, call on other platelets, and dissolve into the blood after they’re use has run out. They were able to decrease bleeding time by 65% compared to the average time an injury without treatment would heal. The synthetic particles can also be used to let researchers customize the particles with other therapeutic substances and other medical substances for patients with specific conditions, and well they can make them do other things besides help coagulation. The synthetic platelets also cost less and have a longer shelf life than human platelets, that’s going to be useful for emergencies, and well will make the researchers pretty rich.

 It's all pretty amazing, it might not be instant healing but, is it faster, and will help out doctors a lot. The only thing I'm worried about is that this kind of technology could get out to bad people and maybe can be used as a poison, weapon, disease, and other things, but I bet it's pretty protected. These synthetic particles also really remind me of the movie Transcendence, though the ones in transcendence act like mind controlling robots that can clone any particle. These particles are entirely inspired by the human body, and should act naturally so I'm not as worried. 



Thursday, November 6, 2014

The United States has been hacked up, by Mr.Love!

British man Lauri Love was arrested in Suffolk for hacking into U.S. government servers.

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 Hacking is getting harder to control, if the US Army, the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, NASA, the U.S. federal reserve, the Department of Health and Human Services, the US Sentencing Commission, the Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory and the US Department of Energy gets hacked by one guy and a couple of accomplices. Lauri Love who is 28 years old, hacked into Federal Reserve computers, stole personal information, and put it all online for others to use. The information included personal identification information of people authorized to use the network, names, email addresses, and phone numbers. After putting all this sensitive information on a website Love controlled, it was believed a faction of the hacking group Anonymous hacked into the website and posted around the same time the information was put on the site this.  

Yes we posted over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials http://t.co/kDmgH8dN
— OpLastResort (@OpLastResort) February 4, 2013

The Federal Bureau of Investigation launched an investigation into the hack that same week. 
Nothing of significance was shown by the hackers however said some bank officials, no passwords or accounts were compromised, like you would think. 

"The information that was on the contact system was the same thing that was on my business card, so it wasn't like it was anything that could do any harm to me or the bank." Illinois' Community First Bank President and CEO Jo David Cummins told Reuters.

  Still the hack ordeal collectively still cost millions of dollars of damages to government victims and dozens of computer servers' functions were substantially impaired. Love isn't charged in the U.K. yet, and is on bail at the moment but he was ordered to hand over his personal encryption keys to the local government under Britain’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 by Feb. 7 or face repercussions, including possible jail time. If he is tried in the U.S. and found guilty Love faces a maximum of 12 years in prison. Prosecutors in New York, New Jersey and Virginia have all accused Love,  of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act like Aaron Swartz a hacker and computer prodigy, committed suicide while waiting to stand trial for his hacking charges.  The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is the same hacking law that OpLastResort rallied to reform last year.

 Though hacking may be a crime, I agree with OpLastResort and Lauri Love's parents in that Lauri love shouldn't be prosecuted in the U.S. under the act, because he isn't a serious criminal that should be put in the same prison with other United States criminals. I assume that the United Kingdom is more forgiving for hackers and that's why BBC would rather he be convicted in the U.K.'s justice system, and I agree. The U.S. is tough on criminals, and for Lauri Love who may have hacked into several government websites just didn't do a lot of serious harm on the United States government the sentence may just be harsh. I think hackers shouldn't face a similar sentence as other serious criminals such as bank robbers, rapists, and violent criminals , because they are pretty much computer geeks and wouldn't survive in a prison setting like that. Depending on the hack, I think hackers should just work for the government under a period of time in a better facility than prison, some hackers are spared from harsher punishments because of their skills already. They should be closely watched on computers, and limited to what they can do that can lead to hacking on computers for a long period of time. I think hackers, graffiti artists, and other minor criminals that pose little harm to people should be allowed more freedoms if they get imprisoned. I also think there should be programs that could help them learn new ways to use their skilled to do good, many graffiti artists do commissioned mural art or learn to use their art in new ways, hackers are the same, they have a skill that they can do something else with.