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Buuuuuump!
Citigroup was a terrible president.

>>142921
He also expanded the powers if the NSA and CIA with zero congressional oversight. He'll go down in history as the founder of a massive network of a unconstitutional spy state

He really is a traitor

In the process, cells make ATP, a molecule that acts as an energy storage unit for almost all living things. Moving electrons around is a key part of making ATP. “Life’s very clever,” says Nealson. “It figures out how to suck electrons out of everything we eat and keep them under control.” In most living things, the body packages the electrons up into molecules that can safely carry them through the cells until they are dumped on to oxygen.

“That’s the way we make all our energy and it’s the same for every organism on this planet,” says Nealson. “Electrons must flow in order for energy to be gained. This is why when someone suffocates another person they are dead within minutes. You have stopped the supply of oxygen, so the electrons can no longer flow.”

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j_gJ2teK5E]

The discovery of electric bacteria shows that some very basic forms of life can do away with sugary middlemen and handle the energy in its purest form – electrons, harvested from the surface of minerals. “It is truly foreign, you know,” says Nealson. “In a sense, alien.”

Nealson’s team is one of a handful that is now growing these bacteria directly on electrodes, keeping them alive with electricity and nothing else – neither sugars nor any other kind of nutrient. The highly dangerous equivalent in humans, he says, would be for us to power up by shoving our fingers in a DC electrical socket.

To grow these bacteria, the team collects sediment from the seabed, brings it back to the lab, and inserts electrodes into it.

To grow these bacteria, the team collects sediment from the seabed, brings it back to the lab, and inserts electrodes into it.

First they measure the natural voltage across the sediment, before applying a slightly different one. A slightly higher voltage offers an excess of electrons; a slightly lower voltage means the electrode will readily accept electrons from anything willing to pass them off. Bugs in the sediments can either “eat” electrons from the higher voltage, or “breathe” electrons on to the lower-voltage electrode, generating a current. That current is picked up by the researchers as a signal of the type of life they have captured.

“Basically, the idea is to take sediment, stick electrodes inside and then ask ‘OK, who likes this?’,” says Nealson.

Shocking breath

At the Goldschmidt geoscience conference in Sacramento, California, last month, Shiue-lin Li of Nealson’s lab [http://dornsife.usc.edu/labs/nealsonlab/members/] presented results of experiments growing electricity breathers in sediment collected from Santa Catalina harbour in California. Yamini Jangir, also from the University of Southern California, presented separate experiments which grew electricity breathers collected from a well in Death Valley in the Mojave Desert in California.

Over at the University of Minnesota in St Paul, Daniel Bond and his colleagues have published experiments showing that they could grow a type of bacteria that harvested electrons from an iron electrode (mBio, doi.org/tqg). That research, says Jangir’s supervisor Moh El-Naggar, may be the most convincing example we have so far of electricity eaters grown on a supply of electrons with no added food.

But Nealson says there is much more to come. His PhD student Annette Rowe has identified up to eight different kinds of bacteria that consume electricity. Those results are being submitted for publication.

Nealson is particularly excited that Rowe has found so many types of electric bacteria, all very different to one another, and none of them anything like Shewanella or Geobacter. “This is huge. What it means is that there’s a whole part of the microbial world that we don’t know about.”

“This is huge. What it means is there’s a whole part of the microbial world that we don’t know about”

Discovering this hidden biosphere is precisely why Jangir and El-Naggar want to cultivate electric bacteria. “We’re using electrodes to mimic their interactions,” says El-Naggar. “Culturing the ‘unculturables’, if you will.” The researchers plan to install a battery inside a gold mine in South Dakota to see what they can find living down there.

NASA is also interested in things that live deep underground because such organisms often survive on very little energy and they may suggest modes of life in other parts of the solar system.

Electric bacteria could have practical uses here on Earth, however, such as creating biomachines that do useful things like clean up sewage or contaminated groundwater while drawing their own power from their surroundings. Nealson calls them self-powered useful devices, or SPUDs.

Practicality aside, another exciting prospect is to use electric bacteria to probe fundamental questions about life, such as what is the bare minimum of energy needed to maintain life.

For that we need the next stage of experiments, says Yuri Gorby, a microbiologist at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York: bacteria should be grown not on a single electrode but between two. These bacteria would effectively eat electrons from one electrode, use them as a source of energy, and discard them on to the other electrode.

In the years since these observations, she has gathered more evidence: the members of a fifth group of macaques that moved into the area around the temple have also started to learn that they can barter stolen goods for snacks.

Serge Wich, a primatologist at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, says Brotcorne’s work provides “a novel and quite spectacular example of flexibility in primate behaviour in response to environmental changes”.

Criminal traditions
It is particularly interesting, he adds, because the same behaviour isn’t seen in other places where it could occur. “This indicates that it can indeed be a new behavioural tradition in primates and one that teaches us that new traditions can involve robbing and bartering with a different species,” he says.

Brotcorne says her work should help researchers learn more about the psychology of primates: how information is transmitted among groups, how much they understand their own actions and how they plan for the future.

It could even help answer questions about the evolution of our own cognitive abilities. “Bartering and trading skills are not well known in animals. They are usually defined as exclusive to humans,” she says.

But seeing it in macaques could help us learn how early the behaviour might have arisen in the evolution of the human lineage.

So did Brotcorne ever fall victim to her own thieving research subjects?

“Oh, so many times,” she says. “The monkeys were always trying to steal my hat, my pen, even my research data!”

>>143668
This is really fascinating. Thanks for posting, OP. /news/ needs more like this.

niggers gonna nig

Leftists gonna left

>redstate.com

Fake news, or at least certainly biased "news."

Just report and hide.

>>142300
>Fake news

They quote the Seattle Police Union and the Washington State Dept.of Corrections.

The only "fake news" here is your desperate attempt to distract from the fact that the Left has gone completely bat-shit crazy and no longer has any connection to reality.

And lets not even get into the Mainstream Media calling rioting Blacks "youths"...

>>144050
>Initially, local authorities weren’t even going to bring any charges against the rioters, but after considerable public scrutiny they’ve changed their minds.
Of course they didn't want to bring charges, the rioters, thugs and criminals are, after all, on the right side of history (as decreed by themselves).

>>144089
They really are like Marxists.

>>144050
Hahaha this is nuts

look comrade, nobody cares

>>143688
>no body cares

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
A Philadelphia arbitrator has awarded $95.6 million to Mariya Plekan, the Ukrainian immigrant who was the most seriously injured among the survivors of the deadly 2013 Center City building collapse.#


http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/Woman-trapped-in-building-collapse-rubble-gets-award-of-956-million.html

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/Woman-trapped-in-building-collapse-rubble-gets-award-of-956-million.html

>>143686
excellent work shitposterski. 2 tulips has been dropped in your cellar

>The RNC’s effort to legalize ringless robocalling is part of a coordinated but hush-hush campaign to lift consumer protections on cellphones. AATM’s petition asks the FCC to “declare that the delivery of a voice message directly to a voicemail box does not constitute a call that is subject to the prohibitions on the use of an automatic telephone dialing system…or an artificial or prerecorded voice that are set forth in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act” of 1991. That law, implemented by the FCC, bars telemarketers and political parties from robocalling cellphones without the prior written permission of a device’s owner. Although the Federal Trade Commission advises consumers to file a complaint if they receive an unauthorized automated solicitation from a private company, illegal commercial robocalls aimed at mobile users are on the rise. As the New York Times reported earlier this month, the nearly 30 billion telemarketing calls U.S. cellphone owners received last year (one-and-a-half times as many last December as in December 2015, according to YouMail) consistently topped the FCC’s list of consumer complaints.

>But much to consumers’ chagrin, AATM and the RNC may have found a way around the TCPA’s permission stipulation. Their argument hinges on the somewhat arcane question of whether or not a cellphone robocall placed into a consumer’s voicemail without causing the phone to ring legally constitutes a “call.” Their answer rests largely on a technicality—and on the technological backwardness of the TCPA law that regulate robocalls. “Ringless voicemail uses a technology that permits a voice message to go directly to a consumer’s mobile voicemail box via a server-to-server communication” with a consumer’s voicemail service provider, William I. Rothbard, a California lawyer who specializes in advertising and regulatory law, explained on his professional blog last October.*

>This means that the phone owner receives neither a call to the device itself nor a charge for listening to the voicemail. As Rothbard notes, the TCPA “prohibits autodialed and prerecorded message calls made to a telephone number assigned to a wireless service, rather than to a telephone”—that is, the physical device itself. AATM argued in its petition that the ringless voicemails don’t cause “disruptions to a consumer’s life” like “dead air calls, calls interrupting consumers at inconvenient times, or delivery charges.” And because voicemail has traditionally been construed as falling outside the purview of FCC regulation, there’s a case to be made that ringless robocalls shouldn’t be subject to the current law’s express written consent requirement.

>It’s now a case that both telemarketers and the RNC are making. Ringless robocall technology is a boon to businesses and marketing agencies, expanding the number of consumers they can reach while saving them time, money, and regulatory hassle. Debt collection and loan agencies were using the technology to leave consumers prerecorded messages in 2015. Under threat from challenges to the legality of its technology, companies like AATM are looking to the FCC to clear the air. (Landline robocalls, of course, also have a long and invasive history in American politics. Since the 1980s, they’ve been an inexpensive way for campaigns to promote candidates, lobby constituents, and turn out voters. Although some states place local restrictions on automated political calls, because they’re exempt from the FTC’s National Do Not Call Registry, campaigns and grass-roots organizations can usually robocall with abandon. TechRepublic estimates that Americans received about 18.7 billion political robocalls in the first half of 2016. And as Politico reported Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence recently recorded one in support of Republican Greg Gianforte, who is locked in a close race with Democrat Rob Quist in a Montana House special election.)

Colluded to do what?

>>143766
From my understanding to influence the election in his favor as well as changing us policy...

"I have spoken with several NSA officials who witnessed the director’s talk and I’m reporting their firsthand accounts, which corroborate each other, on condition of anonymity."

>anonymous sources say X said Y

>Florida man

>>142115
Religion of Peace!

Oh good. Today's /pol/bait story comes from Ben Shapiro's dailywire.com. Just what /news/ needs.

>>140711
this is how the Lord of Pain started, fucking TechnoCore

>>140711
The singularity is here, all will be saved.

i'm about ready to let an all-knowing AI do the governing for us

Put trigger warnings on that

>>140710

What?

>>140706
right because thats who i want slicing into me....

Why I not surprise.

>>143519
Why though, I thought he was on the Jew side?

>>143885
literally what is the Jew side on this?

>>143876
Meth is a hell of a drug

>Florida man
Why am I not surprised

"We're very concerned about it, and we are focused on it closely," said Andrew McCabe, the acting director of the FBI.

The Senate Intelligence Committee, which held today's hearing, wrote a secret memorandum expressing concerns about Kaspersky's ubiquity in U.S. homes and businesses, according to an ABC News report earlier this week.

Eugene Kaspersky, the company's founder and CEO, responded to the officials' remarks during a question-and-answer session on Reddit.

“Once again, I think that due to political reasons, these gentlemen don’t have an option, and are deprived from the opportunity to use the best endpoint security on the market without any real reason or evidence of wrongdoing from our side," Kaspersky said after the issue came up repeatedly. "I would be very happy to testify in front of the Senate, to participate in the hearings and to answer any questions they would decide to ask me.”

It's not the first time Kaspersky Lab has been suspected of ties to the Russian government. A report by Bloomberg News in 2015 noted that Kaspersky had released detailed reports about digital espionage by the U.S., the United Kingdom and Israel, but had paid less attention to Russian tactics. A New York Times report from 2012 also noted that Kaspersky's activism in uncovering and criticizing a cyberweapon likely used by the U.S. was in line with the Russian government's strategy at the time.

Kaspersky has long denied any collaboration with the Russia and did so again on Thursday. The company shared this statement with the Boston Business Journal:

“As a private company, Kaspersky Lab has no ties to any government, and the company has never helped, nor will help, any government in the world with its cyberespionage efforts. The company has a 20 year history in the IT security industry of always abiding by the highest ethical business practices, and Kaspersky Lab believes it is completely unacceptable that the company is being unjustly accused without any hard evidence to back up these false allegations. Kaspersky Lab is available to assist all concerned government organizations with any ongoing investigations, and the company ardently believes a deeper examination of Kaspersky Lab will confirm that these allegations are unfounded.”

Kaspersky's software is also highly regarded among industry analysts, with both Gartner and Forrester ranking it among the best "endpoint" security tools.

From NPR: http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/528135219/4-big-intelligence-stories-you-missed-amid-the-comey-headlines-this-week

The cyber-frustrations of members of Congress and their witnesses are a frequent feature of Intelligence and Armed Services Committee hearings and other national security hearings on the Hill. They seldom, however, get more specific than broad statements and almost never involve the name of a specific problem or company. On Thursday, however, two senators mentioned one in particular: Kaspersky Labs.

The Russian company — which supports NPR and is a provider of security services for its IT systems — has been linked to work for Russia's intelligence agencies. The leaders of the House Oversight Committee released documents showing payments by Kaspersky to Flynn. Even so, millions of Americans use Kaspersky software, as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., pointed out to the witnesses — but, he asked, would they run it on their systems?

Here's how they answered:

McCabe, of the FBI: "A resounding no from me."

Pompeo, of the CIA: "No."

Coats, the director of national intelligence: "No, senator."

Rogers, of the NSA: "No, sir."

Stewart, of the Pentagon's DIA: "No, senator."

Cardillo, of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: "No, sir."

Later, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., asked the intelligence bosses about Kaspersky again. They repeated their own government systems were safe from any danger, but the DIA's Stewart said he couldn't be sure about all of his contractors. Intelligence and defense contractors have been the sources for huge leaks of secrets from the NSA, CIA and other agencies.

>“This is more evidence of the ethical vacuum in the Trump White House,” said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a nonprofit government ethics watchdog. “These revolving-door-esque actions mock everything candidate Trump said about draining the swamp and ending corporate corruption and inside dealing in Washington, D.C.”

>Transition officials had presented the lobbying ban as an essential part of Trump’s pledge to drain the swamp. "The key thing for this administration is going to be that people going out of government won't be able to use that service to enrich themselves," Sean Spicer, now the White House press secretary, said when he announced the ban in November. But it hasn’t prevented former transition staffers from going to K Street within weeks of leaving.

>The transition’s ethics code forbids staffers from lobbying on “a particular matter for which I had direct and substantial responsibility” while working on the transition. That means a staffer working on tax policy, for instance, might not be banned from lobbying on all tax issues — only the specific areas of tax policy for which the staffer was responsible. Those details mean it’s difficult to track whether former staffers are following the rules.

>“Unless we know the division of responsibility of the particular members of the transition team, I don’t know how this would be enforced, other than voluntarily,” said Kathleen Clark, a Washington University law professor who is an expert in government ethics law.

>The White House referred questions to the transition team, which still employs a small group of people.

>“We have no reason to believe nor has the Transition been presented with any evidence that any individual who signed the six-month agreement as part of his or her service with the Transition is in non-compliance,” Ken Nahigian, the transition’s executive director, said in a statement, adding that the transition is “open to receiving” any evidence that does exist.

>The six-month ban appears to have been haphazardly implemented. Three former transition staffers told POLITICO they never signed a pledge. One former transition official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was no process in place to ensure staffers signed the document. Others determined they could go back to lobbying without violating the pledge.

>Scott Mason, a former lobbyist for Lowe's who worked as director of congressional relations on the transition, wrote in an email that he never signed the ban, which he recalled had been "limited to those engaged in 'substantive' policy matters."

>"While I had Hill meetings with policy staff, my role was not writing policy," said Mason, who joined Holland & Knight in January and has signed 10 clients.

>Ado Machida led the transition’s policy implementation team, helping to draft the executive orders that Trump started signing after he took office. He agreed to the ban, and he said all the other transition staffers he knew of did, too.

>Machida, who hadn't been registered to lobby since 2010, joined the lobbying firm Navigators Global immediately after leaving the transition. He's registered seven clients, lobbying the White House and Congress on behalf of companies such as AT&T and Oracle.

>He said he doesn't believe he's violating the lobbying ban because he didn’t develop policy for a particular agency.

>At least four former transition staffers deregistered as lobbyists late last year, only to reregister as soon as they left. All of them are now registered to lobby the same agencies they served or on the same issues they worked on.

>Lauren Maddox, the DeVos sherpa, reregistered as a lobbyist for the Podesta Group days after Trump was sworn into office. On Feb. 6, she signed as a client the Charlotte School of Law, a troubled for-profit law school that has been fighting for survival since the Obama administration cut off its access to federal student loans in December. The school hired Maddox and two other Podesta Group lobbyists to persuade DeVos' Education Department to restore its access to loans.

>They appear to be having some success. The school reapplied for access to federal student aid in March "at the direct suggestion" of a top Education Department official, according to a letter from the school that was obtained by POLITICO.

>Maddox did not respond to requests for comment. She is also registered to lobby the Education Department on behalf of two other education-related clients, according to disclosure filings.

>Other lobbyists who re-registered after exiting the transition include Jim Carter, who led the transition's tax policy team before re-registering to lobby on tax reform; Nova Daly, who worked for the transition's team at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative before he re-registered as part of a team of people who have lobbied the agency, the White House and Congress on behalf of the steelmaker Nucor; and Tara Bradshaw, an Ernst & Young lobbyist who worked during the transition with Steven Mnuchin, now Trump's Treasury secretary. Bradshaw is now registered to lobby Congress and the Treasury Department on tax reform and health care for MetLife, according to disclosure filings. She’s also lobbying Congress for other clients on an array of other tax and financial matters.