As someone with a son who has CF
This is great news.
However it is not a cure but a treatment. Given CF is a genetic condition, the only "cure" would be to have the faulty DNA repaired.
Posts by Chris007
456 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Aug 2009
Canadian kid uses supercomputing to cure cystic fibrosis
Wall Street Journal launches own WikiLeaks
Computer glitch opens un-staffed supermarket to happy Kiwis
Law Commissions call for new consumer compo law
Virgin Media Superhub customers still hitting big speed bump
STONERS are DESTROYING the PLANET
Digital player maker 'incited consumers to break the law', says ASA
Hated contractor tax might disappear
Friday 11th March 2011 14:22 GMT
Worth?
If we're "worth" that little why do companies make use of our services so often.
Plus, you had to be ltd company when I started as there were no umbrella companies to speak of and no company/agenct would take on a person on a self-employed basis. They wanted the protection that ltd company status gave their business.
Password management site plugs info-leak bug
Car immobilisers easily circumvented by crafty carjackers
Tuesday 21st December 2010 13:36 GMT
Nearly agree
Yes it stops an oppotunistic thief however you answer why thefts are increasing. Low loader takes it away and now the thiefs have a way of breaking the immobiliser in their own time whereas previously they had to do other things.
Basically it speeds things up for them once it's back at "base"
Bummed-out users give anti-virus bloatware the boot
Ofcom proposes UK phone numbers prefix re-org
Monday 20th December 2010 14:40 GMT 
They messed up when allocating 03 numbers
They shoud have "reserved" 0344/5 and 0370/1/2 and basically said if you have an 0844/5 or 0870/1/2 number then if anybody replaces the 8 with a 3 it gets through to the same number, therefore automatically making it part of anybody's 01/02/03 package.
Simples
(but simples doesn't keep Quango's going does it.....)
BOFH: Who's been naughty and who's been nice?
Windows 7 really was some girl's idea, rules ASA
BOFH: Pain fear games
Twitter 'martyr' takes airport joke case to High Court
Top Ten Arcade Classics
London Stock Exchange investigates IT 'sabotage'
Another huge ice discovery made in Asteroid Belt
LG launches almost full HD 3D laptop
Craigslist to tell Congress why it cut adult ads
Veteran spam suit troll plaintiff calls it quits
Thursday 16th September 2010 14:52 GMT
Domain email
I've got my own domain and also done the same for members of the family. I tell them to use a different <name>@domain.net for each service they sign up for so that if any are "sold/stolen" I can simply put a block on that one.
A company in the UK called comparethemarket.com had their database compromised (how I am not speculating on) as myself and all my domains were spammed at the same time with the unique addresses we'd used. One company that will /never/ get my business
How extreme is your pr0n? Depends on your lawyer
Lovefilm calls in the DRM brigade for media player push
Courts bar dodgy documents from divorce cases
Police force more suspects to give up crypto keys
Business guru tries to silence bloggers over 'misleading' mailshot
ISP condemns new BT backbone
IT Crowd gets fifth series run
Apple iPad
Ubuntu 10.04 triumphs over GRUB bug
Hackers crack Ubisoft always-online DRM controls
Thursday 29th April 2010 13:55 GMT
Dragon 32 cracked
I worked out how to crack Dragon 32 games (tapes) that gave perfect backup copies (not tape copying) and I also worked out how to change the text logo that a lot of the companies used - defacing as they call it now.
A few months later (I was 14) it was the summer holidays and we were at the local sports centre for activities when I got talking to a guy who lived 20 odd miles away (light yrs away as a kid) and we got talking about computer games. He mentioned the Dragon 32 and started talking about this guy who had managed to make pefect [backup] copy of games and said the moniker that I was using.
I felt quite humbled that my recognition had spread so far.
San Francisco's rogue BOFH is guilty
Scammers plunder gullible iPad owners' backdoors
Sky punts 'truly unlimited' 20Mb/s broadband
Brit astrophysical model scoops £1.1m at poker
Tesco VoIP takes numbers to the grave
Thursday 22nd April 2010 14:01 GMT
I was lucky...
...I only used the Tesco service for my outgoing calls only.
I would be major league pi55ed off if I had this has my home or even worse (as some people do) their main business contact number.
It is an absolute scandal that a company of Tesco's size is not doing more to help it's customers - surely it does enough business with C&W to apply some pressure such that both companies came out looking like good guys
Apple sued over iPhone aqua sensors
Obama 'deep space' Mars plans in Boeing booster bitchslap
Crooks plant fake payment card terminals at multiple stores
Euro Parliament threatens court action over ACTA secrecy
Friday 12th March 2010 15:30 GMT 
He nearly said it right
"Whereas intellectual property is important to society and must be protected, it should not be placed above individuals' fundamental rights to privacy and data protection," said EDPS Peter Hustinx
should have been
"Whereas intellectual property is important to society and must be protected, it MUST NEVER be placed above individuals' fundamental rights to privacy and data protection," said EDPS Peter Hustinx
But still a good stab
Password reset questions dead easy to guess
BOFH: The PFY Chronicles part 2
Patent attack hits Apple, RIM, AT&T, Moto...
Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe
Wednesday 10th March 2010 14:24 GMT
As did I
Bit older than 9 but used to change the VM messages of friends phones (all the networks at time time had a default VM PIN). Never went too far but the favourite was to get the GF at the time (and myself) to leave a VM default message with lots of panting explaining that it was "difficult" to get to the phone - Parents wouldn't look at their kids again in the same light :-)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
