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For example, all new gem releases should be signed and `HighSecurity` should be the policy but it's taken years to get very little progress. Changing to that policy would prevent entire classes of attacks, attacks that could subtly inject code into all sorts of apps in difficult-to-find ways. Large projects are still shipping unsigned gems, unsigned commits and unsigned tags. If RubyGems were hacked, progress might move slightly faster.
Needless to say: wear long socks and have someone else completely check all of your limbs and back under bright light and magnification for those very tiny deer ticks.
0: http://www.semantikon.com/StealThisBookbyAbbieHoffman.pdf
This is why it's vital to do challenging mental exercises like crosswords puzzles, etc. ("use it or lose it.)
Generally though, the article makes sense because the common cell machinery of nerves (which don't divide as much as say intenstine or dermis cells) can be hampered by underlying issues affecting organelles within nerve cells, which then manifests as functional, quantitative deficit at the macro level.
It's a hard thing to do, trade-in somwthing more precious than cash, labor, time and effort, life... so have a good time and aim make people consistently, insanely happy and always satisficed
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/pet2004-fpd.pdf
http://www.hack247.co.uk/blogpost/van-eck-phreaking/ (unscientific/not peer-reviewed)