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I read TFA. It was a roundabout experience. The cookie policy is explained as if there is some semblance of user choice, but actually there is none. You have
by wombatmobile 5y ago
I read TFA. It was a roundabout experience.
The cookie policy is explained as if there is some semblance of user choice, but actually there is none. You have to accept performance cookies, functional cookies, and Targeting cookies because they don't offer opt out at all, despite offering what looks like a UI tier. But they only offer this guidance:
> We have divided the Cookies we use into the following categories: Strictly Necessary, Performance, Functional, and Targeting. Under each category heading below you will find a general description of the Cookies in each category. You can change your browser settings to block, delete, or alert you to Cookies. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to do that. However, if you do, you may have to manually adjust preferences every time you visit a site and some features may not work as intended.
The article itself has a headline that seems to suggest cellular death processes have been found to be reversible, or at least, not irreversible. But the text reveals that the research finding is not anything to do with reversibility. Rather, it is about interruptibility.
When they install an optogenetic switch in the organism to trigger the process, it functions as an On/Off switch. But there is no reverse switch, in the same way that there is no On/Off switch for the tracking cookies.
TFA, on one level, is an exercise in creating expectations for switches that don't exist.