One definition of futility is any treatment that merely preserves permanent unconsciousness or fails to end total dependence of a patient on intensive medical care [1] . However, no agreement has ever been reached on what the exact definition of futility is, as it is not only based on temporary values but also evolves into different subtypes, making it harder to define [2] . The difficulty in d...

Review of Neil Vallelly, Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production Uselessness. Futility as both dominant structure feeling fulcrum for political action in twilight neoliberalism.

The lack of data authentication and integrity guarantees in the Domain Name System (DNS) facilitates a wide variety of malicious activity on the Internet today. DNSSec, a set of cryptographic extensions to DNS, has been proposed to address these threats. While DNSSec does provide certain security guarantees, here we argue that it does not provide what users really need, namely end-to-end authen...

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The DOMINO study group has published the report of its ‘futility study’ of minocycline treatment in HD. Minocycline and a placebo pill were tested over 18 months. A futility study is designed to make it relatively easy for a drug to be recommended for larger studies, but minocycline treatment wasn’t promising enough and the study authors found that further trials with minocycline were “not warr...