First Human Clone Eight Weeks Along

Vegeta99 writes "An Italian researcher is claiming ground-breaking progress, and has successfully cloned a human, and the mother is now 8 weeks pregnant, according to this article. Now how long until I can buy my own clone?" It's worth noting that the Roman medical associations bioethicists denied Dr. Antinori permission to proceed with these experiments last month. So doing the math, Rome was a little late... If the pregnancy continues without miscarriage, the tyke may share a birthday with Marie Curie

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KDE 3.0 reveals the Last Remaining Linux Problem (

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that KDE 3.0 has united the Linux desktop under KDE, Linux has one - and only one - critical problem remaining.

The fonts.

The X11 fonts are so terribly, terribly, awful that I just cannot stand to use any web browser or word processor under Linux. It is back to Win XP for me every time that I try it.

You coders are getting close, but you are still so far - the fonts are TERRIBLE. The fonts are so bad, I just cant stand it.

The X11 fonts are so bad for web browing or word processing that I have to turn away when I see it. In fact, I never see it, because the fonts are so bad I won't even run it in the first place.

What is so hard about making an italics font? You would think it was fucking rocket science, cause you dirty GNU hippies just can't seem to figure it out. Yeah, go ahead and mod me -1 Troll now, but I speak the truth and you know it.

The truth that I speak and that you know is that Linux will never approach more than .5% desktop market share until it has fonts that are somewhat readable.

Even reading Slashdot is painful with the default Linux fonts under Konqueror. What do they call it? Micro 11 or something? More like micro shit. Here is a ticket for the clue bus, please catch a ride.

You will NEVER approach the desktop market until you create some readable fonts.

That is all.

Re:Thanks to the late hour

[ottffssent]

Did it really take me 12 minutes to type that?

"I want more life, fucker."

[pgilman]

TYRELL: The facts of life. I'll be blunt. To make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system, at least by men, makers or not, is fatal. A coding sequence can't be revised once it's established.

BATTY: Why?

TYRELL: Because by the second day of incubation any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies -- like rats leaving a sinking ship. Then the ship sinks.

BATTY: What about E.M.S. recombination?

TYRELL: We've already tried it -- ethyl methane sulfonate as an alkylating agent and a potent mutagen -- it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.

BATTY: Then a repressor protein that blocks the operating cells.

TYRELL: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries a mutation and you're got a virus again... but all this is academic -- you are made as well as we could make you.

BATTY: But not to last.

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[sharkey]

The nurse who performed the latest ultrasound checkup on the mother-to-be claimed she heard words over the fetal heartbeat monitor. After running the heartbeat recording through the "Sing-Like-N'Stync Karaoke Machine's" sound-scrubber, we have early words from this ground-breaking fetus!

Quoth the fetus:

• "Me Stan. Pachewie-chomp, pachewie-chewie-chomp."

There you have it, a shocking report from the exciting world of genetical engineering!