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Cell-based Server Blade Demonstrated
slashflood writes "Only a few clients in a hotel room near Los Angeles had the chance to see the first Cell based server blade running Linux 2.6.11. 'We demonstrated the prototype to show that Cell continues to mature. The product is expected to have several times higher performance compared to conventional servers,' said an IBM engineer."
you spelled frist psot wrong.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
Not a drug deal - this was an illegal exchange of human embryonic stem cells.
This is a fine example of a joke that is only funny to the ignorant and willfully stupid.
How many times do you need it pointed out that the only "limitation" on embryonic stem cell research is that it can't be federally funded? That's it. Nothing's illegal. It makes sense to not fund something with taxpayers' money that a significant portion of the taxpayers have severe moral issues with.
I'm offtopic, sure. Mods: make sure you mod down the parent poster as well.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
The problem is, of course, that you can't mix and match - if you do any stem cell research in a lab, then that whole lab (and any other research unconnected with stem cells is /also/ denied federal funding).
The only way to ensure that just the stem cell research is denied the funding is to set up a separate lab, which is expensive and difficult.
The blanket ban, driven by religious motives primarily (like the whole religious crusade against science in the middle and dark ages [earth is flat, world created in 7 days etc etc]) makes it very, very difficult to carry out stem cell research alongside other federally funded projects.