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  1. Re:Hubble vs James Webb on James Webb Telescope Passes Critical Tests · · Score: 1
    The James Web telescope isn't competing with or replacing Hubble, the JWST is an infrared telescope, and will see completly different things to Hubble, including the very first stars and galaxies whos light was been red shifted down to infra-red.

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  2. Very Glad on FDA Approves Vaccine For Prostate Cancer · · Score: 1

    My father did of prostrate cancer, it his last years has horrible. The figures show Immuotherapy helps a bit but clearly its a long way from a cure. I hope medicine but enhance Immuotherapy to make it much more effective and extend it to other cancers.

  3. Re:Good, I don't have to learn Objective C now on Android Ported To iPhone · · Score: 1

    No one does want to hire me. I'm 40, been programming all sorts of things in all sorts of languages. I learn LAMP in the 90s, then they go and change the P from Perl to PhP. I know both of course. If I learn Objective C, (the pryamids in Egypt), then I can have a Objective C (0 years), on my CV, great, I don't hired. 40 years with zero experience in a new subject, get sent to wall.

  4. Re:Be very afraid. on Apple To Buy ARM? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, I'd expect (or hope at least) the monopolies commission (UK side) other anti trust bodies to block this move. I don't want Apple owning control over every mobile phone handset in the world.

  5. Good, I don't have to learn Objective C now on Android Ported To iPhone · · Score: 0

    but is apple going let me use it, and will there be any installed user base? Not appearing or not found in the App store, would stump me from wanting to developing there to.

  6. Re:Still out of date on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 3, Informative

    err, that was 10 years ago, the 20th century, did you miss the millennium. But if you want futuristic money, read last weeks new scientist, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627562.700-schrodingers-cash-minting-quantum-money.html?page=1

  7. 15 years to monopoly on Group Calls For Google Antitrust Probe · · Score: 1

    That's fastest ever. I don't think Google is really a monopoly though, plenty of other search engines, bling/yahoo, just because 90% of choose to click Google, doesn't make them a monopoly. Likewise there are plenty of ad market place companies on the web, though I don't think there's any as good a adsense/words right now.

  8. Re:Ok, really? on Microsoft Sues UK's Datel Over Controllers · · Score: 1

    Certainly doesn't fall into the category or where the invention not obvious. Can't see that patent holding up in court. Must be terrifying for a small business to be sued by a giant. Hope Datel keep there nerve.

  9. Re:Duh on Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs · · Score: 1

    Until a pretty girl I knew offers me one. My Brains fall out to pretty girls.

  10. Re:The Companion on First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Short skirts are not police uniform, but she had say she's a kissagram.

  11. 7000,000 ft lens on NASA Launches Giant Magnifying Glass Into Space · · Score: 1

    Wow. Thats a big contact lens, imagine the size of the eye.

  12. Ten people. on Google Announces New Google Wave "Wave" Notification · · Score: 1
    Wave is that popular already?, soon they'll be more useful than twitter.

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  13. New offer on Want a Body Piercing With That Server? · · Score: 1
    Get a body pierces with each fsck error, they're just as scary.

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  14. Re:ahh yes, the "Devil Particle" on First LHC Data Hint At New Particle · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Funny April fool, but done, over at that scienfic blogging they had the LHC discovering the graviton. Paleo particles, dinosaur hadrons, thats funny. Not LOL but funny. I have to be Pedantic though, Top quarks don't live long enough to be bound to anything else.

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  15. Would prefer Java on Adobe Flash Now Officially a Part of Google Chrome · · Score: 1
    I'd prefer Java to be packaged with Chrome. In the late 1995s we assumed that Java applets would be the future of the web. Its still a good technology make fast by the evolution of computing. Its just getting java packaged with browsers, was the shortfall.

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  16. The article started Face, how hard are guestures? on Computer Vision Tech Grabs Humans In Real-Time 3D · · Score: 1
    I would have thought gesture recognition would be relatively easy just moment the position of hands, which should be the nearest object. But its taking some time. Certainly having a computer recognise basic hand movements and running scripts accordingly would be get timesaver. On the subject, when will windows get a proper scripting language, like Rexx was on OS2 and amiga?

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  17. 1 and half year late and half power on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1
    Good luck to the physicists at CERN, delays have certainly hurt them, but I hope these collisions make for a solid physics run.

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  18. Nuclear Powered on How Do You Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Its not a full reactor, just a RTG, radiothermal generator powered by radioactive decay.

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  19. Oh, no on Does This Headline Know You're Reading It? · · Score: 4, Funny
    onLookAway(
    popUp( "you looked away from this messages; please look back");
    playSound("annoyingBleep.mid");
    setPicture("porno_woman.jpg");
    );

    onLookAt( popUp(" Please click the link");
    playSound("click+click+click.mid");
    setPicture("Advert.jpg");
    );

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    It will happen It will happen, save us

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  20. Sorry, to say i've avoided Open Source entirely on What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid? · · Score: 1

    I like downloading and using free software, but i liked my time to be payed for. So in 27 years of programming (since age 12), i've never writing anything to be open sourced. This is very ungratful of me, but i can't see me becoming less greedy.

  21. Re:Can of Worms? on Hunting Disease Origins By Whole-Genome Sequencing · · Score: 1
    Well now, there be an easy test, for the disease, but no cure. But in principle finding the gene, does lead to a cure relavitively easierly. If the broken gene, needs to de activated then the physicians can use RNA interference to de activate the gene. I the broken gene, is something important missing then in principle, gene therapy, insertation of an other copy of the gene, using a retrovirus should cure the disease. I say in principle, neither RNA interference nor Gene therapy a proven technologies yet.

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  22. Seems odd to be keeping PhP on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 0
    The data of course is the taxed part of structure, depend as it does on how much previous activative there has been on the subject at Digg, but it seems strange to still be keep the other parts of LAMP, and not to moving to a structure its everything is clustered, the including the web server and the application code. Cassandra is based on Java, and storing map and objects, it would make sense to me if they over from apache and php, to apache tomcat, or maybe glass fish. I guess now we'll all have to have Cassandra on our CVs to look professional.

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  23. Re:Unintended consequences on New Phone Allows Bosses To Snoop On Staff · · Score: 1
    There was a thread just today on Augmented Reality, the same tech that allow a phone to add location data to what you see, is the same tech that allows other people to watch where you are, and what you doing. Or course its in the hands of the nice Apple guys, how would never stop a user controlling modification to his own phone, oh whoops.

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  24. Instant Success on Google Opens Apps Marketplace · · Score: 1
    I wonder if, companies are paying to get listed google apps. Its almost like advertising, and likely instant success for companies that get listed. I think I'll think about moving my apps, to some google cloud, if it get freely listed for that. Some of the listing, like dimdim for example, have been appended with, whats the connection to google apps.

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  25. Blackberry on 6 Smartphone Keyboards Compared · · Score: 2, Insightful
    But doesn't it depend on the size of your fingers.

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