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  1. DNA replication errors generally kill the cell. Synthetic meat doesn't have a problem with cancer, because it basically *is* cancer - the entire goal is to get muscle cells replicating more or less indefinitely and immortally.

  2. They're also not taught in a preparatory fashion by primary or high school.

  3. Re:Not Skeptical on SpaceX Releases Animation of Planned Falcon Heavy Launch (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Large payloads to geostationary orbit with re-usable launch vehicles. SpaceX can just barely do geo with the Falcon 9 and it can't be landed afterwards. They'd really like to be able to geo (where there's a lot of demand) and get the cost savings of reusability.

  4. Re:The problem is the battery itself on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung may have screwed up but:
    > So, Samsung has a power-hog design/OS, and as a result, has had to put in nearly double the battery as the iPhone.

    This is asinine.

  5. Here's the problem: if you just put these on top of polls along the same stretch of road, it would be cheaper and more efficient.

  6. Re:Gimme Wireless charging as well on Apple's Next Year iPhone Won't Have the Home Button: NYTimes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ah yes, just like you totally can't if those ports are present. Except for all the phones which can do that now.

  7. Re:But Seriously... on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Frame dragging was a GR prediction which only actually got tested in 2004.

  8. I want these on every car everywhere. Mandate it as a standard feature. Make it a legal requirement. Let's end the BS that is parallel parking forever.

  9. Re:Luddites? on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It also generally slows down *drastically* if you improve women's education, women's rights and general sex education.

  10. This is completely wrong. I work for a very large corporation which uses Blue Coat proxies, and they absolutely do not have trusted root certificates they can just use (amongst other things, this would lead to Symantec's cross-signing being revoked).

    They do the thing any IT department can do, which is everyone either runs a pre-built image with the proxy certificates baked in, or people (like me) who get dev machines end up dropping them in to suppress the "invalid cert" warnings.

  11. Re:Environmentalism on Rise In CO2 Has 'Greened Planet Earth' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Geo-engineeing is vastly more expensive then almost any proposed level of emissions reduction. No one talks about it because of that.

  12. Re:Old hands on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 1

    Find a way to structure it so the connector is nothing but concentric rings, with no orientation, and just some notches to stop it rotating.

  13. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 1

    What in the hell would RJ11 accomplish in a home setting? My walls are mostly...you know, walls. There's not a space saving there. And my laptop can be thicker. Fill it with more batteries.

  14. Re:You keep saying that word... on Fast-Food CEO Invests In Machines Because Regulation Makes Them Cheaper Than Employees (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He's not arguing anything. He's making a threat - which means he doesn't have a plan, because if machines were cheaper he wouldn't need a jab at minimum wage. He wouldn't need anything - he'd just do it.

  15. Rust? Go? Javascript? Buffer overflows are totally prevented in most higher level languages. You can cause them, but the application will *always* crash safely.

    SQL injection is a product of SQL itself being a poor language that doesn't clearly delineate data and code.

  16. Re:Turing Evolved on Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    You haven't really made a compelling case one way or another.

    A sufficiently intelligent AI system would reject a nebulously valid nuclear launch order. But you've also given exact examples of sufficiently intelligent humans still doing terrible things.

  17. Re: Turing Evolved on Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    What's telling is that the only way we would identify these people is after they were killed. By other humans. In the millions.

  18. They're not making that mistake.

    That whole page is amazing.

  19. Re:Copy Skylab on NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Power is not a serious problem at Mars distances. For the cost and scale of a manned Mars mission, football-field sizes solar panels are perfectly affordable and practical for the spacecraft - also compact to launch (relatively) and deploy since they don't need to support their own weight against gravity like they do on Earth.

  20. Re:can someone please explain for me on Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes I'm sure all those physicists have not "done the math" on how to get power out of a reactor. I mean it's just this big important aspect of reactor design which you could get a Ph. D in by running simulations and doing the math, so I'm sure no one anywhere is looking at it.

  21. Re:Skylon Pros and Cons on British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    This is a hybrid rocket engine.

  22. Re:Nailed it on Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with hard core security guys is that security is there job and they wind up being unable to imagine that it's not actually the job description of other people.

  23. Re:Isn't a VPN provider an ISP? on Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that? My VPN endpoint is in another country as is the company. They're going to have to do a ridiculous amount of enforcement and blocking, much of which would wind up contravening WTO treaties, to actually limit it.

    Of course the fact you need this service is still ridiculous.

  24. Re:SXSW are pussies on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're an adult, you got over being called names. Expecting others to sanitize your environment wherever you go is insanity.

    This exact same logic works right back at you.

  25. Re:Why not computer based evaluation ... on Harnessing EVE Online For Science (mmorpg.com) · · Score: 2

    They're probably doing both? The recent mystery star discovery was a result of human analysis of transient light curves which were missed by the current side-effects.