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  1. Re:Science on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    The fact that they were able to use Monsanto's own data and still show a possible problem is worrying

    If this were independent research (as it should be) and they showed this then it could be ignored .... but I would assume Monsanto's own data is likely to be sanitised at least to a degree?

  2. Re:Riddle me this on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    Require the food producers to label the source of their ingredients and let the customer decide ... ...when people avoid Monsanto's corn then the food companies will stop buying corn from farmers using GM Corn ....

    Regulation of the market should always be like this ... require business to give the customer (at all levels) the information to make informed decisions and the market will self regulate, the only reason Monsanto's GM crops are used in the US is because people don't know which food they are in ... in Europe many are labelled GM Free and many customers choose based on this ...

  3. Re:"Reboot" on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1

    Reboot (Fiction) : discard much or even all previous continuity in the series and start anew with fresh ideas.

    The term originates from its use in computer science. After a computer is rebooted, nothing (except non-volatile storage, such as on a disk drive) of the computer's previous operating session has any bearing on its new session.

  4. Re:This is not a reboot on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1

    Reboot means throw away all the previous movies, actors and plot.... go back to the source material and reinterpret it in a new way

    This either means they have :

          an established actor that is demanding too much for the next episode

          so screwed up the plot that they have painted themselves into a corner

          run out of source material that makes sense with the established movies

  5. Re:So, restricted to capacitive screens on Droid Touchscreen Less Accurate Than iPhone's · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They compared the iPhone, an HTC phone running android, another HTC phone running Android, and a Motorola running Android .... ..at something they are all not very good at

    and they left out the devices that are good at it ... and the iPhone "won"

    the obligatory Car analogy

    This is like testing a Lambourghini, Ferrari and a rebadged Ferrari, and Concluding that the Lambo is the best because it is only moderately bad at off-roading and ignoring a 4x4 !!

  6. Re:Side effects? on Startup Tests Drugs Aimed at Autism · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As I said Autism is not simple, assuming the range of Autism Spectrum disorders are all part of the same thing (which not everyone agrees on) then the range of causes is huge, and the range of effects is also huge

    This is a possible cure for one actual genetic disease (Fragile X) in some people along with the normal symptoms it can cause some autism spectrum symptoms, this may if it works at all alleviate some of the symptoms and it may alleviate autism if that was one of them.... note the large number of maybe's possibly's in that, and this is only one relatively rare cause of autism and they are not really trying to cure autism in this case, it is just one of a number of symptoms ...

    If you count the full spectrum of Aspergers (right down to so mild it is almost impossible to diagnose) then a large proportion of the population has autism ....

  7. Re:Something else I'll probably never need on Intel Launches Wi-Di · · Score: 1

    1080p = 1920x1080 your TV/Monitor is less than this ....so is not technically an full HD Television at all?

    Bare minimum for HD is 720p this is 1280×720 and most widescreen laptops can display at least this usually more?

  8. Re:Side effects? on Startup Tests Drugs Aimed at Autism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a drug that may alleviate some of the symptoms of fragile X syndrome, many of these symptoms are not reversible, and one of them can be some forms of Autism

    This is not a "Cure for Autism", it is a possible, partial cure for a genetic disorder that has as one of it's effects in some patients some forms of Autism

    Autism is not simple...it has no one cause, and has no one cure ....

  9. Re:In other news.... on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 1

    The answer to this is that too many people have tried to setup IPv6 and have run into problems and reverted back to IPv4 (Thank you Microsoft!)

    Once burnt twice shy ... we'll wait until it is easy to setup (or default) ... why is is not the default on all new systems?

  10. Re:Easy solution... on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    The Crown is nominally the holder of the office of the crown (i.e. the current Queen/King) and part of the royal perogative is the ability to dismiss any case

    The Current monarch cannot be a defendant in a criminal case (it would be Regina vs. Regina) if this were required then the monarch would be forced to abdicate, however the current monarch can be a defendant in a civil case

    The case of Charles I is outside this as Parliament effectively changed the rules so that they could execute the monarch (and do away with the office), they changed the rules back (partially) when they reinstated Charles II (several of the regicides were executed, some posthumously), and they have been modified over the years since

  11. Re:Something else I'll probably never need on Intel Launches Wi-Di · · Score: 1

    Exactly - a TV is often lower resolution and lower quality than the Monitor on your PC anyway (Monitors tend to be smaller simply because you tend to sit nearer it ...)

    And the only difference is that your TV has a built in analog receiver (which will soon be obsolete) or a built in digital decoder (which you can replace with a box)

  12. Re:Easy solution... on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    No she really is above the law - all cases are the Queen vs. x and so she *is* the law

    If however she ever did anything worth prosecuting, then she would be forced to abdicate, at which point she could be tried ....

  13. Re:Undocumented features! on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    Ummm... What do you mean by "undocumented"? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330741(VS.85).aspx

    All these stupid articles are simply fanboys trying to get clicks on their sites. This is old news. Move along.

    All are on the linked MSDN article except {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} This is the undocumented Master Control Panel showing all the "Hidden" options that do not appear on the regular control panel.....

    Documentation on this would be nice?

  14. Re:Old news on Fake "Bill Gates" Message Dupes Top Tools · · Score: 1

    I can send you a conventional paper mail and claim to be anyone, and claim to be sending it from anywhere and there is nothing you can do to trace it to me, this has not caused a problem for over 100 years ...signatures help to verify identity

    The same thing has always happened with email, but this causes a problem because people strangely expect when it says an email is from harry jones it really is from him PGP/GPG Signatures verify identity ..

    Most ways of filtering email do not work in a business environment because most email is from people you do not know and the originating servers do not match the mail address - an email filtering program that does not deliver an important email from a customer is broken

  15. Re:Quote Cory Doctorow: on China Faces Piracy Suit Over Censorship Software · · Score: 1

    ...In the forefront of which is Hollywood ... built on a obscure peninsular as far away from the Movie industry patent holders as possible so they could make movies without paying them ....

  16. Re:So... umm... on New Pi Computation Record Using a Desktop PC · · Score: 4, Informative

    Basic research ..... you know that stuff that has no useful application now .....especially maths

    Like group theory, invented in 1832 by Évariste Galois, had no really useful application until the mid 20th century ... Now quantum mechanics and so most of modern electronics uses it ....

  17. Re:This is smart. on INTERPOL Granted Diplomatic Immunity In the US · · Score: 1

    To prosecute they have to get the info back from Interpol ... at which point you can get it with a FOIA .... unless the agency declares it not in the public interest to do so ....

  18. Re:How is this different on INTERPOL Granted Diplomatic Immunity In the US · · Score: 1

    There are no agents .... they do not have the right, authority or power to tap phones in any country including the USA, they cannot conduct searches legal or illegal

    In fact the only thing they can do is hand over the results of illegal wiretaps searches etc conducted in one country to the cops of another ....they could do this before but now they can do this and not be searched at airports, or in the offices they do not have (their desks in the DOJ cannot be searches now?) ....

    The evidence still has to be justified and an illegal search is still an illegal search and so will still be stuck out as evidence in a US (or almost any other countries) court ....

    If fact you are much more likely to be convicted thanks to wiretap or search evidence conducted in a dubious manor done by US agents in the US than any evidence supplied by Interpol

  19. Re:complete whats new and opinions on Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast · · Score: 1

    My experience with the ribbon interface is that people either love it and do not understand how they ever did without it ... or detest it and continually complain they cannot find anything

    There seems to be a knack to using it and if you "get it" then it works..... this is a *very* bad design for a supposedly "intuitive" interface?

  20. Re:complete whats new and opinions on Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast · · Score: 1

    IE was insecure, old and not mving ...

    Opera cost money (then) and had a reputation (then) for not rendering all sites correctly (mostly because they were IE centric)

    Firefox was free and rendered the vast majority of sites correctly

    It's the old story of it does not need to be better just good enough

  21. Re:Okay, I'll be the one to say it... on Android's Success a Threat To Free Software? · · Score: 1

    I have used Opera, and some Web sites still do not render properly

    Never had a problem with Firefox , except websites that *Require* IE to work (and will work in nothing else)

  22. Re:Java too complex on Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To program on windows nowadays you program in a .NET language

    So it is not taking over from Java, it's taking over from Windows non-.NET languages

    Java is alive and well and still running on platforms .NET could never dream of ....

  23. Re:Because the game is rigged on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    No that will just prove that humans (Scientist are human) make mistakes, can be biased etc ...

    To consistently suppress a conclusion requires a concerted and complete effort by the entire community, when it would be in the interest of any potential whistleblowers to publish that it is being suppressed ...

    Conspriacy theories rely on vast networks of independent people working together towards mutually independent goals ... this does not happen in the real world

  24. Re:Why Are We Deferring to an Economic Organizatio on Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated · · Score: 1

    pholgiston - Some scientists actually didn't like it as a theory, but it was the best they had at the time
    Luminiferous ether - Some scientists actually didn't like it as a theory, but it was the best they had at the time
    tobacco - Always known to be slightly bad for you, Doctors were paid a lot of money to advertise it's supposed heath effects
    alochol - Always known to be bad for you in excess, no-one ever said different

    The relevant degree is to stop complete amateurs continually pestering for data when they are not going to do anything useful with it, without the correct tools you cannot use the data to prove or disprove anything, the people who have the data have very little money, and time to spare

    If you know how to do proper statistical analysis then your qualifications probably do cover this ...

  25. Re:Interpol on Building a Global Cyber Police Force · · Score: 1

    Interpol is a way for local police forces to cooperate so as not to duplicate work and to streamline the process of fighting international crime

    They do not have jurisdiction anywhere and have no power of arrest anywhere ... not a global trans-governmental police force

    The local police do all the arresting and charging, and people still have to be extradited between countries