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  1. Re:No Surgery Required? on Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Stick with the back pain for now. Stem cells are still in the experimental stage on humans, hence this doctor's flaunting of FDA regs.

    Unless you have a particular desire to be a guinea pig, or your quality of life is so poor that it's worth the risk of dying of cancer (and having your health insurance able to bail out on coverage because you had a non-FDA-approved procedure that contributed to it)...

    They've been doing this type of stem cell work in Asia and Europe for awhile. The FDA is cock-blocking quality care for no good reason. The tech has been proven to work in other countries, and it's about damn time we start playing catch-up.

    There was a young girl (middle school) about a decade ago that had been dropped from a cheerleading pyramid at a rally back in my hometown. She was paralyzed from the neck down. A couple years ago her family took her to China to get stem cell therapy to begin restoring damaged nerves, and from what I've heard it's working.

  2. Re:how cheap? pfsense? on Best WAP For Dense Crowds? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hence why the OP was looking into multiple WAPs. If he has 3 WAPs with clients ideally spread between them it would drop to ~166 clients/WAP and which would lower latency and improve potential speeds. Unless this is a very tech-heavy crowd 'N' might not be overly prevalent in people's notebooks/netbooks/pdas. And if the N routers are performing in mixed mode performance would be hindered. 1 centralized MIMO N with peripheral G (mimo if possible) would segment a bit better while allowing each technology to run in its native specification for best performance.

  3. Re:pardon my ignorance on Newborns' Blood Used To Build Secret DNA Database · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But, how is a blood sample from somebody born in 2003 going to solve a cold case? I guess a seven year old is prone to murder.

    Mitochondrial DNA is different from the DNA everyone else knows about. When the Egg is fertilized, the Mitochondria from the mother is contained inside the egg. Thus, identical mitochondrial DNA will exist through the maternal hierarchy of families.

    Using Mitochondrial DNA, you can trace back and find some relatives (not all, but a fair amount). The mtDNA database can scan mtDNA samples from crime scenes and compare the results against the newborn mtDNA to see if any of their family members had committed such crime, therefore narrowing the scope of the investigator's search be a large margin.

    This is powerful tech, that is sadly going to be used in the wrong way.

  4. Re:A cyberwar will be used as a lead up to an atta on US Unable To Win a Cyber War · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Persian Gulf only accounts for ~24% of US crude imports. While a loss, it won't stranglehold us. If all of OPEC were to cut off the U.S., it would be ~55% of our imports gone, which at that point we would likely stop exporting to Japan and others and shift the flows from Alaska back to us. OPEC, while a cartel, is not known for solidarity. Their profits would be hurt far too much for all of them to cut off the U.S. Besides, if we strategically place the U.S. Naval fleets we can cut off all the major world trade routes quite easily. From there, a couple surgical strikes on certain pipelines/supply lines and our "enemies" will be no better off than the U.S. The reason we are so "dependent" on foreign oil is not due to a lack of supply within our geopolitical borders, but rather a subtle strategic play to maintain resources in case a war like this were to occur. Why deplete our own resources during peace, leaving us dry during conflict; when we can use those of other countries, while safe guarding our own until we need to tap into the deposits.

  5. Re:I'm pretty sure on Google, Apple Call Workers' Race & Gender Trade Secrets · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's because the parents of most non-whites weren't able to live in areas with good schools in the 1980s and 1990s, because they themselves didn't have good-paying jobs to buy a house in the suburbs? And of course they didn't have good jobs because their parents lived in bad parts of town, having grown up under segregation and having been unable to flee to the suburbs when all the white folks did?

    While the quality of schools does have a small part, it's not the sole reason for lack of education. Detroit Public Schools have a less than 30% graduation rate. That's after the State of Michigan took control of the School Board and District financial controls. The State cut out a considerable amount of wasteful spending to increase the amount going towards helping the students. But the students don't have the constitution to see themselves through basic education, the cultural mentality of one of the most minority-centric cities in America (after the White Flight from the 1960's race riots) is to always blame the White Man for holding back the Black Man.

    Then looking at the amount of corruption between the Mayoral office (Kwame Kilpatrick) and the City Council, there's a whole lot more to this than just funding. In order to improve the minorities' (Black in this case) quality of life, the culture and mindset needs to be changed. Because the "Black Culture" in its current form is doing nothing more than hindering them from achieving their full potential.

  6. Re:Finally on StarCraft II Beta To Begin This Month · · Score: 1

    This is actually a good thing. Blizzard has the habit of not releasing unfinished games and even cancelling games if they start to look like they will be bad (SC:Ghost, WC:Adventures). I would much rather wait for a full and complete game without content cut out to meet a release date like EA-Bioware does (KOTOR2). You know when this game comes out its going to be polished and will kick ass and kill several Koreans in teh process.

    KOTOR2 was Obsidian not Bioware. Same with Neverwinter Nights 2, Obsidian not Bioware. Bioware still releases quality games (Dragon Age, Mass Effect 1&2), while the former Black Isle group (Obsidian) is losing their touch.

  7. Re:Oblig. IP jokes. on FBI Obtains Phone Records With a Post-it Note · · Score: 1

    Wait, I thought the trump card was "But think of the children!"

  8. Re:It's Worse Than You think! on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 1

    Nazi? I thought it was communist to disagree.

  9. Re:it's not enough on Comcast Launches Broadband Meter · · Score: 1

    Except for SSL ports 443/563... which can be anything. Torrent, https, pop, smtp, other various usenet connections.

  10. Re:What a great idea! on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 1

    You have an illegal way to get their shit for free, and the more you do it, the more they fuck with *my* internet. When it's no-tolerance and I lose my access because of an MPAA dragnet, I'm going to come looking for you. Also, you are an unscrupulous ass, and usually people don't brag about that, so congratulations I guess.

    Since when are Amazon digital downloads or Netflix streaming over the internet illegal? "Not Physical Media" does not always mean Pirated. Furthermore, it's cheaper than buying the actual disc.

  11. Re:Lame start... on Sony, IMAX, Discovery To Launch 3D TV Network · · Score: 1

    As for your Armored Football, only Americans could invent a sport that looks like organized medieval warfare ...

    Well yeah, we missed all the medieval warfare fun that Europe got to experience. We're just trying to play catch-up.

  12. New Apple Product on Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products · · Score: 1, Funny

    So will the next Apple product be called the "iSteal.IP?"

  13. Re:Pay for it on Best Open Source Business Tools? · · Score: 1

    QB does have a 'nix server now days, but sadly their front-end is still Windows only :(

  14. Re:Divergent Interests on Best Open Source Business Tools? · · Score: 1

    SugarCRM has a community version that is FOSS: http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/ Definitely check it out, might save you some man hours that would be needlessly wasted on an in-house CRM solution.

  15. Re:Thank goodness on Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By · · Score: 1

    This is an Asteroid. It maybe could be called a Meteor, but it won't be a Meteorite until it actually impacts the ground.

  16. Re:billion kilometers on Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away · · Score: 1

    Why use meters at all? It's in space, it should be measured in AU (astronomical units).

  17. Re:Defective by Design on DRM Flub Prevented 3D Showings of Avatar In Germany · · Score: 5, Informative

    # Digital:

    • 720×480 (520 lines): D-VHS, DVD, miniDV, Digital8, Digital Betacam (pro)
    • 720×480 (400 lines): Widescreen DVD (anamorphic)
    • 1280×720 (720 lines): D-VHS, HD DVD, Blu-ray, HDV (miniDV)
    • 1440×1080 (810 lines): HDV (miniDV)
    • 1920×1080 (1080 lines): D-VHS, HD DVD, Blu-ray, HDCAM SR (pro)
    • 10,000×7000 (7000 lines): IMAX, IMAX HD, OMNIMAX

    # Film:

    • 35 mm film is scanned for release on DVD at 1080 or 2000 lines as of 2005.
    • 35 mm original camera negative motion picture film can resolve up to 6,000 lines.
    • 35 mm projection positive motion picture film has about 2,000 lines which results from the analog printing from the camera negative of an interpositive, and possibly an internegative, then a projection positive.
    • Sequences from newer films are scanned at 2,000, 4,000 or even 8,000 columns (line measured the other directions), called 2K, 4K and 8K, for quality visual-effects editing on computers.

    Wiki Source
    So.. 6,000~8,000 lines instead of 1080p (or 7000 for digital IMAX). It's VASTLY superior.

  18. Re:Putting the "Fiction" back in Science Fiction on $300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal · · Score: 1

    He forgot to mention, they're giving you an executive title so they don't have to pay you overtime.

  19. Re:what the fuck. on Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship · · Score: 1

    The next step would be to declare all the inner political policy making as inappropriate to view by the general public, thereby cutting off any hope the Aussies have of knowing what their government is doing. If you can't legally know they're doing evil, how can you want to vote them out?

  20. Re:Throttling on Israeli ISPs Caught Interfering With P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Really? A year or so ago it was public knowledge that the only limits on Japanese internet service was their 30GB per day upload cap.

  21. Re:The best on Home Router For High-Speed Connection? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. We got one of these for work: Supermicro Flex Atom 330+ Intel 945GC

    Draws about ~16W of power with a laptop 2.5" sata harddrive and full ram slots. Pair it with either CentOS or a prepackaged firewall setup like Clarkconnect, M0n0wall, shorewall, or firestarter (IP tables gui for full linux install). You can even setup something like Asterisk NOW! and pair in an IP Tables firewall and OpenVPN support for a very robust, small, silent, and low power solution.

  22. Re:Good news... on Apple Forced To Clean Up Its Fine Print · · Score: 1

    I have a Verizon Samsung Omnia (Windows Mobile). Thanks to sites like PPCGeeks and XDA-developers 'locked' features like this crap on the Blackberries is overwritten with custom roms and firmware that's available from dedicated individuals who are sick of this style of business model. Verizon does occasionally unlock some of features though, our GPS was unlocked for free in a firmware update. But as for tethering.. there have been Windows Mobile apps for YEARS that can tether via USB or Bluetooth and it just appears as regular phone data.

  23. Re:Obligatory on LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting · · Score: 1

    And the most of them sure should this maneuver as well!

    Leptopn

  24. Flashback 2004 on Aging Discovery Yields Nobel Prize · · Score: 0

    We studied this back in my High School Genetics course... we knew all about Telomeres/Telomerase back then and scientists were already working on creating synthetic Telomerase... Glad to see the International community is finally catching up 5 years later.

  25. Re:Coming to Cydia on Apple Kills Google Voice Apps On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    And by the same token, manufacturers should stop shoveling crap to us and crank out some hardware worth buying. As much as I despise Apple's closed mindedness, I despise the crappy hardware coming from HTC, the crappy OS coming from Samsung, and the unfinished work coming from Google and Palm even worse.

    http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/

    Welcome to the world of flashing your phone's OS/firmware so that your non-(cr)apple products are fixed in a matter of clicks. As for HTC's HW issues... that varies by phone.