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  1. Re:Transporters on Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar · · Score: 1

    In a sense this already goes on with our bodies throughout our lives. We don't have any of the cells we started off with when we were born, for example. So technically we already are copies of a copy of a copy ...

  2. I wonder on Israeli Army Retweeting 1967 War As It Happened · · Score: 1

    What's the over/under on some news outlet somewhere posting this as Breaking News as if it's currently happening? Wouldn't be the first time media misunderstood intent.

  3. Re:Why on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1, Informative

    Photons also don't have rest mass so infinite energy isn't required.

  4. Re:Doesn't help on MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive' · · Score: 1
    I've been entertaining the idea that if I were to ever download a movie and it was something I enjoyed I'd cut a check and send it off to the actual content creator, bypassing the **AAs altogether.

    * The content creators deserve the $ provided they're putting out quality stuff.

    * MPAA/RIAA deserve nothing. Flawed logic?

  5. Re:I really hope... on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    There is a third option: Intelligent life on Earth.

    Now you're just being silly.

  6. Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran · · Score: 1

    Which brings up a interesting question: can a cyberwar escalate to a real war? If so, what would provoke that transition?

    Losing?

  7. Re:I noticed this already some time ago. on Google Now Searches JavaScript · · Score: 1

    You typoed your url. You have detect_range.html which is actually detect-range.html

  8. Re:Uh No on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Sedation AND a pass through an EMP field then?

  9. google dialing on Google Releases Experimental Phone To Employees · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is probably how a phone call would proceed on a Google phone:

    555-1212

    Results 1 - 30 of about 499,000 for 555-1212. (0.24 seconds)

    www.555-1212.com

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_assistance

    phones.whitepages.com/703-555-1212

    . . .
    et al.

    Somewhere in there would be the option to dial the number you wanted. If you happen to have SafeDial turned on you can forget about ever connecting to your sex^H^H^Hchat line. In all serious I would think that perhaps they are trying to incorporate something Googly to reach a larger userbase but certainly their own phone with that ability would be much more lucrative.

  10. Re:that's really gonna hurt Netbook performance on In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses · · Score: 1

    Not just an hour or 2 ago there was a Windows 7 commercial on TV where a woman says (paraphrase) "Windows 7 keeps all of the bad stuff from running on my PC".

  11. It's a on Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System · · Score: 1

    Dyson Sphere in the making.

  12. HIPAA - SHMIPAA on Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder how it came to be that one would be permitted to check web-based email in the hospital's pediatric cardiac surgery department?
    This incident could very well be the least of their problems for all they know.
    The fact that it was able to install and send screenshots willy-nilly to Graham and who-knows-where-else is a HIPAA nightmare.


    Just for grins I went looking through their employment opportunities to see if any IT jobs opened up recently and stumbled upon this:
    (Not relevant to this thread but interesting, nonetheless

    Nicotine-free hiring policy
    Because itâ(TM)s important for healthcare providers to promote a healthy environment and lifestyle, Akron Childrenâ(TM)s Hospital has a nicotine-free hiring policy.
    Newly hired employees are tested for nicotine as part of a pre-employment panel of medical tests.
    Akron Childrenâ(TM)s will not hire applicants who test positive for nicotine use.
    If you test positive for nicotine, the offer of employment made to you will be rescinded.
    If after 90 days you successfully quit using nicotine, you may reapply for employment.

  13. Re:Another idiotic lawsuit.... on Lawsuit Claims WGA Is Spyware · · Score: 1

    That part about MAC OS can only be put on genuine Apple hardware is an untruth.
    Psystar? Hackintosh? OSx86?
    Perhaps you meant legally and fully supportable as opposed to impossible?

  14. Re:I'm all for it... on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    I know of Jessica Alba and Kate Beckinsale and I think I could manage a one-way trip with them along.
    The way I see it everyone has to live somewhere and as long as you have the right amenities to keep you happy/productive then the where shouldn't really matter.
    eg., Babes, beer, net access, et al. Come to think of it I'd like to barbecue a steak on Mars.

  15. Re:Watching it from home on Mount Wilson Observatory In Danger From L.A. Fire · · Score: 1

    It's nice to hear from somewhere near there that they are making an effort to save it.

  16. Re:Virtual bailout needed! on Virtual Bank Woes · · Score: 1

    ...the bank had been mismanaged, and rules, safeguards, and controls were not enforced.

    And the outcome is a surprise because...?

  17. Re:Predictions of the future on NVIDIA Predicts 570x GPU Performance Boost · · Score: 2, Funny

    We'll obviously need a Turbo button on it set in the off position until such time that the CPUs catch up.

  18. Re:1. Wall off content 2. ???? 3. PROFIT! on Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites" · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it a few years ago that cnn.com started requiring payment to view their videos until they scrapped the idea relatively shortly thereafter?

  19. Re:Why didn't this happen sooner? on Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is mind-boggling.
    There was the story a few weeks ago about a guy that raped a 4-year-old and was sentenced to 1 year in prison.
    This guy spends 14 years in jail because a judge just doesn't believe he doesn't have his wife's allowance to give.
    People in power that don't have a shred of sense and ruin people's lives aught to be shipped off to a non-existant island somewhere.

  20. Re:That's pretty cool... on Embedded Linux Achieves One-Second Boot Time · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I fat-fingered the number and didn't notice it on preview.

  21. Re:That's pretty cool... on Embedded Linux Achieves One-Second Boot Time · · Score: 1

    _Only_ 2 seconds longer??! That's a 300% increase in boot time! Nobody has the time to wait for that.

  22. Re:Headline on NASA Has the Lost Tapes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting, I read it that way and thought they lost them again, as well. Dang, we must have tumors.

  23. Re:Good. on Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives? · · Score: 1

    Reusable or not I'm sure they factor in the cost of the media when they come up with the pricing.

  24. Re:And this is bad because? on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 1

    Especially for residents of New Jersey. On a serious note, I sometimes wondered how products that purport to remedy specific ailments can be sold without testing and approval from the FDA. And they also state a disclaimer that it isn't approved as if that absolves them of any liability.

  25. Poof on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 1

    Would be a very interesting sight to see to be sure.
    My understanding is that the axis on which it spins would not force any gamma rays towards Earth's direction so it would amount to a light show and the loss of a landmark star, without danger to us.
    A supernova that close would probably afford us a great deal of insight into things we aren't sure about hopefully in this generation.