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  1. Re:Ubuntu CD's on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because it would be convenient for people who buy stuff from amazon all the time and have an account there. Plus it would mean free publicity if many people buy from there and Ubuntu gets listed as a top seller.

  2. Re:./: when Vista does this it's a disaster on Torvalds Rejects One-Size-Fits-All Linux · · Score: 1

    You got it all wrong. Having different versions of Vista is not about giving the user real choice. It is about offering the user to pay less for crippled versions.

  3. Not news on Every Man Is an Island (of Bacteria) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Common knowledge you can find in most microbiology or immunology textbooks.

  4. Bad summary on New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing · · Score: 1

    Using 454 sequencing you get average read lenghts of ~400-500 bp. Read lenghts around 20 bp would be pretty much useless. At least for de novo sequencing..

  5. Re:So you need immune bone marrow? on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1

    You can generate this mutation using engineered zinc finger nucleases. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/02/2018251

  6. Re:Reply from actual kernel developer please . . . on Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw Your question is answered in this talk. Briefly: The only way to test a kernel is to actually use it.

  7. wget! on Windows 7 Trades Email and Photo Apps For Downloadable Ones · · Score: 1
  8. Amarok Plugin on Using Computers for Sophisticated Music Analysis · · Score: 1

    Would love to see an Amarok plugin using this technology. Some sort of last.fm for my local music collection. Does anybody know whether something similar exists?

  9. Re:What? on Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks · · Score: 1

    No, your interpretation of the graph is ridiculous. There is basically no noise at all. The sample size for "z" is about 5 million emails. The results are highly significant!

  10. Re:law of unintended consequences... on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 1

    The naturally occurring frequency of a mutations in this receptor is fairly high. Assuming you are caucasian, there is a 10% cance that you are are carrying one. Thus, every 1% of all caucasians carry the mutation on both alleles and have a high resistance against HIV. (Samson et al. "Caucasian individuals bearing mutant alleles of the CCR-5 chemokine receptor gene." Nature, 1996) So far, individuals having mutations in both alleles have not been shown to suffer from any mutation specific disease or "side effect".