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  1. Promising on Skin Cancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice · · Score: 1

    Fingers crossed. The drug is pretty expensive but nursing homes are even more so... it will be huge if a bunch of people walk out of there.

    http://thomsonreuters.com/content/science/pdf/ls/pharma_matters/movers_shakers-cwp-en_issue17.pdf shows the patent expiration as April 22, 2012, July 14, 2015, and October 5, 2016. I don't know what that means for an actual generic becoming available.

  2. Re:Tetherdar on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    "Tetherdar" won't be tripped by streaming HD video to your TV via HDMI. It only gets excited about tethering apps and desktop browsers (including the Firefox browser the ATRIX lapdock uses... they lost a sale on that stupidity).

  3. Re:really, all video streaming is the same? on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    True, but many phones can do HDMI to a TV at HD resolution. I know my ATRIX can do 720p; I'm sure there are others that can do 1080i/p.

  4. Re:Designed to make money. on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    Note that the 5Gig plan is designed to rape those who are too stupid to notice that the $30 / 3Gig + $10 / 1Gig overage is the same as the $50 / 5Gig + $10 / 1Gig overage except that you are sure to always pay a minimum of $50, even in months you use far less data. I see no advantage to that plan at all.

    The 5Gig plan officially allows tethering, If you are caught tethering on the lower plans you'll be jacked up to the $50 plan.

  5. Re:U.S. on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: 0

    We (the rest of the world) would love it if the U.S. would withdraw to it's isolationist policies of the early 20th century. The world would probably be a much better place

    In other words, just go away until we screw up to the point where most of our continent is at war again, THEN we'll call you in to help us again. Either you want the U.S. involved or not. Or do you really think the world would probably be a much better place had the U.S. not gotten involved in WW1 and WW2?

  6. Re:Americans on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 2

    Americans simply don't need those jobs bad enough, even if they are unemployed.

    The Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25 per hour, or about $1256 per month. It is illegal to pay someone in the U.S. less than that (with some exceptions), so the game is already stacked in China's favor.

  7. Re:So on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    To build the roads and aqueducts you remove trees, reducing the CO2 sink, and use tons of concrete which is a huge CO2 producer. You can't win... even raising taxes cause global warming. :-)

  8. Re:So on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately it stopped being a net positive last year. From http://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/index.html:

    Social Security expenditures exceeded the programs non-interest income in 2010 for the first time since 1983. The $49 billion deficit last year (excluding interest income) and $46 billion projected deficit in 2011 are in large part due to the weakened economy ... This deficit is expected to shrink to about $20 billion for years 2012-2014 as the economy strengthens. After 2014, cash deficits are expected to grow rapidly ...

  9. Re:Don't forget that usage counts too on HTC Becomes Highest Shipping Smartphone Vendor In the US · · Score: 2

    I'm curious why it would be unusable from a OS standpoint now if it were presumably usable some number of months ago when she purchased it. The feature set on the OS doesn't degrade over time.

    The graphic is interesting, but Apple has the advantage of pushing OS updates directly to the devices. Android has the disadvantage of every manufacturer customizing it per vendor specification and the OS updates are pushed through those vendors. If Apple had to get AT&T approval to push iOS to the devices on their network you would see a bunch of yellow and maybe even red bars on the Apple lines too.

  10. Re:and what about xerox's stuff? on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    Did Apple invent capacitive touch or did another company like Samsung invent it and Apple just used the resulting screen in the iPhone?

  11. Must use folders on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 2

    Where I work has absurdly low quotas on the Exchange server, I believe 100 MB. The only thing I keep in my Inbox is the "to-do" kind of stuff, everything else goes into a folder in a pst file on my local drive. It sucks because I end up having to search two places a lot of time because you cannot search both an Exchange and local pst with one search.

  12. Re:50,000 a day? on So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day · · Score: 1
    Well, you can install everything except iOS updates (coming soon), and large files while on 3G.

    So in reality you can't throw itunes away just yet.

  13. Re:50,000 a day? on So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day · · Score: 1

    $200 *net* in ~2 hours? With that kind of dough I wouldn't be looking at a Fire.

  14. Re:Thinking about it on So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day · · Score: 1

    If she really uses a iPod Touch she won't be happy with the Fire... "what do you mean I can't load all my iTunes and iApps?". If nothing else Apple has a lock on the ability to seamlessly move your stuff from one iDevice to the next that Android just doesn't do very well (yet?).

  15. Re:What are they thinking? on Sprint Bets Big On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Both AT&T and Verizon had no caps before iPhone was offered... I would be very surprised if Sprint continued to do so.

  16. Re:Challenge - Ignore YOU everyday on Psystar Loses Appeal In Apple Case · · Score: 1

    Symbian is dead and shrinking(!!) rapidly at a rate of 16% per year. Even Nokia gave up Symbian and stopped developing it. Which sane person buys Symbian these days??

    Apparently they are so dead that more people bought them than iPhones through 2Q11. I don't doubt that iPhone will probably pass Symbian when 3Q or 4Q stats come out, but iPhone has never been #1, yet.

    Same applies to Symbian. Symbian is an OS. Not a phone.

    Pretty much all Symbian are made by Nokia. If you want to differentiate between the various Nokia Symbian models, of which I haven't seen individual statistics, you'll also have to differentiate between the AT&T and VZ versions of iPhone, because they are actually quite different (GSM/HSPDA vs CDMA/EVDO), and I haven't seen individual statistics of those either.

    It's really quite sad that iPhone people are so insecure that they resort to anonymous namecalling like kids on a playground (fandroid? Really?).

    But yes iPhone is absolutely undeniably #1 in one thing... profit margin, but that translates to taking more of your dollars than any other manufacturer.

  17. Re:Challenge - Ignore YOU everyday on Psystar Loses Appeal In Apple Case · · Score: 0

    Symbian, while declining, still outsells iPhone by a pretty respectable margin.

    Overall iPhone has only an 18% market share but I'm sure there is some other excuse why iPhone is actually #1.

  18. Re:Why Prescription? on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 1

    Patents have nothing to do with prescription. While albuterol is no longer patented, the HFA delivery mechanism is, and that is apparently enough to demand "brand name" prices. I used to pay $5 copay on something that cost $10 or so, now I'm paying $20 copay on something that costs $55 or so. I think it was just a convenient excuse by pharma to get another bite on the patent apple.

    These patents appear to expire in 2014 - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F5605674 and 2015 - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F5766573

  19. Re:Flaming Skis on Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law · · Score: 1
    Youchies...

    V97.33 Sucked into jet engine

  20. Re:tag based system on Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law · · Score: 1

    What if you walked into a lamp post, fell and hit your head on a turtle, it got angry and bit your ear?

    Looks like at least five codes for that one:

    1. W22.02 Walked into lamppost
    2. W59.21 Other contact with turtle
    3. S00.93 Contusion of unspecified part of head
    4. W59.29 Bitten by turtle
    5. S01.351 Open bite of right ear or S01.352 Open bite of left ear
  21. Re:So climate science is politics? on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    The ACE figure in the last column says that 2002, 2006, 2007, and 2009 are relatively inactive.

    Yes, we have had a couple of big years recently. We've had big years in the past. We've had low years very recently and in the past.

    Overall the data looks quite random to me, but yes with a uptick in the last 10 years. But if the whole argument for AGW affecting hurricanes is based only on the last 10 years of data then there is no argument, yet. That would be as bad as saying there is no AGW due to the cold winters here lately.

  22. Re:So climate science is politics? on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 1
    I found a second chart which shows yearly data for the entire Atlantic basin from 1851 through 2010... http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E11.html

    It shows 2004 and 2005 as quite active. It also shows 2006, 2007 and 2009 as quite inactive.

    In any case, I don't see a dramatic trend in that chart, yet.

    Also note that the chart notes that data prior to 1966 is incomplete, so there is actually more activity prior to that than is shown.

  23. Re:So climate science is politics? on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Because that is what came up when I searched the NOAA site.

    There is over 150 years worth of data in that chart, if there were a trend you should see it in the last 50 years on that chart. Are you seriously relying upon just the last 5 years to make a point?

  24. Re:So climate science is politics? on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    No they would be asked is the increasing number of hurricanes and their severity consistent with global warming predictions and they would say yes.

    That's the point.

    That would appear to be incorrect according to this data, at least for the US: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml

    Sadly trolls like you don't understand

    Personally I hate all of this namecalling that comes with the AGW debate. People are entitled to their opinions without being called idiots or trolls, and AGW supporters are especially bad about that. Yes, publish the facts, publish your opinions, but don't publish opinions as facts, and don't call people trolls or idiots for disagreeing with your opinions.

  25. Re:and the saddest thing on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1

    the government does not say anything about the WTC-7 collapse

    http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=861610