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  1. Re:What About the Other Hand? on Doing Digital Art When You Can't Use Your Hand? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He's an artist. Drawing with his other hand is not what he's looking for.

    What he should do is learn drawing with his foot: Seriously. People have learned to tie knots and play piano and whatnot else with their feet, they can be trained to very high dexterity and i promise you that if the guy can draw even a halfbaked piece of artwork with his foot while filming it for youtube his art based income will explode.

  2. This is what we should've done on Jammie Thomas Hit With $1.5 Million Verdict · · Score: 1

    The next time someone refuses to settle for $5k or whatever they demand, they shouldn't take it to court. They should instead sign a "I'm a horrible pirate thief and i'll pay $10m for my crimes".
    And as a thanks for saving $50million in lawyer fees, in addition to agreeing to pay more than any court would deal as damages the recording company should pay her fine and a $5 million bonus for good behaviour. If the person can cry for the camera and tell the audience how her life is ruined, she should get $10million more.

    While this may be in jest, the fucked up thing is that the recording companies would actually save money if they did this.

  3. Re:Rambo on Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net · · Score: 2, Informative

    If the statistics from the latest rambo movie could be applied over a longer period of time it would take 38 years for rambo to kill the entire current population of Burma.

  4. Re:Doh on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're wrong, relaxin increases the motility of sperm: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/relaxin

  5. Re:Anonymous Coward on Self-Building Chips — As Easy As Microwave Meals · · Score: 1

    I've heard by some sources that it's actually possible to microwaveboil eggs as long as they are immersed in water. Water is supposedly not supposed to reach above 100, and provided thermal conductance away from the egg is high enough it shouldn't increase much above this.
    Now of course, anonymous sources on the internet generally want to blow up eggs in your microwave, but i suspect none of them have really tried this and are properly informed as to what results in explosions and what doesn't.

    I'd like to attempt this with water-tigth roughly egg shaped and sized containers for the eggs, theory being that the pressure in this eggsoskeleton would increase about the same amount as the pressure inside the egg and thus prevent rupture of the egg.
    Before attempting this however, i need to find an armored microwave.

  6. Re:This is Useful How? on Self-Building Chips — As Easy As Microwave Meals · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are using molecular self assembly to do the chip features, the radiation wavelength is irrelevant for this process, this is quite apparent from reading the article which states they swtiched form a "convection oven", i don't see convection ovens having much wavelength so obviously it's used as a heatsource to drive the reactions, not for etching.
    Via wikipedia i found an article stating 10nm is within reach for the method.

    As to what the actual method is in details i'm not much wiser. But supposedly it's supposed to be simpler and allow smaller features than used today.

  7. Re:Blame Darwin on Austria's 'Bionic Man' Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 1

    The AI systems interpreting his neural input to the prostheses probably was insulted by his lack of intelligence, figuring it was more G-hardened than him it did the perfect murder.

  8. Re:Any questions? on Black Silicon Used For Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    How much better is it really? Is it omg!-worthy or just "might see a difference".

  9. Re:the real overlords on The Effect of Internal Bacteria On the Human Body · · Score: 1

    Considering you carry some ten times more bacteria than normal cells i'm not sure we can define them as lords. The ruling majority is more along the line.

  10. Re:Wishful thinking... on One Step Closer To Speedier, Bootless Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is only a problem for off-circuit communication, current CPUs are something along the line of 1cm diagonally if they are large, meaning that computation within the limits of an integrated circuit(or equivalent device in similar size) can be ludicrously much faster before lightspeed becomes a true limitation.
    This especially when we consider spintronics devices as their dimnuitive power requirements allow us to hypothise about a cubic cm supercomputation circuit without having to factor in a cooling system capable of maintaining polar caps on the sun.

    While moores law holds up nicely as a maintainer and guideline for incremental improvements in technology we have to consider that moores law is a half century old 'invention'. We will eventually have a paradigm shift which suprasses it because of some innovative breaktrough, just like moores law itself was enabled to be conceptualized by the invention and progress of integrated circuits.

    I suggest we name the sucessor "Even Moore's Law" because calling it Moore's law 2.0 would be so 1.0.

  11. Re:BAD idea on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 1

    To be eaten because you glow requires your main predators to have eyes, when it comes to bacteria and fungi, this doesn't really apply.

    Green flourescent protein was also originally extracted from a jellyfish, so it obviously do survive in the wild even in higher species.

  12. Re:Scary on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What makes you think we can do better?

    Ignorance. Having no actual detail knowledge of the process of genetic engineering will make you assume that there's a single well known gene encoding for Spore-forming-antibiotic-resistant-universal-substrate-utilizing-bacterioviral-immune-system-bypassing-Death-plague.

    And they are right, every idiot will now be able to mix two ingredients together to create a pathogen so vile and soul-wrenchingly evil that the sun will go nova the very second that they open the lid of their petri dish. Really!

  13. Re:Ultravision on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Adding more color pigments within the range of normal color vision is also beneficial in that it allows for more subtle nuances of existing colors to be discerned.

  14. Re:What an evil genius would do. on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 1

    Because the gene encoding THC was only discovered last year. And just inserting it in tomatoes is not enough, you want it to be expressed at a very high level.
    Wait a few years and you'll probably read about the first example of finding it in tomatoes or yeast.

  15. Re:Thanks for asking! I'm working on... on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 1

    If you manage to develop a bacterial strain that creates nematodes in your girlfriend you'll get both your revenge and the nobel prize.

  16. Re:Glow-in-the-dark yogurt? on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 1

    It serves its purpose.
    "Oh, that stain, it's yougurt, look it will glow when i expose it to this flourescent light"
    "..."
    "Somethings wrong, maybe it's just normal yogurt!"

  17. Re:BAD idea on The Spread of Do-It-Yourself Biotech · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What happens when your neighbor releases his new organism by accident?

    You'll end up with green flourescent beer and bread.
    Seriously though, microbes are not rabid dogs, most of them are not virulent, most of them don't live in humans, and even if they do they have quite a few problems before they can colonize you. And if you're to suffer from them they need to produce some kind of toxins. And if you're to wreak havoc with them you need to weaponize them, and if you're at this stage you've probably done enough to see a FBI-sponsored surge in the profits of the local take-away coffee chain.

  18. Re:Not equal on StarCraft AI Competition Results · · Score: 1

    Good multitasking can win even if you have more stuff. Kiting and withdrawal of units low in hp from battles can make a huge difference. SC2 reapers with some kiting and finesse can wipe out a much larger force, or simply outrun or avoid your troops while destroying your base. Combined with more troop types and activated abilities you can make a huge difference depending on micromanagement/multitasking capabilties.

  19. Re:I for one on StarCraft AI Competition Results · · Score: 4, Funny

    Overlords can be spawned from hatcheries, your real enemy is the robotic overmind. Know the difference, it could save your life.

  20. Re:Project Page on Meet NELL, the Computer That Learns From the Net · · Score: 2, Funny

    That goes a long way to explain recent events in the financial sector.

  21. Re:Capitalism on NASA Head Ignores Congress, Eyes Cooperation With China · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't really recall when or how we screwed over china, but i have to be pretty severe considering they are going to the moon.

  22. Re:OUCH on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    It means they actually planted another new and smaller device in a harder to find spot, they then encourage you do that cross contentintal trip to the secret Terrorist sleeper cell hideout in the local mountain range by telling you you're boring and pretending to be wholeheartedly disinterested in you.

  23. Re:Forget something? on Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Nine built themself an internet stronghold? They should've called it Minas Morgul to fit their intentions better.

  24. Re:I Left Out The Best Part on Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're right in that the research of MMann didn't cost the university more than $500k but if you do a google search you'll find a WSJ article stating that he recived $541k dollars in stimulus funds in june 2009, so his drain on taxpayers money directly is still greater than the litigation costs, and of course the implementation cost of the policy he advocates and do research to support would have a pricetag several magnitudes higher.
    google "michael mann research grants" and it should be your first hit.

    And to a more important matter: since when and why can't i copy paste into my comments?

  25. Re:What is this Logan's Run? on 15-Year-Old Boy Fitted With Robotic Heart · · Score: 1

    In 25 years he'll eat a pill which grows a new heart to him. 25 years ago he would've had an artificial heart the size of small car inserted into him.