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  1. Biology on Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just to elaborate, if this rabbit mates, it's children will not be radioactive nor will they receive radioactive materials. The problem is only with this generation.

    That would only be true if it were a male since I doubt a significant amount of material will be carried into the female in the seaman. If the rabbit is female, the radioactive materials will be in the mother's body while the fetus is developing. At this point the question becomes whether the materials are capable of being digested and incorporated into the mother's system, assuming this is true, the materials could very well be teratogens and thus incorporated into the next generation. This really isn't a problem though. Only a fraction of the radioactive materials would be able to pass onto each consecutive generation, it won't take long for it to reach normal levels. If the levels are high enough to be life threatening, the mother would most likely die before giving birth or any future generations from radioactive rabbits will be sterile or die before they even reach reproductive age, which is what, six hours?

  2. Mr Bubbles, you must be new around here on 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mr Bubbles, you seem to have a fundamentally wrong idea as to how the Internet works and an understanding of the Streisand Effect will be invaluable in the coming months as you are mocked not only by not only YouTube commenters, but also journalists who will undoubtedly pick up the story and your own friends as they read about it.

  3. Re:Sounds like a dump idea at first... on Tap Tech Brings Touch To Dumb Phones · · Score: 1

    But with multiple microphones, sounds will come in out of phase. It should be possible to compute the delay time of the signal coming in on each microphone, which when combined with knowledge of the speed of sound should allow it triangulate the position of the tap. Yes, with a single microphone, this would be an abhorrent kludge. With multiple microphones, it works like the audio gunshot detection systems already in use in some cities.

    Sound can travel in excess of 500m/s while it is going though solids. To compute the position to within 1mm, the microphone will need to have a precision of 1/500,000th of a second. Audio quality in commercial microphones tends to peak at a few KHz so this is still impossible.

  4. I broke the Universial Speed Limit! on Online Forum Speeding Boast Leads To Conviction · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am here telling you guys that my car was traveling at 299,792,459 m/s along the I80 free way, it only took me 1/10,000th of a second to reach my destination though so nobody else saw.

  5. Re:so what you are trying to tell me is on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1

    that the science behind the godzilla creation myth is not plausible?

    don't mess with my religion man

    Godzilla is not a mammal.

  6. Mammals down, giant insects up on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the bright side, giant insects are expected to make a HUGE comeback.

  7. Cosmos 2421 on NASA's Top 10 Space Junk Missions · · Score: 1

    Cause of Breakup : Unknown. What the hell happened to you Cosmos?

  8. Darwinism on Utah State Prof Says Hybrids Don't Kill More Pedestrians · · Score: 0, Troll

    Natural Selection removes the slower and less attentive pedestrians out of the gene pool.

  9. Religious Armaggedon on The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those who interpret this as an act of god will be the biggest threat. As recent history has demonstrated, people are willing to kill themselves and civilians in hope that their god's will be done and it may be impossible to insure that sabotage has not occurred in the construction of the super weapon that will be necessary.

  10. Re:Hurray! on EU Accepts Microsoft's Browser Choice Promise · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No more IE being forced down our throats... Except when we need to access our corporate intranet.

    ... and school computers, and grandma's computer, and websites that were designed for IE 666

  11. .com default on Cameroon the New Hotbed of Malware · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most modern browsers insert .com automatically if no top level domain exist in the URL.

  12. Mario is Copyrighted? on Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How many Mario clones have been made using flash/java web applications this last decade alone? Answer: 2.35 * 10 ^ 34

  13. Re:Why are people getting so worked up on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1, Troll

    Regardless if global warming is a problem, we should ALL strive to lessen our effect on the environment. Restricting emissions that may not heat up the planet, BUT have noticeable problems on health of humans and wildlife. I feel like I have to remind people that even if global warming is false we should always do what we can to conserve our resources and lessen pollution.

    Hippie.

  14. Kntel on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 0, Troll

    If "Kntel's" chips are just as good as Intel's, why should the military care? If they don't, hold them responsible for the difference, financial loses if we had to order more and if anyone died because of malfunctions.

  15. Self aware computer systems? on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 5, Funny

    "computer systems sending automated messages as buildings collapse" 8:46 a.m. - "Ow, something hit me!" 8:47 a.m. - "Anyone else smell smoke?" 8:47 a.m. - "Admin has logged off" 10:28 a.m. - "System failure"

  16. Moore's Law on IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Moore's law predicts that computing power will double roughly every 2 years. Log base 2 of 147,456 is rounded up to 18 generations. In other words, in 36 years you can simulate a cat on your desktop. Of course you can always do that today with Nintencats.

  17. Re:Streisand Effect? on Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion · · Score: 1

    Could this be the Streisand effect? Lots of new people suddenly learned about free movies when the news media talked about it for a few days.

    The Streisand effect is primary for end users. If our grandparents had heard about the news story and then started downloading, then it would be the Streisand effect. The Pirate Bay had a monopoly over torrent sharing sites as it was one of the largest and the most widely known one on the Internet. With it gone, smaller sites can now start up without the competition of attracting existing P2P users.

  18. Project Euler (New Problem) on Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Greetings! Problem 260 will be accessible on Sat 17 Oct 2009 at 1.00 am [GMT]. With regards, Project Euler Team

  19. What if there are two Donal Blaneys? on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What if Donal Blaney is his real name? Or better yet, since names can apparently be copywrited, what if the Twitter Donal Blaney is older than the Donal Blaney at Blaney's Blarney? Can the Twitter Donal Blaney sue the other one to force him to change the name of his blog?

  20. $30 million? on Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target · · Score: 1

    Million, with a M? Are you sure that is not a typo?

  21. False positives? on A Breathalyzer For Cancer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "present in the breath of 83% of cancer patients but fewer than 83% of healthy volunteers" So, 83% of people with cancer have this chemical, and 82% without cancer can also have it. That test will still leave 17% false negatives and then it would give false positives to nearly everyone else.

  22. Well there's your problem on Sequoia Disclosing Voting System Source To DC · · Score: 2, Funny

    if(candidate == "Bush") { castVote(candidate); castVote(candidate); } else { castVote(candidate); }

  23. Seeding is Charity on Download Taxes As a Weapon Against File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    Charities and other non-profit organizations are tax free in the US.

  24. Re:You know whats ironic? on China's New Military Space Stations Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, China hasn't been hit as hard as the US during GDII, they want to take the place that the US occupied after GDI.

  25. Re:use a better os on Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you could always use a system where you dont need norton.

    I know, because Macs and Linux NEVER can get malware; they are perfect like that. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3601946