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  1. You know what else you need? on New SimCity To Require Constant Internet Connection · · Score: -1

    Continious power? can you believe? those bastard at the electric company always out to get us.

    If you you want to use a battery, you still need to you 'their' electrons to fill your battery.

  2. Re:1 100kt nuke a billion miles before it hits on Engineers Working On Swarm Of Laser Wielding Satellites To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Properly placed, it would remove some mass from the object. Given enough time, that will changed it's trajectory. And the sooner we know, the less mass we need to change.

  3. It is, of course, on Engineers Working On Swarm Of Laser Wielding Satellites To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    all about time. IF you had enough time, you could just launch rocks and have a robot pt them on the asteroid. the increase in mass will changes it's course.

  4. Re:good on her on What Book Publishers Should Learn From Harry Potter · · Score: 4, Informative

    30% is comes out of the publisher.

    "not being able to offer the book for less anywhere else"
    and that's just false.

    return of the king
    Apple: 9.99
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-return-of-the-king/id503026877?mt=11

    Google: 8.51
    https://play.google.com/store/books/details/John_Ronald_Reuel_Tolkien_The_Return_Of_The_King?id=WZ0f_yUgc0UC&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImJvb2stV1owZl95VWdjMFVDIl0.
    That's just one example.

    Stop 'Just sayin' and start thinking for yourself.

  5. Re:good on her on What Book Publishers Should Learn From Harry Potter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They don't loose any rights to Apple. Stupid nonsense.

  6. Funny how she went from on What Book Publishers Should Learn From Harry Potter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Never releasing digital, to a digital release.

    And by funny, I mean money.

  7. Re:Av shown this page to a non-geeky friend... on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    except any planet with sufficient level of intelligent inhabitants isn't necessarily meaningless. They, we, have the opportunity to give it meaning, to move beyond it, to spread through the galaxy.

    There was no meaning it's its formation, or the start of life, I am talking about applying meaning later.

  8. Re:Everyone Missed The Point on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    A machine sufficient advanced enough for us to upload a consciousness would be advanced enough not to want us to upload our consciousness.

  9. Re:Iron poor -- yet still able to build starships. on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    it will when it's spinning blades hit the gas.

  10. Re:Astronomers are so funny on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    F=(-m)(-a)

  11. Re:Astronomers are so funny on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    Since it looks like there is no big crunch, you're question isn't valid; however, if there where a big crunch, then time would end..and then begin again. So even then it has an age.

  12. Re:Astronomers are so funny on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    Slashdotception?

  13. Re:some theories are more supported by facts on Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins · · Score: 1

    Nice straw man, except the IPCC doesn't control the movement of money, and global warming has nothing to do with that,. it's just that groups like the heartland instituter have, provable, spread lies like that in order to create a controversy where their isn't one.

    "But ultimately "we're right because shut up" is the constant refrain from the Warmers"
    lie. We are probably right cause of this fucking mountain of data and predictions.

  14. Re:some theories are more supported by facts on Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins · · Score: 1

    They use the work 'likely' because China refused to sign it until it was changed from certain to likely.

  15. Re:here is an example of deniers in astronomy on Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins · · Score: 1

    You are clueless about how models are built, and you are pretty clueless about how global climate models are built and confirmed.

  16. Re:Where is it ? (my keys) on Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins · · Score: 1

    biometrics is better then keys.

  17. Re:Where is it ? (my keys) on Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins · · Score: 1

    yes.

    Or better yet a rfid device that the car can detect..of wait, new cars have those.

    To be honest, we should have gotten rid of car keys 30 years ago.

  18. Re:How long it will take to turn it into medicamen on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 1

    Anecdote:
    I ahve watch sone go througbh cancer several time in my life.

    Twice in the 1970s
    You have cancer, 6 months later dead.

    Once in the 80s. Treamentr with horrible side effects. nasty, nasty side effects. Survived for 4 years.

    twice again in the 90s:
    bad side effects, one died 4 years later, the other is still alive.
    My mother in 2010.
    Treatment was nasty, but cause early enough and she is still alive. Her cancer is a cancer that only 5% of peopel who get cancer get.

    The anecdote is just that, and anecdote, however it does coincide with the constant betterment of treatments. Less harsh, more specific, less amount of time.

  19. Re:Interesting times we live in... on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 1

    You dont know much about the Amish, do you?

  20. Re:Interesting times we live in... on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 1

    That was one of the most pointless and stupid things ever written on slashdot.

    Why don't you just say cancer is cause by chemicals?

    idiot.

  21. Re:Won't happen on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 1

    It is BS,. I can look back 15 years and see akll the advances that show you are wrong.

    "There is far more money to be made by treating symptoms then curing people." If there was only 1 company, controlled by one person that owned all the research capabilities, and their growth was determined by how much profit that had you would be correct.

    But none of that is true. Stock values determines how well a company is doing. Stock price determine bonuses, stock price determine the mood of the board.

    If you half a fucking clue about business, you would know that.

  22. Re:Won't happen on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 1

    wrong. Vitamin supplementation for people who where deficient in vitamins showed that.More then that is, literally, pissed away.

    200 iu was fine because that was a number for food intake. The vast majority if Vitamin D is being out during the day.
    The Supplementation industry made a stink, ignored the actual facts and created a marketing campaighn.

    Just so you have a chance to not look like a fool: MOST supplementation companies are OWNED by pharmaceutical companies.

    So stop make a false dichotomy.

    And next time, site ACTUAL FUCKING STUDIES. Try pubmed.

  23. Re:Won't happen on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 1

    Then you are stupid.

    The stock value would skyrocket, and they would get more value. THAT is what it is about in large corporations.

    The CURRENT round of executives will get FUCKING MONSTER BONUSES.

    It's the VERY SAME QUARTER TO QUARTER GREED maximization you talk about that would be the reason for releasing a cure.

  24. Re:Won't happen on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 1

    My insurance company would cover it. Why wouldn't they?

    "There is far more money to be made treating diseases than curing them."
    A mantra that shows the person who spouts it has no fucking clue about how large corporations work. It's all about the stock value THIS FUCKING QUARTER. not: will this keep are stock value flat for the next decade.

  25. Re:Won't happen on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 1

    except discovering a cure for cancer will increase your stock value, considerable.

    So even if it was solely about money, they would still release it.