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  1. Re:Similar technology in the 70's on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 2

    Again read the article- likewise fuel injection and 4 valve OHC has been around since the 40's but it has been a matter of getting manufacturing and engine management costs to a point where it could economically feasible to sell them to consumers.

    Your CVCC example is somewhat related but a far cry from a direct injected gas motor with controlled dieseling.

  2. Re:Increase in cancer on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 1

    There are chemical markers that they are looking at to show per-cancerous states, much like measuring PTSA for evidence of prostate cancer. They are measuring these markers, not counting tumors.

  3. Re:Get a copy of The China Study on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Chinese have been exposed to agricultural foods the longest of any contiguous culture. Asians are more resistant to toxins (ie cancer rates for smokers significantly lower) than other races. I think that their isn't anything special about what they eat, they are just better adapted to a cheap carbohydrate (rice) diet.

  4. Replace? on Photographers, You're Being Replaced By Software · · Score: 1

    Companies already do cgi marketing campaigns in addition to photographic ones- and they will continue to do so in the future.

  5. Re:Nonsense on High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Actually I am a constitutionalist and I think that Congress having to declare war is spelled out very clearly. I don' t think the government needed to amend the constitution to make a flag. That's just kind of silly.

  6. Re:Nonsense on High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You are certainly diluting the meaning of the word 'unconstitutional'. The things that you are pointing out aren't found in the Constitution- that is a lot different then things the run contrary to the Constitution, which I believe is the common understanding of what 'unconstitutional' is.

  7. Re:Not a surprise on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    Fractions can and certainly do exist outside of being applied as a ratio. 1/2 certainly has a symbolic value all of it's - it represents the halving of something and halving something is symbolic.
    It is impossible to cut an orange perfectly in half, but nobody would argue the value of thinking of half an orange in symbolic terms.

  8. Re:Not a surprise on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    This has brought up something that really bothers me- why aren't fractions made of integers considered integers themselves? Real numbers of course represent real things such as the weight of a raindrop, whereas integers represent the idea of something.... such as a number of raindrops.

    So how do integers loose their 'intergerness' by representing them in a fraction?

  9. Uh.... what? on Disney Research Can Turn Nearly Any Surface Into a Touch Screen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Disney walking brooms is to touchscreens ?

  10. Re:Why invent a new standard? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    ... the AC post should be nominated for one of the best ever

  11. Re:Now the meme can finally die. on Finally, a Shark With a Laser Attached To Its Head · · Score: 1

    ... ridden by Natalie Portman in a pool of hot grits!

  12. Re:Since 1984... on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    I think Microsoft's support for Office on the Apple platform was more important than the 150 million.

  13. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    In the case of the Atheist their altruism is done on their own account and not to gain favor with a deity.

  14. Re:Failed experiment? on Navy To Auction Stealth Ship · · Score: 2

    Maybe the ship would be a hazard in the open seas since radar can't see it?

  15. Re:dumb idea on Steve Jobs' Idea For an Ad-Supported OS · · Score: 1, Insightful

    like Slashdot.....

  16. Re:RoP on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Genghis Khan or his children overran and destroyed much of the Middle East. Not sure if this contributed to the end of the golden age of Islam.

  17. Re:Wonder if this could lead to new medications... on Researchers Try To Identify the Intelligence Gene · · Score: 1

    ... and when it wears off you enjoying your evening swilling beer and watching football

  18. Re:What if I told you on Why Drones Could Be the Future of Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    If only it was 'powered by the cloud' we would have all the buzzword bases covered.....

  19. One day on Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer · · Score: 5, Funny

    My crotch will become sentient!

  20. Re:Error My Ass on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Something else you won't see in the media

    "You will recall the incident of the beating of the black homeless man Sherman Ware on December 4, 2010 by the son of a Sanford police officer. The beating sparked an outrage in the community but there were very few that stepped up to do anything about it. I would presume the inaction was because of the fact that he was homeless not because he was black. Do you know the individual that stepped up when no one else in the black community would? Do you know who spent tireless hours putting flyers on the cars of persons parked in the churches of the black community? Do you know who waited for the church]goers to get out of church so that he could hand them fliers in an attempt to organize the black community against this horrible miscarriage of justice? Do you know who helped organize the City Hall meeting on January 8th, 2011 at Sanford City Hall?? That person was GEORGE ZIMMERMAN. Ironic isn’t it?"

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/87688384/Zimmerman-family-member-letter-to-NAACP

  21. Re:Error My Ass on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 2

    They interviewed a neighbor and she claimed that there were 8 recent break-ins in the neighborhood. Maybe you have been lucky enough to have never been a victim of a robbery but it makes you feel quite violated and it is scary.

  22. Re:Even worse on Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal · · Score: 1

    'Boy'cotting is sexist and offensive. The police will be at your door shortly!

  23. Re:Breaking news: on Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal · · Score: 1

    Trolling isn't that much different than the important debate exercise of being able to debate both sides of an argument, even though it is not an argument that you agree with.

  24. Are people really invested in Science this way? Science to most people is poorly written blurbs written on blogs or MSN- they don't really have a clue what goes on in the field or what the statistics mean.

    I am certainly distrustful of science the way that most people consume it.

  25. Re:I don't think so. on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    If you haven't noticed wealth and nature resources are almost directly correlated.