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  1. Re:That's a lot of rice. on Human Blood Protein (HSA) From GMO Rice · · Score: 1

    It does seem a pathetically low yield. Why rice, and not bacteria like insulin?
    TFA doesn't say, and the linked DOI does not exist.

  2. Re:American rights? on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 1

    Yes, Congress can pass laws to fix judicial fuck-ups; and especially the constituion can be ammended.
    No prominent examples come to mind, but then IANAL.

    An attempt to rewrite the constiution like France does would be doomed to fail before it began;
    not the reason why, but oh noes1! lawyers would have to learn something new.

  3. Re:Vaccinating carriers... on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    Free as in unallocated or available, not free as in beer; which the "copious" modifier works better with.

    Yes, it has been linked to other issues besides esoteric and/or relatively curable cancers,
    but that still is not enough to suggest that it is a worthwhile place to assign scarce resources...
    be that as a requirement or a recommendation for others to consider in allocation of their own.

  4. Re:Vaccinating carriers... on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    No, I want a cost-benefit analysis of sinking copious free health resources into the profits of a company that
    appears to be making a mountain out of a mole hill (low mortality cancer, low-effectiveness/variant-coverage
    vaccine) versus other matters like accessible dental care, produce subsidies what have you....

  5. Re:Ron Wyden is always involved in these things on Senator Introduces Bill To Stop Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    This is about all I can find.

    The Wyden campaign was the one that started the dirty ads. As for representing "actual human beings", well, thanks so much for the kind words. He doesn't represent me very well. Does that make me not a human in your opinion?

    Don't be obtuse, he was clearly referring to natural persons vs legal persons...
    or wait, is that (obfuscant) you Wehrhauser?

  6. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, at the time of reading there were over a thousand comments and feedly was having issues scrolling through them.

    The commerce department is not named in the constitution, but the (in)famous commerce clause does specify a right to regulate interstate commerce, which would naturally be done with some sort of agency or department.

    As another commenter has pointed out, NOAA appears to be the majority of the Dept. of Commerce budget (in non-census years)---5.5 of 9 billion... less than half of what it was two years ago--so keeping the agency but killing the parent is doubly pointless.

  7. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    NOAA (incl. NWS) is Dept of Commerce, one of the agencies on this jackhole's hit list,
    despite the constitution's explicit granting of powers to regulate commerce to the feds.

  8. Re:We want something new but the same. on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 1

    Not really. If you are speaking of Firefox, that requires you to effectively close and reopen the browser.
    Multifox allows you to have separate simultaneous windows run under the same instance of the binary
    with different sets of cookies.

  9. Re:Great on Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    In MA at least, it's asked for onthe income tax form, but you get to ignore it unless you buy a shitload of stuff online.

  10. Re:We want something new but the same. on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 3, Informative

    Multifox lets you keep multiple windows with different sets of cookies open in FF.

  11. Re:Actually it's always been backwards like that on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    Except that they already have, sort of, they call it a constant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_constant>

  12. Re:Water? Kilograms are based on water! on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    Salt water does not boil at 100 Fahrenheit at any normal pressure.
    BP of fresh/sweet water is 212, salt increases that (Raoult's Law).

    Beyond redefinition of the meter, a matter-based unit of mass is
    sensitive to the isotope ratio of the matter used e.g; deuterated (heavy) water

  13. Re:Is it a constant? on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    No, "water" is not, even assuming its "pure." What hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios?
    What temperature and pressure? 1 gm/ml is an approximation, water's density is typically
    a little less than one in everyday conditions.

  14. Re:Actually it's always been backwards like that on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    Farady forever!

    (a Faraday is the charge of a mol of electrons, or 96,485.30899 Coulombs)

  15. Re:Ambivalent feelings... on Doritos Creator Art West Dead at 97 · · Score: 1

    Also look into O'Reilly's "Cooking for Geeks," especially if it's a matter of culinary accumen.
    There are also some good shows that can give you ideas: America's Test Kitchen, Good Eats,
    Iron Chef America, and Chopped. The last two in particular, whille emphasizing creativity,
    are also about *speed* and taste.

  16. Re:Units.. units... on NASA Unveils Design for New Space Launch System · · Score: 1

    You call it a tonne, or you convert to Imperial, or you call it a long ton, or you ignore the ~10% difference;
    in order of decreasing accuracy.

  17. Re:Why am I so surprised :) on Apple Bans Game App That Criticizes Smartphone Production · · Score: 2

    He's suggesting such guidelines should not exist in the first place.

  18. Re:Shredder Fun on GE Unveils Fridge-Recycling Behemoth · · Score: 1

    It's not about the shredding, but sorting the materials....
    and hopefully refrigerant recovery, but that was not addressed.

  19. Standing on Zanzibar on How Killing the Internet Helped Revolutionaries · · Score: 1

    Not as good as "The sheep look up," but apropos.

  20. Re:Not replacing, just adding on top on Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does. He explained the original notion of trading houses, not the current system. See "History of Money."

  21. Re:What is with this... on LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry · · Score: 5, Informative
  22. Re:...And? on Linux Support Fades For 3Dfx Voodoo, Rage 128, VIA · · Score: 1

    Why is it necessarily about money? If the hardware works, why should it be scrapped prematurely?
    Do these $20 video cards you speak of get fabricated at no cost to the environment and have huge
    energy savings over the older "underpowered" options?

  23. Re:Fever? on Acer CEO Declares a Tablets Bubble · · Score: 0

    Maybe you should try installing better software? Firefox or Dolphin, and Hacker's Keyboard to start.

    And why the fuck do you want to install an app for every magazine or website you read?
    Feedly's a nice skin on to of Google Reader.

    As for video there's Flash, so you can get everything but hulu; because they cleverly decided to tackle
    support for 3 inch screens on an older platform rather than 7 or 10 inch tablets.

    A happy Galaxy 10.1 user

  24. Re:Why not just use kickstarter? on Kickstarter-Like Service For Charities? · · Score: 1

    Untrue, it just has to be to a creative end. http://projectrepat.org/ went through Kickstarter and it is a non-profit;
    I suppose you could think of it as wholly owned commercial sub-division,but it is not officially incorporated that
    way as far as I know. What do they care what you use your "profits" for?

  25. Re:Sales tax on Bookstores May Boycott New Amazon-Published Books · · Score: 1

    Actually, you may not have to. Sales tax is collected at point of sale,
    use tax on income tax forms, and at least in MA there's an exemption
    for the first $2.5k (or so) purchased.