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  1. Re:This happens a lot on Wasps Have Injected New Genes Into Butterflies · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the curious ones, this is called Horizontal Gene Transfer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. "Non-alarmist" on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    How is that non-alarmist?
    "You're scared about [A]? That makes no sense, you should be scared about [B]."

  3. Priorities on Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies · · Score: 1

    the disappearance of honeybees could cause the United States to lose $15 billion worth of crops

    That's of course the main thing we should worry about: the US losing money...

  4. "Turbulence in the cloud" on Spacecraft Measurements Indicate Shifting Interstellar Wind · · Score: 1

    Turbulence As A Service ?

  5. Re:It's the bonus that concerns me on Moon Mining Race Under Way · · Score: 2

    New achievement: Travelled 5km on the Moon
    New achievement: Desecrated a historical site

  6. Re:He just used a German name... on The Man Who Hacked the Bank of France · · Score: 1

    Anonymous funny guy eh?
    I'd wager you're an american ignorant with a notion of history that dates back rougly 70 years, but I'm afraid the US would raze half of Europe to find me, with accusations of terrorism and possession of mass destruction weapons to back them up.

  7. Re:Am I the only one that read... on Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption · · Score: 1

    +1

  8. Completely innocent question... on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    Have all comments that may have a thread of opinion against vaccines been censored?
    That is, unless there's something about discussions that I don't understand...
    I'm browsing /. with a -1 filter, shouldn't I get all the nasty stuff and trolls and everything in between?

  9. I don't know what the fuss is all about, that's just the way waiters treat customers in Paris...
    Nothing to see here, move along!
    (And before anyone attacks me for my "anti-french" comment, please note that I am French and I do leave in Paris. Or close enough for my taste, at least...)

  10. AKA on Invasive Species Ride Tsunami Debris To US Shore · · Score: 2

    "Oh noes! Nature has invented a means to destroy the environment, we're doomed!"
    The US should be in a bubble, you never know what the filthy sea and the annoying wind might bring up next...
    And don't get me started on meteorites!

  11. Fixed that for you on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    The bulb, which supposedly lasts 20 years (...)

  12. What's next? on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    What are they planning to replace it with? Not Display Port I hope?
    Unless you love the new "random dual-screen display", that is.
    Plug 'n play on a monitor is a great idea, but terribly badly implemented so far...
    In Windows XP, switch off your main monitor and the second one becomes main. Great!
    Switch the first one back on and... the second one remains main!
    Switch the second one off and... you've got no main monitor anymore!
    I had dual Display Port for a week at work before I asked for DVI adapters, which makes my configuration work perfectly.
    So no way I'm switching to that unless they improve the current implementation.

  13. Re:News? on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 2

    My views on pharmaceutical labs were already pretty low, and I wasn't even aware of this...
    Very interesting quote you just made.

    For reference, I found the article from which the quote originates here:
    http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/hpv

  14. Re:News? on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    Wow, modded -1, troll for asking a legitimate question, albeit maybe a tad too sarcastically.
    You do realize studies have proven that this vaccine causes more cases of severe secondary effects than there are actual cases of cancer caused by the virus it aims to cure?

  15. News? on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, necro81, which pharmaceutical lab are you working for?
    Your article sounded more like propaganda than news...

  16. Really? on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    Yet another reason that users might think twice before depending on Facebook for photo storage.

    There are actually people using Facebook for storage? That's scary...

  17. Good thing... on ISPs Warn Europe — Website Blocks Don't Work · · Score: 1

    Good thing we Europeans were warned before one of our member countries did something stupid...
    Oh wait...

  18. New product!!! on Smart Wallets React To Spending By Shrinking · · Score: 1

    We're also releasing the Care-free Fedora! This new model shrinks more and more as you reach your daily thought quota. If you're starting to have personal opinions, an HD tv-screen comes up in front of your eyes and cannot be switched off or removed for 12 hours! But here's the best feature of this item : if you try to formulate disagreement or political opinions, or try to remove the hat, a mecanical arm reaches out and puts a bullet in your brain! To add a nice touch, it even places the gun in your hand to disguise it as suicide. Buy now! Hurry!

  19. What a shame... on Scientists Find New Target For Alzhiemer's · · Score: 1

    They could have found a new target for Alzheimer's, but no, it had to be its evil counterpart Alzhiemer's!
    Damn Alzhiemer's, hogging all our scientists' efforts...

  20. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    Suspenseful? As in "has the same structure as any other Hollywood movie" suspenseful?
    I admit that the design and visual effects are great, but I'm sorry to say that's the only reason the film is worth watching.

  21. Easy... on Tech Specs Leaked For French Spyware · · Score: 1

    It's hard to believe people will accept this kind of thing being installed on their computers, so I can't wait to see how Hadopi moves forward with it.

    Easy! If you don't comply, they'll pretend you're not french.
    The best thing is, by the time this crap makes it to users' computers (if it ever does), most downloaders will have moved on to non-P2P systems.
    So this thing will only bother legal P2P users, nice...

  22. In other news... on Haptic Gaming Vest Simulates Punches, Shots, Stabbing · · Score: 1

    75 dead, 150 wounded as haptic vest is tested during Die Hard movie

  23. The worst bit of poetry on The Longest Poem In the World · · Score: 1

    The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England in the destruction of the planet Earth.

    Just glad we found a replacement.

  24. Re:Exposing what's there on We're In the Midst of a Literacy Revolution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    On the other hand, you have to take into account the fact that because people read more and more bad prose containing grammatical errors and such, they get used to it, and tend to reproduce the errors they see.

  25. Nobody expects the Microsoft inquisition! on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: Poisoning education, locking in users, abusing standards such as OpenDocument Format (ODF), leveraging monopolistic behavior, threatening user security, enforcing Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the request of entertainment companies concerned about movie and music piracy, and invading privacy.