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  1. Re:Matter. on Prions Evolve Despite Having No DNA · · Score: 1

    Alright, maybe it's dangerous to be throwing around terms like order. I see your points, and understand that systems want to achieve disorder. But what I meant to say is this: somehow, it is possible for matter to achieve greater ability to interact with it's environment, starting with the very ability to do so at all. Maybe it occurs when great amounts of heat are added, causing mass amounts of disorder, which may inadvertently cause what I was earlier referring to as 'order'. Whatever it is I'm trying to refer to here, seems to be a product of disorder.

  2. Matter. on Prions Evolve Despite Having No DNA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any matter has one mission and one mission only: to find greater order. If matter without DNA or any prior form of order couldn't achieve more order, then life would not exist. Things want to be able to interact with their environment more efficiently, and must evolve to do so.

  3. If I didn't know any better.. on Caltech Scientists Film Photons With Electrons · · Score: 1

    I'd say this is no big deal...

  4. Re:Not worth the money? on Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year · · Score: 1

    Yes, well I was thinking of buying at least insurance for my laptop for 1 year, which is 99$. It already broke down this year due to random ram failure, but was covered by the 1 year warranty. Now I'm thinking of extending it since this laptop is required for my completion of university. It cost me about 1200$ and I'd like it for certain for another year, instead of going further into debt with student loans. What would you do in my shoes?

  5. Re:Internet crime? on US and Russia Open Talks On Limits To Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    They mean crime as in malware and infectious software developers in the US. They believe that they are the only tools they need to build internet defenses.

  6. Re:Sounds like a good reason not to shop there. on Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall · · Score: 1

    And all the while the only thing they want to fix are the false negatives (missing the real bad guys).

  7. Wow marketing scheme on New WoW Patch Brings Cross-Server Instances · · Score: 0

    Developer: 'So I was sayin' we could have cross server gameplay if we just made some instance servers-'
    CFO: 'Hmm, what about the proposal John made about making them pay 20 bucks for a server transfer-(bursts into laughter)'
    Developer: 'Alright sir, we'll make them think its acceptable after a year of profits and then offer the cross server gameplay servers.'
    CFO: 'You see what we have over here folks? A real blizzard employee!'

  8. Who cares? on Reducing One Amino Acid Could Increase Lifespan · · Score: 1

    I don't know why anyone cares about this kind of information when the best thing you can do to lengthen your life is to do one thing really well:
    Sit on your ass, don't get hit by a car, and get your all in 1 survival pill in 15 years.

  9. Re:Moore's Law Extended? on Aussie, Finnish Researchers Create a Single-Atom Transistor · · Score: 1

    Uncontrolled replication? No, we mustn't wait. Prepare the nanodefenses!

  10. Satellite? on MIT and the DARPA Network Challenge · · Score: 1

    Somehow hack some satellites and create a perfect algorithm to locate balloons? No big deal, right?

  11. Re:It's different on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 1

    Although you must strain yourself while on the track, it may be worth the escape of factors such as mom aggro while competing virtually.

  12. Re:I beat it ages ago on Man "Beats" World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    I would've never played if it was anything like that. Sure, it can be considered a huge waste of time, but I've had countless sick and memorable moments on world of warcraft, and over 10 gamecards to brag about it. Of course I've quit now for university, and plus I'm much more entertained with mw2, where there isn't a special town that I get to sit in for 1/3 of my total play time.

  13. Re:Forget (e) offtopic, how about (b)? on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry. Your post was uninvited and deemed a violation.
    Guards.

  14. Re:I'm Not! on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    Just because your parents are reading your text messages doesn't mean you should complain about it.

  15. Re:Panspermia on New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you're tripping balls, man.
    I have already theorized that Jesus was an alien with sophisticated technology (probably not the first to think this) and started religion so that he could feel powerful or something. But then I later concluded that he is just a really bad case of broken telephone, and probably never existed.

    Oh, and back to the mars stuff, the bacteria couldve still originally come from mars, but it could have evolved here to become intelligent, send a rover to mars, die out in an ice age, and then humans became intelligent later (possible even from bacteria that didn't come from mars), and go to mars to find the fossil of a rover. Therefor, the first rover couldve been from ascendants of mars bacteria, and the second rover couldve been ascended from earth bacteria.

  16. One man's interpetation: on 3D Video Game Collaboration Used To Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    So what did you think about the crime scene?
    "Well John, it looks like those fingerprints were planted there, definitely not mine, and uh, yeah.. that guy did it..."

  17. Re:Panspermia on New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    I was saying that maybe life on earth was intelligent before humans, mostly as a joke, and that millions of years ago this species sent a rover to mars, only to be wiped out by an ice age or something.

  18. Re:Panspermia on New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's going to be funny when they find a fossil of an ancient rover on mars.

  19. Re:Nuclear power plants on The World's First Osmotic Power Plant · · Score: 1

    I'm not even interested in being pro-environment at all. Everyone's wasting their time and they know it.
    All I'm worried about is the fusion power and nanobots that will provide virtually unlimited power and a completely restored environment.

  20. Re:A Natural Progression Yet So Many Caveats on Dumbing Down Programming? · · Score: 1

    Computers and applications will forever be bending over backwards for the most important thing to us: us.

    Until we can merge our intelligence into computers, we must simplify them to our lesser minded selves.

  21. An intelligent person would End Death Penalties on Brain Scans Used In Murder Sentencing · · Score: 1

    Within 5-10 years our forensics will be so advanced that we will be able to know who committed an extremely high percentage of all crime. Therefore we shouldn't be killing anyone now seeing as they will be able to be proven guilty or innocent before they've spent too much possibly unwarranted time in prison.

  22. Re:Is that supposed to be news?? on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    Have we ever done a poll to see who uses what browser?

  23. Re:LogMeIn on Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait a second, you told this guy to post this story, didn't you? You're all from logmein, taking part in a ridiculously good adveratising scheme... and your probably paying th- [gets shot]

  24. Re:How nice. on Light Resonators Used To Move Nano-Sized Objects · · Score: 1

    The future is looking bright now that some light has been shed on this previously transparent topic.

  25. Re:Not for me on Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Image the damage one of these so called "automobiles" could do to me and my family. Sure, they are faster and every will use them, but think of the dangers!