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  1. Only retro-viruses modify DNA on Colds May Trigger Childhood Cancers · · Score: 1

    And retro-viruses are rare. Most viruses simply hijack the host cell's various post-RNA protein construction mechanisms to build more viruses. This leaves the DNA intact.

  2. Re:Why humans have so few genes on Science's 125 Big Questions · · Score: 1

    Thermoregulation is probably more important than mobility. Reptiles have much larger genomes than mammals. Many enzymes only function in a narrow (2-5 C) temperature range. The need to encode enzymes that function at all temperatures from (say) 5C to 40C takes up a lot of genetic real estate.

  3. Re:Exceptions to Agreements on Modifying Employment Agreements? · · Score: 1

    My employer was happy to discuss ammending our agreement. As he put it, anyone who cares enough to negotiate an ammendment is taking the process seriously and would probably hold to the contract.

    It was the people who barely glanced at the document before signing it that worried him.

  4. They're using BusyBox. on LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    BusyBox is a single binary that includes all of the following in one binary:

    ar, basename, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cp, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, df, dirname, dmesg, du, dumpkmap, dutmp, echo, false, fbset, fdflush, find, free, freeramdisk, fsck.minix, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, head, hostid, hostname, id, init, insmod, kill, killall, length, ln, loadacm, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, logname, ls, lsmod, makedevs, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, more, mount, mt, mv, nc, nslookup, ping, poweroff, printf, ps, pwd, reboot, renice, rm, rmdir, rmmod, sed, setkeycodes, sh, sleep, sort, swapoff, swapon, sync, syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, test, touch, tr, true, tty, umount, uname, uniq, update, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, wc, which, whoami, yes, zcat, [

    So 8 Megs begins to look even roomier.

  5. Re:Let's not overreact on Australian Government Cracks Down on Net Users · · Score: 1

    What you are not aware of is that under the ASIO act the director of ASIO can issue warrants to his staff. There is no judicial review of ASIO's behavior.