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  1. Re:Not flamebait on Analog Hole Legislation Formally Introduced · · Score: 1

    Yes but true Fascism ruled due to a complete breakdown in democracy. People still have the power to vote fascist (leaning) representatives out of power.

    Ultimately it is the fault of the people (throughout the world where this is happening) that their representatives are this way. Back whoever refuses business big buck campaigns, freedom of rights, the rights of expression and the rights of consumers (equal, not to the point of piracy).

    Cheers,
    maset

  2. Re:Nasties on the net on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 1

    Pornography is good, that is why a 16YO (in Australia) is able to buy soft-core porn magazines. Extreme violence and sex acts are something completely different and readily accessed on the internet. Parents should monitor their kid's internet, television and printed media consumption and decide what is proper or not.

    R rated games/XXX rated content getting to 12 year olds [pick age range of your choice]? That is the parent's fault for not taking enough care/interest in their child to stop it happening.

    Cheers,
    Maset.

  3. Re:Use up the landing pads? on Scientists Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads · · Score: 4, Informative

    But then most (if not all) of the body's organs that rely on fibronectin will suffer if not die.

    Targeting such a widespread protein is not the answer, and is not the answer that researchers are looking at. Otherwise there would have been a large headline stating that anti-fibronectin drugs/antibodies cure metastisis.

  4. Re:fear is a good thing on Scientists Produce Fearless Mice · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The feeling of being a Superman is what caused a lot of PCP related violence. I don't want a soldier to be completely dereft of fear: dicipline is primarily made of fear of failure and/or conforming; once this is lost then what control do the higher echelons have over the 'grunts'?

  5. Re:Not what it seems on iPods Used for Medical Images · · Score: 5, Interesting

    *sigh*

    RTFA:

    'After we figured out that the iPods were a practical way of carrying these images, Apple brought out the photo iPod a few months later. That meant the images could also be viewed on the devices.'

  6. Re:no treaty obligations on U.S. Army To Ramp Up Anthrax Purchasing · · Score: 1

    OK then, who got access to anthrax strains specifically from U.S.A. defense labaroratories? Islamic fascists? I think not. If there was really any shred of truth in that then the Whitehous would have pushed it along all the airwaves. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with Al-Quieda but they tried to link him with them (he did give money to families involved with suicide bombings against Israel though).

    Is the American government in control of it's offensive services?

  7. Re:no treaty obligations on U.S. Army To Ramp Up Anthrax Purchasing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The nuclean non-proliferation treaty calls for all nuclear weapon armed states to steadily reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile, not try and develop new mini-nukes or stall weapons reduction.

  8. Re:oh good lord on RNA May 'Run' Genetic Coding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    WHAT?

    silencing RNAs work by binding to mRNA (creating double stranded RNA) so that normal translation (mRNA -> protein) cannot happen.

    The destruction of RNA from siRNA (or RNAi as is being touted) is due to the cell's normal defenses to fight viriii and creating essentially an immune response.

  9. Re:I suspect so but didnt know for sure on RNA May 'Run' Genetic Coding · · Score: 1

    RNA breaks down without RNase. Physically, RNA is much less stable than DNA purely becuase it is not double stranded (in most cases).

  10. Re:vaporware on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the first sentence was meant to be rhetorical.

    Is MS going to bring this abstraction through something like the scripting languages of the Amiga and Mac? Even then, the developers of the software have to link into the scripting, so MS has to rewrite a lot of it's base system to allow that. The third party developers will also have to get on board, but will probably do so as GUIs for this new scripting system will let ordinary newbs use it.

  11. Re:vaporware on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    Can perl and python run on MS Windows?

    The reason that UNIX CLI is better than the MS Windows varient is that UNIX programs are made to interface with the CLI.

  12. Re:I don't agree. on Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux · · Score: 1

    OK maybe not the majority of /. readers use the added features of office post '97 but I sure as hell do.

    I for one LOVE the bug fix that means that now when I move a picture half my thesis doesn't disappear into the ether.

  13. Re:Aborted babies are not human beings on Stem Cells Cultivated Free of Animal Contaminants · · Score: 1

    Irreversible loss of all brain function. Coma, loss of all cerebellum is not brain dead.

    Irreversible loss of all body functions.

    An aborted fetus has an irreversible loss of all body functions... if a future procedure makes available the chance to transplant that fetus then this argument will become a lot less forceful.

    A bunch of embryonic cells, as do the skin cells you lose from skin peeling every day, both have the same ability to pass on their genetic information given the right circumstances.

    BTW, how do you feel about a huge amount of life science research utilising cells taken from a dead lady without her previous permision. Many many cures and treatments have come from this. FYI, I find the way that these cells were harvested abhorrent and egotistic.

    March on Christian Soldier

  14. Re:Too human? on Scientists Give Human Organs to Lamb · · Score: 1

    Capital punishment. Not endorsed by the main Church of course, but ask the 'bible bashing' righties and I would be surprised if less han 30% want capital punishment re-introduced obn a state level.

    State sanctioned murder. Yeah Yeah!

  15. Re:Not really a Chimera? on Scientists Give Human Organs to Lamb · · Score: 1

    Well a in scientific terminology a chimera is an organism that has foreign CELLS implanted into into it. An organism that has specific DNA 'implanted' is now a seperate species and treated so.

    PS. These are also very valuable.

  16. Re:Battles on The Webmail Wars · · Score: 1

    Actually for me labels IS intuitive. I have often wondered at a way of storing scientific articles that would let me access them not just on major subject, but on all areas they touch.

    Search: blah, returning all papers concerned with blah is much better than storing all papers in major headings, five of which blah is a subset.

  17. Re:Censorship? Not really. on Google Confirms Chinese Censorship Claims · · Score: 1

    Oh COME ON! Communism, where everyone works to their abilites and is compensated to their means is a noble cause. Equity and equality are different and treated differently under Marx's 'communism'. Totalinarianism (if that is even an english word) is not necessary... indeed the ideal of Marx was that EVERYONE got a say, not just the leader of the 'democratically elected' leader. That is, every important decision was decided by the people, the people had total control over capital and the nation as a whole decided how capital was decided.

    The problem is people are @#$#@$@s. We work for ourselves and our family first. If we can get ahead of Joe Blog(ger) then we will. The communist dream (and Star Treck dream) depends on humans becoming post-human and deciding on the good of humanity rather than the survival traits of the last millenium.

    In short, we are screwed.

  18. Re:More **AA Stupidity on MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice · · Score: 1

    *sigh*

    I was making a comment that Australian law isn't quite as silly as USA law. Juries don't get to decide on matters of law, only fact/evidence.

  19. Re:Censorship? Not really. on Google Confirms Chinese Censorship Claims · · Score: 1

    Answering your own question really. Dictatorships (eg absolute Monarchies) could still be capitalist. Communist in its most simple terms means a command economy.

  20. Re:doesn't your answer pretty much on Google Confirms Chinese Censorship Claims · · Score: 1

    Do you know which company financed Auschwitz/Birkenau?

    Do you know which banks in the USA financed Nazi Germany during the early 40's?

  21. Re:More **AA Stupidity on MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice · · Score: 1

    Why would a jury decide on a matter of law?

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  22. Re:Stolen or Sold? on Israeli Super Drone Stolen · · Score: 1

    Why would they do that? They sold it to a military/NGO/illegal group.... saying to the world that it exists and that they have lost it isn't going to get them ANYTHING

  23. Re:You can't rewrite the laws of physics... on Batteries Continue To Suck · · Score: 1

    Ahhh but we biologists need them chemists to do the structural biology. And there are a *sdlfkjdsf* load of biological molecules that need to be synthesised if we are going to get affordable pharmaceuticals.

  24. Re:Then why did you? on Batteries Continue To Suck · · Score: 1

    1) Plutonium, large amount of energy in a little volume: leaks a lot of energy. Might not be the most correct explanation, but the original poster's assertion that the more energy you pack into a given volume the greater the leakage does not get revoked by your simplistic argument.

    2) Cost of inducing an energy releasing source is of the prime importance. Economic and environmental. Either way I'm sure the original poster was talking about rechargeable batteries. That is, the same technology that the article was refering to.

    3) What about the brief but measurable effect of particles created in a vacuum. There is no net matter, but there is a net amount of energy.

    Inorganic chemistry is not to blame. The basic physics of elemental chemistry on Earth limits the electrical output of chemical interactions.

  25. The stockmarket is like an auction anyway on Google Considering IPO Auction Online · · Score: 1

    As stated in the article, instead of letting the investment banks and their favoured customers buy at 1 and sell at 10 in the first 10 minutes of listing it will allow everyone to buy at 8 (or some other >1 made up number).

    The possibility of people bidding too much is the same as the risk that people will rush in after missing out on the IPO and bid too much on the stock market.