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  1. Re:A "Watson, come quick!" moment on Nanopore DNA Sequencing · · Score: 1
    at a probability of 16384 to one against.

  2. Re:DNA Fingerprinting on Nanopore DNA Sequencing · · Score: 1
    It could aldo make a convenient reader for a DNA based tagging system.

    Such a system could be used to trace all kinds of "things" and "substances"

  3. Re:What about power? on Georgia Sues RC5 User For $415,000 · · Score: 1
    OOOOOH! and how about the electricity used by the chip to produce all that heat... and the electricity used by the A/C to remove that heat.

    And how much toilet paper did he use to wipe his ass while he was at work, and how much time did he spend in the bathroom anyway?

    Confused? Read this.

  4. So when can I back up my hard drive on Nanopore DNA Sequencing · · Score: 1
    on my junk DNA?

  5. "World's first Webcam coffee pot to be scrapped" on Optical Feedback For Perfect Coffee · · Score: 1
    Just thought you'd like to know The Cambridge Trojan Room Coffee Pot webcam is in serious jeopardy and may soon be no more.

    This is serious milestone cutting edge coffee technology we're talking about here!

    You may begin rioting... now.

  6. Re:Vaginal nerve? on Electronic Implants Stimulate Brain · · Score: 1
    Harsh words coming from a 40 year old virgin.

  7. in other news... on Universe is Flat · · Score: 2
    A guy in Hoboken wednesday used a really nice level and determined that the earth is "essentially flat".

    So the universe is flat, is it level?

  8. Re:SPRAY PAINT! on Gameboy Advanced: The Quest For Color (Outside) · · Score: 1
    How 'bout geting some decal transfer paper from Bel Decal Print out a picture of Cowboy Neal and apply it to the faceplate.

    Finishing it off with some nice Krylon.

  9. Re:SPRAY PAINT! on Gameboy Advanced: The Quest For Color (Outside) · · Score: 1
    Thanks, I think your pretty too.

    OK, so, RIT is on crack. Maybe he should try using a mordant.

    Anybody know what kind or mordant would work with plastic?

  10. SPRAY PAINT! on Gameboy Advanced: The Quest For Color (Outside) · · Score: 1
    RIT? Is this guy on Crack? Of course fabric dye isn't going to work on plastic (unless it's hemp plastic of course...)

  11. Vaginal nerve? on Electronic Implants Stimulate Brain · · Score: 1
    I've got something that might be of help...

  12. who the hell is JIM PHILLIPS? on Slashdot Back Online · · Score: 1
    Anybody care to explain me that?

  13. Bad Christian Science on Heredity and Humanity · · Score: 4
    I'm glad to see that there are some people with real scientific minds arguing on the side of spirituality/religon/god because all of the christian preachers I have ever heard trying to disprove evolution just came accross as ignorant buffoons. I'm sure the congregation bought it but, truth is, it was realy bad science.

    For example, it was announced that there was a 98% similarity between chimpanzee DNA and human DNA. So one preacherman made the point that a watermellon is 98% water and a cloud was 100% water and that proved the scientists wrong.

    Then he went on to point out that cars have evolved and changed over the years, but it was because there were people behind the change...cars don't evolve by themselves, so, therefore, neither do animals.

    My point being: real scientists need to jump in and help these poor folks because they really could use the help.I mean who's never heard the argument that goes something like "I know God exists 'cuz flowers are purty"?

  14. Also discovered... on Dungeons and .. Spiders · · Score: 1
    Also discovered, a strange green slime, and a Vorpal Bunny.

  15. Re:I've been wearing an aluminium foil hat for yea on Cell Phone Makers Patent "Brain Shields" · · Score: 1
    Wrong again, It was from "General Spaceship" in the episode where the DJ played a bad Bob Marley compilation remix and they got sucked into a loophole.

    Everybody had to stay happy or the party would die off and the mind over matter/antimater containment field would have become "bummed out"

    So they issued a green alert and had Jello shooters.

  16. I've been wearing an aluminium foil hat for years on Cell Phone Makers Patent "Brain Shields" · · Score: 1
    They said I was crazy.

    WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!

    HUH?!

  17. I'm still waiting... on Another Free Cue* Gadget At Radio Shack · · Score: 1
    For technology that lets me see comercials for things I'm interested in, and lets me pick stupid commercials that I never ever want to see again and avoids those. The advertizing revenue would have to be ten times better per ad and much less annoying.

  18. Backup Your DNA on Stem Cells Found in Fat · · Score: 1

    As we grow older our DNA collects errors. Seems to me that it would be a good idea (and possibly a new industry) to store genetic material (fat and other tissues) cryogenically so we will have some young genetic material to work with when we are older.Except I don't think stem cells divide, which is when many of the errors occur, but errors also occur during normal cell metabolism in genes used by the cell in everyday operations. The result, seems to me, to be that cell neuclei become less capable over time of doing the same job, but are in some ways more able to do a different job in a different cell. "cellular repetitive stress disorder"
    Also I'd like to point out that fatasses like me have the same number of fat cells as I would have if I were my proper weight therefore same amount of genetic material therefore still no ding-dongs 4me.
    awww...

  19. Re:AND SMOKE MORE POT TOO!!!1 on Bone Marrow Can Grow New Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    Pot doesn't kill brain cells. Carbon monoxide kills brain cells, if you smoke a couple of pounds a day.

  20. Re:oxygen? h2o? on NASA Has Found Evidence Of Oceans On Mars · · Score: 1
    Knowledge is a strange thing. You never know you needed to know something until you know it.

  21. Re:Doesn't matter anyway on AOL Still Working On AIM Security Hole · · Score: 1
    It may be a stupidity exploit, such as causing a window to pop up and say

    um... we kind of forgot your billing information, username and password.
    Could you tel us what it is again?

    stupidity exploits work rather well on AOL users.

  22. Downgrade today! on Netscape Users Rejoice · · Score: 1

    4.75 could kick 6.0's ass any day

  23. Die capitalist peegs! on High-Speed Wireless LANs Move Forward · · Score: 1
    The problem with this is, if you want to network with seven other computers you may need seven unidirectional antennas-- for continuous connection.

    the alternative is to setup programmable "antennaebots" that are on a predtermined schedule to re aim the antennae(s) from one computer to the next either in a cycle or to send a "yoo hoo over here" signal through narrowband dialup to tell the other computer you need to connect.

    I had considered this as a possible way to share mp3s that might be better than napster/gnutella in highly populated and geographically flat areas.

    Problem: part of the routing data would probably need to include geographical location making it EASIER to track you to your location. one answer may be crypto/steganography, but even then for it to work people would need to be able to identify files on your computer.

    even with the potential privacy snags the prospects of a network who's infrastructure is owned by the public not by megalithic corporations.

    only with a completely unownable system available can we hold on to what freedom we have on the currently propriatary network infrastructure.

  24. Re:Great... on Cornell Nanohelicopters Achieve 8rps · · Score: 1
    That's just great...

    Black nanocopters over America!

  25. Sing along on A Hole In the Net, Down Under · · Score: 1

    There's a boat
    That's a float
    off the coast
    that can boast
    that's why we wrote
    about the hole
    in the bottom of the sea...