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  1. Re:A quick look at male behavior provides some clu on Human Males Evolve At a Faster Pace Than Females · · Score: 1

    As are Nobel prize winners.
    Yet it is a popular concept that A. proves something about males and B. something about society, and not the reverse.

  2. Re:An effect of pesticides? on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    That sounds more plausible to me than any hidden GM effect; but the ability to drastically increase the amount of pesticides dumped on the fields was the very reason why 'roundup ready' crops were designed in the first place by the pesticide producer in question.

  3. Re:Why wasn't Monsanto required to reveal this inf on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    The linked stories are not about your beloved president.
    So relax.

  4. Re:Why wasn't Monsanto required to reveal this inf on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 4, Interesting
  5. Re:Foreign != Overseas on Half of US Patents Issued Out of US For Second Year · · Score: 1

    I think the expression 'overseas' stems from an island nation that has shamelessly copied and rebranded the American language.

  6. Re:How is it... on Half of US Patents Issued Out of US For Second Year · · Score: 1

    You just wait until they catch some rich foreigners.

  7. Re:when is enough? on Half of US Patents Issued Out of US For Second Year · · Score: 1

    The price to register an international patent may be about 10k, but the cost of additional translations and legal fees can be ten times that.
    In practice maintaining a 20 year international patent will burn about $100k of your companies assets.
    Or so our CFO told us...

  8. Re:Two days? on 2010 AL30, Asteroid Or Space Junk, To Pay a Close Visit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From driving there I was under the impression that everybody got into and out of New York city on a daily basis anyway.
    Why would this be different?

  9. Re:Freedom on Google Hacked, May Pull Out of China · · Score: 1

    OK,
    free(Clarence Darrow);
    Enjoy.

  10. Re:I say pull out... on Google Hacked, May Pull Out of China · · Score: 1

    The chief legal officer and SVP corporate development of google clearly diagrees with your bullshit, but what does he know?
    According to TFA Google is considering to pull out exactly because activists are being targeted and is willing to take less profits as a result.

  11. Re:$60m is pocket-money on Startup Tests Drugs Aimed at Autism · · Score: 1

    I presume you don't need to work; you just buy the right lottery ticket and cash in every time you need some money?

  12. Re:REGULATORS! on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess it would probably cost less than the current passenger scans at US airports, and save more lives.

  13. Re:$60m is pocket-money on Startup Tests Drugs Aimed at Autism · · Score: 1

    Those figures are roughly correct. They are computed by dividing the research expenditure of a company by the number of new drugs going to market in a specific time-frame.
    The reason the expenses are so high is the number of high-level employees feeding from the trough (IP, legal, management, and even a handful of scientists) and the absurd amounts some doctors get paid for experimenting on their patients (tens of thousands per data point is not uncommon)

  14. Re:this isn't news... on Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, to be fair, they had a lot of help from the US pharma and IP industries and the elected government.
    Enough blame to go around.

  15. Re:Ridiculous law on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    Since when is every individual a suspected pedophile?
    The date for that differs a bit per country but I'd say around 1978 in this case.
    Every individual didn't become a suspected terrorist until the early 21st century.

  16. Re:Neat. on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know who wins and I don't care, but I'm sure the losers will be us.

  17. Re:US LAW ? on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    They are already, as in "when you're not with us your against us".

  18. Re:One thing to say on New Pi Computation Record Using a Desktop PC · · Score: 1

    Worse than that, I find it extremely unlikely that not a single bit failed in uncorrected memory during the whole 116 days...
    see for instance:here

  19. Re:Good grief. on New Zealand Cyber Spies Win New Powers · · Score: 1
  20. Re:I'm ever so thankful on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Could I metamoderate the moderators who moderated this as informative 'Funny'?

  21. Re:This is surprising? on The Key To Astronomy Has Often Been Serendipity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's make another big bang so we can test it.
    Well, that is close to one of the objectives: of this gadget

  22. Re:Any Reason... on Online Services Let Virus Writers Check Their Work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But these people may be US citizens. Your procedure only applies to foreigners.

  23. Re:EE times came to a similar conclusion on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just guessing: It makes them feel better about themselves.
    As in 'at least were dumb enough to pose no risk whatsoever'

  24. Re:Obvious answer? on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 4, Funny

    So a muslim fundamentalist is really an atheist nihilist?
    Are you a anonymously posting-modernist philosopher?

  25. Re:Obvious answer? on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 1

    Except that many of these degrees are by American and British universities.
    The comforting idea that terrorists are stupid and/or poorly educated has been the bane of US policy.