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  1. Re:i wish upon a day when on Stem Cells From Fat Create Beating Heart Cells · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just stop reading press releases and start reading books.
    The reason you see these preliminary results everywhere is that there is a constant need of more good news to attract investors and sponsors.

  2. Re:If government agents can lie and beat a polygra on Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    So what? Given the percentage of inmates that are held after plea bargain, all you seem to need is a bit of polygraph voodoo to put some pressure on the suspect before he enters the court system.

  3. Re:flamebait on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure that's just by accident. I suggest you explain the site maintainer, preferably in all caps, how poorly their site is programmed.

  4. Re:Refuting papers are correct? on Why Most Published Research Findings Are False · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't have to be the refuting paper. But the existance of an accepted refutation is proof that at least one of the two papers is incorrect.

  5. Re:Obvious question ... on Why Most Published Research Findings Are False · · Score: 1

    89.2% of all statistics are made up incorrectly?

  6. Re:Only 2% reduction? on New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread · · Score: 2, Informative

    The DPA is one of the few generally excellent pieces of legislation in the UK
    Ironic that it is just the local implementation of the 1995 EC data protection directive...

  7. Re:I'm waiting too ... on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    Or maybe I can be Secretary of Agriculture. After all, I know how to ride a horse, and I milked a cow once.
    No way buddy, that smells of potential marginal competence in a relevant field.
    We can offer you the finance department however, because history shows that you couldn't possibly go wrong there.

  8. Re:Useless on Do Nerds Have Better Sperm? · · Score: 1

    Probably the reason why it's of better quality (mediaeval folklore has it that monks were efficient breeders...).

  9. Re:damn it on Now Even Photo CAPTCHAs Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    Great idea. Better than my 'nobody enters three email-adresses' filter. I'll steal it from you right now.

  10. Re:Before the bashing silliness begins on Microsoft's Ethical Guidelines · · Score: 1

    ...I'm sure they actually do spend a lot of time making sure they don't run afoul of the local regulators...
    You might expect that, but oddly enough their reluctance to comply with EU regulations has surpassed that of any company that ever did business there, making pharmaceutical and automotive companies look like charities by comparison.

  11. Re:Unsurprising on Microsoft's Ethical Guidelines · · Score: 2, Funny

    How exactly does this crossing the boundaries of law in the other direction work? Buy a new government and you're crimes are all forgotten?

  12. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Hey you're right, this one also works:
    QDOS/DOS2.11/DOS3.0
    Windows 1/2/286/386
    Windows 3.0/3.1/3.11/95/98
    Windows ME
    Windows NT/2000
    Windows 2003
    Windows Vista/7

  13. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Windows releases didn't start at 3 and there's a bigger difference between 3.0 and 3.11 than between 95 and 98. I guess the scheme is based on the fact that '7' is a more popular number than '8'...

  14. Re:have the 'wars' endead? on The Quietest Sun · · Score: 2, Funny

    You did.
    Apparently

  15. Re:30% is no Turing test. on Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, it is called slashdot.

  16. Re:Take it to the next level.... on People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars · · Score: 1

    Funny, because in many places nothings says "scared" like a machine gun mounted in your sunroof.

  17. Re:Another Republican "Victory" on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But, borrowing is just postponed taxation when it exceeds the growth.
    So in the slightly longer run the Republicrats are a 'Spend and Tax' party while the Democritans are a 'Tax and Spend' party.

  18. Re:Clock can run in reverse. on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but in what? Real dollars?
    I guess about as real as the subsequent deficit dollars. So stop posting and start working for those imaginary interest payments you owe your Chinese loan shark.

  19. Re:Where can I buy one? on UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    I know this is hugely dependent on how the hydrogen is created and therefore the cost of electric
    Well, you could always hook up a dynamo to a home trainer and use that do the electrolysis.

    (For the humor impaired: please no thermodynamics here)

  20. Re:Herring was arrested... on Gov't Database Errors Leading To Unconstitutional Searches? · · Score: 1

    Well, you know how when you look for something it's always in the last place you suspect?

  21. Re:Of course! on Netbook Return Rates Much Higher For Linux Than Windows · · Score: 1

    ...and the new one has the AC knob in a different place will you sweat? If you're dumb and ignorant you will because you refuse to learn how to work the new thing...
    That is the best description of 'brand loyalty' I've seen so far. I will steal it right now.

  22. Re:What is so dangerous about gambling anyway? on State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names · · Score: 1

    What the hell is so fundamentally wrong with gambling?
    My guess:
    Gambling is about as expensive as paying tax but a lot more fun.
    It is therefore competing wih and undermining the acceptability of the source of income of judges and government officials.

  23. Re:Common sense on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    'm sure this wouldn't come over so well stated precisely like that
    How's that? When your children aren't used to hearing the truth from you I can understand, that but wasn't that just the point?

  24. Re:Chimney effects on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1

    Here's a back of the envelope for you:
    Assume an average temperature for data centre and surroundings of 300 and 290K.
    Assume a chimney stack of 100m with an area of 70m^2
    We get a draught of: 0.7*A*sqrt(2*g*h*(Tin-Tout)/Tin)~400m^3/s
    With a typical case fan flow of 0.005 m^3/s an average power-plant sized chimney will draw out enough air to keep 80,000 PC's cool.

  25. Re:hmm on To Purge Or Not To Purge Your Data · · Score: 1

    Higher.
    And they claim to be ethical.