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  1. Re:tested? on Drug Halts Decline In Alzheimer's Patients · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except that in this case you can skip all that and do a little experimentation on your grandparents. This is not a new drug: it's plain old methylene blue, which has been used for all kinds of purposes for a century (from anti-malaria drug to aquarium antifungal)
    See this

  2. Re:Better-than-Apple? on OSCON 2008 Roundup · · Score: 1

    Just as intuitive as the nipple; now that all modern tits come with a Command key (the one labeled with the microsoft logo, or the one with 'alt').

  3. Re:law of unintended consequences... on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 1

    No, not zombies, corpses. Animal testing doesn't help much here, as the T-cells have more differences than just 'that bit' between species anyway. Somewhere along the line there has to be a so called 'First In Human' experiment, and when messing with the immune system that can really be a problem.

  4. Re:law of unintended consequences... on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 4, Informative

    After having worked in the pharmaceutical industry for about 12 years I can only say: You'd be amazed.
    T-cells are part of the immune system, and perhaps you remember this recent infamous TGN1412 experiment involving T-Cells

  5. Re:Learning on Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that the optimization method they used to fine-tune Vista?

  6. Re:Perhaps the way to other things besides compile on Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design · · Score: 1

    Well that future sounds almost as cheerful as 'Universal Binary' meaning java bytecode.
    Makes me feel all warm inside.

  7. Re:Terms of Service on Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Depends, if it is not reported stolen; tough luck for the card holder, if it is; tough luck for the credit card company.

  8. Re:Total ignorance of economics? on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    The only thing that can affect the amount of Gallium available on Earth is nucleosynthesis or a fairly sturdy asteroid impact.
    Exactly, you don't know what you do know: If the economical demand for Gallium is high enough, both nucleosynthesis and asteroid farming become viable options.
    Obviously that is an extreme example, but Gallium extraction from coalmining waste (with Ga concentrations below 1%) will increase the available amounts by a factor of 1000, when the price stays at the current level.
    Not everything is economics, but a scary story about scarcity definitely is.

  9. Re:Total ignorance of economics? on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yep, clueless, check this story
    The authors apparently do not realize that the available amount of Gallium depend on the price:
    Its impending scarcity could already be reflected in its price: in January 2003 the metal sold for around $60 per kilogram; by August 2006 the price had shot up to over $1000 per kilogram

  10. Re:Impressive on Magazine Photos Fool Age-verification Cameras · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you just imagine what Japan would be like if marijuana were legal there
    Slightly more like here?

  11. Re:how can a text editor boycott the olympics? on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Commercial companies are doing politics and lobbying for money, so why can't somebody do it for a cause they care about?

  12. Re:Gun Rights on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    So are you also in favour of the Iraqi's using guns against their own government, and against the US troops?

  13. Re:Just deserts... on IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India · · Score: 1

    his is what you get in a society when everybody believes that they deserve everything and yet everybody is unwilling to do any hard work.
    You do not approve of the American dream?

  14. Re:The City You're Looking For on The World's 10 Dirtiest Cities · · Score: 3, Funny

    How do you find those things out? I just googled for live sex shows and got 16800000 hits. Should I check them all?

  15. Re:It might be able to run Vista... on Fastest-Ever Windows HPC Cluster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure, just pop in a Rocks cd and hit the power switch. That will format the harddrives for you as well.

  16. Re:Sunlight on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 1

    Yep, two whooooshes is about right.

  17. Re:And the sun causes skin cancer. on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 1

    But if we grease up real good, we may look like baby corpses in the end.

  18. Re:Sunlight on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 1

    who mentioned limbs? Double ouch.

  19. Re:Graduate school is too late to begin teaching t on A Hippocratic Oath For Scientists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I remeber a lab experiment where there was a factor of 2 error in a formula of the background documentation. The TA told me about 60% of the students came up with the 'correct' answer anayway...

  20. Re:Tell that to Lexmark on Kernel Builders Appeal For Open Source Drivers · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think it's interesting that this advice has been correct since the 1990's, when we were faced with the choice of buying a Sun printer or hooking up an apple laserwriter for half the price on our Sparcstation 1. That's 15 years of sustained no improvement at all. Good luck with the petitions...

  21. Hm, good summary on Building the Green Data Center · · Score: 2, Funny

    by more efficiently leveraging virtualization to utilize servers to a higher degree
    I should have printed a fresh stack of these.

  22. Re:Kuhn, eh? on Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am sure Kuhn fully expected this since his book was critical of scientists. That does not make him wrong, though.
    Exactly, because even being proven wrong doesn't mean you're wrong, if you're a philosopher.
    nobody has a monopoly on opinions
    And science is just another text, right?
    For a bit of a laugh you should read this for instance

  23. Re:One of the perks of being Queen? on Darling Brothers, UK Indie Game Devs, Upgraded to CBE · · Score: 1

    Exactly, we really need a 'woooosh' meta-moderation for the septics.

  24. Re:One of the perks of being Queen? on Darling Brothers, UK Indie Game Devs, Upgraded to CBE · · Score: 2, Informative

    If that gets modded flamebait there is no future

  25. Re:Fail a lot? on How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? · · Score: 1

    Porn?