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  1. Re:Non-Story on FDA Could Delay Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs · · Score: 1

    Let's distinguish between drug company marketers who want to push their new treatment on every remotely related condition, and private physicians who are usually cautious but willing to try something new when there is no existing treatment that works well. Either one can advance the practice of medecine. The point is that the bill would close off that second method.

  2. Re:Non-Story on FDA Could Delay Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After all, we don't want to have doctors developing new treatments. That's what government bureaucrats are best at.

  3. Re:Really? What Exacty Is Your Suggestion? on Al-Qaeda Used Basic Codes, Calling Cards, Hotmail · · Score: 1

    Only 8 years? Give me a break.

    "I have here in my hand a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department." -- McCarthy, 1950

    Just give me power to investigate this and I will root out these evil-doers. Trust me.

  4. Easy on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 1

    Randomly say that you found or did not find the search pattern. Since you're not decrypting it, nobody can tell if you're lying.

  5. Re:Simple test on Tyler Bell On Yahoo's Open Location API · · Score: 1

    "without actually offending anyone"

    except for the non-Chinese aboriginal population (ob. you insensitive clod).

  6. Re:viability on Altered Organism Triples Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, there is no negative side to solar power: for example, harmful chemicals used in the production of solar cells. So we don't need to have any reasoned debate on the costs and benefits of one technology versus the other. We can just launch straight into hyperbole to flatten anyone who disagrees with us.

  7. Re:Unless this was the intented behavior... on Voting Machines and 'Calibration Drift' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Touch screens ARE analog devices and depending on technology may have to be calibrated. I'm sure that for a competitive bid situation they use the cheapest technology they can get away with. Does anyone know what ES&S are using?

  8. Re:mediaDSLAM anyone?! on World-First VDSL2 Demo Gets 500Mbps Data Transfers · · Score: 1

    The problem is that nobody can reach their website.

  9. Re:Gives moral justification to abortionists on Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work · · Score: 1

    "If life begins at conception..."

    Cells are already alive. There is no "magic" moment which is the beginning of life. Conception combines two living things into one, echoing at the microscopic level what is happening at the macroscopic level.

  10. Re:The problem with that: on Samsung Releases Solar-Powered Phone · · Score: 1

    I don't think you appreciate the difference between natural forest and a clear-cut, replanted tree farm. It's like grass vs. astroturf. The replanted area is lacking all of the birds, plants, mammals, even bugs and microbes that are in the ecology of natural forest. It takes 100 years for a forest to recover from being clear cut. Trees might be what people think of as a forest, but they are only one element.

    That said, it does seem kind of silly to talk about solar cells "saving trees".

  11. Re:Obama's first test from Putin? on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not to troll or to dwell into politics here, But does anyone here know any numbers for the *actual* chances/probabilities that satellite A will collide with satellite B in orbit around the Earth?

    Yes. The actual probability is 1.

  12. Re:No company will use it on Sacrificing Accuracy For Speed and Efficiency In Processors · · Score: 1

    It's called the Salami Technique.

  13. Re:What? on Nvidia Is Trying To Make an x86 Chip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The point is that you could make a totally different core chip and program the x86 instruction set to run on it. nVidia already has fast chips and motherboards. I think they are close to selling the whole package. Imagine a micro-ATX single-board system where you aren't paying for both a CPU and GPU. Small size and power, low cost and high performance.

  14. Re:Extinct? on Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or to become extinct twice.

  15. Re:Odd... on The First Moon Map, and Not By Galileo · · Score: 1

    Thank you. We are all refreshed by your unique point of view. Here is one of the early moon maps that you mention as a reference.

  16. Educational? on RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet · · Score: 1

    Although the RIAA may have claimed that the suits are "educational" in public statements, can those be used to influence court decisions? Or have they made that claim in previous lawsuits?

  17. Re:What fucking retards modded this up? on Court Allows Arkansas To Hide Wikipedia Edits · · Score: 1

    Are you so stupid that you believe that you need a government issued license in order to investigate the government? Woodward and Bernstein applied to Nixon for a license to investigate him? Do your homework. We still live in a country that claims to have a free press.

  18. Re:Huh? on Court Allows Arkansas To Hide Wikipedia Edits · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's for private investigators - note the "private". If you aren't investigating private persons, then you don't need a PI license.

  19. Re:Christmas? on Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything in the faq that says that modules will run untranslated in a perl6 program unless it is in perl5 compatibility mode, which would kind of make it pointless. Of course, you can translate the modules to perl6, but you can also port modules to python or ruby.

  20. Re:Shouldn't need a new law, but... on Battle Over Minimum Pricing Heating Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    Price fixing implies different manufacturers colluding, which is not the case for MAP. MAP is about protecting the seller channel for a specific brand. Some product that is sold well above the cost to make and is sold through specific channels - like Bose or Apple. The folks competing with those sellers can sell something else for much less, just not the branded product.

  21. Re:bionic rats. on Free Resources for Windows Perl Development · · Score: 1

    You are correct. It is.

  22. Re:More like lack of interest. on Free Resources for Windows Perl Development · · Score: 2, Informative

    The CPAN testers was conceived back in May 1998 by Graham Barr and Chris Nandor as a way to provide multi-platform testing for modules. Today there are 2,653,748 tester reports and more than 400 testers giving valuable feedback for users and authors alike.

    CPAN modules are probably better tested cross-platform than libraries for any other language.

  23. Re:talking on mobile as dangerous as drunk driving on Study Confirms Mobile Phones Distract Drivers · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be easily surprised. The users I talk to are trying to type the backslash by tilting the keyboard to the left.

  24. Re:yoRu moronsz. on How to Search Today's Usenet For Programming Information? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The web? Oh, the thing where we were going to link together all of the world's information? Sorry. You can't link to dynamic pages and you might get sued for linking to someone else's content. The web doesn't exist. Just a lot of separate island websites.

  25. You might be infected if ... on Researchers Hijack Storm Worm To Track Profits · · Score: 1

    Files in Windows System folder:
      wincom32.sys
      peers.ini
      wincom32.ini

    Registry key:
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wincom32