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  1. Does it really exist? on Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Michael Mann hasn't convinced them that the hockey stick actually exists?

  2. Personal Genome Project blog post on this issue on You Can Donate Your Genome For Medical Research, But Not Anonymously · · Score: 1

    George Church's "Personal Genome Project" has, from it's very beginning, acknowledged the possibility of this kind of exposure. In fact, you can't participate in the project without signing a consent form that makes this explicit. From their website:

    http://blog.personalgenomes.org/2013/01/17/genome-re-identification-in-the-news/

    "Since its founding, the Personal Genome Project has only accepted participants who understand and acknowledge re-identification as a potential risk. This “open consent” approach arose from our argument that privacy may be over-promised and that re-identification is increasingly possible as technology advances."

  3. Pandacea? on Panda Blood May Hold Potent Assailant Against Superbugs · · Score: 1

    (nt)

  4. Thorium is the answer. . . on Bill Gates To Develop a Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor With Korea · · Score: 1

    . . . once you understand the question.

  5. Prior art? on Holy iPad Slayer! Company Releases World's First Christian Tablet · · Score: 1

    Actually, *Moses* released the first Christian tablet. . . a pair of them if I recall. At five commandments per tablet, though, pretty limited storage.

  6. Re:Particularly in a press release like that. on Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip? · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit. Cite your sources.

  7. Re:Most Importantly on Doctors Transplant Same Kidney Twice In Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    His sister is hot.

    His sister is SMOKIN' hot.
    Fixed that for you.

  8. Consider the alternative on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 1

    I'd be more freaked out if they raised the price 30 minutes *before* she died.

  9. Crowded offramps? on MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car · · Score: 1

    These cars are so small, every Basque in the country could fit on the same offramp.

    Of course, then you'd be putting all your Basques in one exit.

  10. But does it scale well? on Salmon DNA Used In Data Storage Device · · Score: 4, Funny

    nt

  11. It won't work because. . . on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    . . . the Singularity will stop it.

  12. And what information do they remember? on Researchers Design Memory-Strengthening Implant · · Score: 1

    "My hippocampus hurts!"

  13. Stylus? I say, "stylish"! on Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones · · Score: 1

    nt

  14. I shook hands with Al Gore. Does that count? on How Do People Respond To Being Touched By a Robot? · · Score: 1

    nt

  15. Astroglide, perhaps? on Frictionless Superfluid Found In Neutron Star Core · · Score: 1

    Bada boom!

  16. Rehash of Jacobson's infamous Sci. Amer. article? on Stanford, UCD Researchers Say 100% Renewable Energy Possible By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a reworking of Jacobson's 2009 cover article in Scientific American, which was *savaged* for it's bizarre economic assumptions, as well as it's jury-rigged opposition to nuclear power. Old (and discredited) news.

  17. Re:Wow. on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    Or not, you dimwit.

  18. One word: McCarthy on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    I've known this since the '68 campaign.

  19. Re:Puns (sorry) on Paper-Thin Batteries Provide Bendable Power · · Score: 1

    Did you click on the ohm page and read the actual paper? Shocking!

  20. One word answer: on Why the World Is Running Out of Helium · · Score: 1

    Inflation

  21. Police radar gun? on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Some night, drive around your neighborhood at 9:00 to see if there's any kind of law enforcement speed trap in the area. The radar gun could play havoc with nearby wireless.

    Just don't drive around too fast!

  22. I'm with Andrew Tanenbaum. . . on Israeli MP Plans Passing a New Popcorn Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . . microkernel is the way to go!

  23. The best form of government. . . on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 1

    I think that many, if not all, right-thinking people would agree that the best form of government is a benevolent dictatorship.

    The problem is that there seems to be a shortage of benevolent dictators.

  24. Re:Here's the actual paper. on IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm · · Score: 1

    "... computing the diagonal of inverse covariance matrices..."

    Oh, gotcha. Why didn't you say so in the first place?

  25. Re:Fascinating on Scientists Discover How DNA Is Folded Within the Nucleus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No.