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  1. Re:PCR? With what primers? on Rover Exiting Crater To Continue Martian Marathon · · Score: 1

    Presumably the grant is for a few tens of thousands of dollars (I looked a bit but did not find an amount); if that is correct,(in my opinion) it is quite okay that it is based on a ludicrous assumption (because it might increase their ability to detect dna from 'negligible' to 'maybe').

  2. Re:To What End? on WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sports · · Score: 1

    Very few cold sufferers 'need' medication. Their overall level of comfort might be increased by taking a mild analgesic and decongestant, but generally, their symptoms don't even approach discomfort, let alone suffering or life endangering.

  3. Re:Peak load vs non-peak on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    There is a big one in Michigan:

    http://www.consumersenergy.com/welcome.htm?/content/hiermenugrid.aspx?id=31

    The reservoir is a scant 27 billion gallons.

  4. Re:Obligatoy Joke on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    The electricity is far from free. There are leases and things to pay off, so the people who spent the money putting up the tower generally want to sell the power it produces. All of it.

  5. Dig it up. on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Archive the data in some sane fashion, and then, in 24 years, dig it up and stick in a DVD (or for extra credit, a format that has not existed for the entire time the capsule has been buried.

    Another option would be to contact Amazon or Google and ask how much they would charge you to keep the backup live for 25 years and then just bury the account information.

  6. Re:congress? on Zero Day Threat · · Score: 1

    You can get your identity stolen by someone using a bank you have never done business with, using a credit report that you never authorized or paid any money towards (explicitly...).

    As much as anything, Congress would need to act to remove current laws that are actively hostile to consumers (i.e., a bank can treat you as if you are responsible for an account that they opened in your name without your authorization).

  7. Re:Review ? on Zero Day Threat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So carry water and learn to enjoy a peanut butter sandwich.

    Conflating the food that you brought to work today with 'the food at the disposal of the average American" is borderline offensive.

  8. Re:Do not underestimate... on Google Tests Custom Highlights, Comments In Search · · Score: 1

    Exactly how sure are you that either of he or one are first person pronouns?

    (my limited understanding is that a first person pronoun is used when referring to oneself)

  9. Re:Is it the fault of Apple or Adobe? on iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't simply that the client is inefficient, the problem is that the client will run inefficient code without enforcing any resource restrictions (and then leet developers run their own event loops with no pauses in them at all).

  10. Re:Insomnia on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Getting a USB port installed in your body also seems like a drastic step.

  11. Re:Relief for my hand ahead!!! on Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    It would be quite the pisser if you ended up with phantom RSI (I'm not ripping on RSI here, I'm pointing out that cutting it off might not make the hurting stop).

  12. Re:TV Satellite dishes point south on Scientists Discover Cows Point North · · Score: 1

    You need a disclaimer:

    *Strategy may not apply on all continents.

  13. Re:Not Aggressive enough on New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal · · Score: 1

    Also, lunch.

  14. Re:infant care on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 1

    Take home of $90,000?

    Good point on the math, but (financially!) they come out ahead if the second parent is taking home $17,101.

  15. Re:infant care on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 1

    $1425 * 12 = $17,100.

    I don't know the numbers, but I would expect that most engineers working at Google are taking home upwards of $60,000. For two parent families, the infant care is something like a $40,000 win.

  16. Re:The investor's budget? on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 1

    A Mustang GT is a run of the mill piece of crap Ford. They are nice and have excellent performance/dollar, but they aren't anything resembling collectible.

    Don't believe me? Note the stellar retention of value:

    http://www.edmunds.com/ford/mustang/review.html

  17. Re:The investor's budget? on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a joke. Of course, unlike write offs, jokes are ruined by explanation.

  18. Re:Google Maps is way bigger... on The 1-Petabyte Barrier Is Crumbling · · Score: 1

    This is almost certainly because you lack ambition.

  19. Re:I am confused !! on The 1-Petabyte Barrier Is Crumbling · · Score: 1

    The answer to your question is 1/2 Mexico difficult.

  20. Re:Petabyte DBs are old news to... on The 1-Petabyte Barrier Is Crumbling · · Score: 1

    I look forward to the day when the general level of cynicism reaches the point that CRM systems make the customer experience roughly equivalent to talking to a competent, helpful person (this probably results in more expensive service, but I think I'm okay with that).

  21. Re:And who gets to make the rules? on Solar Plane Breaks Endurance Record · · Score: 1

    When you are making a list, the guy with the pencil is pretty much always the ultimate authority.

  22. Re:Ummm yeah right on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    Look it up. The WT Towers were not built like other massive structures, much of the structural support is in the outside wall. Here is a link that describes them as 'tube buildings':

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/world_trade.html

  23. Re:Wake up sheeple! on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    Accusing people of playing Dungeons and Dragons is serious business.

  24. Re:Known to cause cancer... on California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't really care if cigarettes didn't have warning labels.

  25. Re:Known to cause cancer... on California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen · · Score: 1

    As long as you don't put the LEDs into cigarettes and then smoke them, you don't need to worry a great deal about the carcinogenic effects of gallium arsenide. Given that gallium is not hugely abundant, it is likely that it will at least be possible to recycle LEDs, keeping the material from being released into the environment.