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  1. Re:Just use DNA on The Limits To Perpendicular Recording · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that OLEDs illuminate as a result of some biological process, that it isn't just some electrons activating some crystals?

    And I'm not sure why growing living tissue is a big deal, I've been doing it all my life (of course, you probably mean growing differentiated tissues in a dish, but given how willing you are to blur lines, why not join in on the fun?).

  2. Re:Just use DNA on The Limits To Perpendicular Recording · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? OLEDS are about as biological as a chunk of graphite.

  3. Re:Is it just me... on No, Net Neutrality Doesn't Violate the 5th Amendment · · Score: 0

    Have you considered watching paint dry?

  4. Re:The man took a two week vacation twelve years a on Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released · · Score: 1

    When did Linus get a motorcycle?

  5. Re:GPL Intellectual Theft on Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released · · Score: 1

    Too overt.

  6. Re:That darn radiation on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1

    If you use a stupid enough definition of detect, then of course then can detect it, they can detect it with their DNA.

  7. Re:Give it a month on Hacker Builds $1,500 Cell Phone Tapping Device · · Score: 1

    It quickly becomes a question of whether the radio hardware costs more than a phone that will do VOIP over a Wifi connection.

  8. Re:Has anyone ever done an analysis.... on 'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!' v2.0 · · Score: 1

    I don't think you need to do any deep analysis, it was hilariously over-dramatic.

    People like hilarity.

  9. Re:"ill-fated?" on Mars Rover Spirit May Never Wake From Deep Sleep · · Score: 1

    The fact that they made it a year wasn't that big a deal. People throw around the 'designed for 90 days' thing, but they leave out the part where they were designed to almost certainly survive 90 days, which by human methods means making everything a lot more robust than you thing will be necessary to make it 90 days (and you can rest assured that they weren't figuring out how to pay for day 91 of the ground operations on day 89...).

    That they have made it for several years seems pretty neat to me.

  10. Re:Where is the study? on Fossil Fuel Subsidies Dwarf Support For Renewables · · Score: 1

    The article says it is from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. You have to pay them money to get it.

  11. Re:Explaining Piracy Figures on Google Adds Licensing Server DRM To Android Market · · Score: 1

    Have you read the various treaties, or are you guessing?

  12. Re:Fair enough... on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    You should look into Canadian law on the matter.

  13. Re:I take exception on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    The Big Ten schools all probably manage to run their football programs at a nice commercial profit (likely to the point where it helps fund the rest of their sports programs). I imagine that's true for every school with a decent TV deal.

    I would go on to guess that it is smaller private schools that are actually spending money on athletics.

  14. Re:Happy sysadmin day? on Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    Your claims of direct interpersonal interaction are undermining your credibility a bit here.

  15. Re:Bosses earn too much on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    If the HFT system is selling short some of the time, it can punish sellers and benefit buyers...

  16. Re:SETI? on Mars Site May Hold 'Buried Life' · · Score: 1

    As opposed to when they started, right?

  17. Re:And they only get 20% of the internet? on 2 Chinese ISPs Serve 20% of World Broadband Users · · Score: 1

    What, which is the illusion? Is it what people think, is it the pie or is it the bakery?

  18. Re:And they only get 20% of the internet? on 2 Chinese ISPs Serve 20% of World Broadband Users · · Score: 1

    People think economics is like a pie, and they do done wanna git theirs.

    (Really, it is more like a bakery)

  19. Re:Russian rolette on 1-in-1,000 Chance of Asteroid Impact In ... 2182? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just make sure to try to graze your thigh.

  20. Re:USD per watt and watts per sqm on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure burning MOX fuel messes with the energy efficiency/return in a nice way.

    (but it probably doesn't do much for the present day economics of it)

  21. Re:Prevention is better than cure on X Prize To Offer Millions For Gulf Oil Cleanup Solution · · Score: 1

    Largely because there isn't much anyone can do about much of it.

    Especially any subtle environmental damage. Attempts can be made to hold BP responsible for the damage done to people's lives, but there isn't necessarily much money can do to fix all types of environmental damage (it can certainly fix certain types of damage).

  22. Re:HOV is for CONGESTION not for ENVIRONMENT on Chevy Volt Not Green Enough For California · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Change is bad, Mmmm-kay.

  23. Re:Apply logic to other things... on UK Courts Rule Nintendo DS R4 Cards Illegal · · Score: 1

    I don't especially doubt the existence of such blobs of software, but I just scanned a bill at 1200 dpi with no problems (Epson Twain 5.71a on XP).

  24. Re:public safety should never be a revenue source on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you really so sure they aren't just targeting intersections where they have more problems, rather than the people that live near those intersections?

  25. Re:The Dutch on X Prize To Offer Millions For Gulf Oil Cleanup Solution · · Score: 1

    I wasn't suggesting skimming was a bad idea, just responding to

    the Dutch have developed the technology to clean up the oil spill long ago.

    Which makes it sound like all we needed to do was import 20 Dutch oil skimmers and the deal would be done.

    And I didn't bother to go on about how there were skimmers operating in the gulf, and that the skimmer arms from the Netherlands were eventually brought in.