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  1. Re:Offtopic - please make the sourceforge thing go on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 2

    Been passively looking for something like that for a while.

    Here you are. Seriously, if I want to visit Sourceforge, I will go to Sourceforge, not go to /. and then follow a link.

  2. Re:some proteins are better than others on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are many types of vegetarians, those who consume milk, eggs and honey won't have such problems. Also, most vegetarians I know eat fish. And even the hardcore zealots can survive by eating algae. And they won't eat gelatin as it's made of animal bones.

  3. Re:But is it kosher? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Well it doesn't have any blood in it so it's the most kosher thing imaginable.

  4. Efficiency on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Let's put aside the ethics bullshit and concentrate on the efficiency claims. The problem is, just because people eat less meat it's not guaranteed that the food excess will get to places with famine. Also, this method is still less effective than grains or vegetables, so transporting it to poor regions won't help. I'm not even sure that the problem is a lack of food, in most places with famine it's the fault of the political leadership.
    I am also sceptical about the sustainability claims which seem to be backed only by an old study from '99. Such a massive increase in consumption would mean 10 billion people by 2030, or a huge shift in people's diet.

  5. Courts are supposed to be predictable on Predicting US Supreme Court Justice Votes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The whole point of the legal system is that courts don1t just hand out verdicts randomly, but according to the laws available for everyone. Without that, people wouldn't know how to act legally. In fact, ideally one should be able to predict what a courts decision would be in every situation. unfortunately, the legal systems of the world are too complicated/contradictory for that.

  6. Is it necessary? on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Most things on Facebook are already public, or did it become that secure that a move like this is necessary?

  7. Re:divorce on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Even then, your data won't be deleted.

  8. Re:Dont judge without reading TFA carefully on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 1

    Divide et impera. They are just going one by one to avoid angering their employees all at once.

  9. Re:A Bad Method on Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention that the class was split into two groups based on skill, so differences weren't that big. Also, you were free to sit next to anyone.

  10. A good method on Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In high school my math teacher organised us into pairs and encouraged us to work together on the problems. It's can be very enlightening to see a situation from someone elses point of view. And teamwork is also a skill that has to be learned, preferably in school.

  11. Re:Let's face it on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    I don't believe in a well organised conspiracy of oil producing countries as that would require much more intelligence and cooperation than portrayed by any kind of existing governing body. Instead I believe that almost everyone in the energy market is acting in the best possible interest of their limited awareness. Oil prices rise, alternative research boosts, oil prices drop, alternative research slows down, ... Repeat until oil is finished. Expect a fluctuation in oil price in the near years to come.

    It's not even alternative research. The only alternative energy source that is economically viable is water, and those resources are already tapped. It's mining research that gets a boost every time fossil fuel starts to run out, thus making new reserves available.
      But irreversible still seems like a strong word, most of CO2 will eventually go into the oceans. The real question is, whether it will happen in 100 years or 100000.

  12. Only for bad sites on Upcoming EU Data Law Will Make Europe Tricky For Social Networks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    EU politicians are mulling new data protection laws that could make Europe a hostile place for social networks that claim ownership of your data, don't let you delete it, and sell it to everyone

    FTFY

  13. Re:True to every corporation on End Bonuses For Bankers · · Score: 1

    That is called technocracy not capitalism.

  14. True to every corporation on End Bonuses For Bankers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a fundamental property of capitalism: when a corporation gets lucky it can cash in and when it gets unlucky just go bankrupt.

  15. Re:Gum Balls on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 1

    No, but this will.

  16. Re:Had to be asked. on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 1

    That only depends on the number of mod points handed out.

  17. Re:How does this make the dev managers feel? on A Cognitive Teardown of Angry Birds · · Score: 1

    The same reason solitary is the most played game on PC. Popular platform, and after a while a game can feed on its own fame.

  18. Re:Extortion? on ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains · · Score: 1

    Well, for example there wouldn't be a gmail.com without TLDs as it's already registered on a German domain. The Internet is much bigger than you think, and TLDs serve a useful purpose in keeping it sorted.

  19. Re:At last! on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure IE supports HTML5.

  20. Re:At last! on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    My point is that in the same space it leads to better image quality to use a widely supported but inferior codec at higher bitrate than to support multiple better codecs at lower bitrate.

  21. Re:At last! on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    True but in the same space you could just use Theora (that every browser supports) in higher definition thus countering its shortcomings.

  22. Extortion? on ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that companies that registered a name should get it under all TLDs? Because that would make TLDs completely pointless.

  23. You are doing it wrong on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are not supposed to use a browser on an Apple device. You have to download an app for every webpage you want to visit.

  24. Re:At last! on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    Multiple source files means multiple times the space usage.

  25. Re:There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain on ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains · · Score: 1

    It's not necessary the only domain of a porn site.