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  1. Re:Have the parents been relieved of their duties? on Researchers Describe First 'Functional HIV Cure' In an Infant · · Score: 1

    Without knowing all the details of the situation, it is impossible for us to judge them. Doctors are often wrong. When I was a child I was miss-diagnosed with cancer. one test showed cancer, but several others did not. The doctors wanted to do chemo and my parents decided to wait. Simply because a doctor recommends a treatment path does not make it the right choice.

    If a doctor performs treatment that we later deem unnecessary and kills a patient we rile against the doctor. If a parent refuses treatment for their child we rile against the parent?

  2. Re:How many of these are not artificial? on NASA Discovers Third Radiation Belt Circling Earth · · Score: 2

    Considering we don't generally detonate nuclear bombs in orbit around the planet... I would say all of them.

  3. Re:Meanwhile on CNN... on NASA Discovers Third Radiation Belt Circling Earth · · Score: 1

    Clearly it was Bush.

  4. Re:Bug, or exploit? on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    So it's Microsoft?

  5. Re:Let's save 110 million apiece on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 1

    Wait... isn't sequestration about only saving 85 billion? Why don't we just not buy the F-35 and be done with it...

  6. Re:What would be great on Dennis Tito's 2018 Mars Mission To Be Manned · · Score: 1

    Lots of people don't *intend* to have children...

  7. Re:Very VERY stupid idea... on Dennis Tito's 2018 Mars Mission To Be Manned · · Score: 1

    Look at us still talking when there's science to be done...

  8. Re:Sign in to confirm? Hah on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Cause when you get a pop up asking for you to type in your name and password for something unrelated to the site you visited you totally do it? I know I always click on the links in emails asking for my log on credentials.

  9. Re:"In-browser popups?" on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 1

    I stopped using comcast DNS a long time ago.

  10. Re:remember sim city? on New Jersey Legalizes Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    It's Sesame Street. Two year olds believe that iPads exist solely so they can watch Sesame Street clips on youtube and it doesn't take them long to figure out how to hit the "replay" button.

  11. Re:I have an idea on 1967 Gyro-X Car To Be Restored · · Score: 1

    Don't they fall over when not moving due to lack of angular momentum?

  12. Re:Naturally on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't tell if you are talking abut a lawyer or a hitman... And is there a difference?

  13. Re:remember sim city? on New Jersey Legalizes Online Gambling · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Portion of the proceeds? on For Sale: One Nobel Prize Medal (Slightly Used, By Francis Crick) · · Score: 1

    You can express it as the limit of 0/x as x->0. Since your numerator is 0, you end up with 0 from both directions and there is no inconsistency.

    Generally only mathematicians care :)

  15. Re:Portion of the proceeds? on For Sale: One Nobel Prize Medal (Slightly Used, By Francis Crick) · · Score: 0

    Actually it is. A fraction involves two integers. 0 is an integer, so 0/0 is a fraction. Depending on who you ask its value is either 0, infinity, or undefined.

  16. Re:lag on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Speed of light is 299792458 m/s. The signal must travel from the drone to the control station using whatever relays are in place and back. LEO is ~2,000km, so going up to orbit and back down takes over 0.1 seconds. You are looking at a minimum of 0.2 seconds of lag if you are using satellite relays. This is also why satellite internet sucks and will always suck. Assuming 0 reaction/processing time, the lag will never be reduced by much unless the pilot is really really close.

  17. Re:It's even worse than he imagines on Unnecessary Medical Procedures and the Dangers of Robot Surgery · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It gets worse! Millions of people have been killed by an insidious substance known as dihydrogen-oxide! If you have suffered sever injury or death as a result of an encounter with dihydrogen-oxide, call me!

  18. Re:Uhmmm. on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 2

    Wait... you mean to say that you can't predict the future?

  19. Re:Modest changes on Canadian Government Scrapping Internet Predators Act · · Score: 1

    We don't need a new internet law we need something at the constitutional level that protects us from government spying while also enshrining our rights to force the government to expose its secrets.

    You mean something like the 4th amendment?

  20. Re:What. The. Fuck? on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 1

    Bytes aren't the only thing you want in powers of two. A 8 Meg FFT is an FFT over 8*2^20 elements.

    The number 2 has many magical properties and it is appropriate to use the numbering system that is ideal for the task at hand. Take for example the fact that there are a shit ton of coordinate systems for dealing with locations on the planet. There is lat/lon/alt, there is local vertical, there is ECEF (a nice Cartesian system that gives you XYZ and makes math easy)... Each system has the appropriate time and place for being used.

    Trying to force everyone to use the same system for all applications doesn't work. It causes even more problems.

  21. Re:FAQ from Dr. Shawyer answers a lot of questions on China's Radical New Space Drive · · Score: 1

    Electromagnetic waves have energy. If they didn't, how does your radio/cellphone/wifi work? Those bits get shot through the air in the form of electromagnetic waves. Go get a spectrum analyzer and you will see all the crap we shoot through the air on EM waves.

  22. Re:Why drones? on First City In the US To Pass an Anti-Drone Resolution · · Score: 1

    No. They are actually flown by pilots and pilots get flight time credits for controlling them. They do have autopilots like manned airplanes, but no one sends a drone up and tells it to fly around without monitoring it.

  23. Re:If this can happen ... on Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    New Orleans had a rash of real cops pulling people over and robbing them...

  24. Re:Over the horizon radar on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    The journalists probably forgot that the Earth is not flat. Nor is it a sphere and geometry on a lumpy oblate elipsoid is a pain in the butt.

  25. Re:Brilliant! on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure its a byproduct of nuclear fission.