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  1. Re:Good! on Arecibo Observatory Facing Massive Budget Cuts · · Score: 1

    yeah like helping the PharmaCo's create the next wonder-drug that nobody without insurance will be able to afford.

  2. Re:What? on Arecibo Observatory Facing Massive Budget Cuts · · Score: 5, Informative

    The seti receiver is separately and primarily privately funded and operates in a tag-a-long mode so the seti operations don't interfere with other more traditional operations at Arecebo. When there is an observation going on the seti receiver just takes in what-ever the main telescope is looking at slightly off axis; very rarely is the telescope pointed at an object for a specifically seti observation. Additionaly the kinds of signals that Seti finds interesting are generally signals that when shown to be naturaly caused give astronomers decades of research material!

    I remember when Pulsars were designated LGMs for litlle Green Men.

  3. Re:"Anonymous reader" on Stallman Attacks Gates, Microsoft, & Charity Foundation · · Score: 1

    This sockpuppet thing is getting popular Obama has the best one you can actually get one for your own! McCain is behind the curve here, they can only afford to hire real people to pose as sockpuppets clearly a cheap imitation. So when election time rolls around are you going to vote for some poser or the real deal?

  4. Re:Harmonics on Wood Density May Explain Stradivarius Secret · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is quite a demand for old growth dunderheads ,logs to heavy to float all the way to the sawmill from the logging days. One of these logs pulled out of the mud in a river or lake bottom after a hundred years can fetch thousands or or tens of thousands of dollars at auction depending on condition and species.

  5. Re:This is probably good news on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 1

    HIV viruses might work

  6. Re:So what? on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 1

    It means we get to wear funny hats, blow noise makers, say "I luv you man" and get rip roaring drunk. The next day we get to wake up with a punitive hang-over and praying the new girlfreind isn't a tranny!

  7. Re:s/News/Not News/ on Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A marketers job is to tell you how to think, what to want, and what ideals to have. They respect you like a puppeteer respects a puppet.
    How quaint, when I took marketing it was composed of 3 P's, Product, Price, and Placement and consisted of figuring out what the customer wanted, how much he wanted to pay and where he wanted to purchase; adding the forth P, Promotion really inverted things. Seems a 3P marketer wants his offices next door to the R&D department to make it as easy as possible to get potential product into production; a 4P marketer wants to be as close to legal as possible to make it as easy as possible to see how much they can get away with!

  8. Re:Awful, ear-piercing reporting on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    yes but we had to hand assemble the code and toggle in the bit pattern one byte at a time!
    Actually I have a COSMAC ELF collecting dust in the garage.

  9. Re:Awful, ear-piercing reporting on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 1

    young whipper-snappers don't know when they have it good, in my day we had to pick up pulses on the relay control line with an AM radio! Then we had to write our own music in assember!

  10. Re:"No plans"? Not quite. on EPA Reaches Goal On Data Center Study · · Score: 1

    Which will skew the numbers and when they do setup the EnergyStar program and make the equipment you do use seem like your datacenter is not only destroying the environment, contribute to AWG and that you club baby seals to death for fun and profit.

  11. Re:Who does age matter to? on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    It also means that if a McCain ticket wins the voters have more fully thought about the VP taking over the presidency,and even if it doesn't happen it would give the VP a strong incumbency position. Remember the look on face of and demeanor of Ted Kennedy's during the Clarence Thomas hearings, imagine the DNC trying to run a white person against an incumbent President Powell or President Rice!

  12. Re:They are doing it because they are crooks...... on Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen an "unlimited" Comcast commercial in quite a while, they probably stop before the unnoticed change to the "we can change at any time" TOS and turning on the sandvine equipment.

  13. Re:Some people have more cells than others on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should keep short skinny people on a leach because they are not "fully human" like us tall fat people due to not having enough "human" cells in their bodies!

  14. Re:Spontaneous abortion on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 1

    The real question is when does a zygote or embryo become a human, answer that and the problem is solved.

  15. Re:Granulocyte Extinction on Cancer Resistance Technique Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Maybe by that time they'll be able to directly implant the gene viraly

  16. Re:Sign me up! on Cancer Resistance Technique Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 2, Informative

    They used similar techniques for antibiotic resistant infection so the safety should be understood. Now its a matter of determining if the method's benefits out weight it's costs and risks.

  17. Re:This might be a controversial POV... on Cancer Resistance Technique Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Excess stress drags down the immune system and very conceivably contribute to the effect, but I'd also guess that the effect is more likely to clump illnesses that would have occurred eventually and randomly toward identifiable events rather than change the occurrence rates in a given population over a given period. Get a grant and do a study, results might be interesting, might even be able to re-examine previous data to find new trends that were not looked for previously.

  18. Re:Granulocytes, on Cancer Resistance Technique Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    No right, but no reputable MD. will participate either.

  19. Re:Cool! on Cancer Resistance Technique Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure that orthodox Jews have lightened up on the blood prohibition, there are probably a few sects there that wouldn't partake, Witnesses will not like it and a few other radical fringe cults. Of course when the whacko extremists are the only ones still dieing of cancers it'll be because of a gov conspiracy to kill them off.

  20. Re:Which Al-Qaeda? on Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive · · Score: 1

    yeah, any army type will tell you, getting the to you gear is easy, it's a one time deal it's the beans and bullets that kill you, food and water have to be constantly replaced. Besides I've heard some of those caves are set up to be a pretty cumfy place to cower

  21. Re:Bullshit on Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive · · Score: 2

    You do realize that the United States is bordered by four countries, Canada, Mexico, Russia and Cuba; two of those countries conspired to bury the US in nuclear bombs. The Military is tasked with having plans for every possible contingency and being able to provide the civilian Government with the requested plans and implement on short notice. Just because a plan exists doesn't mean anyone is championing its implementation.

  22. Re:Aw, c'mon. on Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive · · Score: 1

    oh no, no need for bittorrent, you can pick up new first release DVDs of major studio movies for a buck or two at any bazaar in Iraq. MPAA should send in their own troops just to control piracy and bootlegging

  23. Re:Aw, c'mon. on Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the hand-full of raving maniacs,
    that make up the Islamic terrorist movement is all most Americans and Europeans see of Muslims? I do agree it time to say to both the Saudis and the Israelis you've had 60 years to get your shit together the gravy train is coming to a stop.

  24. Re:valid critique on Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Americans are people who think two hundred years is a long time;
    Europeans are people who think 200 mile is a long distance;
    Arabs are people who think 1000 years is only short time and have had trade routes spanning continents for millennia.

  25. Re:Why alarm bells? on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 1

    that was my point, it doesn't matter which renders faster if one adserver can freeze the whole page, sometimes you need block them and for that you need the flashblock extension for firefox