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  1. Re:Testing on GMOs Perfected Down to the Chromosome Level · · Score: 2, Informative

    Every so often there will be a mistake made by the cellular mechanisms and the nucleus will divide without the rest of the cell dividing. This results in a condition known as polyploidy, when this happens it is possible for fertile hybrids to occur, which means chromosomes can and do hope species, and have done long before GMed crows were even dreamed of. Wikipedia has a good article on Polyploidy and which crops have which ploidy levels

    Triploid crops: banana, apple, ginger, citrus [3]
    Tetraploid crops: durum or macaroni wheat, maize, cotton, potato, cabbage, leek, tobacco, peanut, kinnow, Pelargonium
    Hexaploid crops: chrysanthemum, bread wheat, triticale, oat
    Octaploid crops: strawberry, dahlia, pansies, sugar cane

    as you can see extra chromosome are quite common in food crops.

  2. Re:Call from PETA in ... 3, 2, 1 on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    I agree, most of Christianity ain't very Christian

  3. Re:I don't suppose anyone has considered on IBM Seeking 'Patent-Protection-Racket' Patent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The system of claim 45, wherein the assets in the dynamic pool of assets are intellectual property assets comprising one or more of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, wherein the privilege is governed by a floating privilege agreement, and wherein when the privilege is executed rights in the at least one asset in the selected set of assets are transferred from the first party to the second party. United States Patent Application 20070244837

    I'm reading it as it is also a renta-patent system, if your a small=fry and some patent-trollish company is trying to bully you out of existance, you can acess IBM's patent pool and counter-sue. It works because some much trivial shit is patented so vaguely that you can't do anything without infringing on someones patent. if the troll argue the patent is invalid, then IBM has to step in and protect their stockholder's assets, and going against IBM's lawyers isn't for the faint of heart.
  4. Re:Of course, there's the prior art. on IBM Seeking 'Patent-Protection-Racket' Patent · · Score: 1

    Silly boy, everybody knows Patent Troll are alergic to prior art!

  5. Re:Deadly virus? on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    First of all, all it will get you is whatever it is you want to hear, it's completely unreliable

    Silly boy, you don't torture people to get information, you torture people to manipulate them against themselves. I torture you regularly, then I torure your partner for a while and stop, then when I torture you some more, I ask questions to make you think your partner narced you out. Once you think you've been narced out by a contemporary, you lose loyalty to the group and start spilling your guts; wash, rinse, repeat.

  6. Re:Call from PETA in ... 3, 2, 1 on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    A good sized chunk of christian morality comes from the old testement which your Jews, Muslims, Mormons all believe is the word of god the same as christians in fact mormon are christians just like catholics, protestants, coptics and Eastern orthodox. If there is a Wikipedia entry for "Moral Lifestyle due to religious beliefs" the picture would be of a Buddist. There is no way I can image a voodoo practicioner being any less moral than a christian homeopathic doctor either.

  7. Re:Safety isn't the issue on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    This leaves but one question for the intrigued mind: how high did Chernobyl roof really fly?
    I want to know if the Orkin man still sprays what's left of the containment building for roaches?

  8. Re:Safety? on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    Alpha emetters are pretty safe as long as they are not ingested, alpha particles can't penetrate the dead skin layer. The problem with injestion is that the particles can't get out so you absorb all the energy, unlike other particle that mostly go through you.

  9. Re:Safety? on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    It's not that unusual there is evidence that natural nuclear reactions have taken place like the Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors. If you read about criticality accidents, they can occure in labs when fissile reactant are poured into "geometricaly unsafe containers" so while I don't know how much they are talking about, it's obvious the amounts are less than 10's of kg.

  10. Re:Don't forget to test twinkies as well on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    Fuch no, would you really want to know that the only two life forms left after a nuclear war would be cockroaches and lawyers? That would be too much to bear.

  11. Re:Why does the first post is *ALWAYS* funny? on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    Dude it's been a long time since have or not having tits had anything to do with someone being male, female or undecided!

  12. Re:Finally! on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 1

    judgeing by the behaviour of Radioheads website for distibuting the new CD, If I was running CDBaby I'd be giving them a call. Radiohead thinks they are HTML experts but they should give up their day job for web development!

  13. Re:I remembery trying to pay for this album on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 1

    opera 9.23 on Linux seems to get stuck in some kind of Flash von Nueman loop abomination on the slash screen. Lynx at least let me navigate, but the site was so access uncompliatnt all the links were buttons withoul alt comments.
    This page is not Valid (no Doctype found)!Result: Failed validation, 50 Errors w3c.org; so much for being HTML Experts.

  14. Re:Finally! on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's more likely that the band had a small but loyal group of fans enough to insure break-even at resonable expenses before the label would even touch them. Then their contract almost certainly had clauses where the band would cover production and promotional costs out of their take so it cost the record company is zip so far. Also consider that the labee is heavily subsidiarised so they only bid out jobs to companies they own so there is no competion to drive down the costs the artists pay.

  15. Re:and that is the threat to the big labels; on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 2, Funny

    OMG think of the Children! if the record companies didn't make as much money, then they couldn't pay the lawyers to sue gradnmas with multiple scerosis for piracy and the lawyer's children mught have to go to Public Schools !

  16. Re:Finally! on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you mean like cdbaby or more like Jamendo or DMusic and of course GarageBand?

  17. Re:Finally! on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 2

    I used to sing karaoke a lot and our town of 35,000 had 3 or 4 people that were as good as any with record contracts (I was far from being one of them). So assuming that my town isn't special that's about one in a thousand, the USA with over 250 Million people should have 250,000 singers on the bilboard top 100 list!

  18. Re:Through Money tinted glasses on Microsoft Planning to Buy Open Source Companies? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like we won, the main purpose of OSS was to be water, now Microsoft can punch the water all they want and any results will be purely transient. Buy Novell, treat the employees like droids, they just leave and start over because with OSS the most valuable asset really is the experience of your employees. I wonder how many of the original SuSE people and the monkey boys from Ximian are left at Novell. I used to "buy" SuSE distro's but eventually I realized that the biggest thing I was buying was CD with nearly everything imaginable on it and an installation support contract that I had never used through 4 major upgrades, now I can slap in a bootable Arch Linux CD and do an install via FTP over broadband.

  19. Re:Local Comcast office vs. Post Office on Little Old Lady Hammers Comcast · · Score: 1

    That's what I did, then a lightning storm blow out the filter and I'm getting all the chanels that were supposed to be blocked anyway.

  20. Re:Yay, violence. on Little Old Lady Hammers Comcast · · Score: 1

    parking them outside on a bench for hours then telling them that the manager they were waiting for had sneaked out the back door was pretty provocative on Comcast's part, if I were the judge I'd have been itching to get that bitch on a contempt charge.

  21. Re:Show of hands, please... on New Flavour of Spam - MP3 Stock Scams · · Score: 1

    we could even get the state dept to put FLAC on the ITAR list as a potential military weapon then those forgein terrorists will never get their hands on our superior shocking and awesome western technology.

  22. Re:they seem a bit stressed on Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source · · Score: 3, Funny

    /* The following function takes a single integer input, x, and returns an integer output, x + 4 */
     
    int addFour ( int x )
    {
        return (x - 4294967292);
    }
    this should actually work on some machines and not others.
  23. Re:Invalid HTML on Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source · · Score: 1

    it's ironic but errors are better protected by copyright than clean code is, it can be argued that a correct HTML tag is too insignificant to be copyrighted, but the erroneous tag is much more likely to be unique. Games like "Trivial Pursuit" and Karoke CDs has errors on purpose simply for copyright protection.

  24. Re:If you don't want anyone to view on Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source · · Score: 1

    This agreement isn't even on the front page, and so it's entirely possible to browse through the site without ever seeing the agreement. One would think that with all of their internet expertise, that you would have to click an agreement buttom and accept a cookie authenticating your exceptance before they'd even send their precious invalid HTML code with 65 errors on the front page!

  25. Re:Now sue me. Pls ! on Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source · · Score: 1

    no shit This page is not Valid (no Doctype found)!Result: Failed validation, 65 Errors Markup Validation Service
    it's a testement to our browsers that the page even renders! Oh I know now, it's like the phone book can't be copyrighted because its just facts, but the wrong numbers are not facts so they are copyrighted, it's ok to copy the correct numbers but not the wrong numbers and its not ok to copy anything from that firm's site vbecause it just wrong!