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  1. Re:I have an idea on Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Instead of rehashing 1970s tech, could we PLEASE start understanding how the human body works and why some bodies destroy themselves in this way?

    Could you PLEASE stop assuming that there aren't thousands upon thousands of people actively engaged in all areas of medical science trying to do exactly this?

  2. Re:Oblig on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    ...on a sesame seed bun. Catchy!

  3. Re:Or the reverse on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    So if you ran a store selling, say, fruit, you'd like the right to discriminate against gun owners and refuse to sell them apples because they might be carrying a gun in your store, or because you disagree with their (inferred) ideology?

  4. Re:something doesnt add up on Researchers Explain Why Flu Comes In the Winter · · Score: 1

    It's like how humans survive best if they don't sit on the couch in the basement eating cheetos and watching Big Bang Theory on an endless loop, but we sure do feel at home there.

  5. Re:Or the reverse on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    It would tell me who not to trade with... among other things.

    Can it take that you mean who not to buy from, rather than who not to sell to?

  6. Re:alpha test? on TSA Terminates Its Contract With Maker of Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 1

    For one good example see this past season finale of Homeland

    Dude, spoiler alert! :(

  7. Re:HIV is not the cause of 'AIDS' on Australian Scientists Discover Potential Aids Cure · · Score: 1

    If HIV is THAT easily transmitted

    If HIV is how easily transmitted, exactly? Give us some numbers to work with. You can't just keep shouting "it should be MILLIONS" without actually doing the calculations.

    Can you show me any EVIDENCE of 'HIV' passing through a mucosal membrane?

    Can you show me any EVIDENCE that there ISN'T a teapot on the moon? No? Oh, well, it must be true then! (hint: this is sarcasm to demonstrate the ridiculous position you are taking).

    refuse to question anything.

    And yet you will apparently blindly believe any conspiracy website that postulates anything contrary to the established and understood nature of things, simply so you can fulfil the need to convince yourself that you're superior to the ignorant cretins that roam the planet like a herd of sheep.

    Since the number of people infected with STDs is rising every year, due to more and more people having more sexual partners, and not using condoms, why aren't there more and more people dying of 'AIDS'? Don't tell me - the 'wonder drugs' are magically saving their lives!

    Well, yes.

  8. Re:I's like to imagine the world with such technol on Mathematical Breakthrough Sets Out Rules For More Effective Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Even better, you can plug it in both ways at once. As the physicist said to the grad student.

  9. Re:Where does extra energy go? on Mathematical Breakthrough Sets Out Rules For More Effective Teleportation · · Score: 1

    You can not teleport an object from one place to another at all.

    But isn't the quantum state (which is what is being "teleported") exactly equivalent to a full description of the particle in question? Therefore isn't there absolutely no difference between doing this and what might be considered "classical" teleportation, i.e. the movement of a particle from point a to point b without travelling the intervening space?

    Also, keep in mind that, to my knowledge and I just did a quick check and found nothing, humanity has never entangled anything other than photons/light.

    How about entangling two macroscopic crystals, neutrons and all?

  10. Inverse Betteridge on Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience Or Cyber Crime? · · Score: 1

    Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience Or Cyber Crime?

    Yes.

  11. Re:alpha test? on TSA Terminates Its Contract With Maker of Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 1

    I call that in-flight entertainment!

  12. Re:alpha test? on TSA Terminates Its Contract With Maker of Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 2

    I think the more delicious irony (and I accept that this is a frequently-made point and in no way original) is that the terrorists, who are of course everywhere, now have a new ready-made target in security scanner lines. What better way could they get across the message that no-one is safe from them? And yet...

  13. Re:I call Godwin on Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out of Publishing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh how clever you are. Someone is going to mention something eventually, so it should be you first. fuckwit.

    You're not supposed to sign your posts when you post as an AC.

  14. Re:HIV is not the cause of 'AIDS' on Australian Scientists Discover Potential Aids Cure · · Score: 1

    I got that from Yahoo! Answers, fer chris'sakes. It's not heard.

    Hah. Not hard, obviously. Stupid fingers.

  15. Re:HIV is not the cause of 'AIDS' on Australian Scientists Discover Potential Aids Cure · · Score: 2

    How is HIV passed from women to men? Does it go down the man's urethra and somehow into his bloodstream? How, exactly? How much HIV is present in vaginal fluids, and how much, if any, vaginal fluid, goes down a man's urethra when he is having sex?

    Did any of you idiots bother to THINK about basic stuff like this?

    You clearly haven't, since all you're doing is asking the questions. Why don't you go out and find the answers? Then come back and present a little thing that the rest of us like to call "evidence."

    I'll do the first one for you. The second one is your homework.

    For HIV to be able to infect someone it has to cross through the mucosal membranes (the skin that lines the vagina, cervix, rectum, urethra (hole where urine/pee/semen comes out), mouth, nose, etc).

    Contrary to popular belief, there does not have to be a cut or a tear in the membrane for HIV to pass through (though the presence of such will increase that persons risk should they be exposed).

    I got that from Yahoo! Answers, fer chris'sakes. It's not heard.

    Do some RESEARCH

    Good advice. Why don't you follow it?

  16. Re:Alternately: Self Publicist Gets Free Advertisi on Kim Dotcom Reveals Mega Will Offer 50GB of Free Storage · · Score: 2

    I am Charlie Sheen, you insensitive clod.

  17. Re:I need closure on this anecdote! on China's Nuclear Rover Will Sample the Moon · · Score: 1

    Whoops. Meant to add, if you're going to copy-and-paste to create your summary, at least include something about the event teased in the headline - i.e., the sampling rover.

  18. I need closure on this anecdote! on China's Nuclear Rover Will Sample the Moon · · Score: 1

    Once settled, the 2,645 pound lander will...descend into a highly elliptical orbit 62 by 9.5 miles above the surface.

    I assume it does something after that...

    And are the Chinese going to be using miles and pounds while they mission-control this?

  19. Alternately: Self Publicist Gets Free Advertising on Kim Dotcom Reveals Mega Will Offer 50GB of Free Storage · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doctom says he plans to offer 50GB of free storage to all members...but has so far run into legal issues."

    I'm planning to woo Kaley Cuoco and elope to Tahiti with her, but have so far run into reality issues. Where's my free press?

  20. Anyone remember Dialpad? on Messenger App Brings Free VoIP to US Facebook Users — At a Price · · Score: 2

    15 years ago you could get free calls to any US landline from the browser without even (as far as I recall) requiring a login. What happened to you, Internet? You used to be cool.

  21. Works like a USB port? Wuht? on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ophelia works just like a USB port

    Err, does it? A USB port is a slot for plugging USB devices into. This is a teeny tiny computer that you plug into a display.

  22. Re:think of the possible implications! on Researchers Study Mystery of the Toddler Who Won't Grow · · Score: 1

    Progression of physical and mental maturation

    The summary says physical appearance. Slashdot summaries being what they are, it seemed unwise to read that as anything deeper than that she's the same size as a child. TFA teases about ageing, but skirts going into any details.

  23. Re:think of the possible implications! on Researchers Study Mystery of the Toddler Who Won't Grow · · Score: 2

    Sure, but the summary specifies that she doesn't age, so unless you know that's wrong, your point is kinda pointless.

    Inferring that she doesn't age from "maintains the physical and mental appearance of a toddler" is a bit of a stretch.

  24. Re:think of the possible implications! on Researchers Study Mystery of the Toddler Who Won't Grow · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're code must be awesome to look at.

    It's easier to read than your prose ;)

  25. Re:think of the possible implications! on Researchers Study Mystery of the Toddler Who Won't Grow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    !growing != !aging