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  1. Re:Exciting Times on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Assuming there's been an increase in cancer incidence in recent history (not saying there's been one, I just don't feel like looking it up), I'd conjecture that it's primarily due to our greatly increased average lifespan, not any ill effects of whatever foods or chemicals we might have added to our daily diets.

  2. Re:You break the law you go to jail on Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wrong and illegal are not always one and the same.

  3. Re:And not really useful.... on Four Month Mars Food Study Wraps Up · · Score: 1

    The veggies were freeze-dried, not frozen. That significantly reduces their weight.

    Dunno about the meat.

  4. Re:Sad, but inevitable. on Kodak Ends Production of Acetate Base For Photographic Film · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree. There's a quality to film that digital has yet to produce.

    As a medium for documentation, digital photography is superior, but for artistic purposes, film is still a strong contender. There's something charming about the darkroom process, as well.

  5. Re:Authentication In Pills = Dumb on Motorola Developing Pill and Tattoo Authentication Methods · · Score: 1

    The pill itself isn't the auth - the pill uses your body to generate a signal which is used to auth.

  6. Re:Customers? quoting nobody at all on Google Plans Wireless Networks In Emerging Markets · · Score: 1

    You are correct, if by "nobody at all," you mean the first line of TFS.

  7. Re:Smartphones on Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test · · Score: 2

    Does that mean that people are getting smarter?

    No, just their phones.

  8. Re:Negativity vs. Competition on Sorry, Larry Page: Tech-Industry Viciousness Is Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    They're a huge company - there are plenty of examples of both in their history. Google Fiber is one of the more recent examples of good competition from Google.

  9. Negativity vs. Competition on Sorry, Larry Page: Tech-Industry Viciousness Is Here To Stay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This submission, and the comments so far, have missed some key differences between negativity and competition. It is possible to compete without being negative towards your competitor. Good competition (from the consumer's point of view) involves both (all) sides striving to create the best product they can. Bad competition is when, rather than improving themselves, competitors seek to cut each other down.

  10. Re:Clarke's Three Laws on Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the first law doesn't say anything about how long it will take to prove him wrong, nor does it even say he will be proven wrong - only that he probably will be.

  11. Re:Other MS products? on Boston Replacing Microsoft Exchange With Google Apps · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    "Boston officials said they vetted Google and are satisfied with the security protections that come with Google Apps for e-mail and document storage. Also, Boston isn’t completely cutting ties with Microsoft, as it will continue to use its other products, such as the Windows operating system on its PCs." (Emphasis mine)

  12. Re:Energy Density on Robot 'Fly' Mimics Full Range of Insect Flight · · Score: 1

    It's wild when you realize that even if the entire mass of the "fly" was a battery, it would only be able to contain 144 Joules.

  13. Re:Ah but can you not also make bridges out of sto on Google Pledges Not To Sue Any Open Source Projects Using Their Patents · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the summary:

    The patents covered in the OPN will be free to use in Free/Open Source software for the life of the patent, even if Google should transfer ownership to another party.

  14. Re:Negative Worth on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    CRT response times are usually better, too.

  15. Re:Dictionary on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    What about smaller conversions? Say, feet to inches to fractions of inches vs. meters to centimeters to millimeters? It's a whole lot easier to figure out what 3/10 of a cm is than it is to figure out what 3/32 of an inch is.

  16. Re:Unlocking of cell phones on White House Petition To Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal Needs 11,000 Signatures · · Score: 2

    albeit nearly obsolete

    IMO, a phone is not obsolete so long as it is capable of making calls.

  17. Re:hello hosts file on Mark Shuttleworth Addresses Ubuntu Privacy Issues · · Score: 1

    Why are you blocking something that Ubuntu does if you're using Arch?

  18. Re:hello hosts file on Mark Shuttleworth Addresses Ubuntu Privacy Issues · · Score: 1

    Agreed, I was considering switching to another distro for a variety of other reasons, and this just sealed the deal for me.

  19. Re:Infallible? on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, and there have been very few instances where the Church says the pope spoke infallibly.

  20. Re:Pure Greed on Why Australian Telco's Plan To Shape BitTorrent Traffic Won't Work · · Score: 2

    20% of people do 80% of the work. 20% of the people do 80% of the innovation.20% of the people use 80% of the bandwidth.......Seems to be how the world works.

    So much so that it's got a name.

  21. Re:Um... on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 2

    Yes, to varying degrees, but a lot of substances have fairly predictable half-lives in the body.

  22. Re:10nm particles... on Silicon Nanoparticles Could Lead To On-Demand Hydrogen Generation · · Score: 1

    The oxygen (and probably one of the two hydrogens, as well) is captured as part of the above-mentioned silicic acid. It is probably recoverable to some degree, although it may be impractical - hard to say without more detail.

    Impure water would probably work, but you may produce some undesirable by-products (perhaps even through reactions with the silicic acid produced by the primary reaction).

    Of course this is all educated speculation on my part, but those are good questions to be asking.

  23. Re:the problem is... on Little Miss Sunshine Screenwriter Gets Nod For Star Wars: Episode VII · · Score: 1

    So the stories will be sweet and not too scary and have a bunch of kids in the cast and probably have songs.

    Yeah, just like The Avengers broke down into a song and dance routine with a bunch of pre-teens.

  24. Re:Wrong economics? on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 1

    Science requires expensive labs.

    .

    That's why I paid lab fees. And had to pay to replace anything I broke.

  25. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    I've got a G2 0.5mm that I use a lot. Good stuff for the price.