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  1. Re:This May Bring Back The Old Cure-All on Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu · · Score: 1

    The body has to convert flax seed oil into into omega 3s. You need to consume 10 times as much for the same beneficial effects.

  2. Haven't you heard? on China Tests Anti-Satellite Laser Weapon · · Score: 1

    It's too expensive to employ American personnel, they'll be offshoring production to China in the near future.

  3. The Iranians didn't say they'd wipe Israel out on China Tests Anti-Satellite Laser Weapon · · Score: 1

    I don't recall in the last 5 years China saying anything about wiping another country off the map.Iran though, I do recall an instance or two. Actually they didn't say that. What you're quoting is a (deliberate?) mistranslation of what the Iranian leadership really said...

    http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_steel e/2006/06/post_155.html.printer.friendly
  4. Re:This May Bring Back The Old Cure-All on Cod Enzyme Kills Bird Flu · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are good reasons to take cod liver oil anyway.

    1. Helps with joints. Rich in Omega3 oils.
    2. Helps with memory and other brain function, including mental illness. another feature of Omega3 oils
    3. Helps with cardiovascular health. yet another feature of Omega3 oils
    3. Contains vitamin D, helps with bones.

    Either that or eat fish 2-3 times per week. I'm not a big fish fan myself but look at the Japanese or Mediterranean diets, high in fish. The longest lived people are the Okinawans, lots of fish, and seaweed as well.

  5. Re:Left vs Right? on Political Strife Erupts in Second Life · · Score: 1

    Actually I think the electoral system forces people into thinking left-right. When you go to countries with more proportional electoral systems, they don't really have a concept of left-right.

  6. Not necessarily on Cancer Drug May Not Get A Chance Due to Lack of Patent · · Score: 1

    For example, in the UK, the leading funder of research into cancer is a charity...

    http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutus/

    I have an incentive for this research to be performed. Call it enlightened self interest.

  7. Left vs Right? on Political Strife Erupts in Second Life · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really, do politics boil down to left and right? A single axis of political belief? Don't you think that's a little bit simplistic?

  8. Re:Private enterprises won't develop the cure? on Cancer Drug May Not Get A Chance Due to Lack of Patent · · Score: 1

    You seem to have forgotten about the Federal Drug Administration which is puts the multi million dollar barrier to entry in place. There is no free market.

  9. Ah, but you see... on Cancer Drug May Not Get A Chance Due to Lack of Patent · · Score: 1

    Canada has a nationalised healthcare system...

  10. Catastrophic failure, disaster recovery on IsoHunt Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    Mirrored systems, distributed information blah blah.

    No sympathy, at all. It's entirely possible to install a system which would withstand a nuclear attack and continue running, hell, these days it's even cheap to do it. If it really mattered to them they could have put a system in which the MPAA couldn't stop running. This is really just a story of inept system planning.

  11. Re:Yeah? Cos altairnano have lion-titanate batteri on Nanobatteries — Safer By Design · · Score: 1
  12. All my CPU belong to advertisers on x86 Linux Flash Player 9 is Final · · Score: 0

    I hate flash, with a passion. It's truly a triumph of style over content. Typically used by sites which sell $1.50 tat with 10,000% markup and call it fashion.

  13. Using a flamable cathode doesn't help. on Nanobatteries — Safer By Design · · Score: 0

    The reason Li-Ion batteries are dangerous is the sheer energy density. Most're graphite cathode.

  14. Re:Yeah? Cos altairnano have lion-titanate batteri on Nanobatteries — Safer By Design · · Score: 1

    Do the same charging circuits work? I'm already in the 'red zone' on my MacBook Pro and I've only be using it for an hour and a half... must have more power! Don't see why not, they'll probably even be on the conservative side for the battery, they talk about charging in 3 mins. However the product only just launched in September and the first shipment of cells has gone to an EV manufacturer. I doubt you'll get your hands on any cells for a while. I don't think they can do the volume required for phones/laptops yet.
  15. Re:Yeah? Cos altairnano have lion-titanate batteri on Nanobatteries — Safer By Design · · Score: 1

    No carbon electrode. It's titanium dioxide, already inert, nothing to burn.

  16. Why backport? on Video Interview With Linus On Linux 2.7 · · Score: 1

    I thought the odd numbers were "run with it" kernels. Leave the even number kernels static for bugfixing only.

    How about 2.9 then. Blue sky how would you design an OS for all the cheap commodity hardware around.

  17. Yeah? Cos altairnano have lion-titanate batteries on Nanobatteries — Safer By Design · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And it's on the market now. 10,000-15,000 cycles with little or no degradation, double the energy density of current li-ions. Ideal for automotive stuff, they're already shipping to customers.

    http://www.altairnano.com/

  18. Re:Better question: on The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    The potential doubling of your talent pool. So basically what you're saying is that male engineers are too expensive.
  19. Re:It's a difference of philosophy on Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air' · · Score: 1

    Uh, if you wanted to go with the flow, why aren't you using Windows? Windows is wrong for my purposes.

    It is plodding along just fine as well, with it's only-slightly-restrictive licensing practices. Which are obviously acceptable to the users of the system. What's the problem?

  20. What? They want it to be shit? on Skype Founders Develop Media Streaming Tech · · Score: 1

    One of the company's executives, Henrik Werdelin, said in a videotaped interview that Joost aims to keep the quality of television programming, its picture quality and its ease of use, but improve other aspects.'" So they want to leave the shit bit as shit but make more shit available more conveniently? Great plan.

    What is that people have with trying to "wed TV to the PC"? TV is pretty much crap, the more channels the more crap, it has little to commend it. The nice thing about the Internet is that it's easier to avoid crap. What's really needed is an easy way for people to automatically filter out the 98% of TV that should never have been made in the first place.
  21. It's a difference of philosophy on Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air' · · Score: 1

    Socialist/Fascist/Controlling/Anal. This is a problem! Something must be done!
    Liberal. If there's a problem, someone will do something.

    The first is the planned economy of the socialists and the second is the free market economy of the liberals. Over the years, it's the liberal philosophy which has turned out to be the most profitable. The former controlling philosophy there's the belief that you can control events, the second is the understanding that most of the time you can't.

    I'm not saying that Stallman is wrong, it's just that he's only one among many in the market and if it wasn't him it'd be someone else.

    You keep saying "too late" and debacle. Except that Linux is plodding along just fine. Feel free to get worked up about everything, but I'll go with the flow, along with substantially lower blood pressure.

  22. WebTV would be perfect on Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives · · Score: 1

    WebTV was actually a success with a million subscribers. It was rapidly purchased by Microsoft, before declining. I wonder why...

    WebTV had 8mb of Ram, no local storage, a 33kbs modem and ordinary TV display. But frankly something similar would be ideal for the family mentioned in the article.

    Today we can actually make use of an HDTV, add an ipod or similar usb storage device as local storage, plenty of RAM to run an OS and ADSL or cable. Linux, Firefox on 500Mb flash storage. It could probably be done for $50 by a volume manufacturer.

  23. For 90% of the population on Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives · · Score: 1

    Their PC is a black (beige) box which gives them an internet. They know nothing more than that.

    And we sadists in our wisdom unleash Windows XP as the tool to use. In fact it's a shite solution for that 90%. The Network Computer or similar concept is much better. All they should have to do is plug their tv, a keyboard and mouse into a $30 router and then forget about it.

  24. They were given water without electrolytes? on Woman Killed In Wii-Related Competition · · Score: 1

    She was killed by her own stupidity, water posioning So, tell me, how much water do you have to drink before you poison yourself with it? No peaking at google now. Ignorance rather than stupidity killed her, the ignorance of the people supplying the water and the ignorance of the woman herself. Water is generally non toxic, essential even, so drinking it is not stupid.

    Frankly it's understandable ignorance, I know it's possible to experience water intoxication and yes to kill yourself by really screwing the electrolyte balance but I have no idea what volumes of water would be required. And yeah, putting some salt tablets into the water would probably have saved her life so isn't the liability on the party organising the competition?

  25. M-theory and string theory aren't physics on The Trouble with Physics · · Score: 1

    They're simply not science. When we find some way to test them, then they'll become science, physics. Until then, they're just philosophy.