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  1. Re:Amazing! on IBM Researchers Working Toward Cheap, Fast DNA Reader · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, first we need a device to thread DNA through a tiny hole.

  2. Reader on Aging Discovery Yields Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    the solution is to be found in the ends of the chromosomes

    The solution is left as a exercise for the reader.

  3. Re:Recent Stonehenge Excavations on Miniature Stonehenge Discovered In Wiltshire, UK · · Score: 3, Funny

    You have to pass Stonehenge to reach customers?
    What do you sell to the ancient dead?

  4. Read the gauge or skip BP? on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1

    Your blood pressure is measured to help determine the status of your heart. The device controlling her heart probably does have status information. The usual way of measuring blood pressure, by listening for cutoff and restarting of the pulse, won't work on her. But it might be possible to measure her blood pressure with similar methods by detecting cutoff and restarting of blood flow, although I doubt a standard stethoscope would work.

  5. Re:two words on Banking Via Twitter? · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Hey, everybody, Susan has a balance of $347.88."

  6. Drink now, Citizen! on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 3, Funny

    It declares soda fair game for government intervention (PDF) on the grounds that "market failures" in this area are causing "less-than-optimal production and consumption."

    So the government thinks that soda companies are too important to fail? And they think that government soda five-year plans will certainly cause optimal production and consumption. I don't really want the government to ensure that I am consuming soda optimally.

  7. Re:extended periods unavoidable with crowds on G20 Protesters Blasted By "Sound Cannon" · · Score: 1

    Each 3dB increase halves the exposure time. Just for fun, let's work some numbers.
    88dB = 4 hours
    91dB = 2 hours
    94dB = 1 hour
    ...
    Do I need to follow this through any further?

    Oh, let's.

    31dB = 239 years
    34dB = 120 years
    37dB = 60 years
    40dB = 30 years
    43dB = 15 years
    46dB = 7 years
    49dB = 45 months
    52dB = 22 months
    55dB = 48 weeks
    58dB = 24 weeks
    61dB = 12 weeks
    64dB = 6 weeks
    67dB = 3 weeks
    70dB = 10.7 days
    73dB = 5.3 days
    76dB = 2.7 days
    79dB = 1.3 days
    82dB = 16 hours
    85dB = 8 hours
    88dB = 4 hours

  8. Re:The company should be named "Ear Damage", Inc. on G20 Protesters Blasted By "Sound Cannon" · · Score: 1

    135 for 9 seconds 145 for .9 seconds 150 for some small number I don't feel like calculating but you get the point.

    0.000000074 fortnight, or 0.09 seconds.

  9. Re:close the door moron on Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The building twisting the frame so the glass no longer fit in the frame is probably the reason it fell out. These are not the forces which you're looking for, they are forces much greater, which encompass the water, forces which flow around and through you.

  10. The location is... on Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam · · Score: 1
    The location is probably Google Maps: Vodaphone Ikitelli Istanbul Turkey. A news report says the Ikitelli district was flooded and Vodaphone was affected. Similarly, in Google Earth searching for "Vodaphone Turkey Ikitelli" takes you to that location, next to the 34-25 highway...with the right options turned on you'll see an "i" icon labeled Vodaphone.

    Move the cursor around the highway's region and watch the altitude info in Google Earth and you'll see the highway is a low point. The flood followed the highway. The highway goes past an area 1.5 miles northeast where three 100-foot-deep ravines join into one, feeding a lake which usually has one small outlet that flows toward the highway. This five-foot-wide creek vanishes into a culvert under the highway. The highway was built over the stream which drains the region.

    What you see outside the building is not rising backwater. You're seeing the river flowing through their parking lot.

  11. Re:First amateurs? Not quite! on HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap · · Score: 3, Funny
    "This is the first known amateur video taken from this height -- 107,145 feet."

    Yes, the 218 videos from 107,146 feet and the 342 from 107,147 feet are not the same as this one.

  12. Re:KSJ on Dymaxion Car Being Restored · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're undoubtedly trying to fix it with original parts. It's counted as original parts if it's the same part, even if it comes from a rusty hulk in someone's barn. The unit shown can be restored with sandblasting, polishing, painting, and replating. So they're probably looking for a missing part for the other side of the vehicle. I doubt that this vehicle would have had ordinary lights on it. So if it's not a custom part, maybe it's an aftermarket accessory. I don't have any 1932 automotive catalogs, and their availability would be limited due to questionable copyright status.

  13. Re:KSJ scale on Dymaxion Car Being Restored · · Score: 1

    You mean some sort of scale such as a thumb, the standard for the inch? It's about 3 inches across, The K-S-J is perhaps 3/4ths of an inch wide.

  14. So what is it? on ASCIIpOrtal Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    Merely describing it as a game is not enough. Summary should mention the genre or what makes it unique. We don't have time to look at every piece of software which is announced... particularly those whose only description is "Version 3, now better than ever!" Great, so GigaWonder is version 3, but what does it do?

  15. Neil review on Dead Salmon's "Brain Activity" Cautions fMRI Researchers · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that this is dead research which someone put into Slashdot and it seemed to show signs of life under this extreme condition.

  16. You! on Researcher Dies After Studying Plague Bacteria · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Chicago, plague study you!

  17. Re:About time... on California Publishes Television Efficiency Standards For 2011 · · Score: 1

    I think we all deserve better TVs frankly...

    Aye, but what we really need be TVs with a "stupidity" dial, matey.

  18. Re:1984? Not on Amazon Delaying Public Domain Submissions On Kindle · · Score: 1
    No, these seem to be books which Amazon has identified as being in the public domain. 1984 would not have been detected by this system. Amazon is detecting that the book can probably be legally published, and has chosen to not publish those.

    If only there were a way to review and rate book purchases so the buyers could decide between different versions. (Amazon search for Alice in Wonderland sorted by Ratings: 811 results)

  19. Re:Cat V on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 3, Funny

    II cats is about the limit for an RV. V cats are too many tails underfoot.

  20. 3G zoom on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    My parents used a 3G card while driving around the country, but it had a built-in antenna. I'd look for a 3G device with an antenna jack and connect it to a directional antenna on the roof. There are rotating TV antenna devices for RVs which could be altered to hold a suitable directional antenna. Or might an RV satellite dish mount be adaptable to focus on a 3G antenna?

  21. Re:NTY on First Rocky Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a planet out of my hat!"

    What... too late?

  22. Re:How soon we forget on Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Why should they not afford the same standards of safety to their ermployees and subordinates?

    Because it's their job? A Navy ship is safe at its home port, but that's not what a Navy ship is for.

  23. How soon we forget on Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those NASA executives have forgotten how they got on this continent. Their ancestors walked around glaciers or risked their lives on ships to get here. Then they had to find ways to stay alive long enough to have children. Then their children went to the Wal-Mart and stocked up on microwave popcorn.

  24. Re:Woo-hoo - on China Considering Cuts In Rare-Earth Metal Exports · · Score: 1

    Maybe you'll have to buy finished goods. Like neodymium crowbars. Then improve them a little.

  25. Re:Better Late than never? on Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw · · Score: 1

    My mistake, you may now mod me "-1 RTFA"

    First, code a patch for "-1 RTFA".