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  1. Re: What's the big deal with the anti-GMO movement on CRISPR-Altered Plants Are Not Going To Be Regulated (For Now) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    In yesterday's post you claimed that:

    No one hates golden rice.
    That is a /. or "anti anti GMO" haters myth.

    Anyway, Cornell explains the Philippine position: https://allianceforscience.cor...
    The opposition there is a tiny minority of anti-GMO activists, not "the Philippines."

  2. Online retailers don't have to store this info on Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customers Records (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Just sign up with one of the tokenizing payment systems, like Apple Pay. The company itself does not have your credit card numbers, because they are in hardware you carry around. Each purchase generates a single-use card number that the vendor does not need to store anywhere after the transaction.

  3. For my part, I ordered two more items from Amazon today. And yes, it pays state sales tax here.

  4. Does REI stand for 'Reeks of Elon's Intestines"?

    I've never seen a poster so in the tank for any company or person.

    Versus a bunch of no-account ACs, who have no real idea why they hate Musk, it's just a reason to make up fake stats.

  5. Re: What's the big deal with the anti-GMO movement on CRISPR-Altered Plants Are Not Going To Be Regulated (For Now) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Anti-GMO organizations like Greenpeace have come out against Golden Rice as viciously as if it were a Monsanto product:
    http://thehill.com/opinion/hea...

    And have actually destroyed test plots of it in the Philippines:
    http://www.sciencemag.org/news...

    Now that Duterte is in office there, I'm hoping that next time the Luddites invade the test fields, he will machine-gun them rihgt there and let their bodies fertilize the plants.

  6. A more accessible place where you can see the same process happening is Thingvellir in Iceland, which is on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It happens to also be the location of the ancient parliament of the country, but researchers are unable to determine exactly where the original thousand-year-old meeting place ("Law Rock") was because of the continual movement of the rift valley.

  7. Suck it, useless middlemen! on EU's Long-Promised Digital Media Portability Rules Go Into Effect (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    I already do the same thing without needing EU regulations by using a VPN.

  8. Being able to incorporate genes from radically different species is a feature, not a bug. The testing process on each generation that results from your modification is the same as for an organism derived any other way. Many useful new species, specially designed for tasks like sequestering carbon, will flow from this.

    And remember, it’s going to happen whether or not the US is involved. Genetic engineering is a tool that will be vital for us ESPECIALLY if some bad actor gets the use of it.

  9. With any derived species, you have to test to make sure you have the characteristics you want in the offspring. With GM, this takes a short time rather than a long time.

  10. I fondly remember California open mindedness. It existed when I was growing up there. Yes, kids, it really did exist!

  11. Don't take this the wrong way, but you are a piece of shit.

    Seriously, kill yourself.

    No, if either of you goes to Pennsylvania, someone will do it for you.

  12. Re:Yeah, right! "Own a Home" on Duolingo To Silicon Valley Workers: Move To Pittsburgh, Where You Can Actually Afford a Home (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    San Francisco is historically beautiful, buy what’s “quality of life” about needles crunching underfoot, and bums reaching out to grab you as you walk down the street?

    Around here, when needles crunch underfoot you’re under a pine tree.

  13. Pittsburg has a lot of snow. Also one in three people will try to rape you daily.

    Pittsburgh has now totally outgrown its industrial past. Unfortunately, the city has one one zone, office buildings. There is no place where you can pick up a gallon of milk.

  14. Re:What's the big deal with the anti-GMO movement. on CRISPR-Altered Plants Are Not Going To Be Regulated (For Now) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    GM could be used by ISIS to create something like Ebola flu. CRISPR is at the same time our best hope for countering such a weapon. If we recuse ourselves from pursuing this tech, the ability of bad guys to use it remains unaffected.

  15. Re: What's the big deal with the anti-GMO movement on CRISPR-Altered Plants Are Not Going To Be Regulated (For Now) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Which is a legal problem, not a problem with genetic engineering. Note that the No GMO cranks hate open source projects like Golden Rice just as much as they hate Monsanto products.

  16. Re:CRISPR-ed on CRISPR-Altered Plants Are Not Going To Be Regulated (For Now) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    When we modify species by hybridization, we keep tossing the dice by mating individuals we hope carry the traits we want. Then we cull the offspring and keep repeating the process, generation after generation. All GM does is get us there faster and with less uncertainty.

  17. Re:CRISPR-ed on CRISPR-Altered Plants Are Not Going To Be Regulated (For Now) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Genetic editing is just a precisely targeted, one-generation way of modifying natural species the way we have been doing since the beginning of agriculture.

  18. The summary neglects to mention that the strongest result of the one study was that the rats exposed to microwave radiation had SIGNIFICANTLY longer lifepans than the ones not exposed..

    Perhaps this was because the rats with higher cellphone usage enjoyed higher social status, and therefore better longevity.

  19. Re:That won't break the internet at all... on Google Is Shutting Down Its Goo.gl URL Shortening Service (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the big rationale for shorteners is stillaround: fitting a URL into a text message.

  20. Re:Oh boy on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    EDIT: ...all over Paris.

  21. Re:Oh boy on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Has the art raised questions about the religious identity of those people who are slaughtering Jews ll over Paris?

  22. Re:Conservatism, (n.) on Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Liberalism, (n.)

    In present-day US politics, the marginalized academic cult whose members would hate Franklin Roosevelt and all his works were he to reappear among today's Democrats.

  23. Is it just me, or does this seem fairly petty and petulant?

    Of course. Pettiness and petulance from Brussels is why the British left the union.

  24. Re:Trumptatd alert on Galaxy Without Any Dark Matter Baffles Astronomers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    $1.7 billion, to be precise. And we didn't even get all of our hostages back:
    http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

  25. Re:Wanna die? on Boeing Hit By WannaCry Virus, Fears It Could Cripple Some Jet Production (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In what universe is an entire national medical system not the "wrong person?" If there was any way of getting at ransomware scammers, we would have deployed it by now.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...