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  1. Re:Ancient Atmosphere on Old Materials Resurface For "Prebiotic Soup" · · Score: 1

    Are you genetically predisposed to being fat? Gay? Have heart attacks? Cancer
    Being gay is not a disease or a flaw, thank you very much.

  2. Re:Gay marriage won't be a problem in the future on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 1

    > I'm sure most gay men would rather be women.

    Most gay men are perfectly happy to be men, thank you very much. Being gay and being transgender are two different things.

    Some men would rather be straight women. Some other would rather be lesbian women. However, most gay males are fine and dandy being male.

    You really should drop those stereotypes. The 1950 want them back.

  3. Re:funny how... on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Riders and amendments are another check and balance in our government
    This is really a twisted way to manage a democracy, to me.

    I live in France and riders (cavaliers législatifs) are not allowed; the government and various policitians have tried to get laws with riders passed. This attempts have been repetitively shoot by the constitutional council.

    One law, one topic.

  4. Re:ports on Skype Addresses Visibility Concerns · · Score: 1

    Skype use only numerical address.

    You can block anything going over http or https that as a numical IP address as destination (ie deny 1.2.3.4 and accept some.home.com).

  5. Re:Indeed (Re:Wirewire drives?) on Bulk Data Storage For The Common Man? · · Score: 1

    That's correct.

    1 Tb = 10^12 b. A terabyte is a decimal-based number.
    1 Tib = 2^40 b. A tebibyte is a binary-based number.

    LaCie is not doing any trick there.

  6. Re:What's so good about it? on New Electrolux Trilobite 2.0 Vacuum Robot · · Score: 1

    The roomba is not a vaccum cleaner. It's a kind of mechanical broom sweeper.

    On the other hand, the Tribolite is a true vaccum cleaner, working by aspiration.

    It explains the big difference.

  7. Pollution ? on Road Marker Marks You · · Score: 1

    These is a good idea, that should increase safety for bike riders and cars.

    However, I'm afraid of the pollution hazard of batteries: most of them contains heavy metals (Li, Hg, Pb...).

    Same for solar cells: they are very polluting to produce, and contains polluting compounds.

    Increasing safety is good; however this very idea could lead to increaded pollution.

  8. Re:Anything at Thinkgeek.com on Expensive Geek Toys Roundup · · Score: 1

    I'd rather keep my radio-controlled watch than revert to mecanical ones. My current watch have an accurate time, the same then ntp-controlled computer.

    No need to type date to have the exact time when working with logs: just look at the watch.

    I've also got myself a RDS controlled alarm-clock (Grundig Sonoclock 620): exact time too. Alarm at 7:30 is exactly at 7:30 ^_-

  9. Re:fp on Braille PDA/Phone · · Score: 1

    WB for b/with.
    lcfd

    Is it right ? The first line is easy, I'm not sure for the second.

  10. Re:There are no pulses from pulsars. on Resolving Beachballs in the Crab Nebula · · Score: 1

    The hot spots are on the rotational axis, on the opposite poles of the pulsar.

    If one the beam is directed in the earth direction, we will see it. We will not see, however, the other beam, directed away from us.