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  1. Re:bird flu training itself to resist teraflu? on Bird Flu May Be Developing Drug Resistance · · Score: 1
    Quoting Wikipedia is the same as quoting yourself, since you could have technically gone and edited the entry to support your point of view.


    You have a bit to learn here. Wikipedia provides records of article changes. Look at the history. None of the edits today involved the sentence in question. I would have had to travel backward time to change it for this particular discussion. I suppose I could have written that sentence in the past, but I did not. I have not edited that article at all.

    But what that means is that the virus undergoes mutations at a certain rate. And eventually one of those mutations might lead to resistance to the drug. All the other variants will be destroyed but that very small population which has the resistance will spread very rapidly.


    This paragraph is about viruses. In it, you outlined evolution without using the word. Using correct vocabulary is a useful skill.

    For unclear reasons you are desperate to have the word "evolution" some place in the comment so here you go: EVOLUTION, better now?


    See there! You're learning. Maybe next time you can do it all by yourself.
  2. Re:bird flu training itself to resist teraflu? on Bird Flu May Be Developing Drug Resistance · · Score: 1

    Use the word "evolution" because "evolution" is the right word for the process described.

    "Biological evolution (from Latin evolvere = to unroll) is the process by which populations of organisms acquire and pass on novel traits from generation to generation."
    -- the Wikipedia entry.

    For unclear reasons, you danced around the obviously correct choice.

    Now you have cited the tangentially related phenomenon of bacterial antibiotic resistance. Why have you brought up staph? Influenza, whose etiology is viral, not bacterial, is the topic at hand.

  3. Re:bird flu training itself to resist teraflu? on Bird Flu May Be Developing Drug Resistance · · Score: 1

    The process is called "evolution." Use the word.

  4. nyud.net link on Fosfor Gadgets' Top 10 Weirdest Computer Case Mods · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Do what all the other invaders did on U.S. Army Testing Personal Cooling Suits · · Score: 1
    ersonally, I know that sitting in a slow moving car, with the windows down, in the Texas sun in the middle of the summer is quite hot.


    Use the 4-80 air conditioning system, 4 windows down and 80 miles an hour.
  6. Re:Why most geeks are male on Gender Gap in Computer Science Growing · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I am not a feminist. I just happen to be happy what I'm doing. Programming. I did not go into this field because there are so few women. I did it because I enjoy it. I was always really good at it and loved the challenges that came from something that changes nearly every day.


    Feminism is now often placed in opposition to liberty for women. I think I understand why you did it, but the cultural phenomenon is strange. It is unfortunate that many women who desire freedom and successfully pursue their goals dissociate themselves from feminism.
  7. Re:I tried telling a karaoke executive drm sucks on NYT Opinion Piece on DRM And P2P · · Score: 1

    Online karaoke is a fantastic idea. Of course, record executives will ruin it. It should be pitched using subscription or event pricing. I would pay $10 to supply an evening of karaoke when hosting a party.

  8. Re:Mac OS X problems on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 1

    I think Linky was the offending extension. I seemed to have two copies of it installed after the upgrade. I removed extensions until the problem went away.

  9. Re:1+1=2 on Slashback: BlackBerry, Cloning, Smart Hotels · · Score: 1

    There are 10 types of people in the world, ones who know binary and ones who do not.

  10. Re:Ethical concerns? on First Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    RTFA

    "She has been unable to speak or eat properly since."

    Speaking and eating are important.

  11. Mac OS X problems on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 1

    I have a giant bar across the bottom of the browser window. The bar has a red caret on the left edge.

    It will not open a new window. The little spinning disc pops up next to the mouse cursor, but no new window appears.

  12. Re:Q: So, then, tinfoil hats help you channel Bush on Aluminum Foil Hats Will Not Stop "Them" · · Score: 1

    Tin foil hats? No, no, no. Bush is controlled by a transmitter.

  13. Re:Not surprising on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    In Kansas, the world is flat.

  14. Re:You are only hurting yourself you know.... on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    I am certain that BWJones speaks for BWJones, not for Utah. In the same way, there must be many individual Afghanis who discuss the problems of Iraq.

  15. Firewire strategy redux on iPod Tax Causes Sour Apples · · Score: 1

    They had some weird ideas about Firewire, too.

  16. Re:Abbreviations with "w" on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    Saying "WWW?" Do you mean out loud with voices? Isn't the point of the WWW that we do not have to talk anymore?

  17. Re:How to learn spelling on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    You are wrong. One friend who reads many times more books than I cannot spell a lick.

  18. Registration free NYT links on LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Here, thanks to the New York Times Link Generator, is a link to the story that should not expire or require registration. If the /. editors were better, they would use it. The generator is great for blogs. Hail the generator.

  19. Re:regfree link on Neal Stephenson on Star Wars in the NYT · · Score: 1

    http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink generates NYT links that do not require registration and should not expire.

  20. Re:And now a PC suite version for non-Windows on Nokia Develops a New Browser on Apple WebKit · · Score: 1

    Check the supported devices list for iSync if you buy a phone for use with OS X. Nokia's site is probably no help.

  21. Re:Wishful thinking on Effort to Create Virtual Brain Begins · · Score: 1

    The distinction between real and simulated is misleading. Are viruses alive? That question is bad. Once we figured out more about how viruses work, the question of its vitality faded. We know what it does and calling it alive or not does not change that. I hope the concern with labels fades as neurobiology matures and we have the how of brains.

  22. Re:Thoughts on virtual thoughts on Effort to Create Virtual Brain Begins · · Score: 1

    I liked Foundations of Cellular Neurophysiology whose material overlaps with Biophysics of Computation a little. The former is more focused on channels while Biophysics of Computation seems to focus on neuron operations. I have read only a little bit of it, but I understand that it is good, too.

  23. Re:Failsafes on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    No way! Why didn't they all just jump at the last possible moment and save themselves?

  24. Re:Proof on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Are you telling us that octopuses are God's specially chosen people?

  25. Re:Finally! on Resurrection Ecology Gives Life to Old Eggs · · Score: 1

    I don't know about "romantic," but mating was plenty common. Mixed race people are all over. Did you miss the Essie Mae Washington-Williams story? Strom Thurmond, super bigot extraordinaire, had a mixed race daughter. How have you not noticed how many black Americans have white ancestors? Many Mexicans and Latinos have both Spanish and native ancestry. These races did not manage to treat one another fairly when meeting after centuries of separation, but making babies worked just fine.