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  1. Natural Selection - Who would have thought it? on Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV · · Score: 1

    This is basically just playing around with the mechanisms of natural selection. Left unchecked, HIV would ransack the population of humans until the only ones that lived long enough to reproduce were the ones carrying this "defective" coreceptor.

    Eventually, all humans would have the coreceptor mutation and HIV would fall by the wayside.

    Now they're just talking about giving the faulty coreceptor to everyone, or so it seems.

  2. I second the "idiots" volley on Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check · · Score: 1

    Stuff you post on Facebook and elsewhere on the Internet is generally public. You know it is public, and you know you have no right to privacy for things you post in public.

    If you don't want to get fired for the stupid crap you do, don't paste it permanently in public for everyone to see.

  3. Re:Saucer separation on Netflix Creates Qwikster For DVD Only Business · · Score: 1

    I would think it was the streaming business that was doomed to failure. ISPs are implementing bandwidth caps everywhere, so it is only a matter of time before it is no longer worthwhile.

  4. Just in time for Windows 8 on Thin Film Transforms Any Surface Into Touchscreen · · Score: 1

    Now that Microsoft is trying to turn PCs into smart phones, everyone's going to need this to retrofit their monitors to make the UI usable, since it's completely unusable with a mouse and KB.

  5. Quality vs. Availability on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 2

    It's an important distinction to make. People come to the US for the quality, and people from the US go elsewhere for availability, usually in desperation.

  6. Fukushima Kneejerk to the Nth degree on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business · · Score: 1

    It appears Siemens has been taken over by helicopter soccer moms.

  7. Re:pfsense on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    I agree. I run pfSense in a VM on my ESXi box that serves as my router, file server, and so on.

    pfSense elevates the playing field to a whole new level of awesome. There's no point in wasting time fooling around with trying to make buggy and unsupported firmware work on hacked routers.

    To the OP, Just do yourself a favor and build an ESXi box to run your infrastructure and use a pfSense VM as your router.

  8. Re:what i think the USA should do is on Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers · · Score: 1

    How about actually capturing and prosecuting drug dealers in the US instead of simply using them to perpetuate the billions of dollars spent on the War on Drugs?

    See, this is the new USA model of warfare - perpetuate violence to keep the money flowing. There are too many people making too much money in the War on Drugs for the US Government to ever really want to win it - just like Iraq, and just like Afghanistan. The objective of the wars is not to win. It is to prop up various large political donors' industries.

  9. Translation on Intel's Thunderbolt With Fiber Optics Years Away · · Score: 0

    "There is still a huge amount of profit to be made off of our existing technology, so there is no need to come up with anything new at this time."

  10. Which 1 Million are they talking about? on Netflix To Lose 1 Million Subscribers · · Score: 1

    Are they talking about the 1 Million who left immediately when the price hike was announced, the 1 Million who left the day it took effect, or the 1 Million they expect to leave within a short time after it took effect?

  11. Re:Airport security who needs it on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    There is ammunition that will not penetrate the hull of the aircraft. Besides, a 9mm hole in the side will not cause decompression beyond that which the pressurization system can overcome.

  12. Re:still trying to install it on VMware on Windows 8 Roundup · · Score: 1

    I have trouble with VMWare, too. When the iso boots in ESXi 5.0, the machine inexplicably powers off.

    I got it running in VirtualBox, though... and it's pretty horrible. It's not even intuitive as a smart phone interface, and is difficult to use even with a touchscreen. The fact that they're trying to turn the Desktop into a Smart Phone seems pretty ridiculous to me. I certainly can't see large corporations moving this way.

    I do understand the reasoning though. The average 9 year old can use a smart phone, but probably not a computer. By unifying the interface between the phone and the computer, they're trying to create a smooth transition between phones and computers, which to them will hopefully spur sales of Windows Smart Phones for children. They'll try to convince parents that the Windows Phone is the better choice for their child because it is a seamless transition to the Desktop.

  13. Radical departure... on Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases · · Score: 2

    ... by turning a PC into an oversized, user-unfriendly smart phone.

  14. We've somehow managed to survive... on Jobs Bill Funds Safety Network With Spectrum Sale · · Score: 1

    ... without it for the last 10 years, why piss the money down the rat hole now when we can least afford it? Government make-work jobs don't recover an economy. Real, organic economic growth recovers an economy - that is - production that is based on the laws of the free market and demand. You can build something of little utility that nobody really wants or needs (especially since any police department, fire station, or rescue squad in the nation is a phone call away and any smart phone user can locate one anywhere in seconds).

    Then there's the question of why. Why does NYPD need instant, over-the-air access to LAPD? What could possibly be so exigent to warrant the expenditure on such a system?

  15. Re:Sometimes I think I feel this on "Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains · · Score: 1

    What you are hearing is subharmonic oscillation in a buck converter that is exceeding 50% duty cycle during a current spike.

  16. I ought to invent a drug for this! on "Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains · · Score: 1

    I could make a killing! An imaginary drug to treat an imaginary illness. It'd be like taking candy from a baby!

  17. Re:Let Me Get This Straight... on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    Nothing in the article states or even implies that they are using their own money, or that government is not subsidizing or outright paying for it.

  18. Re:Manufacturer should be disqualed from OC record on AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer · · Score: 1

    If you were Intel or ARM, would you really put any effort into winning an OC contest with an AMD chip?

    Hell no. You'd say "Well, we got 100MHz out of it, but couldn't overclock it any further because it was getting really unstable."

    After all, you're Intel, and have zero motivation to win an OC contest with your chief competitor's chips, and have every motivation to make them look bad.

  19. Re:Who is PAYING for it? on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean they aren't still getting the government to pay for it.

  20. Who is PAYING for it? on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    Is this project taking advantage of government internet grant money?

    I'd be pissed if the taxpayers were footing the bill for this.

  21. Kneejerk reaction! on Explosion At French Nuclear Site Kills One · · Score: 1, Funny

    We must immediately halt all nuclear decommissioning due to the obvious recklessness it poses! Isn't it obvious from this incident that all nuclear decommissioning activities pose an immediate, inherent, and almost guaranteed risk of catastrophe??!?!

  22. Re:On /. by the end of the day on After Firing CEO, Yahoo Puts Itself Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    ... for pennies on the dollar...

  23. The best second major for ANY engineering student on Ask Slashdot: Best Second Major For a Mechanical Engineer? · · Score: 1

    is Management.

  24. Re:What would this accomplish? on EPIC Uncovers: Mobile Scanners Not 'Certified People Scanners' · · Score: 1

    The courts have disagreed with your assertion and effectively neutered the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments when it comes to air travel.

    Look up "implied consent."

  25. Of course it is marketing strategy on Another Unreleased iPhone Lost by Employee In a Bar · · Score: 1

    They need people to keep talking about iPhone 5 so they don't forget about it while it is delayed. It is a very effective strategy to keep Internet chatter going, and it works. Now people are thinking "any minute now, maybe I'll hold off on that Android..."