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  1. Re:Curses! on Insects Develop Pesticide Resistance Through Symbiosis With Gut Flora · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Few creationists deny natural selection. (After all, Mendel was a creationist).

    Few creationists deny genetic mutations occur.

    Effectively, what we do deny is that these mechanisms can violate the second law of themodynamics (Best explained here: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/sewell/AML_3497.pdf)

  2. Re:Curses! on Insects Develop Pesticide Resistance Through Symbiosis With Gut Flora · · Score: 1

    Sorry: "... doesn't require insects to have modified DNA"

  3. Re:Curses! on Insects Develop Pesticide Resistance Through Symbiosis With Gut Flora · · Score: 1

    Really? Adding a symbiont doesn't require insects to have modify their DNA.

  4. Re:Don't eat T-Bones on Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California · · Score: 3, Informative

    This cow was destined to be fed to other cows (it was tested at a 'rendering' facility). So, statistically speaking, other infected cows have been processed and eaten by cows destined for food.

    Supposedly, high-risk portions (brain, spinal cord) are excluded from being turned into cowfeed, but have to wonder - do they get every last prion?

    The sooner they stop this nonsense, the better.

  5. Re:"What were you thinking?" on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 2

    Maybe they teach well?

    You know, the other thing that colleges are meant to do?

  6. Re:Slight Irony? on Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court · · Score: 1

    Yes, Amateur athletes and Pro businessmen!

  7. Re:So let's see... on Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court · · Score: 1

    Well replied sir!

  8. Issues of privacy are secondary.. on UT Dallas Professor Captures the Mobile Interactions of 175 Texas Teens · · Score: 1

    These are your tax dollars at work

  9. Re:contrary to articles of incorporation on Twitter: 'We Promise To Not Be a Patent Troll' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it will be

    The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive litigation without their permission. What’s more, this control flows with the patents, so if we sold them to others, they could only use them as the inventor intended.

  10. Re:contrary to articles of incorporation on Twitter: 'We Promise To Not Be a Patent Troll' · · Score: 1

    Eh? :) An incorporation process cannot nullify existing covenants retroactively.

    A future publicly traded company will assume both assets *and* existing contractual obligations.

  11. Re:No kidding on Microsoft Passed On iPhone-Like Device In 1991 · · Score: 1

    "Technology has to progress to certain points before ideas are feasible."

    Or they could have used DTMF tones @ 40-60 bps (or automated SMS messages) to transfer data point-to-point between mobile handsets

    E.g.:
    "Here's the meeting appointment for next Tuesday" ...
    "Got it .. I'll use Windows for Workgroups to invite the rest of the team"

      Or...
    "Here ... I'm sending Tom's contact details over" ...
    "Got it ... I'll add to my addressbook... done!"

  12. Re:2012 on Russian City Ever Watchful Against Being Sucked Into Earth · · Score: 1

    1) theft
    2) false dichotomy

  13. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: -1, Troll

    > a woman and a doctor choosing wether carrying her child to term is best for her and or the child.

    What about the child? I reckon, if you ask the child, it'd choose to be carried to term each time.

    I havent' heard of any suicidal babies. Have you?

    Remember, Mum body ends where her umbilical cord terminates. '

  14. Re:from the who's-to-blame dept. on Stuxnet Allegedly Loaded By Iranian Double Agents · · Score: 2
  15. Re:And it took this long to "make the connection"? on Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor · · Score: 1

    > You absorb 200 times this amount every year, year in, year out. all your life.

    Its not the magnitude, its the rate at which its administered.

    > Dental X-ray uses less than 0.01 mSv per image.

    Actually: "Dental radiography: 0.005–0.03 mSv"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#cite_ref-ecds_5-0

  16. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    I think its because hydrogen (even as a gas) is far more energy dense than a battery:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Common_energy_densities

  17. Re:Pass out the golden parachutes on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 1

    Won't be not as profitable as Western economies, but in emerging economies (india, etc), the RIM brand is BIG and seems to be doing well.

  18. Re:Great QOTD on Obama Administration Places $200 Million Bet On Big Data · · Score: 1

    Thanks goodness government is a non-profit enterprise these days.

    Harken back to the times of kings!

  19. You're mistaken on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 1

    > the bible says there were pre-Adamic people....
    > Female humans per se, were created the (allegorical) "sixth day",...

    No, it does not.

    See: http://bible.cc/genesis/3-20.htm
    "And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living."

    As Eve's the mother of all living, she would be the mother of these "non-Adamic people" too (unless they were not "living"). This contradicts your assertion that they predated Eve.

    This view (that Adam's children intermarried) is supported by mainstream genetics - 'mitochondrial Eve' is the term for the _single_ common female ancestor for all humans, just And 'Y Chromosome Adam' is our _single_ common male ancestor.

    See also:http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c004.html
    The law forbidding marriage between close relatives was not given until the time of Moses (Leviticus 18-20). ...
    Remember that Abraham married his half-sister (Genesis 20:12) . God blessed this union to produce the Hebrew people through Isaac and Jacob. It was not until some 400 years later that God gave Moses laws that forbade such marriages.

    Jewish tradition also asserts Adam's sons married his daughters.

  20. First they came for the adults acting out ... on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 1

    ... but I didn't speak as it was a private dispute between greedy and sleazy.

    Or was it between sleazy and greedy?

    In any case: its a private commercial dispute with no infringement on liberty implications. So no 'outrage mounts' from me. Let the courts sort this one out.

  21. Re:Truce on Push Email Suspended On iPhones In Germany · · Score: 2

    It's just the one computer (a pager) telling the server the status of a message ( it's been read), then the server automatically telling another pager (belonging to the same user) to mark the message as 'read'.

    Like IMAP.

      SAP GUI told users they had sessions logged on elsewhere, back in 2002.

    http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-basis/audit-of-multiple-logons-108489

    Obvious.

  22. Re:"Not a major overhaul"? on Stroustrup Reveals What's New In C++ 11 · · Score: 1

    And that is ironic

  23. Re:BitCoin on North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    "The value of a $1 bill would go up over time, meaning people could "make" money by stuffing it under their mattress instead of doing productive work, resulting in the economy stagnating."

    Hmmm is the "stagnation" true? and is it such a bad thing encouraging thrift?

  24. Re:I wonder... on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 1

    Um dude , laws are based on beliefs.

    You believe it's wrong to murder? Cool, so do enough of us to outlaw murder!

    Some of us just hold on to the antiquated notion that the life in the womb is human, and as deserving of protection as you or I.

  25. Re:Shooters "fled scene on small motorized vehicle on Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies · · Score: 1

    > Years of first person shooter games with enemies that fly around have permanently implanted the reaction into my brain.

    The fact the current resolution is a lot higher than what you're used to, should clue your inhibition engine to kick in ;-)