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  1. Re:MUtation rate are known on Genetically Modified Rice Makes More Food, Less Greenhouse Gas · · Score: 1

    but stating that the result could be gotten by random mutation in the wild, or even breeding is overstating it , downright to a lie in many case.

    In which case? Perhaps pigs having bacterial markers in their cell walls? Perhaps sea slugs grabbing algae genes in order to make the cloroplasts they get from eating said algae last longer inside the slug? Random mutation is unlikely, but there are other ways for a species to get a new gene.

  2. Re:I bet they're not. on Aussie ISP Bakes In Geo-dodging For Netflix, Hulu · · Score: 1

    There are no laws governing DNS, just open standards.

    You wish. Different countries block specific domains from access. Why do you think there are proxies for The Pirate Bay?

  3. Re:Great example on Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man In Asylum · · Score: 1

    People, I was just bringing up a meme :-)

  4. Re:OEMs probably open to other OS vendors ... on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    >In the real world it not only locks rootkits but sysadmins out. Good luck next time you want to recover that botched Windows installed with anything else than "Microsoft approved" tools.

    Boot up a Windows recovery disk and then run whatever tools you want. I'm sorry, where's the "locks out sysadmins" part again?

    Unless, of course, said tools do not run on Windows, which is often the case.

    Your post reeks of being a clueless sysadmin since what I said above is blindingly obvious to a competent one.

    If only Windows recovery disks were the end-all of system administration. There is a much bigger world out there in systems administration that what your tiny windows show.

  5. Re:OEMs probably open to other OS vendors ... on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    Locking out rootkits is pro-consumer; I mean really, really amazingly fucking pro-consumer.

    Perhaps in your fantasy world it is. In the real world it not only locks rootkits but sysadmins out. Good luck next time you want to recover that botched Windows installed with anything else than "Microsoft approved" tools. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised: your post reeks of trolling.

  6. Re:Great example on Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man In Asylum · · Score: 1

    So you post behind 7 proxies?

  7. Re:And still on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 1

    Without Pluto what is Mona going to be standing under?

    Norman? The interesting part would be to know what Mona Jones was actually doing... but it still makes sense.

  8. Re:Oh God No... on Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    Independence day also had a few seconds shot with Jeff Goldblum explaining why he could introduce the virus to the alien ship but it made way for a shot of a nutricious Coca-Cola product.

    Did it? I actually remember seeing the explanation (something about their building an interface to our satellites meant that we could send a virus back).

  9. Re:ummm on How Close Are We To Engineering the Climate? · · Score: 1

    No, it won't. LHC at its highest energy doesn't even get near the energies that happen in the higher atmosphere when solar wind particles hit it.

  10. Re:could-a on The 5 Cases That Could Pit the Supreme Court Against the NSA · · Score: 2

    -There will be a nuclear terrorist attack on New York, perpetrated by Israel, the Bush administration, and the Pentagon, with obvious evidence right out in the open, and nobody will question it.

    Still waiting for that nuclear attack.

  11. Re:Most of the UFO sightings are bonkers, but ... on CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' · · Score: 1

    There probably are. Unfortunately, in many cases there is no available information to make an informed decision (which, by the way, means saying it was aliens is unfounded).

  12. Re: Shut it down on 5,200 Days Aboard ISS, and the Surprising Reason the Mission Is Still Worthwhile · · Score: 2

    Such a quaint trolling...

  13. Re:This just in: on The Pirate Bay Responds To Raid · · Score: 1

    I'm just pointing out that Mike at Techdirt's "Zero Marginal Cost, Infinite Good" argument applies equally well to empty seats at a concert or sporting event, or to lack of capacity crowd at a museum.

    Does it? Can you put an infinite number of people in those seats with marginal cost? I would posit you can't so it doesn't.

    By Mike's argument, 1) people should expect to be admitted free under such circumstances, and 2) the organizers should welcome them for the possibility of incidental business (concessions, swag).

    And they do. Not everyone, not always, but they do. Remember the last bar you went to that didn't make you pay for listening to the music they were playing?

    Obviously, it's a ridiculous argument in the case of a rock concert, particularly because the very same people who condone piracy often recommend that musicians make their living by selling tickets at live performances. But what makes it ridiculous is that there is an obvious, visible security apparatus in place at the concert that will either physically prevent gate crashers, or who will likely get them hauled down to the local police station.

    Of course, they are there _only_ to avoid freeloaders getting in. Never mind the limits of people in the venue, the need to avoid altercations, etc.

  14. Re: Shakedown on Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Wrong fallacy fallacy. Among other reasons: there is no fallacy in the GP.

  15. Re:Mod parent up! on Nanotube Film Could Replace Defective Retinas · · Score: 1

    Human eyes filters infrared and ultraviolet light. AFAIK, only certain cataract operations leave patients in conditions to see UV light.

  16. Re:Stop using Adobe Reader on Adobe's Digital Editions Collecting Less Data, Says EFF · · Score: 1

    Not exactly builtin but... there is a Firefox extension.

  17. Re:uhhh on Smart Gun Inspires Smart Mouse Authentification System · · Score: 1

    Autentificación is the Spanish term, too.

  18. Re:Apple REULEZ! on Why You Can't Manufacture Like Apple · · Score: 1
    Well, I'm a computer tech too, I repair tech all day long too, I also know one or two things about technology in general.

    My informed choice is I won't but Apple products. Yes, they are sleek and pretty, and do what they must mostly without a hassle. But, guess what? They live in their own little world: connect a USB hard disk that doesn't have the approved formats from Apple and your computer will ask you to "fix it". If you make the mistake to accept, say goodbye to your data (unless you have a tech around who knows the tools to get it back). Try to set up a network connection that doesn't conform to what Apple thinks wifi connections should do and you have to jump through hoops to create an installer so it gets set up correctly because Apple decided to cut the ability to set it up from your phone.

    These are just two examples of how easy dealing with Apple products is.

    "Oh yeah "Ooh, aah", that's how it always starts. But then there's running and screaming." (Ian Malcom, "The Lost World")

  19. Re:Baking Soda May Help! on If We Can't Kill Cancer, Can We Control It? · · Score: 2

    When you have lost loved ones to cancer -

    Excuse me if you aren't the only one to have gone through that.

    and watched them suffer horrendously and miserably after receiving chemotherapy "treatments" -

    Or not. Different people react differently to differente chemotherapy treatments.

    only to have their last days on earth be an agonzing, living hell for them -

    Sorry for that to be your case. Fortunately, chemotherapy actually avoids that fate in many cases.

    you start to question the validity of these treatments and begin open yourself up to the possibility that others who have had a very measurable success with unorthodox treatments may very well be onto something very real and special.

    Until you notice that they have had no measurable success, that they are based on quack science (cancer grows on acidity? How does that explain leukemia?), and that, actually, some of them have narrowly escaped being sentenced to prison for manslaughter.

  20. Re:tsa needs to protect us from this on Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague · · Score: 1

    SSD? Same USB stick?

  21. Re:Are You Kidding? on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    The gene that causes white skin is highly dominant, even with only 5% neanderthal DNA we still carry it.

    Would you reference that? As far as I know, this assertion is false because there several genes involved and dominancy is partial at best.

  22. Re:Whether it be scooing or schooling, it is dead on Slashdot Asks: Should Schooling Be Year-Round? · · Score: 1

    Boot reapplied. Dog driven away.

  23. Re: TCO on Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro · · Score: 1

    At the mercy of the vendor and the ability of your sysadmins to fool the program to run on Windows 7/8. I mean, it is an interesting challenge but I could do perfectly without it :-)

  24. Re:Its all because of graphics drivers on Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro · · Score: 1

    Or do most people lack the cognitive ability to use more than one OS, and need crappy 'Microsoft Essentials' classes to teach them anything beyond how to game and access their Facebook accounts?

    They lack the interest the same way someone who learns driving an automatic usually has little interest in learning to drive a stick-shift (actually, here in Spain there are very few automatic transmission cars so everyone needs to know about the stick-shift, but I digress).

    I deal with last-year undergraduates who still don't know about Word styles, who still write the content tables by hand (because they don't know about the possibility of using the title styles in their Word documents). Believe me, they don't care to investigate in most cases.

    Actually, most of them still will put text walls in their Powerpoint presentations so they can read them. And yes, they usually had classes about it in high school. But they didn't care.

  25. Re: TCO on Valencia Linux School Distro Saves 36 Million Euro · · Score: 2
    No. Unfortunately they usually don't. I support a university campus and I'm tired (not really, but it gets boring) of being asked for copies of university software by students for whom there is no licenced copy available. The reason? The teacher will be accostumed to using that software and doesn't even consider changing to another.

    Mind you, I'm not even talking about changing to Linux or some open source program. I'm talking about students (teachers too) persistently asking for Windows XP-compatible software to be installed in their Windows 8 computers when we aren't allowed to do it and asking for us to help them when the magically appearing copy of our licenced software doesn't work with their computers' Windows 7 or 8</semi-rant>

    So no, they usually don't know better: they stumbled upon the software (or were taught to use it by someone who already used it) and never looked back. I have even had teachers tell me (because some licenced-software seller told them) that the costless option I suggest is worse when the licenced version is the same software with some useless extras bolted in (and yes, I mean useless extras because they can be substituted with standard Windows software).