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  1. Bread? on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1

    Perhaps putting it in bread would be a good idea.

  2. The absolute best book on Where to Find Axles, Gears For Kinetic Sculpture? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    http://www.amazon.com/Five-Hundred-Seven-Mechanical-Movements/dp/1879335638/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in

    It has mechanisms and mechanical ideas that you'd never have thought of to do all sorts of interesting movements - ideal for any dynamic sculptures etc.

    And while you're looking for power sources, consider Stirling machines. Unlike steam, they don't use water so can't boil dry.

  3. You can still have an opinion on Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion? · · Score: 1

    This is /. where knowledge and experience are not required, and almost frowned upon, when stating an opinion.

  4. Insurance on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 1
    If you were insured, then just claim.

    If you fsck with the stuff and it then does not work then it could be considered willful damage.

  5. BSD is better on Scientists To Post Individuals' DNA Sequences To Web · · Score: 3, Funny

    That way if you share your DNA with someone they don't have to tell the world about it and you won't get ratted out to your wife.

  6. Those numbers can't be right on Company Announces $30,000 Prize For Solving iPhone Game · · Score: 1
    Perhaps many applications don't sell 9000 copies, but many must sell a lot more than that.

    Apple, and software writers, can't make a business work on numbers like that.

  7. Hubble Constant on Why Most Published Research Findings Are False · · Score: 1

    Many aspects of astronomy is definitely in the marginal group. That's why the Hubble Constant has converged somewhat, but is still in a state of flux and debate.

  8. Not all sciences are the same on Why Most Published Research Findings Are False · · Score: 3, Insightful
    There is a spectrum. Some sciences are very robust and some are highly speculative. If you include mathematics as a science, then it is the most robust and needs a robust proof to get accepted as being a "truth". At the other end of the spectrum are the "wishy-washy" sciences which have no proofs, just uncontrolled observations: climatology, paleontology, social sciences, etc.

    This latter group are far more prone to different interpretation by different people.

  9. The cloud is way better for many companies on Ballmer Admits Google Apps Are Biting Into MS Office · · Score: 1
    but it isn't for everyone.

    If you're a smaller organisation that has not got IT skills or dedicated IT staff, then the cloud can be very appealing. You don't need to worry about doing backups and data sharing with associates or traveling salespeople etc is a lot easier.

    In theory the cloud providers could go broke, with your data getting lost but that's a lot less likely than losing data due to a local server getting screwed.

    There is no single recipe that will will work well for all organisations. Some are served best by in-house IT and some served best by the cloud.

  10. No, you must give it a version number! on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 3, Informative

    A product family is used as a generic name for the whole family and if you don't have version numbers then you have hell.
    Customer: I'm using WizzoProg and getting this problem.
    Tech support: Which version of WizzoProg are you using?
    Customer: WizzoProg. I couldn't find a version.
    Tech support: Ok that must be the original Wizzoprog.
    Five minutes of confusion....
    Customer: Oh, you remember you asked for the version, I can see know it is V3.2.

  11. Even the Linux kernel on Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops · · Score: -1, Troll
    The Australians wanted to ban access to obscenety over the internet. That would have included the Linux kernel which has "fuck" in it in many places. That would have made GPL compliance hard: "Sorry we can send you the binary, but the source is banned."

    Luckily someone saw sense...

  12. You're wrong to think it linear on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Your ability to repay debt is not linear but depends on the amount as a ratio to your disposable income.

    Consider repaying $1000/month on your credit card. For many people that might be hardship. For most people, repaying $2000/month is not 2 times as hard, butmuch harder.

    Similarly, repaying $18k per person is a lot easier than repaying $32k, by much more than a factor of 2.

    Of course that's all academic since nobody seems to be planning on repaying this debt.

  13. Exccept.... on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 0
    Quite a lot is owed to American citizens who have kept their rights to be armed.

    It has the makings of a civil war.

  14. Boy that cried wolf on Windows 7 To Dial Down UAC · · Score: 1

    There's an old story about this, as true about the modern age as it was back then.

  15. Bad spending and bad lending. on US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers · · Score: 4, Insightful
    America as a whole, citizens and government, have a "charge it" mentality.

    Government don't want to tighten their belts because that's an instant turn off to the voters. Nope, rather rack up more debt and hope that you die or leave office before the shit hits the fan.

  16. Not just a funny on Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence · · Score: 1, Funny
    I wrote my best LISP programs when I was so smashed I could hardly operate a keyboard. And yes, they ran fine in the morning too!

    But that's LISP for you. Perhaps getting drunk helped shut down the C side of my brain or something....

  17. I agree on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1
    Yes, you learn a lot about how a car works if you have to fix it a lot. You also get to be a better driver if you have an underpowered stick-shift car since you have to listen to the engine more.

    But still, I don't want to have to go rescue a kid from a broken down car at midnight.

  18. It might work, but you're on your own on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 1
    I once unintentionally ran some 5V parts at 12V overnight (the ground leg in the voltage regulator had broken off). Some devices (the EPROM and LCD) failed but the RAM and CPU were still fine.

    When part manufacturers design and specify their parts they will often be very conservative. This gives them some room for process variance, changed materials, etc. Thus, one batch might work fine at high voltages and some will not. Or current parts will work but some future parts will not.

  19. Try "chuck" on Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well · · Score: 2, Funny
    It probably uses Google search engine or similar. Tell TSA-guy you're German and the "'s are part of your name.

    At $8/hr TSA-guy isn't paid to think.

  20. Even the most reliable on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 4, Insightful
    are prone to a bit of peer pressure and youthful stupidity now and then. If the car can't go fast or burn tyres then his mates won't pressure him into doing stupid things.

    I trust my son more than I'd have trusted myself at that age, but still...

    I'd like him to be able to use the newer more reliable car, but prevent him from being pressured into being a dick.

  21. Do you have kids? on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Much, perhaps most, dangerous driving by kids is caused by trying to show off to their mates. Limit the speed and power and the vehicle to its baic transport function. No fun trying to do a burn out in a car that refuses to do it.

  22. Google: $10M in prizes, MS: an XBox on Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced · · Score: 5, Insightful
    http://code.google.com/android/adc.html

    Anyone wonder why only some pissed off script kiddies are playing?

  23. Patented long ago on Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West · · Score: 1
  24. Hoaxing and pranking != journalism on Jobs Rumor Debacle Besmirches Citizen Journalism · · Score: -1, Troll
    Unfortunately it is very hard to tell on the www. Anyone who feels besmirched is taking themselves too seriously.

    Same deal for the "citizen scientists" who prove that cell phones cook eggs and pop corn.

    Or the "citizen paparazzi" that use photoshop to make nude pics of various actresses.

    Or wikipedia,...

  25. Chuck Moore has done this... on Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Moore designed his own language (Forth), an OS, chip design software and designed his own CPUs.

    I'd say he's well on his way to achieving this.