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  1. Re:Genetic engineering for illegal drugs on Evolution Machine Accelerates Genetic Engineering · · Score: 1

    Seems doable today, if you are willing to invesr half a house and a few years into it. Too bad most people wiling to invest those are looking for more usefull results.

  2. Re:Welcome to the 1980s: on Evolution Machine Accelerates Genetic Engineering · · Score: 1

    "So, instead of throwing up their hands, Church et al appeal to using the above automated method and the microbes to sort out something that works, but again we really won't understand. At least at first."

    Seems a great tool for helping us understanding. It is probably much easier if you know more than one encoding that works.

  3. Re:Oh, this'll work! on Evolution Machine Accelerates Genetic Engineering · · Score: 1

    Those "some" that would say that probably don't know humans very well. What planet are they from? Were they engineered with a machine that increases evolution speed?

    By the way, what site is this anyway?

  4. Re:Counterfeit Bitcoins Caused Price Crash on How To Get Websites To Ban Sign-ups From Gmail.com Accounts · · Score: 1

    Except that being vunerable to counterfeiting is one of the (maybe very few) problems that Bitcoins don't have.

  5. Re:Next step.. on Magnetic Nanoparticles Fry Tumors · · Score: 2

    That has been done, several times, with varying results. Search for cancer vaccine.

  6. Re:Post-quake Japan? on How Japan's Data Centers Survived the Earthquake · · Score: 1

    It is a funny thing that people choose to live there, but the area is too dangerous for datacenters.

  7. Re:R/W access to all torrents ? on BitTorrent Chat Demystified · · Score: 1

    Latin languages use the word "si" or "se" for the english "if". I guess the GP failed at translating his tought.

  8. Re:So let me get this straight... on LulzSec, Anonymous Reason For PROTECT IP Act, Says RIAA · · Score: 1

    Well, they don't just want more laws... They want more laws that benefit themselves. Also, take care to clarify who exactly is the elite (hint, they are the ones with power to create new laws) on your surroundings.

  9. Re:"Mere Moments" on Future Actions Predicted From Brain Activity · · Score: 1

    The obvious application is to create a computer that reads your mind and moves your (artificial legs | exoskeleton | remote hight power actuator | watever) when you expect it to move.

  10. Re:So let me get this straight... on LulzSec, Anonymous Reason For PROTECT IP Act, Says RIAA · · Score: 1

    Nearly every CONgress on the world fails to even understand why you would ask something that obvious.

  11. Re:The botnets are mining bitcoins instead on Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible · · Score: 1

    So Bitcoin is in fact usefull for something?!

  12. Re:Oracle bought Sun for MySQL on How Long Will Oracle Stick With Open Source? · · Score: 1

    They'll more likely want to sel "services" (Oracle's definition of services) for those companies using MySQL once they grow bigger and management starts to wonder about "support" (management's definition of support).

  13. Re:Oracle bought Sun for MySQL on How Long Will Oracle Stick With Open Source? · · Score: 1

    XE is great if you are developping software for somebody that uses an Oracle DB, but you don't have one yourself. At least the last time I was on that situation, the Enterprise Edition wasn't free for that.

  14. Re:Never got 3D working. on How Long Will Oracle Stick With Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I'd guess that the best combination is some working OpenGL acceleration at the host, the corresponding drivers installed on the guest. I've had no problem with the guest drivers (except for programs that try to identify the GPU) on Windows, and I'd bet the Linux ones are even better. I've also had no problem with the host capabilities, using Linux when hardware acceleration is running, didn't try Windows, and I don't expect it to work with the drivers that come with the OS. Now, you have no chance of making it work if you don't have working acceleration at the host.

  15. Re:Perfect for Bitcoin mining! on AMD Llano APU Review - Slow CPU, Fast GPU · · Score: 2

    My best computers to peak under 300W. And they aren't old or slow (but they aren't the fastest ones availabe either, just near them).

    I'd understand if you have 2 or more GPUs...

  16. Re:Who buys AMD? on AMD Llano APU Review - Slow CPU, Fast GPU · · Score: 1

    Yeah, who would want some bang for their buck? Such idiots...

  17. Re:Why does your system break down from a USB memo on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    Unless that stick tells the OS it is a keyboard, of course.

  18. Re:Oh come on on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    "Would that many of you really not look to see what is on the stick?"

    Up to recently, I would. I'd assume the stick was a memory device, that would behave like a disk. Now I wouldn't. Somebody just made me formalize that assumption, and discover how dumb it is.

    By the way, I don't have a spare computer. Seems weird, but I simply don't.

  19. Re:People are not idiots - just different motivati on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    It will also almost guarantee that the found harmless sticks will be harmfull from now on.

  20. Re:Can someone explain me... on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but maybe he wants somebody to explain it to himself why he goes complaining about things he doesn't understand.

    I'd guess it is because everybody have some fear about what they don't know... Seems to be an evolutionary advantaje.

  21. Re:Vote right wing. on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    That is why the "right" and "left" labels are so useless. Nobody seems to agree on their definition.

  22. Re:They will make a fortune on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    "that's the only speed available in the 4th dimension."

    Your knowledge of General Relativity (or even Special Relativity) seems to be lacking.

  23. Re:They will make a fortune on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    "Except that's a bloody difficult thing to do."

    Yet, France does it. Yes, they had to work hard to create that capability, but hey, if you want a large power source, you have to work hard.

    "Nuclear power should now be treated like any other industrial process."

    You are at the right path, Nuclear should have more stringent regulaments than most other industrial processes. They should have more stringent regulaments than even the chemical industry because, altough nuclear accidents are less severe, the amount of power circling in a reactor make accidents way more probable. That they have a less stringent regulation on most countries is a shame.

  24. Of course the 12C is excited on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 1

    All the energy released from the 1H + 11B stays at the 12C nucleus, since there is no particle carring it away. So, of course it is in an excited state, since that part of the reaction is exotermic.

    It is quite common for the result of an 1H + X fusion to break into things with mass lower than X.

  25. Re:mostly the radioactivity... on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 1

    Yep, that seems fitting. Give a few MeV to that helium atom, and nobody will complain (loud) if you call it an alpha particle. Of course, it will lose a couple of electrons in the process.