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  1. Economist article on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1
  2. Re:I would have thought the opposite on Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer · · Score: 1

    ...as the saying goes:

    What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

  3. Re:Experiences of a beta tester on Distributed Computing and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    You can try Find-a-drug [find-a-drug.org]. They use an improved version of Think software that was used in the first phase of Grid.org Cancer Research to check for binding potential of small drug-like molecules (3.5 billion molecules library) against various active protein targets involved in development of several diseases (cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, malaria etc.)

    As far as availability and openness of produced results are concerned, I cannot tell much.

  4. Re:Satellites? Why in my day we used dogs! on Anticipating Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    Yes, but all the animal activist groups would skin you alive for plugging network cables into dogs.

    AFAIK, they've developed wireless interconnection millennia ago;)

  5. Re:Only a brief mention to the loss of the Milky W on An Enlightened Look at an Over-Lighted World · · Score: 1

    No driving at night for instance, or if you do, doing so using some sort of special equipment like night-vision goggles say.

    Now this is really chilling advice, unless they are obliged to use horns, of course;)

  6. Re:Where's China..? on China Accelerates Mars Program · · Score: 1

    No, China is where it always existed. The cited sentence tried to tell us that Centaurans or Ursabetians are launching Mars exploration programmes just now ;)

  7. Re:Just Curious on Microsoft Releases SP4 for Windows 2000 · · Score: 1

    2000 was a good year for MS, maybe it's because it was the last cycle before Balmer came in as Lord of the Sith

    You mean that Billy was more suitable for the job. Good point. BTW, that Borg icon is sooo 1999.

  8. Re:Pornography and Television are the miracle cont on Texas Scientists Spin Carbon Nanotube Fiber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Help people in third-world countries! Give them TV's!

    And satellite descramblers too!

  9. Re:Lindows on Talk With Michael Robertson · · Score: 1

    Reading between the lines I found the root cause for this anomaly:

    I've been using XP for over half a year now

    ...and...

    I'm still getting months of uptime

    Restart now. Due to the metatiming loop bug normal BSOD mode starts only after 3rd restart upon installation.

    which means I punish the poor things

    Of course, that may keep them in check for a little bit longer...

  10. Re:A little Economics 101 on Unemployed? How Long Until You Find That Next Job · · Score: 1

    According to Okun's law, there needs to be a 2.5% growth in the GDP in order for unemployment to go down.

    I think you are off the mark over here. Okun's law talks about relationship between an economy's *GDP gap* and actual unemployment above natural unemployment rate. Simply put, it says that for every 1% excess of the natural unemployment rate, a 2.5% GDP gap is predicted. GDP gap is relative difference between actual GDP and potential GDP. Potential GDP is a hypothetical output of the economy when real unemployment equals natural unemployment rate. Natural unemployment rate is estimated cca 4-6%, and includes frictional (moving between jobs) unemployment and first-time job seekers.

    So, where is your logical mistake? Firstly, Okun's law is a simplistic rule-of-the-thumb observation based on labor value theory (labor is the only input, no capital, no technological progress involved) applied to an autarkic economy model (no foreign trade, international movement of capital or labor). Secondly, it says nothing about structural unemployment (ie. nothing about IT sector in this case).

  11. Re:Very low levels of lead linked to IQ deficits on Trace Levels of Lead Shown to Lower IQs · · Score: 1

    The answer is simple. We need to make sure that everybody gets high levels of lead! They're clearly deficient in lead!

    Unfortunately, your premise is flawed and conclusion is too simplistic. First, we have to make clear which kind of IQ deficit is correlated with the lack of lead.

    In the case of internal IQ deficit, we can safely blame lavish government for inappropriate fiscal lead policy, which borrows lead in the open market to finance expensive and non-productive lead-gushing sector. Thus, in the process known as crowding-out, little lead is left on the market for consumers, who then have to compete with big corporations for leftovers of the lead pool. It is unnecessary to remark that this is highly anti-social practice.

    In the case of external IQ deficit, the cut is not so clear. Possible culprits include:
    - too high and/or artificially set lead-to-IQ exchange rate. It makes domestic producers of IQ non-competitive with flourishing sector of IQ importers.
    - too low marginal lead saving rate of Americans. It is known that only saved lead goes to the lead pool from which it could be distributed to lead-deficient borrowers of lead. If the pool is inadequately small, borrowers will turn to foreign lenders, effectively trading IQ for lead.
    - etc...

    Now, this is only preliminary sketch of the real model, which will be elaborated and published under GPL. Soon.

  12. Re:64-bit? Why? on Microsoft Commits to Using Opteron · · Score: 1

    16 exabytes ought to be enough for everybody.

    16 exabytes ought to be enough for anybody.

    16 exabytes ought to be enough for somebody.

    16 exabytes ought to be enough for nobody.