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  1. maybe on Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice · · Score: 1

    because it migrated there and didn't evolve there in parallel ?

  2. use it ? on US Sits On Supply of Rare, Tech-Crucial Minerals · · Score: 1

    I may be silly, but if those are *rare* resources, and if they are to become more and more rare, shouldn't states pile them up or save them instead of encouraging companies to build expandable things like cars ??
    What if we find that it can save millions of lives, or stop global warming or whatever, 20 years from now ?

  3. Re:police on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 1

    (I meant privacy, sowy)

  4. police on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 1

    It always boils down on whether you want to live in a police state or not.
    Of course, if everyone was tracked all the time, their DNA registered (cf big brother et al), then we'd catch most wrongdoers.
    Are you ready to trade your private life, for that ?

  5. options on The Dark Side of the Web · · Score: 1

    I see you never tried the -robot-follow option in google...

  6. Re:Contingencies on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    as long as you can get people using windows to install the latest build of perl and the necessary libs,
    then you're all set !

  7. Re:Placebo No Treatment? on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 1

    "In some countries reimbursement is explicitly linked to how well you fare against whatever the current standard of care is"
    I think that is because the state (which will refund part of the treatment price) doesn't want to spend possibly
    more money to a new drug that isn't any better than existing ones, which may have been used for years,
    and are better known.

  8. Re:Go for creator of child pornography on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 1

    most american kids are already overcharged anyway :)

  9. Re:"Not for ________ use" on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    or audiophile, then you can add as many zeroes as you'd divide to make homeopathy tablets :)

  10. swine oil on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 1

    Sounds like somebody fed them their own snake oil,
    doesn't it sound exactly like going after (known to be) unexisting weapons of mass destruction ?

  11. Re:Just because the math works doesn't mean it's t on The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force · · Score: 1

    I think you're mistaking measurements for math itself.
    measurements are always an approximation anyway,
    and depend on your point of view or the theories you
    mean to apply to what you look at.

  12. full clone on RFID Fingerprints To Fight Tag Cloning · · Score: 2, Interesting

    well, they'll just have to clone that parameter too.
    Unless of course the industrial process used to create the tags makes each one of them a bit different,
    hence defeating the identification in the first place.

  13. Re:Last mile bottleneck on Google Releases Source To Chromium OS · · Score: 1

    that's exactly what I'm thinking.
    I'm lucky to have 20mb/s down 2mb up, but even just uploading 400 15 megabyte photos with my speed takes a LOOONG time.
    I can't picture working on them going through my pipes all the time. (Even if you factor that you'd first upload them, then
    have just a representation of it on your screen...)
    Am I being an old fart here ??

  14. itunes on Respected Developers Begin Fleeing the App Store · · Score: 2, Informative

    For me as an iphone user, the biggest problem is the app "browser" or the app store.
    It is very slow, very cumbersome to find things.
    There are supposedly 100k apps, but somehow I can only get 100 games to show up
    on my phone's appstore, in a specific section. And when you install one app and go
    back to the store, the list has forgotten your position, so you have to reload everything...
    Mac's app store isn't any better. No real way to see big lists quicky, sort with keywords, compare...
    Apps abuse keywords, some have a hundred keywords just to attract searches. This should be enforced
    (and get your app stalled for a couple weeks).

    As a developer, I hate to see so many people copying other apps. It makes me very nervous to
    imagine having a great new idea, and to find out that 10 other apps do the same things a few weeks/months
    afterwards. And, relating to what I said earlier, I'm not really sure that people get to even see
    all the available apps.

    But, to get back to the headers here, there are millions of iPhones out there.
    thousands of apps. This is just the beginning. Try to picture it in ten years.
    Would you flee from such a big market just because there are too many devs ?
    Sounds silly to me.

  15. Re:In the right place on Fusion-io IoXtreme's Consumer-Class PCIe SSD — Impressive Throughput · · Score: 1

    I always hated back-seat drivers

  16. questions ? on Data Locking In a Web Application? · · Score: 1

    dude, do your business a favor : hire a professional.

  17. so ? on Newly Declassified FBI Docs Reveal Predictive Data System · · Score: 1

    The question remains : does it deliver ? And how many false positives ? How many real positives *before* they act ?

  18. Re:This does not help, Apple. on Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch · · Score: 1

    it and the code written against it are infinitely portable.

    just wait till I've finished to infinitely port it ! :)

  19. Re:OK, I give up...what is it? on Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch · · Score: 1

    read ars technica's review of snow leopard.
    They have a few pages on Grand Central Dispatch, LLVM etc
    http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars

  20. Re:Reality check on Measuring Input Latency In Console Games · · Score: 1

    of course we can, by managing how and when the input is emited !
    Or if we record the activity, we can tell the many steps the processing goes through.
    (at least electrically, that is)

  21. Re:I've heard that before.... on How Snow Leopard Cut ObjC Launch Time In Half · · Score: 2, Funny

    mod parent : should be the article itself :D

  22. world ? on OnLive Begins Beta Testing · · Score: 4, Informative

    somehow they assume that the whole world lives in the United States...

  23. Re:Privacy? Huh? on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    luckilly it didn't get raped !

  24. Re:Torture porn on US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity · · Score: 1

    remember that torture had been legalized by your former administration,
    the same people the majority of americans voted for TWICE !

  25. zilch on Your Browser History Is Showing · · Score: 1

    It did a lot of blinkin' and stuff then I got that :
    An internal server error occurred. Please try again later.

    Running safari 4 on a mac, normal browsing (not safe mode)
    I wonder, still, if it would show the data locally or does the server really have access to it ?