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  1. Re:Very Nice on Microsoft's new CLI · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The part that scared me is:

    The example I was shown was that the registry was mapped to a drive, and you could navigate it like any other drive, with the results being returned from the commandlet as .NET objects!

    Just what is needed, an easier way to corrupt the registry.

  2. Re:.COMmunist on Vietnam Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    Maybe because it is easier to enforce the licensing terms of the GPL than MS.

    MS doesn't like the "sharing" of software that is occuring in Vietnam, the GPL seems just a little more relaxed in this.

  3. Re:Losing business? Mybe we don't need it. on Vietnam Going Open Source · · Score: 1

    To quote the article:
    Microsoft Windows and Office cost at least $140 in Vietnam -- way out of reach for most people, where the per capita annual income is roughly $420.
    You know why they only get paid $2 a day? Cause a loaf of bread costs $0.05, and that is for a Westener that they KNEW had money! Local folks don't pay that much. That $2 a day is not bad money for the cost of living there. Folks really need to consider the cost of living when they start to complain about taking advantage people.
    The working conditions there aren't the same as in the West because.... it isn't the West! If it was the West, things would be just as expensive to manufacture.

  4. Re:Viruses are not always bad... on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ramshaw's team made its initial discovery while developing contraceptive vaccines for sterilising mice and rabbits without killing them. The researchers modified the mousepox virus by adding a gene for a natural immunosuppressant called IL-4, expecting this would boost antibody production.

    Instead, the modified mousepox virus was far more lethal, killing 60 per cent of vaccinated mice. The addition of IL-4 seems to switch off a key part of the immune system called the cell-mediated response.


    Seems to be standard "Oops" type science to me. There were trying to do one thing, and it came out completely different.