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  1. Re:Question... on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    It would have been "bloody" not "dang" or possibly even "bloody bastard" had it been said with a Welsh accent.

    But you bloody well know that, don't you boyo?

  2. Re:Oh don't worry on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    What if the guy worse than Hitler was taken care of by somebody going back in time and we don't even know he was born?

  3. Re:But what about... on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    What we need is a baby T-Rex in amber.

  4. Re:Someone forgot to tell these guys on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    Best comment in that thread: "03/14/12 at 2:36 pm How many times do they have to tell us they are going to do this?"

    They said they were going to clone the Thylacine a decade ago.

  5. Re:Want to get rid of spam or not? on US and EU Clash Over Whois Data · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's nothing to do with spam. It's so the intellectual property crowd can sue the right person.

    Think! Who else in the domain ecosystem needs to know exactly who you are?

  6. Re:Sony's Boink Thighboard Pot Go Strawberry Mu Ho on Motorola's Whacked Lapdock Can Make Raspberry Pi Base · · Score: 1

    "In a nutshell many companies are twisting their minds all out of shape as to how best combine the smart phone, smart tablet and smart book into as cheap and easily connectible system as possible."

    Is THAT what they're doing? Oh. Ok, well that's fairly easy, take the PCMCIA dock out of my thinkpad and let me stuff my phone in there. Problem solved on so many levels.

  7. Re:Here's a free best practice for them on Apple, Microsoft, Google, Others Join Hands To Form WebPlatform.org · · Score: 1

    Disagree. Links are underlined and a different color (to differentiate from plain underline)

    Un-underlined links don't look like links and I'd guess at best 0.0004% of the world does that.

  8. What he said. Holy crap...

  9. Re:Racist Idiocy on DNA Analysis Probes the End of Human-Neanderthal Sex · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The species problem really isn't that hard, in a nutshell it's what the expert(s) in that field say it is. Sometimes the difference in species is a tiny dot of color, other times to very dissimilar forms are the same species, but these are edge cases, in general if there's a way to tell two things apart, they're different species; what's often left out is the temporal notion of this - species change and grade into each other all the time. H. sapiens and Neanderthal met all the requirements for being different species.

  10. Re:Post bigotry here on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Doctors are just glorified mechanics good for repairing acute mechanical injuries but it should be clear from the almost zero progress on chronic disease they're not the end all be all. It's not like they're molecular biologists or something.

  11. Re:Post bigotry here on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Actually it was Albany and we fucking burned it to the ground which it was why it was moved to DC.

    No, we can't do it again so stop asking. We get this all the time. Eh.

  12. New laws of physics. on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    This is "relativistic time" that Einstein hinted at and examples abound in nature: the earth is always 6000 years old and new TLDs are two years away from whenever you ask; the latter has been true since 1996.

  13. Re:Post bigotry here on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 1

    Better than that, read on up the genesis and evolution of Christianity. Christians don't and would be in for a bit of a shock if they did.

  14. Re:Post bigotry here on US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell · · Score: 2

    "God and the devil are the same thing, the devil is in the details"

  15. Re:Just eat and shuddup about organic already! on Stanford Study Flawed: Organic Produce May Be More Nutritious After All · · Score: 1

    The difference is, you're not gonna be certified organic if you're growing on top of a gas station or factory that was bulldozed but left oil, mercury, dioxin or who knows what in the soil as the soil has to be tested and certified as part of certification. It's a whole lot more than just no pesticides.

  16. Re:Nitrates are perfectly healthy... on Stanford Study Flawed: Organic Produce May Be More Nutritious After All · · Score: 1

    It also helps when they don't measure nitrate content of freshly fertilized food. Which hot dog company paid for this?

    You're describing one part of the nitrogen cycle, what happens depends on the amount of oxygen and there are a couple of pathways here.

  17. Re:Nitrates are perfectly healthy... on Stanford Study Flawed: Organic Produce May Be More Nutritious After All · · Score: 2

    I call bullshit. Nitrates add to oxidative stress and the link between them and cancer is pretty well studied.

    http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=cancer+nitrates&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=

  18. Re:Better than MOOC on ROSALIND: An Addictive Bioinformatics Learning Site · · Score: 1

    Disagree. It already has.

    What it hasn't fixed is "schools".

  19. Re:WTFM? on WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual · · Score: 2

    Tell you what, write the manual and get a 90% refund on the price of the free software you're using.

  20. Re:Smart people don't read the manual anyway on WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual · · Score: 2

    " The meme ''read the code'' is not always a good one, especially if the code has few comments or just says ''how'' rather than ''why''."

    "Comments lie. Code never lies" - Keith Doyle

  21. Re:Kohoutek on Newly Spotted Comet May Shine Among Brightest In History · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm old enough to remember suggesting to Halley "hey, try looking over there."

  22. Re:Honest question on Rover Finds Ancient Streambed On Martian Surface · · Score: 1

    Very.

  23. Re:They shall call it... on Japanese Scientists Produce Element 113 · · Score: 1

    Japanesium.

    It has a nice beat and you can dance to it.

  24. Re:What a clusterfuck of documentation on Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software · · Score: 1

    Yup.

    One cold argue that it'd be easier to rewrite their shit so it just amounts to a DHT put and a get and they're done. But they're pretty lost sold it seems.

    If you demod something that did exactly what they wanted and had it's own API (JS under node would be about right) I have a feeling their API would go the way of the ISO protocols...

  25. Re:What a clusterfuck of documentation on Gates and Others Offer $150k For Open Source School Software · · Score: 1

    Duh. Why do you think they're willing to pay 150K for two easy apps. But it's still a good idea, they get to pick from a bunch and might find a clever one.

    All their deliverables so far reek of cluelessness, but that's ok, they can be taught.