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  1. Re:The only problem is... on EU Resists US Lobbying As Privacy War Looms · · Score: 1

    Well, as I told you, it's not about doing the first thing at all, and never has been, and it is about obliging web sites to provide the second thing, and successfully follow through if they provide it.

  2. Re:Do any of these propeller-heads know how nasty. on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    As opposed to a two-way Mars mission, where the Mars they visit is a tropical paradise? While I don't necessarily agree with the mission idea, the pitch is that most of the problems that have to be solved to get to Mars in the first place (spending a long time in a lifeless void) are the same problems that would have to be solved to leave the passengers there (spending a long time in a lifeless desert), with the considerable benefit that you don't have to haul the resources for a return trip.

  3. Re:The only problem is... on EU Resists US Lobbying As Privacy War Looms · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know where you got the impression that this was about a right to completely scrub oneself from every server on the internet with a magic button. It's about the right to tell a web site, to which you have previously provided information, that it must remove that information.

  4. Re:Airship Ventures Out Of Business on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    Video from the investor meeting.

    Poor Mr. Hackenbacker. :(

  5. Loyalty on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's a suicide mission on paper, but if you spend half of the mission time going around solving their personal problems and buying stuff to upgrade the space ship, then everyone gets out OK.

  6. Re:apple tv? on Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's why he qualified the noun phrase "Apple TV" with "much-rumoured", to make it clear to those of at least a basic level of English comprehension that he was referring to the other, rumoured Apple TV product.

  7. Re:Something not mentioned - on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 1

    While I agree with your point about biology - living things strongly couple to each other in remarkably complex ways - asteroids and debris on the rocky planets are (compared to Earth) completely pristine due to the inertness of their environment, and the processes they are subject to are blissfully easy to model and use in interpretation.

  8. Re:We all know what will happen on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You have clearly never watched one of the finest movies ever made.

  9. Re:How old school. on The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains · · Score: 1

    AWACS? Galaxy transport full of servers? 747 carrying military intel all-star weightlifting team?

  10. Re:They aren't heroes on Anonymous Posts Audio of Intercepted FBI Conference Call · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Believe it or not, there are shades of grey between "I don't want 4chan dabbling in national security" and "I am a genocidal totalitarian".

  11. Re:Night vision on Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Many animals have such a coating, but not all do. Some of them just have bigger eyes, bigger pupils, better night-adapted biochemistry, or some other adaptation.

  12. Re:In America you can be cured of most diseases on Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered · · Score: 1

    It wasn't homeopathy in Jobs' case, it was some sort of special dietary regimen.

    I've heard the argument that Jobs was unlucky enough to have a form of the cancer that probably would've have been much better with earlier treatment; that probably doesn't apply to most.

  13. Re:Notice where the study was done on Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered · · Score: 1

    That should've been "business as usual".

  14. Re:Notice where the study was done on Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered · · Score: 1

    The last ten years have not been a good time for the metaphorical pipeline. I'm not sure what's goign to replace it - startups, spinoffs, and publicly funded grand challenges, probably - but business isn't cutting it.

  15. Re:Notice where the study was done on Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered · · Score: 2

    If you're pointing at "a larger body of studies" you're not pointing at one study any more, are you?

  16. Re:Correlation to human greed on Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered · · Score: 1

    That seems a little unlikely given how distinct they are in progression and histology.

  17. Re:Where is the peer review? on Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered · · Score: 1

    The links to the peer-reviewed papers are in the fucking article.

  18. Re:Notice where the study was done on Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I agree that the pharmaceutical businesses is a complete disaster area in terms of cures-per-dollar, you can't point at one publicly funded study and use it as evidence of that fact. It's spectacularly irrational.

  19. Re:Dark Side of the Moon on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    We have this thing called "luminance" that often distinguishes one colour from another.

  20. Re:Dark Side of the Moon on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    And I'm trying to avoid any confusion for people who interpret the word "bright" as appearing bright versus being well-illuminated.

  21. Re:Dark Side of the Moon on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have one. The mixture of wavelengths isn't even well-defined. It's any light with a spectrum that more-or-less evenly activates the different photoreceptors in the eye. And being "dark grey" it's of low intensity.

  22. Re:Dark Side of the Moon on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 2

    It receives more light, but it's actually a relatively dark grey colour so it's not very bright to look at. It seems bright at night, of course, but that's just because it's sunlit and everything around you isn't.

  23. Re:What was stolen? on Verisign Admits Company Was Hacked In 2010, Not Sure What Was Stolen · · Score: 4, Funny

    And twelve months, if we're to believe it was 2010 last year.

  24. Re:Dear republican candidates on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    How about, when they want to use someone's music as their theme tune, they ask them first? Throw a few cents their way? Maybe think about not being a dick, in addition to whether their actions are legally defensible?

  25. Re:Fair Use? on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    Fair use is slippery. There are situations where reproducing a whole text would be considered fair use, and situations where reproducing just a snippet would not be. In this instance a very distinctive part of the song is being used, promotionally, uncritically, and without modification so I'm not sure it really escapes.