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  1. Evolutionary Intent vs Random Accidents on Cancer Is An Evolutionary Mechanism To 'Autocorrect' Our Gene Pool, Suggests Paper (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1
    This article seems to assume that there's some guiding philosophy beyond evolution. Nope, it's just random chance and selection. Mutations happen, and sometimes they kill the host (usually they get weeded by the immune system).

    Another problem with this article is that it seems to say that "cancer" is a single disease. There are lots and lots of different cancers, so saying that "cancer" is some kind of unified mechanism is bizarre. There's not a lot of relationship between lung cancer and leukemia, except that both involve mutations and failed apoptosis.

  2. Well, let's see them! on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    That Guccifer guy was just blowing smoke - he got some emails from a recipient's outside account, not from Clinton's server. If Assange thinks these are so incriminating, they should be released ASAP.

  3. Re:Oh great on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    I just closed mine, which I hadn't touched in two years anyway. I had to swim through about 20 popups offering me upgrades and "help" first, though. I was kind of surprised that they seem to have basically clones Facebook in a different color. Bizzarro Facebook World. I wonder how many of those "430 million" users are real?

  4. Re:After the deal... on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    I just utilized these instructions (after I reset my LinkedIn password due to the massive security breach they had). Worked like a charm! Linked out!

  5. Re:If we had flying cars... on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    By your logic, we do have flying cars, they're called "helicopters". They're just out of most people's price range.

  6. Re:Yep. on Is Denver The Next High-Tech Center? (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    And there are a lot of nice places to live with lower cost of living.

    The author of the article actually lives in Fort Collins, not Denver, so she'd probably agree.

  7. He was asked when he thought people would be able to have meaningful conversations with artificial intelligence, one that might fool you into thinking you were conversing with a human being.

    How about 1966? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re:How about on Is Denver The Next High-Tech Center? (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    For that matter, why stop there? Canada is probably pretty good.

    Just be sure to stop before you get to the North Pole. The pack ice won't support office buildings for much longer - global warming, you know...

  9. Hey, that's me! on Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Many of the stories about this say their systems "are about 56 years old and use an outdated computer language". That's actually a pretty good description of me! Well, I'm 58 and I use several outdated computer languages, but anyway...

  10. Re:The only possible hope on Hacker Guccifer Claims He Easily and Repeatedly Broke Into Hillary Clinton's Email Server (foxnews.com) · · Score: 0, Troll
    The guy who's really untouchable is Bryan Pagliano, the State Dept IT guy who installed and maintained the server, but who has been granted immunity by the FBI in their attempts to get Clinton. If there was a breach, why wouldn't he be responsible?

    IMO this story is not quite as credible as the Bitcoin guy's claim earlier this week. How about some evidence other than some emails from Sidney Blumenthal's AOL account?

  11. I'm thinking of buying a gas station, then having an employee come to your car and pump the gas for you! Maybe even clean your windows! I can't imagine why anybody hasn't tried this yet, it's genius!!!

  12. No, I am Spartacus! on Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin · · Score: 4, Funny

    -- digital signature follows jsdflkjjqweoieuwqeohglasjflksadjflqwjeer23492dlkfndvsjoiqeeut

  13. Re:240$/share? on Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In another article, it's made clear that he thinks it's worth $240, but sold for about $125.

  14. Just to be safe... on Can Switzerland Become a Safe Haven For the World's Data? (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    I keep my odd-numbered bits in Switzerland, and the even-numbered ones in the Cayman Islands. Can't be too careful these days.

  15. Re:it's not "gold from phones", it's TVs on Almost Nothing About the 'Apple Harvests Gold From iPhones' Story Is True (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    CNN's headline was "Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year". But it wasn't recovered by Apple, almost none of it was from broken iPhones, and it was for the 2015 fiscal year, which started on October 1, 2014. But yeah, there was 2204 pounds of gold. Presumably not troy pounds (usually used for gold), though, which are 82% of a "normal" pound. Other than that it was all correct, maybe.

  16. Re:It's the singularity on UK Hosting Provider 123-Reg Accidentally Deletes Customer Sites (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You also got a mysterious "-1 overrated" downmod.

  17. Re:It's the singularity on UK Hosting Provider 123-Reg Accidentally Deletes Customer Sites (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's agents in the present will probably mod you down for saying that.

  18. It's the singularity on UK Hosting Provider 123-Reg Accidentally Deletes Customer Sites (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    This is the second time this week a "rogue script" has deleted a web hosting provider. I sense a pattern.

    Oh, and the obligatory XKCD

  19. Re:facebook should stay out of it on Facebook Employees Ask Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try To Stop a Donald Trump Presidency (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the conservative view that corporations have similar rights to people, especially when it comes to politics?

    One corporation, one vote.

  20. Re:You can feel the water on your face on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    At least it's water from some freshly-washed hands, unlike whatever is on the door handle.

  21. Re:Don't use Gmail for your work. on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My employer uses its own domain for email, hosted by gmail. It costs more than zero, but at least we know the hosting company won't go out of business.

  22. Re:Cost them "potential" jobs? on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It may seem trivial, but when I get 00's of resumes for a position, honestly the first cull is going to be the obvious misfits and barring really eye-grabbing qualifications, trivialities such as misspellings (or mic-drop emails) for that very reason.

    00's? You just culled yourself.

  23. TWO USB Cables? on NSA Suggested Clinton Use A $4,750 Windows CE PDA (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn, no wonder it was so expensive.

  24. Re:Bizarre paragraph in the linked article on Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Both Alice and Bob have equal chance of rolling a head

    But Henry VIII had a much higher chance of rolling a head.

  25. It's true, I can prove it! on Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1
    Slashdot says there are 211 responses to this story, and 211 is prime! I knew it!

    Oh, wait, now there's 212...never mind...