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  1. NT on Stem Cell Therapy Causes Tumors · · Score: 1

    By definition, human embryonic stem cells have the almost mythical, immortal power to grow and divide indefinitely as they become the various tissues that make up the body.

    No they don't. Otherwise we wouldn't need to transplant them in the first place.

  2. Re:The list on The 20 Worst Games Ever · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Sir"? The word you're looking for is "Mistress"!

  3. Re:The list on The 20 Worst Games Ever · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dunno, that's sounds like my idea of fun >:>

  4. Re:Just Ask a Scientician on Calorie Burning Coke Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    One would imagine the optimality is in the blending of green tea extracts, caffeine and nutrients, rather than simply green tea extracts. Also, they explicitly state that they're optimising for increased calorie burning.

  5. Re:This isn't really new on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, and that's American football, not Soccer.

    So Rugby for pussies, then? ;)

  6. Re:WTF? on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 1

    Because nothing calms people down like a hit of speed...

  7. Re:Simple Child Care on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Be fair - the average goth is more likely to take both pills, and ask you if you can get them some speed.

  8. Re:Against cloned foods, you say? on FDA Set To Approve Products from Cloned Cows · · Score: 1

    But taking cuttings is.

  9. Re:Religious fundamentalists on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, it just got brushed under the carpet when a foe with a darker skin popped their head up. Makes far better political capital. You listen to Irish republicans, and they still consider Northern Ireland to be part of their country held by a foreign invader.

    Plus, the US really wanted everyone to forget, what with them being responsible for most of the funding for Irish terrorism.

  10. Religious fundamentalists on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: -1, Troll

    What? Did you think countries of religious fundamentalism were restricted to poor 3rd world countries?

    In a country where you can be killed for simply being the wrong flavour of Christian, is it really surprising that the ymight be a bit uptight about saucy words?

  11. Old tech on High Dynamic Range Monitors · · Score: 1

    Weren't there SGI monitors once upon a time that has an extra gun for rendering brighter highlights?

  12. Re:Simple tab solution on Google "Office" Released · · Score: 1

    So far from being useless, his advice is spot-on

    Only if you ignore the original desire, and instead focus on half-baked solutions.

  13. Re:Simple tab solution on Google "Office" Released · · Score: 1

    Except, of course, if you knew the first thing about Macs, you'd know that Command-Tab switches between applications, and not windows. Thus your "sage wisdom" is completely useless.

  14. Re: Ah, the travesty on Nielsen Ratings in the Age of the Internet · · Score: 1

    It's an escapist pursuit, the whole point is that it doesn't reflect the drudgery of every day life.

    It's the exact same reason why you don't get games like Scrub Scrub Toiletution: Pebbledashed Edition, Burger Flipper 2007, or Pencil Pusher: Return of the Invoice.

  15. Re:Push? on EU and US Reach Deal On Airline Data · · Score: 1

    Push technology, or the uncontrollable incoming flow of content, just does not work

    Surely in this case that is a good thing?

  16. Re:BSD License is better! on Linux Kernel Developers' Position on GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    I'm I'm not free to rip it off, then it's not free, is it?

    Play all the language lawyering you like, but GPL software is by definition not free.

  17. Re:who's on first? on Making Computer Memory From a Virus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Scan complete!

    423,827
    Viruses found!

    A new record!!

  18. Re:Strange on Group Fights Politicizing Science and Engineering · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it's interesting? Because you can? The requirement for goals is probably one of the most serious limitations of research.

  19. Re:I blame the PC users on A Mac Fan's Take On Vista · · Score: 1

    What about SGI users who've moved to Mac OS?

  20. Re:My Internal Struggle on Vista Shell Team now Blogging · · Score: 1

    In a world before social security, who else would look after them when they were old and frail?

  21. Re:Survival against all odds. on Dungeons, Cities, and Psionics · · Score: 1

    By the consensus control of a single character. When I was younger, my friends and I would always play CRPGs this way.

  22. Re:License on Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a neural networking system, so I'd hazard a guess that it's pretty vital to the project :(

  23. Take a lesson from history on Original Star Trek Getting CGI Makeover · · Score: 1

    When the BBC did this with Red Dwarf, they utterly ruined it. It was almost universally despised.

  24. Re:Next up: Fire that doesn't burn you! on Morphine Relief Without Addiction? · · Score: 1

    Marijuana is a non sequitur, he's talking about central nervous system analgesics.

    Why is it a non-sequitur? It has a general pain killing effect, a very good one at that, and it acts on the central nervous system.

    Please be adding some facts, rather than just asserting from an unfounded position of authority.

  25. Simple! on New Version of Mac OS X Leopard Leaked · · Score: 1

    Microsoft uses technology to keep people honest.
    Apple uses trust to keep people honest.