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  1. Re:8 million? on US Government Introduces Pollinator Action Plan To Save Honey Bees · · Score: 1

    Well. I'm glad you've figured it out.

    Now I can go back to reading the Huffington Post.

  2. Treasure what little time remains in your lives on Google's Nest Buys Home Monitoring Camera Company Dropcam · · Score: 1

    All your everything are belong to us!

    (But we're NOT evil.)

  3. Re:Extremely Large Telescope on Construction of World's Largest Telescope Finally Underway in Chile · · Score: 1

    What a let down. I've seen M80's do more damage.

    You call that an earth shattering kaboom?

  4. Re:title should be... on Scientists Successfully Grow Full Head of Hair On Bald Man · · Score: 1

    Except that this is a ** very rare ** form of baldness. Not your typical male pattern type. Giving the majority of people tumor necrosis factors would 1) improve a number of other chronic diseases (described above) 2) cause quite a bit of excess morbidity (TNFs predispose people to some nasty infections and weird cancers) and 3) run up a very big bill.

    Interesting, not particularly important.

  5. Re:New Drugs on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Sorry, both aspirin and the penicillins cause significant harm. In part because of the large quantity of the drugs that are used, they are relatively safe but even a drug with a good safety profile will cause problems if used often enough.

    TANSTAAFL.

  6. Re:Arms race on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    The most likely way we will 'win' this arms race is when we figure out how to fine tune the balance between pathogenic and commensal behavior. Right now, we're tossing grenades at mosquitoes. Works to some extent but there is significant collateral damage.

    We may get there - we've come a long way in understanding the complexities of the immune system and the molecular biology of bacteria.

    Now, if we could only pronounce and pay for the things scientists are developing, things could be golden.

  7. Re:Arms race on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    No, the outer membrane IS a genetic component, with many of the parts synthesized in the cell and transported outside to create the wall. The mechanism for doing this is partially elicited by the fine researchers. But the wall is coded by the critters genome.

    And. no, none of this is an actual antibiotic. The breathless hyperbole in TFA is the product of too much caffeine and too little attention in the 'ol classroom. The research points to targets that the putative antibiotic can exploit. Given the ability of researchers to synthesize drugs based on the structures of the target molecules (even involves computers and other techy things), the possibility of creating a wall-disrupting antibiotic that would work on a broad class of important bacteria is a reasonable one, but don't buy any stock just yet.

  8. Re:Easier on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    The only place that needs to be regularly cleaned is spaces around babies, hospitals and old people.

    Nice try kid. Now go and clean up your room.

  9. Re:Lawyer on Ask Slashdot: How To Bequeath Sensitive Information? · · Score: 2

    That's right. Use a professional for a professional job. Create a relationship with a decent lawyer (maybe the one who draws up your will), pay them some nominal fee. Use the system the way it was designed.

    If the world goes to hell in a handbasket such that the rule of law has gone by the wayside, you probably don't need all of those logins...

  10. Re:Bipartisanship on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 2

    er, 12 cents. Same difference....

  11. Bipartisanship on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    When it comes to raising money, they can both get on the same train.....

    Anyhow, an 18 cent change all at once is never gonna happen. They'll have enough rending of garments and gnashing of teeth if they try to raise it nickel.

  12. Re:I'm sure the NSA wants their fingers on it. on Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    You don't shut down cell phones at the end point, you shut them down at the top. The carrier can do a better job of killing off cell phone reception at any given point and time than any 'kill switch' on the phone. Shutting down the towers and the C&C infrastructure assures that YOU have control and that grandma's iPhone 3GS (sans kill switch) is off as well as your Cyanogen mod super-clean-built-up-from-the-ground malware free, Google free, Apple free FreePhone.

    It can already happen....

  13. Re:Oh please please please on US Supreme Court Invalidates Patent For Being Software Patent · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Slashdot ate my sarcasm tag. Unicode. If only.

  14. Re:Oh please please please on US Supreme Court Invalidates Patent For Being Software Patent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nope. That was on the Internet. That is completely different.

  15. Re:More apps tied to an unreliable cloud.... on Adobe To Let Third Party Devs Incorporate Photoshop Features · · Score: 1

    I got something in return. A get a nice bill from them every month. Very nicely done.

    Without fail.

    (And in actually, the 'outage' was more 'outrage'. The vast majority of people worked unawares and unconcerned about the outage. The 5 people using Adobe's Beyance (once? isns? something like that - Adobe's halfbaked store front) and the two dozen people insane enough to leave their fonts on the Internet were annoyed. The reset of us just continued to be annoyed at Adobe's rather odd way of 'improving' things and buggy software.)

  16. Re:More apps tied to an unreliable cloud.... on Adobe To Let Third Party Devs Incorporate Photoshop Features · · Score: 1

    But they've SAID they're working on it. A whole new group.

    "We have top men working on it now. Top men."

  17. Re:Transparent Loot on Wikipedia Forcing Editors To Disclose If They're Paid · · Score: 1

    This is a "news" forum.

    News to me..

  18. They come by it naturally.... on The FBI's Jargon List: Internet Acronyms Galore · · Score: 2

    I grew up with this this list. It used to be on paper. That was kinda funny.

    I'm sure every TLA or FLA in the US has a similar LOA.

  19. Re:favorite toppings? on Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) · · Score: 1

    No - Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, Doritos, Anchovies

  20. Re:Sigh. on Endurance Experiment Writes One Petabyte To Six Consumer SSDs · · Score: 5, Funny

    We seem to have the beginning of a trend here - AC's don't have very good luck with SSD's.

    Try logging in and see if that changes your outlook.

  21. Re:Just imagine "if" on Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Nope, they're stupid -

    "Your prompt cooperation in this matter will be greatly appreciated and will help establish how IRS and other personnel violated rights protected by the First Amendment," Stockman wrote on Friday.

    Nothing like a good witch hunt now and again. Nothing like making your mind up before you even start the 'investigation'.

  22. Re:Just imagine "if" on Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I keep telling everyone, the NSA blew it - had they advertised their services as the ultimate backup, folks would have paid them to spy on everyone.

    Sometimes you do need some help from marketing.

  23. Re:And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just depends on your time scale. In the Carboniferous era, what is currently boreal desert was lush tropical vegetation. All you have to do is wait a couple of million years and you're golden.

    Or dead.

  24. Re:And hippies will protest it on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    They buy Ramen, that is utter crap for nutrition.

    Uh oh.

  25. Re:Really? on Average HS Student Given Little Chance of AP CS Success · · Score: 2

    So the US is right on target to increasing academic performance?

    I guess 'ol Winston was right - "you can count on Americans to do the right thing after they've tried everything else".