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  1. Mendeleev! on Are 68 Molecules Enough To Understand Diseases? · · Score: 2, Informative

    From TFA: "Like the periodic table of elements, first published in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, is to chemistry, Marth's visual metaphor offers a new framework for biologists." OK, the article is thin and the work derivative, but the picture shows promise. I like any decent web-based periodic table, it just need links.

  2. It's not a subsidy. on Is It Good For Business To Subsidize OSS Developers? · · Score: 1

    It's not a subsidy; it's paid support. Do you want to pay the person you know, or the person assigned to ignore your bug-report/feature- request. If I contribute on behalf of a client, the client doesn't have to maintain a fork. I compete on knowledge and service, not secret incantations.

  3. Stay back! on NYT Explores the World of Internet Trolls · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a troll honeypot!

  4. Re:TFS on Nukes Not the Best Way To Stop Asteroids, Says Apollo Astronaut · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why not a spacecraft powered by nukes, as in Footfall by Jerry Pournelle?

  5. Re:brainfuck? on How To Show Code Samples? · · Score: 1

    Just saying the name can open doors -- doors marked exit!

  6. We need a jurist who understands the problem. on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    We need a jurist who understands that video preferences are a private matter. Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Robert Bork come to mind. Remember when this was funny?

  7. Wild Turkey Federation on WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates · · Score: 2, Funny

    Many of the plates belong to proud members of the National Wild Turkey Federation. These plates are offered by several states, including North Carolina where they are perfectly legal.

  8. Re:ZOMG Naked people! on EFF To Fight Border Agent Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    "...NAKED PEOPLE on his laptop?" Well, so does the judge http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/11/2056247.

  9. Re:Well, on Wikileaks Releases Early Atomic Bomb Diagram · · Score: 1

    "...be the sound of the Ambassador's phone melting from the heat of the fireball." -- Fail Safe

  10. Re:The Brain Uses the Cerebellum to Multitask on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 2, Informative

    And the recurrent cerebellar architecture reflects this automatic function: Porrill, Dean, Stone

  11. Re:Ads during programmes on The End of Broadcast TV as We Know It? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm dreading the day they start running 719x575 "banners" over programmes...

    The TV Guide Network (TVGN) has been doing this since day one, and it's growing. If the guide part is the program, then the ad part is now over 75% of the screen.

  12. Slots on The Apple II At 30 · · Score: 2, Funny

    From TFA: "[Jobs] opposed the inclusion of expansion slots... Woz himself had to demand their inclusion, and the two compromised on having four."

    Of course, the Apple ][ had seven (7) slots.

  13. Rear view mirror switch on Norman & Spolsky - Simplicity is Out · · Score: 1

    Perhaps one of the switches activates the electrochromic rear view mirror dimmer?
    http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/car-reviews/car-and-drivi ng/kia-sportage-87.html

  14. Cross platform on Firebird 2.0 Final Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I enjoyed using Firebird 1.5 for a small (24 table, 10,000 row) multiuser (8-12) database on Mac OS X (10.3, 10.4) and linux (RedHat 9, RedHat WS3, Debian) with the JayBird JCA/JDBC Drivers and Java. Everything worked cross-platform including declarative constraints, and the database export utility cleanly handled the endian change between PPC and x86. Firebird is an often overlooked FOSS alternative to Oracle.

  15. Proscribed? on Judge OKs Challenge To RIAA's $750-Per-Song Claim · · Score: 1

    From TFA: "Foremost, plaintiffs can cite to no case foreclosing the applicability of the due process clause to the aggregation of minimum statutory damages proscribed under the Copyright Act."

    Shouldn't that be prescribed ?

  16. Re:anything to do with that "bump" on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1

    Are you perhaps thinking of the occipital bun: Neanderthal Hybrid? The bump may represent differential brain growth or just be a place for muscle attachment.

  17. Orthoscopic? on CCD Image Sensor Inventors Win $500,000 Award · · Score: 1

    Did you mean arthroscopic? Or, more generally, endoscopic?
    Of course, that was some orthoscopic fix on Hubble!

  18. What to do... on PCs Plagued by Bad Capacitors · · Score: 1

    ... the article also discusses what to do if you suspect you've got a case of the bad caps.

    From the fine article:

    If there is a brownish substance oozing from the [caps], check your warranty and contact your computer company.

    Too bad opening the unit voids the warranty:-)

  19. I thought it said... on The Seven Laws of Identity · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...the identity layer it so obviously requires."

    I could have sworn it said "the idenitiy lawyer it so obviously requires."

    Sounds about right.

  20. It depends on who you sue on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If she'd sued the Russian space agency, she'd already be in the gulag. Going after NASA? Now, that has potential.

    Coming soon: All your spacecraft are belong to us!

  21. Re:I could have told you that back in... on Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. · · Score: 2, Informative

    "the area between [the] genitals and [the] anus"

    perineum

  22. Reminds me... on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the White House travel office firings.
    Of course this is just a meeting, not someone's career.

  23. Re:What undecagon? on 3XS Isotope - 11 Sided Gamer's Computer · · Score: 1

    Your're right. I miscounted from the front view. Thanks!
    So it's a triskadecahedron?

  24. What undecagon? on 3XS Isotope - 11 Sided Gamer's Computer · · Score: 1


    It's just a right, nonagonal prism!

    OK, I guess it might qualify as an undecahedron...

  25. Re:SI units please: on Users as Innovators - Why Open Source Works · · Score: 1

    Possible interpretations:
    Adjusted: after eliminating the outliers and trolls:-)
    R2 = 0.281: a measure of the correlation between x & Y; modest in this case.
    p = 0.002: a measure fo the probability that this result occurred by chance; very small.
    n = 30: thirty respondents were included.