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  1. Re:Eat it, creationist fuckwads on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene · · Score: 0
    Cells are programmed to destroy themselves if they mutate too much and are a danger to the body. Cancer cells dont destroy themselves like they are supposed to and spread the dangerous mutation to other cells.

    Mutation / adaption / natural selection are different from evolution. Evolution is the creation of a new species from a preexisting species.
    e.g apes >neanderthal and company> corporate execs > people > slashdot readers,

  2. Re:What if the wings hadn't locked? on X Prize Launch At Mojave Spaceport [updated: success!] · · Score: 1

    perhaps if he was low enough he could go into a climb that would slow him down enough to ejact

  3. Actual altitude? on X Prize Launch At Mojave Spaceport [updated: success!] · · Score: 1

    There are several numbers flying around Here is the blurb from CNN.com


    SpaceShipOne is on its way back from a wild ride into suborbital space. The craft went into a fast roll shortly after the rockets fired. Pilot Mike Melvill shut off the engines and kept going up, folding the wings into a "feather" position to steady the ship. Radar showed the flight reached 358,000 feet -- well above the 62.5 miles needed for the Ansari X Prize.


  4. Re:UGA Cam on Upgrade Your Dog · · Score: 1

    the good word?

  5. UGA Cam on Upgrade Your Dog · · Score: 4, Informative

    The University of Georgia has been putting a camera on their mascot an english bulldog named UGA (pronounced UH-GUH)for years and broadcasting it up on their Jumbotron

  6. Re:Already Slashdotted Into Oblivion on 11,000 Words on the Star Wars Trilogy DVDs · · Score: 1

    I read it earlier today before it hit slashdot. And basically they say they arent going to coment on who shot first. Mostly they focus on the technical aspect of the restoration i.e. sound and video quality as apposed to previous releases..

  7. Re:How about just not watching TV? on Is The Public Stuck With The Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The first time people realise that now they arent gonna be able to tape survivor there's gonna be a big backlash. I just hope it doesnt come too late.

  8. Give me a break on Lucasfilms Nixes Star Wars Live Screening · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nowhere in there does it say that they were planning to pay Lucas for showing the film in the first place. Just like anybody would have to do to show the film in it's entirety with or without words.
    Check out this little gem from the article. said Christensen, who added that as far as he knows, Lucasfilm is the only such company that sweeps the Web on a daily basis and issues cease and desist letters on a regular basis.

    Wow I guess I was just imagining all those stories about the **AA on the front page of slashdot.

  9. Re:Hang on a moment... on Lucasfilms Nixes Star Wars Live Screening · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that the movie WASNT paying Lucas for showing the film at all

  10. Re:Try this car instead on NYT On Flying Cars · · Score: 1

    Even with trains you still have to have trucks deliver them. And trains are only good for shipping bulk long distances. To send goods to the next city it would be mass overkill to use a train.
    If everyone drove one or two passenger cars it would make our traffic situation worse as you wouldnt even HAVE the option of carpooling.

    Here in the deep south away from the major cities like Atlanta nearly everyone owns a car. You have to because public transportation is poor to nonexistant. However even in the midsize towns traffic isnt that bad because the population density is so low and everything is spread out.

  11. Re:We don't need this on Camera that Sees through Smoke and Fog Underway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably because it's easier for him to get moner for his research from the military. Many things we use as consumers everyday were started by the military.

    GPS, Radar, heck even the microwave (though that was more the British military.

  12. Re:Article is short on details on Camera that Sees through Smoke and Fog Underway · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking it takes three pictures from 3 diff angles. each will have a slightly diff view of the "target"(whatever you want to take a picture of) you can combine the images and remove some of the smoke/fog particles.

  13. Re:also on Camera that Sees through Smoke and Fog Underway · · Score: 3, Funny

    IIRC Sony accidentaly did that. If you engaged the night vision you could see through clothing. However, I think they recalled all the cameras that were capable of this.

  14. Re:For his sake on Why You Should Never Lose Your Digital Media · · Score: 1

    Yes AFAIK it's just a U.S> law. Thats why websites have the click through agreements that "I am over 13 years of age" when ever you sign up

  15. Re:experience is contrary to the process and freed on Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik Answers · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of what Tom Clancy has been saying in all of his Jack Ryan books since Debt of Honor. Politicians who come from the general worker population who serve their terms and then go back home.

  16. Not everyone knows about google!!!! on Will Google Launch A Browser? · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly there are a few people out there who dont know about google. I was sitting in the comp lab today and a girl asks "whats a good search engine" Me and another guy look at each other and say google at the same time. her reply? "oh I usually just use ie's"

  17. For his sake on Why You Should Never Lose Your Digital Media · · Score: 2, Informative

    I hope he doesnt have any pictures of children under 13 If so he is royally screwed. You're not allowed to put pics of children under 13 online without parental consent, And your not even supposed to put pics of people over 13 online without asking them.

  18. Re:FP! on Microsoft's Lobbying Priorities: Limiting Open Source · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you are let me be the first to tell you that posting comments like yours will kill your Karma faster than saying "I like ie more than firefox", "The prequel SW movies rock", or anything nice about GW.

  19. THE END IS NEAR!!!! on UTD Lifts Ban On WiFi Equipment · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know Microsoft will start asking Windows pirates to come forward on their own volition.
    Thats already happend

    *wonders if the tinfoil hat will protect him from the coming apocalypse*

  20. Re:Learing on Pirated OS on Is That Pirated Software? · · Score: 1

    I had to install win 95 then 98se upgrade on my old computers when I built a new one or had to reformat (which was often enough that at one time I memorized the license key I can still recite it if someone gives me the first letter of each section) I never knew if this was legal or not as I had the same copy on several comps but they were all owned by me. But since it was so easy I always assumed it was.

  21. DRTFA on LG Flatron 2320A 23" LCD Media Station Reviewed · · Score: 1

    WOW One of the first times I can tell people DON'T RTFA

  22. Re:/. reminders on Federal Bounty on Spammers · · Score: 1

    I beileive were at number 1569th M$ is teh 3v1l

  23. Re:Fixing the dupe problem on Federal Bounty on Spammers · · Score: 1

    WOW the first "screw karma" / "I know i'm gonna get modded down for this" etc. Post that ACTUALLY GOT MODDED DOWN

  24. Re:Plugins Don't Work Seamlessly on Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future · · Score: 1

    try having firefox report that it's ie 5+ (if it can i dont know) usually solves most of my problems in Opera

  25. Re:time to downgrade on Longhorn's Copy Protection Standard · · Score: 1

    win 98 will run just fine if you just do a clean install and only want to use it for ripping cd's. Thats what I did with an old computer when I was converting my cd collection to mp3 using win98se on a p300 with cdex to do the actual ripping