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  1. Re:WOT? NO CAPSLOCK? on Chrome Does Have a Caps-Lock Key After All · · Score: 1

    I would be happy with a feature where a long press on shift activates caps lock. I think thats more intuitive and less likely to be activated accidentally.

  2. Re:I for one on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: 1

    "Gay people,have normal children ".

    That is true, but they've been having them heterosexually so far.

    I suppose some of them have children by IVF, which (the way you have made the comparison) is not heterosexual sex. But if gay people have children by this technique they won't be using gay sex to accomplish that.

  3. Re:I for one on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: 1

    Why? Gay people have normal children all the time. Doesn't that give you enough data?

    I know what you're trying to say, but PLEASE, "gay" and "normal" are not opposites.

    By normal I meant "conceived by normal means".

  4. Re:I for one on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    such a procedure has the potential to clear up the whole nature/nurture debate in the case of homosexuality.

    Why? Gay people have normal children all the time. Doesn't that give you enough data?

  5. Re:Some scientific pursuits we should refrain from on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: 1

    To me, this is one of them. Don't you agree? What about if you could make a human-animal hybrid, would you do that?

    Or even cats and dogs, living together.

  6. Re:What does the wasp do with it? on Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Brings to mind the Platypus which uses electricity to locate prey. Maybe hornets use electric potentials as a sensory input.

  7. Re:Why only a small portion of the abomen? on Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile in Africa...

  8. Re:What does the wasp do with it? on Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets · · Score: 1

    I scanned the document but it seems to end at the point where the energy is collected. The don't seem to suggest how it could be used.

  9. Re:Why only a small portion of the abomen? on Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets · · Score: 1

    there's some chemical pathway from sunlight to [...] ATP

    Got to get my hands on that gene!

  10. No need for air? on Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets · · Score: 1

    I wonder how they would go on Mars? Should we give it a go?

    Maybe not. Hard to see what we would send to kill the hornets if they got out of control.

  11. Re:I'm just glad on A Peek At South Korea's Autonomous Robot Gun Turrets · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have worked in South Korea and believe me they take security seriously. I didn't see any Security Theatre at all while I was there. There were lots of guns and fences though.

  12. Re:There's a really useful aspect to these. on A Peek At South Korea's Autonomous Robot Gun Turrets · · Score: 2

    Most people who work on defence projects only see a small part of the systems they work on. There are a lot of technologies here. Optical processing, radar tracking. All of that has civilian applications and it is likely some of the software is commercial. Likewise the two axis mount for this device looks much like a mount for a CCTV camera or a telescope. The few people who actually know they are working on weapons probably do it for the money. Its a job like any other.

  13. Re:When/where do they masturbate? on Tour of the Closet Sized Living Quarters On ISS · · Score: 1

    I thought he was being a bit too clear when he showed his hands outside the sleeping bag. Thats not how I would do it. In answer to your question he has his own room and he took his pictures down to film the video.

  14. Re:Windows! Windows! Windows! on Tour of the Closet Sized Living Quarters On ISS · · Score: 1

    I thought it was amazing he could do his banking from orbit.

  15. Re:It actually looks kinda roomy. on Tour of the Closet Sized Living Quarters On ISS · · Score: 1

    If you compare this to the quarters on a sub it's really roomy.

    A sub has to slide through the water. The ISS has plenty of space to expand in to, however mass is still an issue.

  16. Re:No wasted space on Tour of the Closet Sized Living Quarters On ISS · · Score: 1

    I have self adhesive velcro pads in my van. I use them for pens, torches, etc.

  17. Re:Tiny teen crew quarters? on Tour of the Closet Sized Living Quarters On ISS · · Score: 1

    WTF is a lizard doing in the ISS?

    Somebody has to be in charge.

  18. Re:I love and hate on Tour of the Closet Sized Living Quarters On ISS · · Score: 1

    Microgravity makes it easier to make use of volume as well. I was surprised he had so much space. I expected a coffin shaped volume or a sleeping bag attached to the wall of a corridor.

  19. Re:Well, yes and no. on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    I know some people who worked on JORN who could tell me a lot about exotic ways to propagate radio signals but they would probably have to kill me afterwards.

  20. Re:Power... on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The ability to transmit VHF (TV) into the hinterlands had as much to do with multi-kilowatt signals as it did with frequency. Pump 60 Kw into a 2.4 GHz wifi transmitter with a good directional antenna placed on a high tower and I'll bet the punters in the outback can find a working hotspot -- probably one in China at that power.

    You would be talking about over the horizon radar, but it requires megawatts. VHF TV frequencies can refract, diffuse and (to a small extent) skip off the ionosphere. I reckon that 2.4GHz would be easier to pick up on Alpha Centauri than in China.

  21. Re:Why does this matter? on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    The Australian Federal Government has an obligation to deliver broadband services to people in remote areas. Telecommunication companies have to contribute a Universal Service Obligation pool which is paid to providers who service remote customers.

  22. Re:Free Australia.. on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    Yes we wouldn't want online pornography distracting the men from their sheep.

  23. Re:It's the idea of the future! on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    Unlike 3G networks, which lose download speed with more users, the analog signal would provide a consistent speed no matter how many users there were.

    Gentlemen, I think we've found our solution. With 4G, we need to first convert the digital signal to analog before transmission. Network congestion will be a thing of the past!

    Yes, of course... But with one catch: need to keep the population density to "nanopeople per square kilometer".

    In Australia, we can almost do that.

  24. Re:Dropped call rate of 0.1%?! on Consumer Reports Gives AT&T Lowest US Carrier Rank · · Score: 1

    (shakes head)

    You got negative bars on your signal strength meter?

  25. Re:Charlie Murphy virus? on Researchers Tracking Emerging 'Darkness' Botnet · · Score: 1

    Kuang Grade mark eleven must be only around the corner.