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  1. ReiserFS v3 not maintained by Reiser on Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS · · Score: 1

    Novell and previously SUSE have basically been maintaining the version of ReiserFS in the mainline kernel. The choice is easy keep maintaining an FS yourself or use a maintained FS. Whatever the performance or other issues ext3 is the best maintained FS in the kernel.

  2. So the top tips for terrorists are on London Tube Dangerous for Technophiles? · · Score: 1

    1) Look the police in the eye
    2) Don't mess around with your phone
    3) Throw your bag down on the platform
    4) Don't wear a coat

  3. Re:I don't see this as anything amazing on Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes · · Score: 1

    I've read the PDF now and the second copy was in the RNA not the DNA. Which is the interesting but not against the principals of evolution.

  4. Re:The ability to evolve had to evolve on Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Evolution isn't caused by slow mutation. Darwin never said so. The main way evolution works is by reproduction and natural selection. Mutations only have a very small part to play and are in general not 'helpful'.
    The reason domestic dogs, cats etc. can be distorted rapidly is by replacing the natural selection by human intervention and selecting for another goal.
    Species form by separation of breeding populations when geographical boundaries are formed not by some weird slow/fast switch.

  5. I don't see this as anything amazing on Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes · · Score: 1

    DNA is full of all sorts of multiple copies of seemingly usless rubbish (tails in humans, the way flatfish bend into shape). It doesn't all get cleaned up in each duplication. What people don't always understand is that DNA is both the code and the copier. Mutations can change either the code controlling replication or the code for 'normal' purposes or both.
    All that's happend here is the code for copying has mutated to make two copies of a gene and another mutation in has made the plant use the non-stuffed up copy of the gene.

  6. 2.6.8.1 is really the latest on Linux Kernel 2.6.8 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    Due to an NFS bug a brown paper bag release was produced.

  7. Re:Are you nuts? on HP Recall on 900,000 Notebooks · · Score: 1

    memtest86 might let you test your RAM but it won't let your run the Windows only ordering code to get replacements.