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  1. Re:Seriously, guys on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 1

    Please let us not forget J. Edgar and COINTELPRO

  2. Re:these United States? on A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web · · Score: 1

    The phrase "these United States" has been used only rarely, at least in the publications scanned by google, and much more Post-Civil war than before. There is a curious spike in 1983.

  3. Re:best FF upgrade FAIL on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1
    Belay that request.

    FF 3.6 here

  4. Re:best FF upgrade FAIL on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1
    I did the upgrade and received the notice that it won't work on my 10.4.11 Mac. Mozilla could have checked the useragent and known it wouldn't work and they could have posted something on the download page to tell me it wouldn't work but they didn't, until after I installed it.

    Installation removed my working FF3.6.24. I backed it up but, for some reason, I can't move it back into the Applications folder. sudo cp -r {source} /Applications doesn't change the Applications directory.

    So know I'm using Safari and lost all the plugins.

    Does anyone know a way to go back to 3.6? I'm otherwise happy with the 10.4 macos.

  5. Better Links on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 2

    It was a Nature article. The Weather Underground has a thoughtful discussion.

  6. Re:Why not repeat the genome sequencing? on Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA · · Score: 1

    The variances are what makes us different, one from another. Medical research is very interested in why some people get diseases and others do not. The 1000 Genomes Project was announced in 2008 and finished its pilot study last year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Genomes_Project

  7. Re:Why not repeat the genome sequencing? on Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA · · Score: 1

    Well, my first response is, feel free to try it.

    But remember the source material is one individual's genetic material. I believe in the original study they repeated the chemistry many times to be sure the findings were consistent. Assuming you can get this individual to give you some DNA why do you think it won't be contaminated as well. Remember that there are a large number of genes that have not been associated with some function. Personally I think it is more important to figure out what the proteins are doing and how they work together than worry about a 1% error in the bookkeeping.

  8. Re:Why not repeat the genome sequencing? on Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA · · Score: 2

    From the abstract

    "We ... suggest there is a need to clean up genomic databases but fear current tools will be inadequate to catch genes which have jumped the silicon barrier. "

    http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4192

  9. Here is the better link on Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development · · Score: 2

    http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8127804.stm 2009 BBC link The input filter cut our the url and tthe html in the parent, sorry about that

  10. Here's a 2009 BBC article with some description of the tech

  11. Re:The universe of stars is finite on How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble · · Score: 1
    As Edgar Allen Poe among others has noted the dark background of the night sky means there are not an infinite number of stars out there.

    .

    The spiritual universe may be infinite and perhaps the unobservable universe(s) as well.

  12. 50 years of ephaptic transmission on Research Finds That Electric Fields Help Neurons Fire · · Score: 2
    Ephaptic transmission was a buzzword in the 1950-60's, just google it. Yes it can be demonstrated to exist but it is way out of the mainstream.

    In pre-digital telephones there was a phenomenon called crosstalk where you could here faintly and sporadically someone else's conversation. Imagine if you were studying the phone system to try and discover how the city or country "thinks". Would you spend a lot of time analyzing the crosstalk?

    Oh, and notice that this research was done in brain slices, Perhaps the effects are even less prominent in intact brains.

  13. Re:It's not a mystery, people are just dumb on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 1

    Um, this notice refers to a time still in the future. It could be in response to last night's event but it doesn't shed much light on the mystery.

  14. Re:Evolutionary perspective on You Have Taste Receptors In Your Lungs · · Score: 1

    From the abstract, it's a Calcium-activated Potassium channel (BK) that leads to the smooth muscle relaxation.

    agonist > TAS2R (a GPCR) > Gaq > plB > IP3 > ^Ca++ > open BK > hyperpolarization > close voltage-sensitive CaV channels > relaxation

    Maybe this study explains the action of Vick's Vapor Rub or the eucalyptus oil ingredient.

  15. The lameness " " (filter) prevents entering more Arabic here

  16. Re:Chip? Why? on Photovoltaic Eye Implant Could Give Sight To the Blind · · Score: 1

    I know it's just ranting but I'd like to let people know that there are processors in the eye. The message sent to the brain is not just a bmp representation of the image on the retina. Wikipedia probably knows more.

  17. Re:Should read: Low res grainy 2D video on A High-Res 3D Video of the Embryonic Heartbeat · · Score: 1

    The 3-D video is still in Texas. Actually they probably haven't assembled it into a "glasses version". They are probably planning to let users "focus through" and select their z-depth and see the section there. They could also allow viewing from any angle. The voxels are all in the computer, they haven't hired on the producer to make the fancy version. The viewer has to be sitting at their computer choosing the POV and depth.

    Resolution here refers to the distance between two resolvable features in the specimen, not the height of the viewing screen. They claimed it to be 6 micrometers, I'd guess that refers to all three directions. The whole heart sac is about 0.2 mm across so they have about 30 "grains" across the heart. Going to 4 micrometers in the z direction should be easy, just an expensive commercial laser upgrade. Going to 2 or better in the x-y direction depends on scanners, the a-d rate and the ability to dump it into ram. I don't think anyone is doing 2 micrometer z-resolved OCT.

  18. Re:Sounds a lot like Kudzu on Alabama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can eat kudzu leaves as salad or boiled greens. Goats will eat it as well.

  19. Think Biology on Intel's Roadmap Includes 4nm Fab in 2022 · · Score: 1


    It's about the size of the channels that gate the flow of electricity across nerve membranes.

  20. Re:better then their fishing 'algorithm' on A Look At Google's Email Spam Prevention · · Score: 1

    Change the extension to, say, .eee and tell the recipient to change it back again.

  21. Intentionaly and with a computer, not a telescope on Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered By New York Teen · · Score: 1

    Hearing that a 16 year old had found a supernova she pronounced "I could beat her".

  22. Re:Y2012 problem: Mayan calendar runs out on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get a grip, it's only been about 400 years since the last turnover.

  23. It will get worse on Clemson Staffer Outlines College Rankings Manipulation · · Score: 1

    There is a company Academic Analytics http://www.academicanalytics.com/ that, for a price, will search the web and provide rankings to "help" Deans and Boards of Trustees to evaluate their graduate programs. The "better" programs have all ready been accused of search engine optimization. I guess it could also be seen as an opportunity.

    At least with US&WR we all know how much they know about quality.

  24. Remeber Lawrence Summers? on The Myth of the Mathematics Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    From the abstract "The gender gap has significantly narrowed over time in the U.S. and is not found among some ethnic groups and in some nations ... It correlates with several measures of gender inequality. Thus, it is largely an artifact of changeable sociocultural factors, not immutable, innate biological differences between the sexes." http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/06/01/0901265106.abstract The president of Harvard was changed for ignoring this equality.

  25. virus and the urinals on FBI, US Marshals Hit By Virus · · Score: 1

    somehow this seems related to the urine candid camera post earlier today