User: edittard

Re:Is this news?

On: Humanity's Genetic Diversity on the Decline

Whatever the distribution of running speeds of a $herbivore propulation, it's the slowest individuals that end up as lunch for $predator. Selection affects a population by acting on the individuals within it, not on the population as a whole entity.

Re:Fiat currencies have several problems.

On: Bank Run in Second Life

Which is why inflation helps them, since in that environment the value of debt decreases.

One mans's debt is another man's investment.

Re:Hidden charges and "mistakes"

On: iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long

Repercussion shmepercussions. Computer malfunction. Human error. Indians.

Re:Hidden charges and "mistakes"

On: iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long

More like 1 cent (or is it 0.01 cent) 125 times. This will take up another five pages, resulting in another PUS (paper use surcharge)...

Re:Someone got $3000 bill for using iPhone in Euro

On: iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long

I've seen php scripts that end up #including almost 100 other scripts ON EVERY PAGE LOAD!!!
This is insane.

I agree, nobody in their right mind uses PHP.

Bone hormone?

On: Bone Hormone Linked to Obesity and Diabetes

You mean viagra? (Or as we scientists call it, \/1@gr@ )

Re:Is this news?

On: Humanity's Genetic Diversity on the Decline

there are plenty of genetically influenced traits that thousands of years ago would have killed the carrier (ie: obesity

Thousands of years ago the availability of food was probably quite erratic. No food stamps and no supermarket to spend them at.

If you could lay down a bit of blubber in times of plenty that could see you through a hard season. A tendency towards obesity would be a positive survival trait.

Obviously...

On: iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long

I had some data use that, under the To/From heading, AT&T has helpfully listed as Data Transfer. The Type of file? Data. My total charge? $0.00. This mind-numbing detail goes on for 52 double-sided pages (for 104 printed pages!) with absolutely no variance except the size of the files.'

You probably signed up for the 'hideMyPr0n (tm)' option. Obviously it can't actually lie (that could itself trip you up - 3 hours and 230 meg on BaptistHymns.com when you're a Catholic priest!). So it just displays the information in as generic and meaningless (and hence plausibly deniable) form as possible. And all for only $27.99 per month! YMMV, VWP.

ob

On: American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross

Prior heart. As in Lion, Richard the.

Re:Is this news?

On: Humanity's Genetic Diversity on the Decline

Diversity may be (and probably is) a better trait in the long term

I'm not even sure it is a trait. Perhaps it's fair to say it's a trait of populations rather than individuals, but I don't see how in that case it can be selected for (or against) in the standard Darwinian method like skin colour or weight might be.

Re:We have Heston Blumenthal

On: The Father of Molecular Gastronomy Whips Up a New Formula

There's something about a joint of beef, roast for 10 hours

Sounds nice, but I hope the starters come in generous portions.

casmir

On: British Scientists Reverse Casimir Effect

I'm not a big fan of knitwear at the best of times.

Re:We have Heston Blumenthal

On: The Father of Molecular Gastronomy Whips Up a New Formula

He also says that Molecular gastronomy is dead, so who do we believe?

Certainly not the grauniad. What does netcraft say?

Re:Grammar?

On: The Father of Molecular Gastronomy Whips Up a New Formula

It looks to me like it's either written by a non-native speaker and/or it was machine translated.

Re:I know what it looks like

On: What Does the 'Next Internet' Look Like?

Didn't you RTFA?

I did, but it said "408 request timeout". It didn't say who to ask or for how long. I don't get why they seem to like that article so much round here.

Ob

On: Microsoft Claims a Billion Windows Installs by End of 2008

there will be more PCs running Windows in the world than there are automobiles

To do: Insert joke about crashes.

Re:One word - Inprise

On: Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name

Take the S from Cisco and the ink from linksys.

Re:So what happens now

On: Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name

They'll attempt to build consumer-grade products using their enterprise technology.

I'd expect it to be the other way round.

Standards

On: New Ethernet Standard — Both 40 and 100 Gbps

The great thing about standards is ther's so many to choose from.

Re:Not all dead

On: UK Rejects Extending Music Copyright

The copyright expiry should be calculated from the death of the artist, not the date of recording.

So ... the earlier they die, the earlier their works are out of copyright?

I for one will welcome the day when Celine Dion's work is in the public domain. Can't happen too soon!

Re:*heh*

On: UK Rejects Extending Music Copyright

Even assume you have that kind of money, and you manage to rent it at 2000/month (which seems to be the asking rent for such a house), you will need more than 30 years to get break-even!

Except you haven't lost the 750 grand, since you still own the house.

Re:Agreed.

On: UK Rejects Extending Music Copyright

forcing them to continue innovating

Such as creating novel means of suing people.

and finding new talent.

Like armies of top lawyers.

Re:somebody doesn't understand Moore's Law

On: Are Cheap Laptops a Roadblock for Moore's Law?

Moore's Law says nothing about speed.

... and even if it did, it isn't what makes it increase as TFS implies.

Re:Check the sev 1s

On: First Thing IT Managers Do In the Morning?

Generally speaking if you have to check on them, they are not sev 1. If they are sev 1 you should have been contacted by now via automated(monitoring software)

Perhaps they're a C shop - so they count from zero.

Re:Bring on the news!

On: Microsoft to Release 6 Security Updates Next Week

Maybe the news is that it's only six?