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  1. Re:It's all a lie! on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 1

    no, but the treatment does.

  2. For paraplegics... on Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this could be coupled with the 'thinking cap' technology that allows you to control your computer with your thoughts. Control your hand with your mind, even if the nerves in between have been severed. Would obviously work best before atrophy set in.

  3. Re:"Superdecoherence" on New Quantum Record: 14 Entangled Bits · · Score: 1

    That's what arrays are for, no?

  4. Re:And So Al Amrikee Invokes The Streisand Effect? on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The reverse is also true though, this is getting Al Amrikee much more attention than he deserves.

  5. Re:Wow, nice excluded middle fallacy there Holmes. on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why I got modded informative really, I was making a joke - hence the title. Though If I had mod points I certainly would have given one to your retort - very informative.

  6. This is why Africa can't have nice things. on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 5, Informative

    Either it's placebo from seeing the tower (like a hypochondriac) or they're out for a quick buck. I Vote quick buck.

  7. Re:Odd article on China Heralds Year of the Fluorescent Green Pig · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to link to this Just in case my link doesn't work, the URL:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4605202.st m

  8. Re:A modest proposal on Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This was done with klez... a good Samaritan wrote a virus that would spread to computers as effectively as klez, look for it, and then eliminate it if found. You know how you knew if you had the Good Samaritan virus? Klez like symptoms. That is a major system slow down, as well as many, many bugs/crashes.

    Good times. Viruses like that operate at levels that were only really meant for system tasks, and yet they are were never part of that system. Windows being the careful balancing act that it already is will topple over readily when you add anything to the base.

  9. Re:Paper tape on RNA Interference Leads To Nobel Prize · · Score: 1

    It's called horizontal gene transfer, and it's more common than you think.

    Well I suppose that makes sense, most of my gene transferring occurs horizontally.

    Giggity Giggity Giggity!

  10. Finally! on A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that the drive is well underway, how long till they finish the Heart of Gold?

  11. Re:Realtime Internet on Anousheh Ansari Blogs From Space · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the space station is specifically shielded to keep OUT radiation, communication or otherwise. It seems to me you would probably need a receiver on the outside of the station for any sort of decent connection, not to mention all of the electrical equipment on-board that might interfere. The thought crossed my mind for a couple seconds too though.

  12. Re:darnit on Original Star Wars on DVD... Sorta · · Score: 5, Funny

    A move to the attic isn't what they meant by "It's time to move up in life.", Yoduh.

  13. Re:obligatory... on Space Tourism, Now and to Come · · Score: 1

    Please reassure me that the Bigelow Aerospace Space Hotel does in fact come with blackjack and hookers... I reassure you, Begelow Aerospace hotel's do not come with Blackjack. You'de be too busy with the tripple breasted hookers to play it anyway.

  14. Re:Anti-spam on Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Following that logic, wouldn't this then also be just as usefull a tool to spammers looking to crack those crazy registration verification images?

    It's open source, available to all who would use it; be it for good or profit, but hopefully both.

  15. Re:Slashdot experts on Possible Hole in Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Apparently the experts are not conviced about this "interesting" observation but at slashdot the expert will come to a final conclusion. How many slashdot posters actualy are qualified to talk about these subjects?
    Following that logic, does not knowing the answer to this question disqualify you from asking it?

    Without speculation there would be no discussion, and there would certainly be no forward movement. I don't know everything about North Korea, does that mean I'm not qualified to have a discussion about how I'm uncertain whether or not the next war will begin with them?

    As far as I can tell, even our experts are pretty much all still in the hypothesis stages in regards to GR and Blackholes, and MECOs, and if they decided because of this they were not qualified to talk about it... well you get my point.

  16. Sooo... on One Man's Spam Is Another Man's Art · · Score: 1

    That's not the only thing you can make grow with Viagra now.
    I'll take three boxes... for my, uh, garden...

  17. Re:LYING CUNT on Beginning GIMP · · Score: 1

    It's pretty easy to see why you are an anonymous coward. When I last tried it, it did not appear to have this feature.

  18. Re:Comments from people who actually create Creati on Beginning GIMP · · Score: 1

    I did, but it was about a year ago. I did mention in my post that this may have changed, and welcomed correction.

  19. Re:Comments from people who actually create Creati on Beginning GIMP · · Score: 1

    To a lot of people creative individuals Gimp is lacking one major feature(last time I checked): Pressure sensitivity
    You can't go into a studio these days without seeing a tablet of some sort that is pressure sensitive, yet Gimp doesn't support this. Even many photography nuts use Wacom tablets to manipulate their works. I have a tablet PC and my comic (Sig) is exclusively digital. You want more, look at my art gallery. I couldn't have drawn any of that crap without pressure sensitivity. I would have sooner inked it on paper and scanned it in.
    So to me, GIMP lives up to it's name. It is missing it's parts that, to me, make it utterly useless.

    That said, if anyone can tell me different about pressure sensitivity support than I'd love to hear it. I personally think Photoshop is ridiculously overpriced.

  20. Re:Sounds like chaos to me on Robots Coming to Intro Computer Science Classes · · Score: 1

    Questionable content is too indy to talk about here.

  21. Re:well (Wrong) on Indian Satellite Lost in Launch Explosion · · Score: 1

    thankyou. Teaches me not to preview my messages.

  22. Re:well (Wrong) on Indian Satellite Lost in Launch Explosion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Outsourced the shuttle to a private company
    Nasa is looking to outsource even more!
    The article title made me laugh in light of your comment.

    Like almost every other branch of the government, NASA does outsource. They contract out the building of almost any sort of vehicle out to private companies who are all competing for it.

    Now if you think I'm just picking apart your statement for fun, you're only half right, look at this:

    In light of this article, scary.

  23. Or perhaps Heather has one Parent. on Mice Produced Using Artificial Sperm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or will it even be possible for Heather to have One Parent. Think about it, why couldn't they take stem cells from a female, and then turn those right around and fertilize that same females eggs with them?

    I suppose the real question would then be this: Since both Gametes are of the same genetic origin, would it then be a clone? If it was a clone, did we just solve all the aging problems previously associated with cloning.

    If any of the above is true, then we just gained the ability to reproduce A-sexually. Frightening.

  24. Re:They expecting mucho agua? on Pluto's New Moons Named Nix and Hydra · · Score: 1

    Yar, I thought about that right after I hit the post button... no going back. I was like, bet it was the other way around, and hydra was named after hydro, sigh.

  25. They expecting mucho agua? on Pluto's New Moons Named Nix and Hydra · · Score: 4, Informative

    They named both of these moons after mythical creatures that had almost everything to do with water. the Nix and the Multiple headed Hydra to which we owe many of our roots in the english language for water, I am assuming.