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  1. Re:Because it's not just about sex on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    You are WAY too optimistic about this vaccin. It doesn't protect against all forms of HPV. That is just an illusion.

  2. Re:Why Migratory Beekeeping? on Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? · · Score: 1

    It is not unheard. It is even very common in China. The benefit for bee's: there is none. The benefit for the farmer: he gets his fruit, or more general in the USA: almond tree's pollinated. The benefit for the commercial beekeeper: more money with fewer bee's. The benefit for the bees? None, they even feed bee's antibiotics. And bee's like any animal needs a diversity of pollen, not only pollen from the same flowers. Because proteins are different in different flowers. (Don't fall in the trap that bee's only need nectar, nectar is energy, pollen is nutrition.)

  3. Source Code? on Manufacturing Dreams · · Score: 1

    They claim this isn't the sequel of Inception. But that movie wasn't at all what came to me. Source Code actually is. Though reading dreams was posted on Slashdot recently the whole interaction with the brain seems to be a terrain that is finally being discovered. Although I wonder, why the target isn't about removing bad dreams, by inducing the patient with beta blockers so while living the dream, the dream cannot be stored again.

  4. Holland Container Innovations on Are Folding Containers the Future of Shipping? · · Score: 1

    It seems that Holland Container Innovations was actually the first company that recently passed the safety regulations regarding foldable containers. http://www.hcinnovations.nl/news.html

  5. If only all wifi devices could work cooperatively on Wi-Fi Cards Can Now Detect Microwave Ovens · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then the entire spectrum problem is solved, and everything would be autoconfigured for the basic paradigm: connectivity. Now I don't expect a microwave to give me food-over-ip, but I would expect a neighbor wifi cell, helping my AP to extend the signal, if my client would move out of range (aka: has more noise).

  6. GPU; Broadcom VideoCore IV on Ask Director Eben Upton About the Raspberry Pi Foundation · · Score: 1

    Will there be any documentation on writing custom firmwares for the Broadcom VideoCore IV chip? It seems to be a very cool GPU especially that it is fully programmable.

  7. Re:Competition is good on Can Google Save Us From Slow Internet · · Score: 2

    The point is obviously why is the bandwidth set at a fixed position. Is this technically sound? Probably. Is it sales wise sound? Mostlikely. If any cable or DSL operator decided to increase the bandwidth at a competing price others will follow. But it seems Google tries to do something else: what is the maximum achievable bandwidth given an acceptable end-user investment in hardware. If this applies to cable: the maximum Docsis3 rate would apply, and to DSL: the maximum VDSL2 rate would apply. Given that in the spectrum of telephone lines and hfc-networks maximum offers tend to be read as: "I demand for what you maximumly promised me" opposed to: "this is the maximum we can technically do" results in understanding the technical argument for a safe margin that helps sales keep their promises. But usually this safety is no more than a sales cap, thus any competition could offer a better deal, get customers and others will have to compete.

  8. Not a mistake; competition! on Was .NET All a Mistake? · · Score: 1

    Obviously it was not a mistake. Since what happened with .NET might have triggered what later happened to Java. People started to implement other languages in .NET and Java. Creating just in time versions of languages what once were only available precompiled. Best off all it actually was semi-crossplatform, and an alternative/competitor to Java.

  9. Why is VIA not collecting royalties theirselves? on HTC To Buy S3 Graphics From VIA · · Score: 2

    As $subj? What is a business reason for collecting one time money, if they have a chicken still producing eggs?

  10. Re:Nope, just checked. Still sucks. on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    Ever tried Cinellera? Already years and years support for true HD editing and intermediate editing, before any Windows program allowed mortals to do so. Next to that, your 3d site program - Blender3D - also includes an NLE.

  11. What about Linear Editing? on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    What are currently the options of linear video editors available on Linux? I know there is dvswitch, but any competing projects in that direction?

  12. Re:Where's the news in this? on Bees Reveal Nature-Nurture Secrets · · Score: 1

    Its basically simple, any worker is a queen and any queen is a worker for the first 3 days of their larve state. They both get royal jelly, the queen 'to bee' maintains on her royal jelly the larve that will be a worker doesn't. This is exploited when breeding queen bees, if there is no queen in the hive all 3 day larve will get royal jelly and they all will be queen bees. The debate here is obviously triggers royal jelly some genetic change, or is development of some parts of the body in the 4th - 6th day more prominent. Don't forget: workers CAN lay eggs, they will be drones.

  13. Not Open on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem probably with wave is that there was no community behind it. Widget could be developed with some pain. But the entire frontend stack was not available to experiment with. It is also sad that the development of the eJabberd guys (Process One) never was launched as Wave server alternative. Personally I found the demo's more impressive than my own experiences with it. But the experiences I did have, were good.

  14. Re:Why? Let me count the ways... on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    So where is the URL? More interesting mostlikely some geeks do end up with an unlimited spectrum modifiable low-latency digital device that natively supports remote connections instead of LF rings. Might be even as cool as directly doing a call with a remote device.

  15. Re:Better than GPX *how*? on TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology · · Score: 1

    Thus xml is only used as exchange format not something to operate on.

  16. Re:Better than GPX *how*? on TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The actual point is to avoid XML for anything on the device. It is not that you can build libxml or axl or whatever on an ARM processor. XML is not a native binary structure a processor can operate on.

  17. Re:Better than GPX *how*? on TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology · · Score: 1

    Because XML good for interoperability but a hell to get embedded support for.

  18. Re:Interesting angle on social engineering... on FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So what if the laptops where HP's with onboard maybe even modified 3G cards. How are you going to prevent a KVM calling home?

  19. If the govenors do not want them... on FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...at least give every incoming laptop to a nearby school. I mean, spying on students happens already anyway.

  20. Some has to do it on Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally I don't care if BigCorpG or BigCorpM does it. I mean, all we really want is books to be available to anyone that wants to read, study and enjoy books. Imagine a world of an endless alway-open library system, free and available to anything that can connect to the web if it wants to borrow something new. The scanning effort Google is doing will never come in time for some books, but on the other hand they did hype it. Form an alliance be against Google, but at least show you can do it better.

  21. Re:He's also right on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 2, Informative

    And that is the point LISP guy wants to make iff I have a LISP compiler that in general optimises better than the coding structure a C programmer takes, it will be faster because you could heavily optimise the LISP compiler. In the same ballpark are Haskell (and maybe in the future Python) iff their compilers generate better structures because the task is better formally defined. It could generate the optimal structure for the problem. Maybe more optimal than a human would design it. Today: no.

  22. OpenViewProject on DIY Google Street View Project? · · Score: 4, Informative

    OpenViewProject basically gives you the DIY stuff. At OpenStreetMap we started the OpenStreetPhoto project but that deviated a bit to the creation of area photography and the analysis of existing photos and tagging them with metadata.

  23. Re:Lack of font? Design your own! on A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama? · · Score: 1

    Actually I couldn't find the name of the font that inspired me until I just booted my old desktop. The Pigiarniq font solves basically the same, and they did well.

  24. Lack of font? Design your own! on A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is clear that if an entire community has a requirement for a certain font designing a new one is the most easy thing to do. Release it as free and you have a problem solved. Don't any Tibetan Typographers exist? So with a bit of Googling they do exist and can be found here: http://www.thdl.org/

  25. Re:CHDK is interesting! on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    http://blog.opengeo.nl/ is probably where you want to look.