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  1. Better them than me... on Researchers Keep Pig Heart Beating In Baboon Belly For 2 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To avoid needlessly killing the baboons and doing extensive surgery, the researchers opted to transplant the pig hearts into the baboon's abdomens, leaving the primates' hearts in place.

    I though ulcers were bad.

  2. Re:Shows the limits of freedom on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Whose freedom is more important?

    The American people who want to be free of discrimination by bigots pretending to be public servants.

  3. Re: What's next? on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    To clarify, I'm talking about a post-graduate medical college.

    Sex with cadavers was never my thing.

  4. Re: What's next? on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I work on a school campus that happens to have a gender-neutral restroom with about 12 stalls which can be utilized by both men AND women.

    When I took Sex Ed in class, it was really boring and we only had the bushes behind the portables.

  5. Re:Nice try on The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    As opposed to instructing staffers to remove classification markings and resend the content.

    What was the content? Talking points for a Sunday morning TV show. Much of the information was already in the public domain.

  6. Re:Apple Feature! on Clicking on Links in iOS 9.3 Can Crash Your iPhone and iPad (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    So the someone who could afford the hosting was the taxpayer, without being asked for the kindness.

    What's the purpose of an university funded by taxpayers? The FREE EXCHANGE of information. Much of the Internet was based on taxpayer-funded research done by university graduate students across the United States and around the world for the last 50 years.

    You are my hero.

    You're welcome.

  7. No mention of SIMM that I found.

    Seems somebody should have at least read the summary: "It will produce SIMM modules this year varying from 4GB for laptops and up to 128GB for enterprise servers."

  8. A SIMM, or single in-line memory module, is a type of memory module containing random-access memory used in computers from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. It differs from a dual in-line memory module (DIMM), the most predominant form of memory module today, in that the contacts on a SIMM are redundant on both sides of the module. SIMMs were standardised under the JEDEC JESD-21C standard.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMM/

  9. For a chip this complex you need:

    How many of those job titles and descriptions actually correspond to a college major that an American citizen can learn?

    It's a problem mostly seen in the U.S., say labor-market experts, thanks to a rapidly evolving economy and a divide between the country's educational institutions and employers that isn't there in other advanced economies. In Germany and Denmark, for example, the two groups collaborate to ensure training and apprenticeships lead to jobs after graduation. The gap has helped push U.S. job vacancies to 5.5 million, near historic highs. For most of the past year the number of job openings has exceeded the number of new hires, a reflection of employers' difficulty in filling positions.

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/colleges-drill-down-on-job-listing-terms-1459704268

  10. Re:Korral bit it from Lucille and The Comedian on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Makes it so much easier to stereotype.

    Is the stereotype wrong when its based on facts?

  11. Re:Korral bit it from Lucille and The Comedian on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Bullshit! Post the URL of this Chinese sexual slave market. For evidence and no other reason whatsoever.

    You need to read the news more often.

    Experts and NGOs report that China's population planning policies, coupled with a cultural preference for sons, creates a skewed sex ratio in China, which may contribute to the trafficking of women and children from within China and from Mongolia, North Korea, Russia, Burma, Laos, and Vietnam for forced marriage. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimated that by 2020, there could be as many as 24 million more men than women of marriageable age (ages 19-45) in China, exacerbating the problem.

    http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/china/

  12. Re:Korral bit it from Lucille and The Comedian on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are you done spouting racist nonsense?

    Nope. Just citing an aspect of Chinese society preferring sons over daughters that goes back centuries.

  13. Re:Korral bit it from Lucille and The Comedian on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Where did you hear this?

    Are you not familiar with Chinese society?

    China's preference for sons stretches back for centuries. Infanticide, the abandonment of girl babies and favourable treatment of boys in terms of food and health has long produced a surplus of men. In the past two decades, the gap at birth has soared: the advent of ultrasound scans has allowed people to abort female foetuses, even though sex-selective abortion is illegal.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/02/chinas-great-gender-crisis/

  14. Re:You were all thinking it on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    How can we tell they're clones?

    You ask about their mother. If they promise to tell you about their mother and pull out a shotgun, it's a clone.

  15. Re:Korral bit it from Lucille and The Comedian on Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Funny

    They do not plan on cloning humans.

    Nonsense. Chinese families want a perfect son. They will happily sell their daughter into sexual slavery to afford a perfect son cloned from the father.

  16. Or are we taking a completely natural world and ruining it with artificial selection?

    You mean something like corn?

    Corn as we know it today would not exist if it weren't for the humans that cultivated and developed it. It is a human invention, a plant that does not exist naturally in the wild. It can only survive if planted and protected by humans.

    http://campsilos.org/mod3/students/c_history.shtml

  17. Re:Quality education, right there on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the switch to PCs, I have literally never seen a lab where someone came along to switch on your computer.

    The computer labs I've been to always had the PCs turned on and students weren't allowed to turn on, reset or turn off PCs. Someone, either the instructor or the lab monitor, had to fiddle with the PC.

  18. Re:Quality education, right there on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    When I took computer programming in community college, I had to implement an XML parser from scratch in Java without using any of the XML APIs that were available for my final project. Now that was a chore.

  19. Re:Nice try, but some of us are old enough to know on Free Wi-Fi Program in Los Angeles Fails to Provide Free Wi-Fi (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You are proving again that you have this mental disorder.

    What mental disorder would that be?

    Amazingly you do so by waving your hands, declaring what those other people think.

    I don't have to declare what those "other people" think. I listen to what they tell their own supporters. In Donald Trump's case, what the Republican Party has been saying in private for years. Mitt Romney's 47% comment at private fund raiser wasn't a verbal slip, it's what "those people" believe.

  20. Re:REally they only do it now? on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  21. Re:Quality education, right there on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because CS programs do not teach hardware.

    If a CS graduate student was presented with a brand new development board, the instruction set manual for the processor, and told to write a C cross compiler on the PC, he would be so out of luck?

  22. Re:REally they only do it now? on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if they got laid they are doing better than 99% of CS graduates.

    Uh, no.

  23. Re:REally they only do it now? on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Note: running a cash register meets their definition of being in the field for EE and CS.

    I had several friends who graduated from a public college in CS. Both got jobs out of college, worked 7+ years at the same company, got laid in the dot com bust in 2001, took a six-month vacation while collecting unemployment benefits, and discovered that their job skills were so obsolete that no wanted to hire them. The only job they could find was being drug store clerks, and they're still drug store clerks today. ITT would have been cheaper for them.

  24. Could have been at Google instead.

    If you want to work at Google, get a job with a contracting agency. I done several contracts for Google in help desk support and building out a data center. The only education I had was a A.A. in General Ed because I skipped high school and later went back to get a A.S. in Computer Programming. Google only cares about college degrees when it comes to hiring engineers and managers.

  25. Re:Quality education, right there on Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I worked at the computer lab at my University I would regularly have to show post-graduate CS majors how to format a floppy disk.

    When I worked the Google help desk in 2008, I had to walk a newly hired graduate on how to turn on his computer. He was shocked to discover that no one was standing around to turn on his computer. I had to explain to him that a cubicle farm wasn't a university lab. I'm always surprised by how little CS graduates know about actual PC hardware.