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  1. Re:Is there a name for this? on Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation · · Score: 1

    But heaven is hotter than hell!! Or not, according to the really humorous refutation presented on the same page :P

  2. Re:Is there a name for this? on Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation · · Score: 1

    Are you going out to the club looking for two-headed women to reproduce with tonight?

    It depends... Can they use both?

  3. Re:The problem of nerve impulse conduction on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I meant - part of the medula is contained on the spine. But I'm not a doctor or anything close, so your statement might be more accurate :)

  4. Re:The problem of nerve impulse conduction on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    But it does make a difference. That's why some of your reflexes are controlled from your medula and not from your brain - so that they are both uncounscious AND faster.

  5. Mod parent up on What Do You Think of the 'Hitman' Ad? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  6. Re:In related news... on Wiki to Help Solve Millennium Problems? · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to people, but Maths and Physics make computing look like a liberal arts degree.

    [Insert rant about the diminishing frontiers between maths and computer science here]

  7. Re:Australia Didn't Sign on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but your second paragraph basically said that the treaty isn't even going to help the environment:

    Keep in mind that the hole in the o-zone layer down in the southern hemisphere has a greater effect on Australia than anywhere on Earth (except for Antarctica). So if the treaty was really worth something, it seems they would be a country more than willing to sign, uphold and promote it.

    That's what I was asking about. If you don't think that the treaty is not any good, don't say it.

  8. Re:Australia Didn't Sign on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    So you're assuming that they couldn't have done a mistake by not signing it?

  9. Re:Time for a little balance to the propaganda on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    That's because oil is still way too cheap.

    Except that the taxpayers are paying for the war, which in the end has everything to do with oil.

  10. Re:cancer scares me on Cell Division Reversed for the First Time · · Score: 1

    The difference is that I don't really know if his family has a predisposition for cancer or not. So it may or not be more probable for him to get cancer than the average person. Got it?

  11. Re:cancer scares me on Cell Division Reversed for the First Time · · Score: 1

    And yeah, all of them were heavy smokers.

  12. Re:cancer scares me on Cell Division Reversed for the First Time · · Score: 1

    You better quit smoking then, since your family MAY have a predisposition for cancer. Which doesn't mean you'll get it, just that it MAY be more probable. At least three people in my near family have died from lung cancer, so if I smoked I'd probably be dead in a couple of years... Admittedly, they all died in their 70's, but I believe it shows something anyway.

  13. Re:Force Field? on Mysterious 'Forcefield' Tested on US Tanks · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From the Wikipedia page:

    Land Warrior's software system is powered by a variant of the Linux operating system and has a modular, open architecture for further improvement. Reliability in recent testing at Fort Benning has been extremely high.


    I would HATE to read this if I was a linux programmer. Is it possible to include notes in software licenses forbiding military uses?
  14. Re:suprised? on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    I had read that, but somehow I find that hard to believe, which is why I posted the question. Fair enough though, that might be true of course.

  15. Re:Not necessarily voice search on Google Voice Search May be Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Didn't you RTFS properly?

    covers a 'Voice interface for a search engine.'

  16. Re:M$ does not have that kind of money. on Microsoft Buyout of Ailing Sony Possible · · Score: 1

    What about expenses? I agree with you that MS couldn't buy Sony, but that doesn't make a correct proof unnecessary.

    Objectively speaking, I have no idea of whether this would be possible or not, but if I had to bet right now, I'd say "no".

  17. Re:No on New Phishing Flaw in Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    The old vulnerability has to do with misverification of SSL certificates.

    The new one has to do with "a race condition in the loading of web content and Macromedia Flash Format files (".swf") in browser windows".

    Just because the effect is the same that doesn't mean the bug is the same, so your original comment is completely uninformed. Anyone with some knowledge of programming will tell you the same.

  18. No on New Phishing Flaw in Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    No, this has nothing to do with that vulnerability (which you would have noticed if you had actually read the link you gave).

  19. Re:Boot Camp on New Phishing Flaw in Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with viruses, but l0lz0rs to your joke anyway.

  20. Re:Thats strange. on Microsoft Launches Linux Labs Website · · Score: 1

    Wow, you missed Godwin's law for a millimeter!

  21. Re:Further research on Algae May Help Reverse Blindness · · Score: 1

    Oh OK :) That explains why I didn't get it :P (I'm not english/american)

  22. Re:How does he work? With 3 Screens! on How Bill Gates Works · · Score: 1

    He says he only gets 100 emails a day, surely we can send him some more to billg@microsoft.com ?

    Actually, he gets a few million emails a day.

  23. Re:Further research on Algae May Help Reverse Blindness · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I didn't get that one :(

  24. Re:Parent probably Arthur T. Murray on Next-gen Robot Toys to Fetch Beer · · Score: 1

    He's focusing more on Javascript nowadays. A true visionary, coding AI in Javascript!

  25. Re:Parent probably Arthur T. Murray on Next-gen Robot Toys to Fetch Beer · · Score: 1
    For people who don't want to read the whole FAQ:

    He's more like an ultra-crank, and a really persistent one. Just look at this:

    Before he had regular access to the Internet, Murray used the US postal system to spread his ideas by mass-mailing prominent AI researchers, computing authors, and sometimes even entire university departments. He boasts that he mailed seven thousand letters in 1989 alone [14].

    Now that's what I call persistence! And one of the best parts:

    Apart from claiming to have "solved AI" (with which both Murray and this FAQ are principally concerned), Murray has made a number of bizarre-sounding pronouncements:

    Eighteen prominent AI and robotics researchers have been "infected" with an "AI mind-virus" [20].
    Commercial airlines are responsible for the AIDS epidemic [16].
    Librarians spread deadly parasitic infections of the mind [16].
    Scientists have been producing human clones since 1997 [23].
    Murray is due to be "astrally harvested" in the new millennium [30].
    Traffic to one's website can be increased by using the "secret-decoder-ring-message" HTML tag [26].
    Libraries of the future will have special "pseudo-librarians" who will have "thought every possible thought" about any given book [17].
    Murray created an artificial organism in 1966 [14].
    The American Physical Society is responsible for the world's social ills and is actively seeking to impoverish the world [22].
    Einstein was a kook and his theory of relativity is mere crackpottery [25].
    There should be an Internet top-level domain .jam for impromptu music and fruit preserves [31].
    Murray is under surveillance by the US military [34].

    I first heard about this guy when reverting some additions of links to his sites on a Wikipedia page. He seems to be on every available internet corner :)