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  1. Re:cochlear implants ... on Microchip Powered by Body Heat · · Score: 1

    Plus, there's a lot less downside risk if the device malfunctions.

    Until the device (probably the battery) explodes in your skull.
  2. Ted Stevens on ISP Dispute Causing Connectivity Issues for Customers · · Score: 1

    Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

    [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. Did this happen during Level3/Cogent delinking feud?
  3. Another chemotherapy... on Harvard Scientists Aim To Stop Cancer In Its Tracks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It appears that DCA screws up nerve cells permanently. Even though most cells aren't affected by the drug, if you damage cells that can't replicate, it's bad. Neurons cannot replicate. If they can stop that it might be viable. Until then, stick with your old chemo drugs, that screw up hair, skin, and marrow stem cells, stuff that is rapid growing and replaceable.

  4. Reminds me of an infinite number of chimpanzees... on Open Source Growing At an Exponential Rate · · Score: 1

    typing away on an equivalent number of typewriters over their lifetime (~40 years).... at least one of them will have typed the complete works of Shakespeare.

  5. Stable energy sources on DOE Shines $14M on Solar Energy Research · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Solar and wind, as they are now anyways, will never be stable energy sources, they are too dependent on the other variables, like the weather. Nations need a constant baseline of energy that solar and wind cannot provide reliably. Solar and wind are useful for summer days or the Super Bowl, when energy use goes above our usual baseline. We need to do more research in one of two fields, increase energy efficiency, so we have a lower baseline, and research cleaner, renewable, but most importantly reliable energy sources. I think, right now, nuclear is our best bet for that.

  6. Re:Question: why just record? on FAA Mandates Major Aircraft "Black Box" Upgrade · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quote One thing I remember from an ACM meeting was that radio transmissions take a lot of power compared to getting data and storing to memory. This was from team who used to check the soil moisture and temperature around campus using stakes filled with a battery for some purpose or other. So the blackbox would need a lot more power to survive those 9 to 11 minutes, while transmitting voices to where ever. You can't get all the radio waves from every American plane to Florida anyways. You'd need some powerful transmitters.
  7. Re:208 scanned pages (in one PDF) on Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops · · Score: 1

    Scanning to PDF is just foolish, unless you've got excellent on-line character recognition built in. If it's an image, publish it as an image file, not a complexly formatted layout structure like a PDF.
     
    Obviously I'm too lazy to actually download it and read it, but it would be 208 8.5"x11" images, all attached end-to-end, and being rendered at the same time. Sounds like fail to me.
     
    PDF is an open format, so what are the problems using it to link all the images together sequentially in book form, with each page being rendered individually. Seriously, other than console users, who can't see images anyways, who doesn't have a PDF reader?
  8. Astrology nuts may be useful. on Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology? · · Score: 1

    While I believe astrology is bogus, I had a PI who always said that the phase of the moon could affect results.

  9. Michael Moore on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 1

    It's all a plan by the Right to keep Michael Moore out of Cuba. Or at least people looking for cheap healthcare, or researching Cuba's health system. The health insurance lobbyists are very powerful in Washington. Even if we national health insurance, health insurance companies will probably administer the system, as they do now with Medicare, for large sums of money.

    Anyways, I know but eNom probably means eName in some Romance language, but NOM NOM NOM NOM. Basically what happened to that guy's site.

  10. Slashdotted on Reznor Follows Radiohead, Offers Free Album · · Score: 1

    :\ Can't even download with my 100mbit dreamhost account.

  11. Drunk computer science majors on Canadian University Puts Tech Whiz Kids in 'Dormcubator' · · Score: 1

    No one else in college drinks as much as business majors. So by mixing them with engineering types, you are only going to get drunk engineers. Maybe they stay in the Ballmer peak , and make beautiful, functional programs that the business majors will market, giving little of the profit to the computer science majors.

  12. Re:Not necessarily on Large Sheets of Carbon Nanotubes Produced · · Score: 1

    Pull it up towards what? Gravity is the attraction between two points in mass. If there is no closer or heavier body of mass, the weight will still be towards the earth, though it will be weaker at the top.

  13. Re:Space elevator? on Large Sheets of Carbon Nanotubes Produced · · Score: 1

    If you can make CNT sheets with the CNT aligned in one uniform direction, you could alternate the orientation of the sheets and glue them together ala plywood.

  14. Re:But how will it be used? on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 1

    AZT was found in an NIH lab with NIH funds, but it was patented for years by some big drug company when it was found to be effective against HIV.

  15. Re:Premature Congratulations on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 1

    Doubtful, a good chunk of our DNA is old retroviruses that are no longer very pathogenic, like 30% of the total genome, and the still cause cancer every once in a while. We've never won against them.

    RETROVIRUS > MAMMAL

  16. Re:How to filter low impact science on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It should be peer-reviewed at least... Nicer journals can request better experts in the peer review process, who understand the methods, hypotheses, and may point to some other papers that go against or help the findings. Plospathogens is an new open-access peer-review journal. It might be good in the future, but not right now.

  17. Re:Press releases are useless. on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to this study, TRIM22 is one of most ineffectual TRIM proteins against HIV. It's probably good against something, since it was positively selected over mammalian evolution.

    http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.0030197
  18. Press releases are useless. on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Obviously our bodies makes TRIM22 to fight against retroviruses already, and it's not good enough. I know that interferon, which activates TRIM22, was an early drug in the fight against HIV.

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WXR-4KCGHS0-3&_user=18704&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000002018&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=18704&md5=f922f45405809276e69864f01d98ef4c

    According to this study, TRIM22 is one of most ineffectual TRIM proteins.

  19. Wikipedia Link on Key Step In Programmed Cell Death Discovered · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcl-2-associated_X_protein

    Hax1, Pac1 and that other protein just help sequester this guy.

  20. Re:Not necessarily true on Janus Particles as Body Submarines? · · Score: 1

    To your hose and subway analogy, both of those are impenetrable boundaries. A water molecule and people can't really move past those boundaries without a lot of energy. You don't really control their velocity or position at a particle level, just contain them.
     
      The wikipedia article posted below makes it sound even harder to control. Nonlinear functions don't provide a uniform output to a uniform input.

  21. Define nonlinear on Janus Particles as Body Submarines? · · Score: 1

    In the abstract at the bottom, it says that the particles move in a nonlinear fashion. They don't write that it follows a sinusoidal fashion either. My definition of nonlinear is not in a straight line, which would make it difficult to control, especially considering how dynamic the circulatory system is.

  22. Re:an honest judge on Wikileaks Gets Domain Back, Injunction Dissolved · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the litigation runs long enough and though a few appeals, maybe it will entrap Julius Baer into American banking laws, since the American government always needs more money.

    Anyways, with the injunction lifted, can Wikileaks now transfer the domain name out of the country? There is something very wrong in the world if two organizations that pride themselves as being anonymous and beyond of the reach of America laws/taxes duke it out in an American court.

  23. Blindness on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 1

    The last superphreak was blind too... Cap'n Crunch.

  24. Re:Upgrading HOWTO? on FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    freebsd-update come out in 6.2 iirc.

  25. Re:What *I* found in Freebsd 7.0 on FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD devs want to get something better than sysinstall too, but it would need to include all the same feature and be able to read the same commands thconfig at some users use in scripts. Also, most FreeBSD users will tell you to install minimal, and then pkg_add -r kde/gnome, which will get dependencies that include Xorg. I dunno about your cursor problem sorry.
     
    If you want something like Ubuntu/Suse/Fedora, there is DesktopBSD, which is FreeBSD with a pretty GUI. It is totally compatible with FreeBSD. However, I have never gotten the DesktopBSD CD to boot on my laptop. The livecd/bootcd is not as compatible as the FreeBSD boot cd. PC-BSD is a slightly different animal due to its PBI package management.