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  1. Re:In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What Human's Crave on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    That's fine. I could see that eventually cows will only be in zoo's, but that's okay.

  2. Re:None on Army Plots Its Smartphone Strategy · · Score: 1

    Giving phones with GPS to one group or not, does not stop an entirely different group from still having a phone with GPS.

    Your logic is terrible. Back to remedial maths with you.

  3. Re:Food myths on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    You need to get out more. Try flying to anywhere else in the world. You know, that place where 95.5% of the world lives, not where the 4.5% lives. (Numbers reasonably accurate to todays date)

    Though we do have grazing animals, many aren't, or more so, the term grazing is very loose.

  4. In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What Human's Crave on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This sounds awesome. I love meat, best part of any meal, however I don't like the whole killing cattle thing, but it's a necessary evil for me, as I'm not willing to give it up. However, this would be the best of both worlds.

    It will be able to be mass manufactured in large quantities, and hopefully cheaply. It reduces energy usage. Reduces carbon emissions. Reduces land usage.

    These are all HUGE wins. As long as food companies get serious on it (which they likely would), then you can get flawless, tasty steaks, for cheap as fuck. I don't care if it's not "authentic", I wan't my pseudo-lamb meat!

    My guess is it would take a while before they were able to get it up to the mass manufacturing stage, and even further before they're producing meat with the nice tasting fat, and other impurities. Though, once it's at the mass manufacturing stage, people will start eating it, mainly people who like gamey meat though.

  5. Re:Obligatory XKCD on DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection · · Score: 1

    Also, since most attacks are blind, they wouldn't necessarily know you're using words, or what word set, if there's caps or similar, perhaps it's somewhat salted with a few random characters at the start. The further you go, the more improbable it would be for them.

  6. Re:High school doesn't prepare you for college on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    To some extent, it's not up to him. He just has to deliver the curriculum. Hell, he might not even write the final exams, nor have any direct say in whether they pass or not.

  7. Re:He... on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 1

    But justice is the horse radish, it's smothered over everything, and it tastes disgusting, but you grit and bare it anyway. The horse radish is omnipresent.

  8. Re:He... on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 1

    With lettuce on the side. Where the lettuce represents liberty, and it being on the side means the suppression of it.

  9. Did I miss something? on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    Did I miss something, but why is Europe getting all the cool new science toys? :-(

  10. Re:Blackberry on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4S Battery Problems · · Score: 1

    I literally have 10 friends with iPhone 4S's. I asked around. No one has any battery problems.

    So while this is happening, it's probably less prolific than it sounds. Also, it's already been fixed, in iOS 5.0.1.

  11. Re:something else on Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 · · Score: 1

    We have never put anything that is "aircraft carrier sized" up there. So... you'd be saying that it's an alien spacecraft.

    Just so we're clear.

  12. Re:WTF? on Battlefield 3 Performance: 30+ Graphics Cards Tested · · Score: 1

    LOL I remember upgrading to a Savage 4, but I had to go to the PCI variant, as I didn't have an AGP motherboard. The results... were not good. Little to no performance improvement over my old card, for a whole lot of money.

  13. Re:9 megatons on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 1

    That makes sense. I read the wiki after, and was interested to read that they cut the bomb back from the planned 100 MT to 50 MT, because they were worried about the fallout. They did this by changing the type of... something... just blanked out. Fucking amazing either way.

  14. Re:9 megatons on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 1

    I recall reading that the American's weren't focused on sizes as large as 50 Megaton, they instead focused on delivery from afar, and accuracy of hitting their target. So, they could fire a comparatively smaller warhead from a very long distance away, and hit the Kremlin, where is the Russians would likely fly theirs in, and drop it when they got close enough.

    It was their different strategies, where the Russians focused on having many weapons, planes, and people, where as the Americans focused on having fewer but better of the same.

    Either way, the only way to win a cold war, was not to play. In this case the victor was the one which played the least, and had the comparatively better economic policy.

  15. Re:Stability is NOT achieved that way. on Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h · · Score: 2

    Pretty sure motorcycles don't work unless at least 1 wheel (often the front wheel) is off the ground.

  16. Re:Stability is NOT achieved that way. on Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h · · Score: 1

    What about the stability of a motorcycle? As this is often quoted quite a lot with those, and could be more accurate, since the weight of our wheels is a lot more, and they're spinning a lot faster.

    For instance, people suggest that when you lift your front wheel, you need to make sure you don't press the front brake, because if it stops spinning, you lose a lot of your stability.

  17. URL for video on Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h · · Score: 4, Informative
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  19. Re:Not even for small businesses on Microsoft's Office365 Limits Emails To 500 Recipients · · Score: 2

    LOL Definitely, because they don't have EXACTLY the same thing.

    http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=166852

  20. Most people aren't early adopters on Google+ To End Real Names Policy · · Score: 1

    most people don't care and freely use their real name on facebook

    Most people aren't early adopters, however often nerds are.

  21. Optus has this problem too on 100,000 iPhones Overwhelm Activation Server · · Score: 1

    Optus in Australia has this problem too. Almost no one switching from them to another phone provider (and taking their phone number with them), was able to make the switch. Additionally, their website was down almost all yesterday.

    All the other providers seemed to have managed it a lot better.

  22. Re:End of the reboot? on HP To Introduce Flash Memory Replacement In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I'm in my late 20's you insensitive clod!

  23. You're missing the point. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    You're right. All you need is 1 random pass.

    Now, please tell me how to do 1 random pass when my control board has died.

  24. Re:More Like Patients Dodging Federal Regulation on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good point. Though, as it stands, the government is more than happy to allow you to spend insane amounts of money on frauds. My mother actually deals with this a lot, as she works with the sickest people, in the worst circumstances, and watches them spend all their money on things such as (these aren't a joke)...
    Belly Button Massage
    Reiki
    Prayer Circles
    Crystals
    Potions/Elixars
    Chiropractors
    etc.

    These people come in promising the world, provide temporary happiness, followed by a crushing sense of what have I done, I've left my family broke, and I'm still dying.

    In comparison, even the worst possible scenario you could see with medical practitioners doing trying 'dangerous' (READ: experimental) medicine, looks insignificant in comparison.

  25. Re:More Like Patients Dodging Federal Regulation on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Turns out that the problem with what you've pointed out, isn't necessarily stem cell treatments in general, but more so, those people were forced to go to Thailand. Why Thailand? Because it's also doing the treatments, but they're cheaper. This article is about the rich people, going to rich progressive countries, with well trained, and well staffed hospitals, and getting the kind of treatments that the scientifically inept politicians have banned... because, after all, politicians know better than doctors and scientists, especially when it comes to, you know, health care and science.

    As such your complete argument is both retarded, and false. This IS happening due to the scientifically inept politicians. Unless you're saying that the Swiss are a reckless people with a terrible health care system. If so, the WHO begs to differ. So, for all your harping on, you're completely wrong, and your discussion on whether or not YOU or your unnamed sources believe it's correct/worthwhile/dangerous, is a red herring.

    But thanks for your useless input.