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  1. Re:Hardly surprising on Fathers Pass Along More Mutations As They Age · · Score: 1

    So the finding of ovarian stem cells in women of reproductive age isn't a possible mechanism? Given they also made the discovery in mice and where able to successfully create eggs and fertilize them with the mice?

    I'm not saying either is right, but to prove it isn't you have to have evidence.

  2. Re:Hardly surprising on Fathers Pass Along More Mutations As They Age · · Score: 2

    Except: A woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have (they are not produced over the woman's lifetime).

    There is research suggesting this isn't true.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120229-women-health-ovaries-eggs-reproduction-science/

  3. Re:Kill the dragon and save both of you on Phony Laser Security System Proves Perception Is Reality · · Score: 1

    the SR GM's i've had hated me for that, always the eyes, blind the boss and the can't too too much more, eventually i got my soul slapped out of me

  4. Re:d'oh! on Phony Laser Security System Proves Perception Is Reality · · Score: 1

    thats meth and crack heads, around here we just have stoners. and everyone knows stoners all have the munchies.

  5. Re:antibotics are used by farmers ... on Do Antibiotics Contribute To Obesity? · · Score: 1

    well a side effect of not having infections is not having to expend energy fighting them, when you don't expend energy you store it and become larger as a result.

  6. Re:Let's build a goddamn time machine! on $900,000 Raised For Buying Tesla's Lab · · Score: 1

    for something that's been abandoned that long, it doesn't look that bad really.

  7. Re:power fail? on Video Purports To Show Successful Hover Bike Test Flights · · Score: 1

    well the fan vs the jet, the fan version at least has the option of auto-rotating like a helicopter. not sure how well that works for ducted fans.

  8. Re:Rank Amateurs on Video Purports To Show Successful Hover Bike Test Flights · · Score: 1

    Also, the fact that it flies without electronics is not a good thing. Multirotor setups, especially those with a high center of gravity, benefit immensely from computer-controlled stability.

    No true, remember the KISS principal. Given that their intended use is in outback and 3rd world places where replacement electronics are likely to be unavailable but a welder is, the more simplistic and basic mechanical they can make it the more durable, usable, and practical it is for their intended use.

  9. Re:200+ countries? on Apple Is Now the Most Valuable Company In History · · Score: 2
  10. Re:Yeah they did stop innovating on Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? · · Score: 1

    You cherry picked with the bomb, a comparable error screen would be

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sad_mac.png

    Only place i ever saw a table for what the codes meant was in the someones mac bible, and yes there was variation in the mac's but they still had complete control and had the option/opportunity/ability to test and verify every configuration.

  11. Re:Yeah they did stop innovating on Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that on NT a BSOD is a driver hardware interface failure, either the hardware faulted (like bad memory) or the device driver faulted. Now go back and categorize all the BSOD you have had and what driver/hardware failed, then remember that MS made virtually none of the hardware for the PC's and that they also did NOT write most of the drivers used in PC's. When vendor makes a device they write the driver, MS only ever wrote generics that were very limited in scope and where extremely stable.

    One of the major reasons Mac's where viewed as more stable is that they had a very small scope of hardware they had to work with, and that also meant a very small scope of hardware they could work with, which limited their usefulness.

    I don't blame MS for any of the BSOD's I've seen, in fact i like that they give you the mini dump on the screen so you can identify the culprit, rather than getting a damn "sad mac" face.

  12. Re:I hope it's not band-aid on Intel Team Takes On Car Hackers · · Score: 1

    that's not true.

    I've got an MG Midget, that after a fair amount of modifications from original, is extremely reliable, extremely fun to drive, and gets better gas mileage than my wife's civic and my miata.

  13. Re:I hope it's not band-aid on Intel Team Takes On Car Hackers · · Score: 1

    got to love classic cars

  14. Re:Oh good on U.C. Berkeley Offers Free "Big Data" Class This Week · · Score: 1

    if you can script your self then yes

  15. Re:Why is this not a good thing? on Insurer Measures Driver Safety With Smartphone App To Calculate Premiums · · Score: 1

    Agreed - When my Insurance found out that i did "closed course" time trials and AutoX events (all of which you have to sign wavers and agree to be personally completely liable and understand insurance does not cover you there) they tried to completely cancel my insurance for my wife and I. How they found out was i wanted to get extra insurance on the trailer i use to tow the car and like a fool was honest when they asked what i was towing the car for.

    Now on the flip side, i can tell you that driving skills i have learned over the past 15 years have saved my life on the road, most notably to me was threading telephone poles to avoid being sandwiched.

    The requirement here in the US for someone to drive is a joke, they should require everyone to attend and pass things like PDX/HPDE's before being issued a licence.

  16. Re:And next on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 5, Funny

    That isn't linux's fault, it's Ubuntu's. Slackware will run just fine on your sundial.

  17. Re:microwaves radiation is still light on After 60 Years, a Room-Temperature Maser · · Score: 1

    actually.

    optical light is a form of EM radiation
    microwaves are form of EM radiation

    optical light is not any form of microwave
    microwaves are not any form of optical light

    optical light is a defined band in the possible EM radiation wavelengths and so is microwaves, but the two defined bands do not at all intersect

  18. Re:Vampire Mosquito's on West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency · · Score: 1

    Should visit the outer banks in NC, they can kill the deer there.

  19. Re:patent office = fail on Samsung: Apple Stole the iPad's Design From Univ of Missouri Professor · · Score: 3, Informative

    peer to patent is very new and would not apply to any of the patents in question for this case - the pilot for it was only completed in 2009

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-Patent

    While it's a good thing to get going, it still doesn't address the issue that the USPTO basically wants the person requesting the monopoly to be completely honest.

  20. Re:patent office = fail on Samsung: Apple Stole the iPad's Design From Univ of Missouri Professor · · Score: 0

    Because it is up to the applicant to submit prior art with their filing, not the patent office's job to hunt it down.

  21. Re:Meaningless on CERN Physicists Generate Hottest Man-Made Temperatures Ever: ~5.5 Trillion K · · Score: 1

    these are real scientists they are using K

  22. Re:Wikipedia has something to say about this threa on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    I understand what your saying, but in reality while they might find solace and joy in the glider they would not be inclined to use it to label them selves.

    A script kiddie who is not but thinks they are a hacker would be inclined to use it, and that alone would also detract from any legitimate use.

  23. Re:Wikipedia has something to say about this threa on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    And by that logic (in the realm of computer hacking), only script kiddies would think to use this logo. Meaning it isn't a logo for hackers as a hacker would never use it.

    The reality is that the term hacker over the last 20 years has changed a lot, and now people modify and re-purpose things are being called hackers, while i'm not completely opposed do this, i do have the same stance that a real hacker doesn't call him self one. But current culture doesn't seem to agree with me so i will go sit on my porch now.

  24. Re:Wikipedia has something to say about this threa on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    well proposed in 2003, so short lived in the world of "computer hacking" and to quote wiki "This does not refer to the hackers breaking into computers, but to the hacker culture around BSD, MIT, GNU, Linux, Perl, etc.; that is, the community around free software and open source."

    I understand what you are saying and i understand the sub cultures, but in reality anyone who first calls them self a hacker, before others label them, more than likely isn't.

  25. Re:Wikipedia has something to say about this threa on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Again, hackers would do i because it is there,

    also note that what you are revering to "Hacker Emblem" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Emblem has little to do with computer hacking