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  1. Re:Good Morning on Michio Kaku's Dark Prediction For the End of Moore's Law · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's been years since I read Slashdot comments with (Score: 0). Maybe I'll read another after the next ten years.

  2. "The animal World Had Its Junkies, /Too/"? on The Animal World Has Its Junkies, Too · · Score: 1

    Title implies the junkie problem had previously only been recognized in either the plant world, the fungi world, or other kingdoms in the eukaryota domain, and possibly in the prokaryota and archaea domains.

  3. Re:FOSS on Swiss Canton Abandons Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    We have a 20-yo confocal that works with OS2 Warp.

  4. Re:Peak wood, peak peat, peak coal... on German Military Braces For Peak Oil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Peak solar, that might be a problem.

  5. Peak wood, peak peat, peak coal... on German Military Braces For Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    We've been doing fine after all those.

  6. The Galileo probe already did this on Earth As an Extrasolar Planet · · Score: 4, Informative

    "A search for life on Earth from the Galileo spacecraft", Nature, 1993 C. Sagan et al., http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v365/n6448/abs/365715a0.html

  7. Re:Is Novell reinventing the square wheel? on The Matrix For Businesses · · Score: 2, Funny

    No wonder why nothing ever gets done at Linden Lab, people who work there don't even know what the others are doing.

    Except for the Linden Labs Ministry of Truth. They know where your house lives.

  8. Re:Is Novell reinventing the square wheel? on The Matrix For Businesses · · Score: 1

    No, I have better sources, Mr. Spindoctor Anonymous. I have been working on said projects myself and got laid off. There. I said it.

  9. Re:Is Novell reinventing the square wheel? on The Matrix For Businesses · · Score: 1
  10. Is Novell reinventing the square wheel? on The Matrix For Businesses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Leading virtual world provider Linden Labs just laid off 30% of their employees, all of whom were working on a similar concept. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/09/linden_labs_lays_off_30_per_cent_of_staff/

  11. Re:By that standard on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    if the primate deserves equal protection under law...
    Humans are primates too! According to taxonomists: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo.
  12. Re:Sounds Like the Funniest Joke in the World on DNA So Dangerous It Doesn't Exist · · Score: 2, Informative

    "developing something that kills itself"

    This is different. Long double-stranded DNA molecules (up to several kilobases) can be synthesized chemically in large quantities without using organisms. These can then be introduced into organisms by transfection. If the organisms die, the DNA is lethal.

  13. Similar to what was seen in 2000 on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 2, Informative

    An ice breaker fount its way to the North Pole in 2000. There was no ice on the spot at that time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/888235.stm

  14. Associations... on Intel's New Slogan Clarified · · Score: 1

    'Leap ahead'... Such a phrase instantly reminds me of 'The Gorge of Eternal Peril'.

  15. Re:The Copenhagen Interpretation on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 1

    The Copenhagen Interpretation is only true when you prove it experimentally. During the timecourse it is not proven, it remains uncertain.

  16. Re:PHP build a program now in 5 easy seconds on Build a Program Now · · Score: 1

    Damn /. filter!

    pico x
    <?echo"Hello World!\n";?>[ctrl-x]y
    chmod +x x
    php x

  17. PHP build a program now in 5 easy seconds on Build a Program Now · · Score: 1

    pico x
    [ctrl-x]y
    chmod +x x
    php x

  18. 166-MHz Pentium, 32 MiB RAM on Breathing Life Into Older Computers · · Score: 1

    Half a year ago, being a complete Linux newbie I actually managed to revive a 166-MHz Pentium with 32 MiB RAM. I wiped out the original Windows 98 install, because it took ages for Windows to render the windows. It was unworkable. I gave the penguin a try, since noone wanted to work with this box. After some forum searches, I stumbled upon Slackware. Works as a dream if you just minimally install the system, leaving out X-Windows and the Windows managers. Now I have a nice and fast Apache/PHP webserver with 1.8 GiB of webspace, all for free. Occasonally, I even use Lynx to get the latest news when other computers are in use by collegues.

    Just out of curiousity. Is there a Linux distro with a reasonably usable X-Windows environment for a 166 MHz Pentium/32MiB RAM configuration?

  19. So. it's official ten... on Music Industry Backlash Against Sony Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Worst. DRM. Ever.

  20. Re:CXCR4 mutation? on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    Darn. You got me there. (Admin, please mod back first post to 1). Now I have to think of something else...

    How about infection with an attenuated HIV clone that can not genetically shift back to a wild-type-like variant?

  21. Re:CXCR4 mutation? on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1
    "I wonder how he got rid of already integrated virus..."
    That's a big point, yes. But again, it argues for the lack of CXCR4/T-tropism. Macrophage-like cells don't divide anymore. They just eventually die.
  22. CXCR4 mutation? on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 5, Informative

    CCR5 is a key receptor for HIV entry in cells (macrophage-like) relevant for viral dissemination. Indeed, the man could have some form of CCR5 variant. My guess is that they already checked for the delta32 version and that they're drawing a lot of blood from this guy and doing a lot of DNA sequencing.

    I've always wondered whether there would be a similar mutation on the CXCR4 receptor, which is another key receptor. This one's in cells (helper T-cell-like) that are relevant for the persistence of HIV in the body. Since, apparently, the virus was able to get into the bloodstream of this man, my two cents would be that CXCR4 rather than CCR5 could play arole in this phenomenon of self-healing.

  23. Re:How to get the State of MA to upgrade on MS Office 12 To Utilize ODF? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. And it adds to all the other cool new features that will be sported bij version 12. One more reason that will convince customers to upgrade.

  24. Only pr0n cookies on Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated? · · Score: 1

    [...] who is deleting cookies? Are you?
    Only pr0n cookies. I need the /. cookies because I keep forgetting my pw all the time.

  25. Does this put me on the no fly list? on Terrorists Move to Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    I wonder what criteria the International Terrorist Entities Search Team http://www.siteinstitute.org/ uses to mark a website as 'Terrorist Entity'. Would posting a link to http://www.bombshock.com/fronts/explosive.html and yelling "Hey, lets undermine western society" put me on a no fly list?