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  1. Neat! on Second Life Hit By Massive In-Game Worm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now what they need is some sort of illness that affects characters temporarily, just like real life! Imagine, your character gets a cold and slows down and sneezes every once in a while. Or hey, you go kiss another character (if that's possible) and your character gets infected with herpes! Wouldn't that be fun? Oh wait - that was me last weekend. Damn.

  2. Re:That's what happens on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid · · Score: 2

    There is analysis supporting that MS is now making a profit on each XBox 360 sold. It certainly would make sense given how quickly component prices fall.

  3. Re:Soooo.... on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid · · Score: 1

    As they say, once you go black, you can't go back.

  4. Great achievement! on Mars Rovers Celebrate Their 1000th Sol On Mars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not bad for a mission that cost less than $500 million. Fast, cheap, and still lasts a long time. Too bad they don't have nuclear power plants, as they'd be getting more work done faster.

  5. Re:Offtopic - hyperlink grammar on Icebergs Sailing Past New Zealand · · Score: 1

    Were you confusing the "icebergs is" part as not being correct as a result of the underline causing you to subconsciously ignore the "A fleet of" part?

  6. Re:I remember on Apple Orders 12 Million iPhones · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember when apple was a fruit

  7. I personally don't care on Report Blasts "Peak Oil" Theory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And I don't know why anyone else should either since I'd like to think that we as a species are smart enough to come up with an alternative fast enough to avert this. And even if we don't, we'll come up with something really really fast. We run out of oil, we'll use the shale in Colorado. We run out of that, something else will pop up. Fusion should be viable long before then, we'll have better solar energy, etc.

  8. Re:Are you kidding? on FCC Meets To Investigate Cookie Abuse · · Score: 1
    If this is the best thing the FCC can find to waste their time on, then they have become worthless.


    I think that happened quite a few years ago. Some symptoms include only catering to a small minority (eg wardrobe malfunction?) among other things.
  9. Re:Extensible Firmware Interface on Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Open Firmware, which I think just requires you to just purchase the documentation and maybe not even that.

  10. Re:Fast-forward on Intel Releases 4004 Microprocessor Schematics · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, they're not the same. The 4004 has 46 instructions. The 8086 has quite a bit more instructions and pretty much started us all on the x86 ISA, which weren't binary compatible with programs written for Intel's earlier processors.

  11. Great, but will it change anything? on Sun Considering GPL For OpenSolaris · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It certainly removes one barrier. But look at Darwin. It's open source, but who else but a handful of people outside of Apple are working on it? So the point is not to knock the potential change. The point is will developers flock to Solaris as a result of this? Slowly but surely or not fast enough?

  12. Uh, don't you mean... on Gracenote Defends Its Evolution · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Gracenote Defends Its Intelligent Design"?

    *runs aways*

  13. Only microwave frequencies? on Unplugging Your Backups · · Score: 3, Funny

    Screw that! I want high energy gamma ray frequencies so I can backup my data anywhere around the world! Although this might suck for those poor bastards who don't have lead suits.

  14. Re:Super vision? on Blind Mice See Again After Cell Transplants · · Score: 1

    There are actually some women who have 4 color cones instead of three.

  15. Would work for some on Blind Mice See Again After Cell Transplants · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It could work for children who are discovered to be blind, or those who gradually lose their vision from macular degeneration. This won't help those who were blind from birth and are now adults since their visual cortex will not have developed.

    And, of course, this only works on mice. Why is it that mice always get the best treatments?

  16. Yay! Now who would have thought this? on New MacBook Dual Core 2 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Faster chip brings faster performance!

  17. This is for the technologically inept on Cingular's Free Music · · Score: 1

    Or, in my case, cheap. My phone has bluetooth. As such, I can just transfer mp3s from my computer to my phone via bluetooth. Although the question arises: why would I do such a thing when the audio output just plane sucks on a phone (my phone at least)?

  18. Re:HERVs: 8% of Human Genome on Viral Fossil Brought Back To Life · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Kind of raises the quesion: if we were able to strip out all of this excesses DNA, would the resulting DNA still be useful?

  19. Re:What else? on Viral Fossil Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1

    Oh I've seen that episode. And I agree with the Klingon: if she was still alive, I'd kill her too!

  20. Really interesting on Viral Fossil Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1

    A virus that's been sitting in our genome is resurrected. I wonder what else is in there? I know we have a whole host of transposons that like to jump around and usually don't do any harm.

  21. Re:Or... on Researchers Find Clue to SIDS Early Detection · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, all infant deaths get an autopsy by a forensic pathologist. At least for the ones at the place I work, the forensic pathologist do not make a diagnosis of SIDS even in the absence of evidence to the contrary. SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion, but enough people have been burned in making that diagnosis (whereupon later it was found out that the parents did indeed kill the child) that at least the pathologists don't make (or at least shouldn't) that diagnosis anymore.

  22. Antibiotic resistant??? on Timely Book On Bird Flu · · Score: 4, Informative
    The book is especially timely given yesterday's news that a new, antibiotics-resistant variant of H5N1 has been detected in China
    It's a virus! Antibiotics are for bacterial-type infections. A vaccine is not an antibiotic.
  23. First nerd??? on Microsoft's Charles Simonyi to be 1st Nerd in Space · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought Mark Shuttleworth claimed that title (the Ubuntu guy)?

  24. Re:The Browser Wars on IE Sends Cake to Firefox 2 Team · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a lot better than in the past when we had drive-bys from the IE and Firefox gangs.

  25. Re:"conflict-free" on Lab Created Diamonds Come to Market · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was able to show my fiance the light concerning the evils of mined diamonds and DeBeers. So I got her a Gemesis diamond instead. It's a nice 1 carat canary yellow-orange diamond. So now she's a walking poster child for those who despise DeBeers, especially when other women look at her ring finger and wonder how her fiance was able to afford a yellow diamond because "aren't they really really expensive???"