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  1. Re:Well two things on Genetically Modified Canola Spreads To Wild Plants · · Score: 1

    1) They do a hell of a lot of trials on GM plants. They do a hell of a lot of trials on plants period, but more on GM plants because additional agencies are involved in oversight.

    The outcome depends on how the trials were done. Look up what happened with Klebsiella planticola SDF20. It was supposed to produce ethanol from crop waste, but when it was added to real agricultural soils, it killed most of the plants, beneficial insects, and beneficial bacteria, and helped pathogens thrive. It was also very competitive and stayed in the soil for a while. Its effects wouldn't have been noticed if the test had used sterilized soil, as was then common.

  2. Re:Of course, there is another solution on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    What abject reality? What do you know of religion? That which you rejected as soon as you could? Even a little bit of googling would tell you that "a sky fairy where most people burn for eternity upon their death" is the viewpoint of extremely few religions. No wonder people reject religion, faced with the prospect of eternal damnation.

  3. Re:openSUSE 11.2 on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fedora 12: 14 days to go.

  4. Logitech mouse bug on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    Either it's my computer or the drivers are funny, but my new Logitech USB mouse works only in Linux and not in Windows. In linux it works out of the box, in Windows you need some kind of driver that isn't even mentioned on the box.

  5. Re:Worst naming scheme: on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    It gives your customers something to chuckle over during traceroutes too. Why settle for letting them discover they traversed v11s0p1.dal01.blahblahblah.net, when you could let them know that they went through thebeast.bbb.net or ratbastard.wehateourjobs.com?

    Which is why a traceroute on the University of Houston network returns Elagubulus, Caesar, Caesar-jr, and Titus Flavius.

  6. Sponsor Peter T. King has funny ideas on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    The representative who sponsored this bill in 2007 (not so new is it?) has had other ideas, like HR 769 (making English the official language of the United States).

  7. Re:Child Nudity is Prohibited in the UK and Irelan on UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    So a picture of me standing naked on a table with my baby fat all over would be classified as child porn?

  8. M$'s market share - then and now on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Having 90% market share in 1995 is not the same as 90% market share in 2008. A better comparison would be with a number/volume difference. Also, how do THEY know how many people had Windows in 1995?

  9. Why on Earth... on Mars Rovers Facing Budget Cuts [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Does the US government have to do something like this again? They care less about space than any other government before. You know, if Bush had young kids, who enjoyed learning about space and space exploration, the world would be a better place, since he would keep Spirit up there forever to satisfy them. As it is, he denies young men and women the joys of marveling at the spirit and endeavors of these rovers, not caring one iota about the imagination of kids.

  10. Not just client-side ActiveX issues on Facebook on Hackers Target MySpace and Facebook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    May I mention that hacking Facebook takes no real effort? Simply manipulating a browser's client side input forms (using Firebug, maybe) allows one to post to any Superwall (Faceboo application) whether you are the person's friend or not. Anonymous attakers could put links posing as coming from people's friends on the people's Superwalls. Reasoning: If it comes from my friend, it must be good and safe. The click-rate becomes much higher, and an attacker has just used a form of social engineering to lead people to a malware site. Most applications are not built with security in mind. They just (fatally) assume that the end user would never do such a thing. Dream on, app developers!

  11. Re:JRR Tolkien comparison on Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion · · Score: 1

    Now that you've mentioned it, why not let other writers fill in the information in the book (history of wizards, adventures of other wizards, not "nineteen years later" but rather "One Year Later" )by writing other novels based in the Harry Potter magical world, as in the Star Wars books?

  12. Re:Looks completely bogus on Virtual Reality Getting its Own Network? · · Score: 1

    Well, you can't count on them to have enough imagination to get out of a "domain" mindset. Anyway, maybe having domain names for sale instead of virtual real estate is simpler for the average domain name buyer to deal with. I don't know, maybe "virtual real-estate" is too esoteric-soundng.

  13. Re:That's great and all... on Computer Manages Restaurant Workers · · Score: 1

    Cutting costs and being more efficient does not mean using a computer to command your employees, especially one that removes yet another human part from the whole food process. (I imply things such as the computer thingies in food stores.)

  14. But is it really that much? on A Different Kind of WGA 'Problem' · · Score: 1

    Are there really 60 million people using hacked versions of Windows XP, or any other Windows OS's? Because if so, doesn't Windows see that threatening them with WGA-like threats,and, BTW, not denying that they may have a kill switch for the hacked Windows versions, will get these users over to Linux or Macs in no time, especially if they don't want to shell out the monies for the real stuff?

  15. Re:Let's take it by the numbers: on Why Web 2.0 Will End Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    I must say that that is too true, especially since some sites allow users to search one's personal information for free: just type the name in and you are done!