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  1. Great for patient with neurogenic bladders on Researchers Direct Growth of Neurons With Silicon Nitride Microtubes · · Score: 2

    With the ability to grow a new bladder for patients born with small and poorly compressing bladders: source We may not have the ability to get these bladders fully functioning using this new technology. The biggest hurdle has been getting nerves to connect to the bladders so they can be used voluntarily and without the use of a catheter.

  2. Re: NXP is a huge secure element provider. on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    RFID technology is a diverse group of tech. NFC requires near contact to activate. RFID used in passports are not NFC, broadcasts without authentication and does not encrypt the data. NFC is nothing like that.

  3. Re: So Android DOESN'T have an Apple Pay equivalen on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    It is kind of hard to claim that for GW since you have to claim that, on top of someone stealing your device, they also have to have your wallet pin. then you have to explain why you did not suspend your wallet account when the device was stolen.

    further more, you will probably get stuck with the charge if you failed to encrypt your device since you had the least secure technology in the chain of the transaction.

  4. Re:So Android DOESN'T have an Apple Pay equivalent on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    weird, since both Apple pay and Google Wallet carry the same costs for transaction.

  5. Re:So Android DOESN'T have an Apple Pay equivalent on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    You better be using cash for all your transactions if you care about purchase history.

    Your history, unless you are doing something shameful is not what people are after. they want access to your accounts and PH does not provide that.

  6. Re:Equivalence on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    You realize that political and regulatory reasons are harder to overcome than technical ones right?

  7. Re:Equivalence on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    in both cases neither Google or apple relay your financial information to the vendor. Google generates a one time credit card number, apple uses a secure one time token as proof the funds are being credited to the vendor.

  8. Re:NXP is a huge secure element provider. on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    As opposed to what? A mag stripe?

    An NFC chip requires the device be within millimeters of a terminal to activate. The payment system itself is anonymous and provides perfect forward secrecy of your financial information. To activate the payment you have to have to authenticate. That can be done with a pin or in Apple's case, a thumb print.

    I will take that system over a stupid mag strip or even a chip and pin.

  9. Re:NXP is a huge secure element provider. on New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    You obviously were not old enough to actually live through the 90's because if you had you would know that:

    1) USB was not even part of the original Winows 98
    2)Apple released the iMac in 1998 and only had USB ports, dropping all legacy ports
    3) the iMac was released three years before the iPod
    4) You suck at history

  10. Re:They aren't looking for public comments on Why the FCC Is Likely To Ignore Net Neutrality Comments and Listen To ISPs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, the other option is to force infrastructure owners to stop selling ISP services and create a compulsory license fee for ISPs that wish to have their signal carried over the infrastructure.

    Over night you have market competition.

  11. Re: Not the Big Bang on Big Bang Breakthrough Team Back-Pedals On Major Result · · Score: 1

    Oh darn, if only you had.more room to provide use with those equally valid "theories"

  12. Re: Easier on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Right, because fewer people died of opportunistic infections before we had anti biotics and disinfectants.

  13. Re:I'm ignorant on Evidence of Protoplanet Found On Moon · · Score: 1

    Where did you learn science? Home School creationism?

    Observation of actual phenomena (evolution) ->Hypothesis of the mechanism of observed phenomena (Natural selection, genetic mutation, etc) -> Test, Test, Test, Test, Test ->Mechanism is stated to be a theory by consensus ->Test-> (maybe) revise theory -> (and on we go)

  14. Re:I'm ignorant on Evidence of Protoplanet Found On Moon · · Score: 1

    You could have saved us a lot of time and just stopped after your first sentence.

  15. Re:"Simplest explanation" on Evidence of Protoplanet Found On Moon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Earth isn't large enough to capture an object the size of the moon in such a close orbit. and the moon was orbiting in a much much closer orbit 4 billion years ago.So, no, it was the most complex explanation.

  16. Re:SteamBox just got really interesting on Valve In-Home Game Streaming Supports Windows, OS X & Linux · · Score: 1

    Who gives a shit about OS X and Linux? I want a slim mini-itx box in my living room that I can use to play my games. This does that.

  17. Re: Peer review on Momentous Big Bang Findings Questioned · · Score: 0

    As any good viewer of Cosmos knows the church excommunicated the guy who hypothesized about heliocentrism.

  18. It better be Mag-Lev on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    I don't think the entire line needs to be a mag lev train but the connection between continents should be. The trip under the straight should be a short as possible with a little noise as possible.

  19. Re:Matter, anti-matter... on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 1

    I believe it was a hypothesis that the universe began with symmetric amounts of matter and anti-matter. The recent BICEP2 results should provide a method for us to inquire about that idea either directly or through constraints by tossing out many hypothesizes related to quantum gravity and the nature of the early universe.

  20. Re:Something From Nothing. on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 2

    Well....there is your problem....asking (pure) astronomy grads a question about physics is like asking a (pure) physics grads questions about math. Sure, they know the stuff they need to know to do their work but they can't answer the deeper "why" questions related to the field.

  21. Re:Um, right. on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 1

    you are right, however, it is also made in such a way as to provide nothing but trouble when you need to teach kids how to really subtract.

  22. Re:Um, right. on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 2

    I don't know if that is Common Core's fault. Idiots implement the standards and think they make it easier for kids.The high standards are good, the poor implimentation in many districts is not.

  23. Re:The foundations on NASA-Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization · · Score: 1

    Your obvious parody of the foundation series may not be far off. I am sure there will be a group of highly educated folk who find a place with decent sustainable resources and set up a society based on sustainability and preservation of human knowledge. Then once the chaos consumes existing civilizations it will be able to expand and grow to dominate the world once again...minus the psychologists that lean to use psychic powers of the mind.

  24. Re:The difference is scale. on NASA-Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization · · Score: 1

    so, what you are saying is there is going to be a market in safe, easy to use wooden sailing ships?

  25. Re: Still not quite correct. on The Higgs Boson Re-Explained By the Mick Jagger of Physics · · Score: 1

    where do they get their mass from?