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  1. Re:How many are like me ? on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    please... tell me where Google has violated your privacy? They do not share your data with advertisers or partners. they make it easy for you to hide information, they provide the ability to remove your data. they give you a dashboard that covers all the services they provide and let your remove data.... they even let you hide your profile from search results on Google, Yahoo, Bing, et al.

  2. Re:I'll use it the same way I use other social sit on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    Why not just ignore G+ and let your friends add you to a circle by e-mail... then they can share stuff with you and G+ will send it to your e-mail address.

  3. Re:I'll use it the same way I use other social sit on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    because e-mail is eminently private.

  4. Re:since when on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    if the metric is on the post log in page, then they have to kind of be a member.

  5. Re:Tired and Flawed Reasoning on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    they don't... they also require you to name the people and the tags stay in your photo library on your PC unless you upload them to web albums, where the tags are not public in non-public albums.

  6. Re:Tired and Flawed Reasoning on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 2

    no... just massive global coverage of all things digital music and the single application used to access the devices that brought them to such a dominant position.

  7. Re:"Why is Google+ growing so quickly?" on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 2

    considering I can use the Start Google Plus extension to allow me to post to Facebook at the same time I post to my circles in G+, even if you kept both accounts, it is pretty painless to post to FB from G+.

  8. Re:Still need another 80m users on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    Non-users hit an info page. Unless the metric is from that page rather than the log in page, then the poster is correct.

  9. Re:For realsies? on Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should utilize the fact that it is in Invite only beta and request that as a feature.

  10. Re:Part of Microsoft shake down plans of Android on Attachmate Does the Right Thing For Mono · · Score: 1

    There are very few parts that are not covered and those parts are not part of the ECMA standard. Seriously... there are replacements for WCF and WinForms and the other small number of namespaces that are not covered.

  11. Re:Classic example of the "species problem" on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    Really?

    Do bull dog pups mature at a slower or faster rate compared to Chihuahua pups?

  12. Re:Neanderthal intelligence. on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    you have no evidence that such things did not happen in Neanderthal populations that were isolated as well (Neanderthal populations did in fact interact)

    I would love to see a study that at least correlates abstract thinking to population density. I doubt you will find one.

  13. Re:What a shame... on Borders Books, Dead At 40 · · Score: 1

    boarders did not sell the Nook... Barnes and Noble sell the nook.

  14. Re:Classic example of the "species problem" on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    Another question about your consideration of the validity of the alternative classification of Neanderthal:

    How do you account for the significant difference between the earliest Homo sapiens idaltu appearance in Africa and the first appearance of Neanderthal in Europe?

  15. Re:Classic example of the "species problem" on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    horse, donkey and zebra can interbreed but they should not produce offspring that are fertile.

  16. Re:Classic example of the "species problem" on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    No, it has not been part of the functional definition of species.

    http://rafonda.com/interbreeding_between_species.html

    by significant physiological differences, I am referring to their muscle mass, brain size, and age of maturation, all of which are beyond the three standard deviations from the mean of modern humans.

  17. Re:Part of Microsoft shake down plans of Android on Attachmate Does the Right Thing For Mono · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's community promise... it is a legally binding statement about where you as a developer stand when using Mono.

    If you have a problem with the win forms parts not being included, then don't use winforms. No one seems to give a shit about using one of 20 different tool kits with C++, but for some reason, not using winforms with C# on the mono platform is some sort of barrier that makes developing with it impossible.

  18. Re:Mono for phones is expensive on Attachmate Does the Right Thing For Mono · · Score: 1

    650 dollars is too much to spend for a good idea? OK... then maybe you should develop your initial application as you state, then when you get successful, move to a tool set that provides a much higher throughput, making you even MORE money!

  19. Re:more like we genocided them on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    He has gigantism. Acromegaly is a known comorbidity of gigantism which explains his appearance.

  20. Re:Classic example of the "species problem" on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    No... it really isn't a stretch.

    There are significant physiological differences between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens. Just because two species can interbreed does not mean they are the same species.

    We know that Neanderthal evolved much more directly from H. erectus than H. sapiens. On top of that, Neanderthal existed separate from Modern Humans for most of their existence. The genetic differences are as stark as the physiological differences.

    What allows for inter breeding is that the entire Homo genus has the same number of chromosomes. That is it.

  21. Re:Won't quiet the racists on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 2

    There is plenty of evidence that we are cognitively superior to Neanderthal. Brain size is not equal to intelligence. the size of a brain is proportional to the physical size of an animal. What is related to intelligence is the density of the cerebral cortex. Since we can not measure the cerebral cortex of Neanderthal, we have to look at archaeological evidence for abstract thinking (culture, society, and technology). In all three cases, Neanderthal was pretty much static until they encountered modern humans. given these facts, there is sufficient evidence to conclude Neanderthal was not as bright as Homo sapiens.

  22. Re:Won't quiet the racists on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    H. neanderthalensis evolved from H. erectus which left Africa 400 to 800 thousand years ago and spread from Europe to Asia and even some of the Indonesian islands. H. neanderthalensis is thus, descended from a species that left Africa, but is not FROM Africa.

  23. Re:Won't quiet the racists on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    That inferior Homo neanderthalensis also evolved to live during a specific climatic period with specific fauna and as specific group sizes. those factors changed and they were very easily overcome by a much more flexible Homo sapiens sapiens.

    Homo sapiens sapiens got the important genetic adaptations to survive in the region from Homo neanderthalensis inter breading, after that there was little that Humans could not do. All they needed was a few more layers of clothing than H. neanderthalensis.

  24. Re:Won't quiet the racists on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    they were not individualists, but they did live in small (30 person) clans. Their large muscle mass required a high protein diet so they had to hunt to survive.... literally.

  25. Re:Won't quiet the racists on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    you're an idiot... they had significantly larger amounts of muscle mass which correlates to brain size due to the increased need for muscle control.

    Neanderthal had no significant culture until they encountered humans and did not change their social behaviors much at all in their entire existence.... both point to low abstract intelligence.... also known as the metric that humans use to measure what is colloquially considered intelligence.