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  1. Re:Yield of Amino Acids on Old Materials Resurface For "Prebiotic Soup" · · Score: 1

    Now learn about biological value and amino acid profiles, fatty acids and different carbohydrate types and you're on your way toward healthy nutrition :)

  2. Re:Always remember: on Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia · · Score: 1

    And you forgot that there will always be at least one geek kid in the class who knows about proxies and TOR and will brag about his (her?) knowledge.

  3. Re:Credit crunch my butt on Tesla Motors Shaken Up, Laying Off · · Score: 1

    Oh, please... let's not talked con'd exclusively about conservatives when you've got liberals out there freezing themselves to death for lack of heat because they expect the earth could blow up at any minute due to the sins of man.

    Oh the irony. Assuming this wasn't some deeply hidden sarcasm, did you notice that you just delivered a perfect example - having been conned into believing that climate change isn't a big deal and we can go on doing business as usual?

  4. Re:Impressive car, but I'd like an extra wheel ple on Appropriate Tech, 300mpg Car Top 2008 Innovators · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Americans have this mentality of assuming that crashes are inevitable that's not shared in much of the rest of the world.

    That's because most of them can't drive.
    All they do is stomp on the brakes, locking them if they don't have ABS, and hope for the best.
    I've seen it happen in front of me, and the rubber tracks you see at accident sites tell the same story. Almost always you have 4 locked tires heading straight to the crash site or spinning out of control.
    I guess the percentage of folks who went to driving school and got any handling training is very low.

  5. Re:Dear God, free us from religion... on Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys · · Score: 1

    Obligatory adage:
    God is great, it's just his ground staff that sucks.

  6. Re:I for one am not surprised. on Google Demands Higher Chip Temps From Intel · · Score: 1

    Dell did (does?) the same thing by having higher temperature specs for their servers than the rest of the industry. Of course customers will see higher failure rates if they actually use the larger margin.
    It's teh physics, stupid!

  7. Re:WTF? Lawyers as engineers, not so much on Google Demands Higher Chip Temps From Intel · · Score: 1

    Right on.
    Of course, Intel will give them whatever they want because Google is such a large customer. And will then pay in terms of higher failure rates, hence warranty costs. And Google will notice the same thing, assuming they do decent data gathering on failures, and find out that this is a really bad idea because those failures cost them even more than Intel.
    Seems to me like bean counters are trying to beat physics.

  8. Re:No Offense to Obama... on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    So much into change - as opposed to McCain?
    People don't even use "flip-flop" any more with regard to him. "Whatever might seem to buy more voters today" must be his motto.

  9. Re:I'm waiting too ... on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    I have actually *connected* to a Russian site via the Internet.
    That makes me far more qualified in foreign politics than her.

  10. Nonplussed by Fox News? on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    For the life of me I can't understand how that could happen.

  11. Re:Barr on Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama · · Score: 1

    Did you notice that you fell for the typical McCain rhetoric?
    Military experience, my ass. Finished near the bottom of his class, crashed 4 jets and got caught as the result of the last crash. How does that qualify him more than somebody who is far more intelligent and understands the way the world works? I'd much rather rely on Obama to stare down Putin and the Chinese. He'll make rational decisions - as opposed to McCain or (heaven forbid) Palin.

  12. Re:One thing I've always wondered... on Asus Launches Touchscreen Eee Desktop · · Score: 1

    Teee.

  13. I like your thinking on CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" · · Score: 1

    > H-O-CH2-CH3 that served certain functions for the cell/lifeform
    Everybody's favorite molecule.

  14. Re:Trust issues on Boston University Working On LED Wireless Networks · · Score: 1

    That's possible now. Its called tapping your brake.

    Yes, and so many people do it for no reason that a brake light by itself doesn't have much information content.

  15. Re:Reach for the switch... on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave." ... if it has enough actuators to control the environment.

  16. Re:Needs a refresher 'civics' course. on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: 1

    Ummm, isn't that from the paper that Bush and Cheney wipe their asses with?

  17. Re:terrorism-whatever on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: 1

    Well, if you think along the lines of a certain mindset in a certain major party in the US, being against the war [on terror] makes you a terrist. You're either with us or against us.

  18. Re:No, the real trick on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 1
  19. Re:No, the real trick on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 1

    ...But she changed the subject of the questions when she didn't know the answer!

    That's what a good debater does, right?

    Yes, on every single one of them.

    Good debater? Yes. Knowledge, experience or substance? No.

  20. Re:Well? on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    No we di%^##U(@_
    NO CARRIER

  21. Re:Dude on Scientists Claim Breakthrough On Holographic Display · · Score: 1

    Yeah, where's the helpmeobiwan tag?

  22. Re:Skydiver on Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane · · Score: 1

    Man, that show had a *lot* of sideburns and 'groovy' music!

    And hot chicks, just the purple hair was nasty.

  23. Re:There is no singularity on No Naked Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Not exactly white. Every single photon from the outside would be extremely blueshifted. The total number of photons wouldn't change though - they'd fall with you. Remember the "piling up" only happens from an external observer's frame of reference, not from yours as you fall through the event horizon.

  24. Re:There is no singularity on No Naked Black Holes · · Score: 1

    But current quantum theory has no way of stopping the falling matter. If space is smooth there is nothing to keep the density from growing beyond any limit.
    OTOH, if space is quantized there is a way of handling that. There's a recent article in SciAm applying it to the whole universe - the same thing would limit the density in a black hole.

  25. Re:Black hole collision on No Naked Black Holes · · Score: 1

    But if time is moving infinitely slow, then how does matter ever get to the center? Shouldn't all the matter be concentrated at the event horizon?

    No. Seen from the frame of the falling matter, it never stops. This only appears to be the case because time is dilated to zero at the Schwarzschild radius (because matter reaches light speed there, as seen from an external inertial frame.)