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  1. Re:Language is defined by usage, not dictionaries on Discovery of "Cancer-Proof" Rodent Cells · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Generally you can tell the pros and people in the know from the wannabees by their correct use of terms.

  2. Re:no flu vaccines for me thanks on Virus-Like Particles May Mean Speedier Flu Vaccines · · Score: 2, Informative

    Serious side effects from vaccination are on the order of one in a million or less, serious disease from the flu is on the order of one in thousand or more.

  3. Re:Finger nail-sized chip? on NCSU's Fingernail-Size Chip Can Hold 1TB · · Score: 1

    And how much is that in football fields? After all that's the canonical unit of area in the press.

  4. Re:the god-awful truth on What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? · · Score: 1

    Oops, forgot to add

    ... and then
    zfgrep goddamnfunctionname ~/index/myproject.gz|less
    That's actually quite quick, for a couple MLoC.

  5. Re:the god-awful truth on What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? · · Score: 1

    ssh user@fileserver 'cd /shared/myproject;wcfind . -name _\* -prune -o -type f -! -name \*.o -a -! -name \*.a -a -! -name \*.so\* -a -! -name \*.d -print | while read a; do ( file "$a" | fgrep -q 'text' ) &>/dev/null && fgrep -H "" "$a"; done | gzip -c9' >~/index/myproject.gz

  6. Re:Fascinating on Scientists Discover How DNA Is Folded Within the Nucleus · · Score: 1

    Corollary: If you write Perl even code that was easy to write is hard to read, making you look like a god.
    Just use copious regexes (NEVER use /x) and builtin variables ($_ FTW.)

  7. Re:White trash Re:And things like this are why... on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 1

    And indoor skydiving. Just don't go there when it's hot; hot dry air at 100 mph will suck every bit of moisture right out of you.

  8. Nice! on Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday · · Score: 4, Funny

    So where are the instructions for the patch party?

  9. Re:vegetarians on Cooking May Have Made Us Human · · Score: 1

    There is, however, epigenetics, which has effects on one or two generations of offspring based on environmental factors, primarily nutrition, but also disease, stress etc.
    Epigenetics will probably cause kids of vegetarians to be healthier than those of your typical junk-fed American mother, assuming they (and the mother) get adequate protein supply from dairy and/or eggs, or through carefully combining plant foods to arrive at a complete amino acid mix.

  10. Re:Turbo Boost technology? on Intel Core i7 For Laptops — First Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that the fighter drive in Battlestar Galactica? That would make it 70s.

  11. Re:That was a lame way of putting the data numbers on SKA Telescope To Provide a Billion PCs Worth of Processing · · Score: 1

    Drool. Can we run eMule on that system?

  12. Re:I'm not convinced on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: 1

    Just have a robot play the violins. Motion capture the bow's movement relative to the violin from an expert player and replay it with a robot. Then run a double blind listening test.

  13. Re:Placebos future on Placebos Are Getting More Effective · · Score: 1, Informative

    (Is that enough !!!!s to ensure that nobody thinks this is a serious comment?)

    No. Please use !!!1!!one!eleven!! next time.

  14. Re:Flash wear-and-tear on US Supercomputer Uses Flash Storage Drives · · Score: 1

    That's what you have SMART for. Just run smartd or add smartctl to your own scripts. Intel SSDs report the wear parameter in SMART attribute 233.

  15. Re:Sell it? Get it past inspectors on Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, that 6m of copper tubing will probably make the house explode, right?

    Depends on what it gets filled with.

  16. Re:Causality? on Obesity May Accelerate Brain Aging · · Score: 1

    The latter two make sense. #2 is obvious (exercise is known to improve brain function) and it is known that a high fat diet has an influence on the brain, e.g. promotes Alzheimer's.

  17. Another article about this on Obesity May Accelerate Brain Aging · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Profile manager is your friend on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    But multiple profiles don't work if you set your default browser to Firefox and try to open a URL from another program, for example click on a http://something/ link in Outlook.

  19. Re:Do we need to rehash this? on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 1

    But you can't try and release a distro, profit from it, then sue later saying the distro which you licensed under GPL included your copyrighted [non-gpl] code...

    I'll betcha Darl can. Since he is not connected to reality in any way, nothing is impossible. I think all it takes is some high powered lawyer who smells lots of billable hours.

  20. Re:Implications for machine walking? on High-Speed Robot Hand Shows Dexterity and Speed · · Score: 1

    It's also a matter of actuator power (and energy storage of course). But you're right, dynamic equilibrium and control is often easier than static. Try to walk in extreme slow motion and you'll know the difference.

  21. Re:Impressive.. on High-Speed Robot Hand Shows Dexterity and Speed · · Score: 1

    The accuracy is pretty impressive and will definitely get adopted in future robots, though the speed is a bit scary. At least you shouldn't come within its range in the hope that it will follow the three Laws of Robotics.

    Many modern robots work at that speed. I worked with tape handling robots for years and the ones that are large enough that you can stick a hand (or your whole body) into them have safety switches that disable the robotics or slow them down so that you can get out of the way and momentum is eliminated.
    Of course, engineers disable those switches. I've been hit on a hand hard more than once, and I know of one guy who was hit on the head by a tape robot. He went to the hospital but didn't need stitches.

  22. Re:Bad idea in general on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 1

    Hey the cops have "Parking services" around here. Well better than "meter bitches"...

  23. Re:Simple... if "Y" chromosome found = male on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. A Y chromosome means that the early precursors of gonads in the embryo produce testosterone.
    Now what if there's a mutation that makes the cells that would normally develop into genitals insensitive to testosterone? It's a multi-step process from genotype to phenotype and all sorts of interesting things can go "wrong" (and I know that term is very offensive to LGBT folks.)

  24. Re:People definitely neglect science... on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    Hmm. In my junior high school year I did learn about electron orbitals, and a year later about wave-particle duality. Conservation of energy was years earlier.
    That was in the science track of a very normal German high school.

  25. Re:And nothing of value got lost? on Nearby, Recent Interplanetary Collision Inferred · · Score: 1

    I loved the comment about Kryptonite and how the author of the original paper asked if anyone has a Kryptonite infrared spectrum so he can check :)