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  1. Re:Some concerns on How A "Superbaby" Is Helping To Find Muscular Dystrophy Treatments · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link. I also found This Article which discusses myostatin expression in other tissues including cardiac muscle. It seems that depending on the species and the test subject's stage of development myostatin can have positive or negative effects on not only cardiac muscle but also completely non-muscular tissues within the body.

  2. Some concerns on How A "Superbaby" Is Helping To Find Muscular Dystrophy Treatments · · Score: 1

    If a lack of myostatin, whether natural or due to some type of therapy, allows rapid muscle growth what effect does it have on your heart or your tongue? An enlarged tongue could cause all kinds of breathing and eating problems. An unusually large heart could cause any number of problems resulting in death. From the little bit of reading I have done so far none of the research data I have seen addresses these issues.

  3. Re:no wonder on NASA Slashing Observations of Earth · · Score: 1

    grrr..preview preview preview

  4. Re:no wonder on NASA Slashing Observations of Earth · · Score: 1

    Not to mention ,a href="http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/">Space Imaging and Orbimage who merged last year to form GeoEye. Remote sensing is well on its way to being a primarily commercial capability.

  5. The Real Privacy Violation on Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What every one of us seems to be missing is the bigger question. Why are financial institutions allowed to provide your private financial records to another private organization? If I were to ask my bank for another customer's financial records they'd laugh. Why? Because it is ILLEGAL to provide that information to me. Why do we allow these institutions to give our private data to the credit bureaus in the first place. Find the administration responsible for allowing that to happen and you'll find the root of this problem

  6. Re:So what? on Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena · · Score: 5, Informative

    The difference is the data that is available to them. AFAIK banks and credit card companies get basic info concerning your current debt load and payment history. As you would know, a full credit report reveals full account information including creditor info, account numbers, and relatively current debt load for each account. Over time this information can reveal increases in account activity and other very personal bits of information.

  7. Re:What are the odds? on Pirate Bay to Purchase Sealand? · · Score: 1

    The Green Party gets news coverage and I laugh at them every time they're mentioned.

  8. What are the odds? on Pirate Bay to Purchase Sealand? · · Score: 1

    The average person using the site won't pay $15 for a DVD at Wal-Mart. Does anyone seriously expect that enough of them will fork over hundreds of dollars to acquire a rusting, burned-out, communicationally-challenged scenic overlook. This whole thing is as humorous as the Pirate Party.

    If they do get Sealand they better form one hell of a militia. One rubber raft does not a navy make.

  9. Re:Yay!!! on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Glad someone got it.

  10. Re:Yay!!! on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the fuck does that mean?!

  11. Re:Yay!!! on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    All American flags have red stripes, too. That doesn't mean there aren't white ones there. Trust me, there are metric and imperial nuts and bolts in a Ford Ranger as well as screws with torx, phillips, flat/straight, and hex socketed heads.

  12. Re:Yay!!! on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My Ford Ranger was assembled in the U.S. with a German-built engine, a Japanese transmission, and a mostly American body. It's a frigg'n Craftsman/Snap-On conspiracy as far as I'm concerned.

  13. Re:Yay!!! on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Watching that would be ever so slightly more amusing than watching one of my European customers when maintaining one of my employer's half-metric half-imperial products. It's fun hearing things like "This wrench won't fit, and this one is too big. Is this a 9.5mm nut? Oh shit. It's American."

  14. Re:Metrication?? on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    The 2 are interchangable.

  15. Yay!!! on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now if only American car companies will budge that extra 17/32" and finish going metric rather than forcing me to have 2 sets of tools for one car. Then I can "Compare Prices on Physics and Engineering" here at /.

  16. Re:Slow news day? on Some 'Next-Gen' DVDs May Not Work With Vista · · Score: 1

    Funny. I could have sworn that the inability to display the movie on my "yet-to-be-released disc" with my "yet-to-be-released OLD hardware" while running my "yet-to-be-released OS"(3 weeks ain't much) was fairly newsworthy here at /.

    Please forgive us all for discussing such futuristic fantasies.

  17. Re:What if.... on Some 'Next-Gen' DVDs May Not Work With Vista · · Score: 1

    No. The disc itself sets this optional disfunctionality. The OS must be told to require HDCP by the media itself.

  18. Re:Paging DVD Jon on Some 'Next-Gen' DVDs May Not Work With Vista · · Score: 1

    "Jon here."....."I see."
    "Talk to this kid. He says he has it under control."

  19. Re:Pricing Comparison on RIAA Admits 70 Cent Price is 'In the Range' · · Score: 1

    Their profit is NOT $0.45 per song. That is their revenue. Factor in the enormous overhead of these labels and you probably end up with per-song profit in the $0.20 range or lower.

  20. Re:Never ever going to work on Movie Studios OK Download-to-Burn DVDs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "They are NOT going to pick something restricts their choice,"

    You mean like an iPod?

  21. Re:I give up. on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Muslims do believe in Jesus. In fact most of the world believes in Jesus. His status as the son of God is what would be in question. Muslims do not see Jesus as the son of God but as a prophet whose teachings are important. However Muhammad, having arrived after Jesus, is regarded as the last prophet. Therefore his teachings are "law" for muslims.

    Jews also believe Jesus was a prophet of God but do not believe he was the son of God.

    It's really sad that this game would advocate the killing of non-Christians because of their lack of faith. That is in direct conflict with the teachings of Jesus. Rather, it is just like the teachings of Muhammad.

  22. A "Regular" DVD? on A Terabyte of Data on a Regular DVD? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That doesn't sound like a regular DVD to me.

  23. Great on The Week of Oracle Database Bugs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe they should look at security issues with Oracle's Discoverer client as well. It's pretty sad when having "@" in your password will compromise every character that follows within your password. For example, if ODB password were Sl@shd0t! and the database to connect to were BOB, at the next login the Connect field would be filled with shd0t!@BOB. Not a huge issue, but certainly a risk if multiple people with varying permissions/responsibilities in Oracle have access to a machine with Discoverer.

  24. Re:In fact, the article says China is in the right on Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites · · Score: 1

    Of course they do. It's all a cat and mouse game. It always has been, and it always will be. However, the assumption that one or the other is in the wrong is absurd. If years ago the headline read "Russia finds way to jam bugging devices" would people be screaming about the US violating privacy or the Russians playing dirty pool? No. This is just another development in the never-ending game of espionage and intelligence.

  25. What Most of you seem to be missing... on Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...is that no one is saying "The Chinese are wrong". Not one person quoted in the article has said that. The article never suggests that. Being in the remote sensing industry, I find this article interesting, but beyond the technical interest of the subject it's no more exciting, important inflamatory, or pompous than a sports report. It's no different than a "Saints defense finds a way to shut down Vick" headline. No one is wrong and no one is claiming anyone is wrong. Someone has just added a new play to the playbook. So, stop with all the "The US thinks it's the shit and the Chinese are victims of spying" crap.