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  1. Re:The only problem on Cloned Sniffer Dogs Begin Training · · Score: 1

    If you use selective breeding to try and produce better and better dogs with each generation, you could end up with a better product in the end.
    Yes, but what do you do with all of the puppies that don't quite meet your expectations? This has been a problem with dog breeders for a while. The Corgi has a mutation for a long haired version that some breeders would put down soon after the puppy was born. Or so I was told by someone once in the dog show world.
  2. And they know this how? on Cloned Sniffer Dogs Begin Training · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Project manager Lim Jae-Yong said that training the clones of a skilled sniffer dog is easier than training ordinary canines
    "The project was successful. This is the first time that cloned dogs have been used as sniffer dogs," he said.
    Shouldn't that read that they BELIEVE training a cloned dog to be a sniffer will be easier. These are their first ones, how do they know if it's easier or if each dog is different just with the same genes (like twins)
  3. EULA on NJ Supreme Court Rules For Internet Privacy · · Score: 1, Insightful
    But what if the ISP puts some "fine print" in the EULA that says that they CAN give your information (IP address and/or more) to third party and that by accepting you consent?

    just as New Jersey citizens have a privacy interest in their bank records stored by banks and telephone billing records kept by phone companies
    If the ISP can hide behind the EULA as a contract how long before banks and telecoms jump on this bandwagon?
  4. Re:Hulk smash on The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts · · Score: 1

    Lizardman? Doc Conners was called "The Lizard".... And if he has his meds he kept his transformation under control... of courses that meant he lost the ability to regrow his arm.

  5. Re:More complex, more problems on The New School of Information Security · · Score: 1
    Quoting AC:

    Speaking as an information security professional, I can state with some confidence that the root cause of the problem is that I am not being paid enough.
    Maybe you should get a book deal...
  6. More complex, more problems on The New School of Information Security · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Throwing more "experts" at the problem doesn't make the problems go away. Just like making passwords more complex doesn't seem to increase security, especially when the average user doesn't seem to be getting any better (still writing password on post-its, etc)

  7. Re:Interesting... on PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    How is it being a "shitcock" telling people to do what they want? I thank them for taking my assumed feeling about animals into account when deciding on a meal but in the end I'm telling them if they WANT to follow me they can, if not... meh...
    Everyone does their own thing, if they want to follow my example and not eat red meat that their choice; if they don't that's their choice too.

  8. Re:Interesting... on PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    No, just misspelling steak today...

  9. Re:Interesting... on PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    No, deciding that foods low is saturated fats, sodium and calories is not arbitrarily deciding. I've decided that low fat/low calorie food choices compared to the much higher fat alternatives is deciding to eat healthy. Choosing a salad with a dressing on the side instead on mashed potatoes with gravy as a side is a healthy, and not arbitrary, food choice since you can measure the difference.
    But, if you prefer stake and potatoes over fish and salad... That's your choice. Do your thing and live your life. Just be happy and enjoy your meal, whatever it is.

  10. Re:Interesting... on PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    I eat it because it is far more lean than any cut of beef I can find and it's delicious. The advertised health benefits are just a side effect. As it is the ostrich is more costly and hard to come by so it plays into eating on the rare occasion easily.
    Over all I eat it because it tastes good, if it's "better for you than beef and even chicken!" as they say it is that's just bonus.

  11. Re:Interesting... on PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's so Odd about it? I don't eat red meat sans maybe Ostrich every blue moon. My diet is very Fish, Grain, and Veggie based and THAT gets me strange looks.
    Even so, people feel the need to be apologetic when they order a stake if we go to dinner. My response is: "It's your body. Put into it what you what. Follow my example if you want, or don't. It's not MY place to force you to eat healthy"
    If you try to force someone to see the world your way that will only get them to look away from it.

    I'm ashamed that health and eco conscious people where more forceful in their views in the past making it harder for the people of today to be taken seriously.

  12. Re:by cutting prices! on Microsoft "Albany" Offers Office and Security as Subscription · · Score: 1

    The first one is always free..

  13. Where's the WellDuh Tag on Windows Update Can Hurt Security · · Score: 1

    Of course there are going to be flaws in this kind of release/patch system. The problem it trying to become savvy enough that you don't need "automatic" updates and can actually patch what needs patched on your system as it needs updated.
    I've heard reports of bugs created by patches and patches to fix bugs from patches that only took it back to base version.

  14. Re:Diabetic=Blind? I guess eventually... on Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can't you go blind having diabetes?

  15. You can't win them all on Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web? · · Score: 2, Informative

    But to a degree the ADA forces a lot of companies hands to make sure that their products and services can be used. It's not unreasonable to think that as a disabled person that I should have access to the same products and services as my non-disabled peers as long as the accommodation's would not cause undue strain on a company.

    Redesigning a web page may or may not fall under undue strain... I'm betting not. Then again not all pages are in the US and would be subject to something in the ADA.

  16. Re:I wonder though on US Army Furthers Development of Robotic Suits · · Score: 1

    Instead of a suit why not a gas that augments the solder or an injection. Maybe call it a Super Solder Serum? I mean, I'm sure the unencumbered solder would be far more agile than one in a suit. In fact, maybe they could even blow them away with pumpkin bombs during a test flight just to prove that they're better and deserve the defense contract...

  17. Wait wait... on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 1

    pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation" simply by looking at file names
    BWAHAHAHAHA! Oh? He's serious? Well, I guess Windows.exe is really used to let sunlight in my house, eh?
  18. Re:Fingerprinting in Texas on DHS to Begin Collecting DNA of Anyone Arrested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just curious, what other licensed profession is fingerprinted and compared to a national criminal database annually? Doctors? Childcare Providers? Lawyers?
    Pimps and Drug Dealers come to mind... wait did you say licensed...?
  19. Re:perhaps I'm missing something on DHS to Begin Collecting DNA of Anyone Arrested · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know if the method here is different (does hair or a cheek swab provide a useful sample?)
    The article said cheek swab, but still "we need you to open your mouth so we can stick this in" sounds like something the government is telling us to do a lot lately...
  20. perhaps I'm missing something on DHS to Begin Collecting DNA of Anyone Arrested · · Score: 4, Insightful

    anyone who is arrested by federal law enforcement agency
    How is this different than getting your prints taken when your arrested? Or do they only take prints when your charged where as this wants DNA if you're charged or not...?
  21. Re:What exactly is your point? on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    You live in it. It's like when you're watching the weather channel and you see someone in a sweater and it's 90. You think "He's Fscked up". It's okay that you forgot about the snow, only way to survive it...

  22. Re:What exactly is your point? on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    Why not store the excess 7 hours a day of sunlight energy in a battery of some kind for tapping during the winter. That's two extra days a week of sunlight, but you wouldn't have to use gas for all the winter.
    Hell, if you could figure it out do geo/solar thermal plants with some kind of storage for non-sunlit hours/days. But these therm would be used for kWh and heating therms especially in this cold climate and the issue of keeping the mirrors clear or snow/frost... Then again, I write code so take with salt and call me in the morning.

  23. Re:Summary... on Monster Cables Pushes Around the Wrong Small Company · · Score: 1

    Actually, they're not. All they asserted were design patents, which are flimsy little patents drawn to the ornamental design of the product.
    And I love that he goes back to them with basically that RCA connectors are generic and have to be and unless they have documentation that shows otherwise that they are distinctly Monster Cable RCA connectors and that his connector is similar to buzz off... And they tried with 5 patents, one of which was expired.
  24. Re:Ooops! on Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq · · Score: 1

    Where are all the "I for one welcome back our robot overlord" comments?

  25. Re:The Government Said So... on Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq · · Score: 1

    These Terminators are going to be the end of us all!
    Now that you mention it, they are consolidating and restricting access to a lot of "in the air" government databases.. making a SKYNET if you would...