What about Opera? Didn't they start the whole thing to begin with?

I just wanted to commend you on an insightful post (no mod points)

The objection occurs when the government uses taxpayer money to conduct activities that a great number of people consider to be immoral.

If you like dead cow analogies then perhaps it is like forcing a vegetarian to eat the dead cow.

Any substance can be deadly. I say we just continue letting dumb-asses kill themselves as part of natural selection.

As a pharmacist, I know that the current FDA limit is no more than 4,000mg per day. Where did your number come from?

Closed casket.

Why was the parent modded down? In phase II and III trials they vaccinate large numbers of people (more in phase III) and after a couple years they compare the rate of infection in the vaccinated group versus a control group.

Right, but if you don't get the virus you can't get the syndrome.

Sounds like if this is for real, HIV will go the way of smallpox and polio.

Funny you should mention polio because Africa is the last continent that still has polio infection. Africa is also the heart of the AIDS epidemic.

Surely you realize AIDS is a progression of HIV. So naturally if you get the vaccine prior to HIV exposure you cannot get AIDS, assuming the vaccine works of course. Thus the vaccine does protect against both (in a unexposed host).

Similarly we have the "flu vaccine". We don't bother listing all the viruses that cause the flu because they don't really matter; the disease is the important part. HIV by itself never killed anyone.

OK, but don't click the ads.

Right. I've read in previous articles that the Chinese pirate huge amounts of software, much more so than in other countries. Furthermore there are plenty of free OSes out there.

So how does it start working if it gets all its power from flies and needs power to capture flies? If it has a power cord to plug it in or a battery, then that pretty much defeats the whole purpose of the "robot" to begin with.

I noticed in the gallery that the lamp had a power cord. If I were going to buy a powered device to kill bugs it would definitely be a conventional "bug zapper" -- a more entertaining option.

WTF is "the Tintin movie"?

Unfortunately pulseaudio has significant problems rendering sound from OpenAL apps such as the RTS game Glest. Sound is very choppy and maxes the processor making the game unplayable. Hopefully either pulseaudio gets its shit together or "mainstream" Linux distributions dump it altogether.