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Comment Re:The Devil is in the Details... (Score 1) 329

Bravo! Much more detailed, but similar to what I was wondering... when does "landline" begin? If I were on a cellphone with someone else on a landline, would that count? If both ends were cellphones, would that count because of the infrastructure between? If it is a plugged in phone, but VoIP, does that count? Do I have to be using a radio with another radio to answer "never"?

Comment Question: water consumption rate (Score 1) 114

Does anybody know the projected steady-state water consumption rate when running in production? From the report on the test plan, it looks like they are assuming (rather optimistically) a 2% leak in the in-ground flow, but it is unclear to me what the evaporative loss would be during a production run rather than a test.

Comment Re:DOA.. (Score 1) 377

uhhhmmm... that's an ad, not a competition or a test with any validity. Their conclusions should be treated as a forgone part of a branding campaign. I would be curious about more information on the "competition", but in viewing the ad, they lost me as soon as they said that "putting together a PC takes concentration" while focusing on the VGA connector. Clearly they were pushing a message based on a the integrated monitor as a differentiator.

Comment Re:Any word on effects (Score 1) 56

The bit they are triggering is responsible for changing the color of fluorescence. From TFA:

They used RAD to modify a particular section of DNA within microbes that determines how the one-celled organisms will fluoresce under ultraviolet light. The microbes glow red or green depending upon the orientation of the section of DNA.

Comment Copyright infringment! (Score 1) 56

From the article

Bonnet has now tested RAD modules in single microbes that have doubled more than 100 times and the switch has held. He has likewise switched the latch and watched a cell double 90 times, and set it back. The latch will even store information when the enzymes are not present. In short, RAD works. It is reliable and it is rewritable.

When the microbes double, the bit is copied. Just wait until the RIAA finds out!

Comment over-reaching? (Score 2) 109

The article links to dtu.dk which contains an article called "The Milky Way Shaped Life on Earth" . That article includes a quote that I found suspiciously unscientific:

The odds are 10,000 to 1 against this unexpected link between cosmic rays and the variable state of the biosphere being just a coincidence, and it offers a new perspective on the connection between the evolution of the Milky Way and the entire history of life over the last 4 billion years,’ Dr Svensmark comments.

So I Googled it and found this article containing a refutation and further examples of over-reaching. I leave it to /. to comment on the accuracy of these links.

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