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Comment Re:And I pray the opposite... (Score 1) 735

In any community of organisms, there are small genetic differences between each organism, that may be shown through different traits. (That guy has brown eyes, that guy has green eyes...) In any environment the organism is going to die, eventually. There are traits the organism can have that make it badly suited or well suited to it's current environment. If it is badly suited to it's environment, it will more than likely die before it is able to reproduce. If it is well suited to it's environment, the opposite could happen, and it may reproduce multiple times before it expires.

What we have now, is a new generation that is slightly better suited to the environment, and the new generation still has small genetic differences between each member, which may help or hinder it's ability to reproduce, and on, and on, and on.

The bacteria might slowly gain more and more genetic information by insertions, deletions, multiplication of sections in it's genetic code over millions of generations, which is why there is genetic diversity in the population of organisms.

Mistakes (anything except a perfect genetic copy) are made when cells divide. That's why people get cancer.

What should give it any further merit over any other not-disproven theory?

But intelligent design is not a theory, a theory is disprovable. Also, it is impossible to PROVE a theory, only to disprove it.
If you can find an organism that thrives in an environment that it is ill suited for, that would be proof against evolution.
BUT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN NOW DOES IT.

Comment Re:Let me ask a "stupid" question (Score 1) 318

This increases your quality of life much the same way little improvements in blacksmithing increased farmer's quality of life in the middle ages. His hoe doesn't chip as easily on a rock in his field.

Also, it's hard to come up with a sincere "down to earth" answer for why DOING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH helps the world. It's just too difficult to not be sarcastic.

Comment Re:Phone Home (Score 1) 312

Like the US AIR FORCE? http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/25/0527205/US-Air-Force-Buying-Another-2200-PS3s
It was an ADVERTISED FEATURE, which was RETROACTIVELY REMOVED from consoles already purchased. And don't even say that you have a choice between OtherOS and PSN, because they are forcing you to ditch a DIFFERENT ADVERTISED FEATURE to keep the first one.

Comment Re:Poor Engineering As A Plus: (Score 1) 573

Can't/Won't/Indifferent are all interchangeable in a situation like this.
Unless you have dozens of one time use disposable phone pairs, setting the bomb to only go off for a specific number is traceable back to you, you wouldn't be able to use the same phone for more than a day without a huge risk of discovery.

Comment Re:What does this mean for cheats/aimbots? (Score 2, Informative) 337

It wasn't mandatory, but it did force you to choose between advertised features that were never even implied as being mutually exclusive.

If the update had no negative effects other than removing OtherOS then there wouldn't have been a lawsuit (ongoing?) because the choice would be as simple as you've stated.

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Visually Demonstrating Chrome's Rendering Speed 140

eldavojohn writes "Recent betas of Google's Chrome browser are getting seriously fast. Couple that with better hardware, on average, and it's getting down to speeds that are difficult to demonstrate in a way users can appreciate. Which is why Google felt that some Rube Goldberg-ish demonstrations with slo-mo are in order. Gone are the days of boring millisecond response time metrics."

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