Comment Re:Vicodin? (Score 2, Funny) 631
It's not Lupus.
Comment Re:Implications of this finding are profound (Score 3, Funny) 107
Mmm. You can really taste the sentience, can't you?
Comment Re:Another reason not to gamble online (Score 2, Insightful) 465
It's poker, you're not playing against the house. There's no reason to skew the odds.
For all one knows, one could very well be playing against the house. Any guarantee that one or more of the other players aren't automated agents there to pull in winnings for the casino?
Comment Re:(Mostly) Americans misunderstanding Japanese. (Score 1) 252
Maybe that's why so many (higher tier) jobs are leaving America.
Well, maybe. But who wants to work at the company where a monster goes from cubicle to cubicle, scaring the employees into working overtime?
Paro the Therapeutic Robot Baby Seal
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Mike writes "Paro is a therapeutic baby seal robot that is exploring new dimensions in animal therapy. Created to act as a companion for hospital patients and the elderly, the adorable baby harp seal bot aims to increase relaxation and decrease stress. Paro can sense and respond to its immediate environment through five integrated sensors that detect touch, light, sound, temperature, and posture, and it is even capable of learning and responding to a name."
Comment Re:that's good news.... (Score 5, Funny) 104
unprotected monkey sex, sharing heroin needles, and participating in HIV related research as test subjects
I miss college.
NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration 282
smooth wombat writes "With the end of the Cold War came warmer relations with old adversaries, increased trade and a world less worried about nuclear war. It also brought with it an unexpected downside: lack of nuclear fuel to power deep space probes. Without this fuel, probes beyond Jupiter won't work because there isn't enough sunlight to use solar panels, which probes closer to the sun use. The fuel NASA relies on to power deep space probes is plutonium-238. This isotope is the result of nuclear weaponry, and since the United States has not made a nuclear device in 20 years, the supply has run out. For now, NASA is using Soviet supplies, but they too are almost exhausted. It is estimated it will cost at least $150 million to resume making the 11 pounds per year that is needed for space probes."
Comment Re:Scientists *From* Spain? (Score 3, Funny) 182
With the Girl from Ipanema?
Comment Re:So I got a new sink..... (Score 1) 524
Oh, joy. Now I can pressure-wash my hands.
Comment Re:A right to do what? (Score 2, Funny) 419
They were having a sale on azaleas. A really great sale.
Comment Re:I have a feeling.... (Score 2, Funny) 1010
Age of Empires was fun.
Comment Re:RIP (Score 2, Interesting) 471
I say we get an early start and begin naming our spacecraft and space stations in the fashion of Iain M. Bank's Culture. Gravitas? We don't need no stinking gravitas.
Comment Re:why light? (Score 1) 92
Oops, sorry, didn't mean to make "Rat Pr0n FTW" even less funny.
Don't worry. The only way you could make "Rat Pr0n FTW" less funny is if you punched me in the face while I was reading it.
Comment Re:idea is redundant (Score 1) 403
So Soilent Green is Chinese people?
Comment Re:Older fathers have more autistic children (Score 0) 1056
Remember, correlation is not causation. There is very likely a strong genetic basis for autism. As such, the fathers of autistic children could well have some slight autistic traits that delay their social development. These late bloomers would be marrying and then having children at a later period in their lives.
I'm not saying that the above is fact, but that if this vaccine brouhaha can teach us anything it's to draw our conclusions with care.
