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Comment Re:Huh... (Score 2) 450

by cronco on Thursday December 09, 2010 @10:25AM (#34500162) Attached to: Facebook's Zuckerberg To Give Away Half His Cash

The thing is AFAIK he is now estimated to have a fortune of about 6 billion dollars, and I expect he expects it to grow. Giving away 3 billion dollars still lets him live like a king and earn him public "karma". Anyone except the stupidest/most evil people around would do the same.

Comment Re:I for one (Score 1) 435

by cronco on Thursday December 09, 2010 @07:58AM (#34499074) Attached to: Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers

That would, probably once and for all, settle the debate if "gayness" is genetic or a "lifestyle choice".

Team Use Stem Cells to Restore Mobility in Paralyzed Monkey 196

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @06:21PM from the we-can-rebuild-him dept.

interval1066 writes "From the article: 'Japanese researchers said Wednesday they had used stem cells to restore partial mobility in a small monkey that had been paralysed from the neck down by a spinal injury.' This is huge news in the world of stem cell research; restoring some muscular control to a simian is a huge step. This means that stem cell therapy is a demonstrably viable path to restoring motility for millions of accident victims, palsy and ms sufferers, the list just goes on."

Comment Re:Little difference? (Score 5, Interesting) 839

by cronco on Monday November 15, 2010 @01:07PM (#34232078) Attached to: Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars

They had to spend months with only what drinkable water they could carry, which was at that time as daunting as it is now to carry the fuel(energy) needed to get to Mars

Comment Re:A bit big for their britches? (Score 1) 640

by cronco on Friday November 05, 2010 @10:32AM (#34135744) Attached to: Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland

Now they haven't. Fedora is the "bleeding-edge" distro, which regularly ships with beta software bundled. The only time I remember Ubuntu doing the same was with FF 3 beta, which was included in 8.10 if I'm not mistaken.

Comment Re:What about other people's data about me? (Score 3, Informative) 200

by cronco on Friday November 05, 2010 @08:21AM (#34134438) Attached to: EU Commission Says People Have a 'Right To Be Forgotten' Online

You can tag anything with any name on Facebook, it's just that the tag won't link to your profile if you don't have one.

Comment Re:What about other people's data about me? (Score 1) 200

by cronco on Friday November 05, 2010 @08:06AM (#34134354) Attached to: EU Commission Says People Have a 'Right To Be Forgotten' Online

How is this any different than the pre-internet world?

Comment My old school phone... (Score 1) 487

by cronco on Monday November 01, 2010 @10:16AM (#34088672) Attached to: iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in

I have a very low-end Huawei phone that doesn't auto-update it's clock to account for daylight savings and it woke me up an hour earlier than it should have.

Submission + - Can Google make the Universal Translator reality (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by tekgoblin on Thursday October 14, 2010 @05:55AM

tekgoblin writes: Google Translate has been available for a long time now and can translate text or webpages with a single click. Well Google is working on a way to do that with your voice quite similar to the way it worked in Star Trek. Google is calling it Conversation Mode on Google Translate. However Google is no where near to releasing it to the public, Google states that it is in early beta.

Comment Re:early (Score 3, Informative) 473

by cronco on Sunday October 10, 2010 @09:27AM (#33851484) Attached to: Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, Now Available

I think they were aiming for the symbolic 10/10/10 date for the 10.10 version.

Submission + - Congress Reacts To Successful Falcon 9 Launch (spacepolitics.com) 2

Submitted by FleaPlus on Saturday June 05, 2010 @03:17PM

FleaPlus writes: The successful inaugural launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9, privately developed and built at a cost of less than $400M (including another Falcon 9 to be launched this summer and five earlier Falcon 1 rockets), has been hailed by a number of space organizations and former astronauts. However, it's also quite interesting to look at the reactions from those in Congress who control the purse-strings for NASA (one of SpaceX's biggest customers). The successful launch was congratulated by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL and former astronaut) and Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL), both praised and criticized by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) due to the successful launch being a year later than previously predicted, and blasted by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) for merely replicating what 'NASA accomplished in 1964,' who added that the company's success 'must not be confused with progress for our nation's human spaceflight program.'

Comment Re:His only chance for solitidue ... (Score 1) 165

by cronco on Monday March 22, 2010 @04:13PM (#31574570) Attached to: Food Activist's Life Becomes <em>The Life of Brian</em>

Unless... what if that is in the prophecies as well?

Comment at my uni... (Score 1) 422

by cronco on Saturday March 20, 2010 @08:26PM (#31553714) Attached to: Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs

In the middle of one of the university buildings (not in a dorm) there's a network with the SSID "IHaveNetYouSuckerDont".

Comment Re:Duh. (Score 1) 368

by cronco on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @12:04PM (#30832918) Attached to: NYTimes Confirms It Will Start Charging For Online News In 2011

True that. And advertisement-backed journalism doesn't really smell all that nice. The information market is still a market, and people still seem to forget.

Comment Re:I have an idea (Score 1) 226

by cronco on Monday January 11, 2010 @12:24PM (#30724206) Attached to: Mozilla Starts To Follow a New Drumbeat

I completely agree with the last point. I am often amazed at the difference in experience in using FF on the same PC on Windows and then on Ubuntu. It really doesn't feel like the same browser, ie it lags even on a brand new PC on Ubuntu.

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