Comment Re:Better children (Score 1) 278
That's right, wanting to have a child with a healthy immune system is just like being a Nazi. Sig heil.
Comment Re:hm (Score 0, Flamebait) 210
Wow, three Wikipedia links in one post. We must be living at the apex of scholarship in the timeline of human history.
Comment Re:Your Rights Online (Score 5, Insightful) 279
...sometimes I think that we Slashdotters would do well to relax and give them some time to sort things out...
The Chinese are going to "sort things out" whether Slashdotters relax, don't relax or even throw a massively coordinated e-tantrum. Slashdot isn't actually really all that influential as it turns out.
Comment Re:PETA will be confused (Score 2, Insightful) 168
The rights that PETA members ascribe to animals, most basically, are the rights not to suffer and die at the hands of humans.
They have a good point there. Animals suffering and dying in the mouths/claws of other animals makes for more entertaining documentaries.
Comment Re:How useful in hot climates? (Score 1) 462
That probably wouldn't do any wonders for its drag coefficient.
Comment Re:Obesity & Bacteria (Score 1) 397
So giving some blanket statements about getting fat or thin just don't apply. It really varies from person to person as to what things effect what people.
Maybe so, but one thing is certain: if you eat less food, you will be less fat.
Comment Re:Don't they want people to use Hulu? (Score 1) 281
They *really* want you to direct deposit all of your paychecks right into their bank accounts, and not have to provide a service in return.
Comment Re:That's it... we're dead (Score 1) 521
And it's not? I mean, what good has humanity done for anything else other than itself?
What good has any other species on Earth done for anything other then itself?
China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain 257
krou notes reporting in the Christian Science Monitor that the current economic crisis is helping China's push into higher-end manufacturing by shaking out low-profit companies. The hope is that, instead of just assembling iPods, Chinese companies will be able to invent the next big thing instead. In this move China is following the well-worn path taken by Japan and the Asian tigers before it. "Last month, the National Development and Reform Commission announced revised plans to transform Guangdong and neighboring Hong Kong and Macau into a 'significant innovation center' by 2020. One hundred R&D labs will be set up over the next three years. By 2012, per-capita output in the region should jump 50 percent from 2007, to 80,000 yuan ($11,700). And by 2020, the study predicts, 30 percent of all industrial output should come from high-tech manufacturing."
Fusion-Fission System Burns Hot Radioactive Waste 432
An anonymous reader writes "A hybrid fission-fusion process has been developed that can be used in some traditional fission reactors to process radioactive waste and reduce the amount of waste produced by 99%. This process uses magnetic bottle techniques developed from fusion research. This seems like the first viable solution to the radioactive waste problem of traditional nuclear reactors. This could be a big breakthrough in the search for environmentally friendly energy sources. Lots of work remains to take the concept to an engineering prototype and then to a production reactor."
Russia's Mars Mission Raising Concerns 245
eldavojohn writes "Space.com has a blog on Russia's Phobos-Grunt project designed to explore the planet further. He voices concerns about part of this exploration that is dubbed LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) and backed by The Planetary Society that involves sending several samples of Earth's hardiest microbes to see if they can survive the round trip voyage. Space.com's correspondent Leonard David did some legwork to ensure that The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 was being upheld as it prevents cross-contamination between planets and receives some interesting responses from experts on this mission. The Phobos-Grunt mission will also deploy a Chinese sub-satellite 'Firefly-1,' which will attempt to figure out how water on Mars disappeared. Unfortunately, The United States is not taking part in Phobos-Grunt."
Comment Re:The fanboys don't matter any more (Score 1) 371
Apple doesn't need Macworld because Apple doesn't need fanboys any more.
Hell yeah! You gotta ride a horse until it's dead, and then you eat it.
Comment Re:Old News (Score 1) 105
This new regenerative medicine technology provides a scaffold for the formation of blood vessels and bone tissue, then biodegrades. The injectable bone can also deliver stem cells directly to the site of bone repair, the researchers say.
Comment Re:I am offended (Score 1) 1730
Maybe watch 12 minutes of two men kissing.
You can't just make that 12 minutes of two WOMEN kissing? It's just as offensive to Muslims, and yet at the same time not puke-inducing to the rest of us.
You can't just make that 12 minutes of two WOMEN kissing? It's just as offensive to Muslims, and yet at the same time not puke-inducing to the rest of us.
Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP 649
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "David Pogue of the New York Times has an interesting story about how fewer and fewer people believe that infringement is wrong. He mentions talks he gave back in 2005 where people were willing to believe that making backups of DVDs you own is wrong. Today, however, at his talks, he was only able to get two people out of a crowd of five hundred college students to say that downloading a movie or album is wrong. He goes on, like many before him, to bemoan the immorality of young people today, saying: 'I do know, though, that the TV, movie and record companies' problems have only just begun. Right now, the customers who can't even *see* why file sharing might be wrong are still young. But 10, 20, 30 years from now, that crowd will be *everybody*. What will happen then?'"
