Comment Awesome! (Score 1) 56
Now all they need is a computer!
Comment Re:Makes sense. (Score 1) 278
He wasn't a scientist, he was a manager.
Comment Re:Makes sense. (Score 1) 278
I guess the public modded this funny. It's bang on the button.
Comment Re:Really ? (Score 2) 256
He has a ridiculous beard, shaves his head and paints himself blue. What qualifications in astronomy do YOU have, muggle?
Comment Re:Civil versus criminal law (Score 1) 210
It really is time DeVry fixed their international law course materials. This place is full of their alumni.
First Human Colonies Should Be Among Venus' Clouds 256
StartsWithABang writes: When we talk about humans existing on worlds other than Earth, the first choice of a planet to do so on is usually Mars, a world that may have been extremely Earth-like for the first billion years of our Solar System or so. Perhaps, with enough ingenuity and resources, we could terraform it to be more like Earth is today. But the most Earth-like conditions in the Solar System don't occur on the surface of Mars, but rather in the high altitudes of Venus' atmosphere, some 50-65 km up. Despite its harsh conditions, this may be the best location for the first human colonies, for a myriad of good, scientific reasons. NASA proposed something similar last year and released a report on the subject.
Comment Re:Boooooooooo... (Score 1) 66
Being an oik I only had a Sinclair Spectrum. One of the posher kids had a BBC and IIRC you could even inline assembler inside a BASIC program.
Comment Re:Civil versus criminal law (Score 1) 210
A good hint that you don't have a clue what you're talking about?
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/...
Whoosh indeed.
Comment Re:Um.. we don't see it as advancing our career (Score 1) 125
Well the job spec he gave isn't quite a manager, but it's more than a developer. Maybe a team leader/architect/analyst?
Comment Re:Kinda similar ... (Score 1) 189
What? Are you saying that those beancounting corporate MBA bastards have outsmarted a guy on the internet?
That simply can't be true.
Comment Re:Civil versus criminal law (Score 2) 210
OK, I'll bite.
Name one.
Comment Re:The problem... (Score 1) 195
... a if it's designed by Dice, the box will cover the moose.
Comment Ob (Score 1) 154
# find
Comment Re:Don't Do IT! (Score 0) 125
Protip: when you see a word you don't understand (in this case it was "perception") don't just ignore it - ask your mom what it means or look it up in a dictionary.
Creating Bacterial "Fight Clubs" To Discover New Drugs 30
Science_afficionado writes: Vanderbilt chemists have shown that creating bacterial 'fight clubs' is an effective way to discover natural biomolecules with the properties required for new drugs. They have demonstrated the method by using it to discover a new class of antibiotic with anti-cancer properties. From the Vanderbilt website: "That is the conclusion of a team of Vanderbilt chemists who have been exploring ways to get bacteria to produce biologically active chemicals which they normally hold in reserve. These compounds are called secondary metabolites. They are designed to protect their bacterial host and attack its enemies, so they often have the right kind of activity to serve as the basis for effective new drugs. In fact, many antibiotics and anticancer compounds in clinical use are either secondary metabolites or their derivatives."
