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Comment Re:Not exactly. (Score 2, Informative) 238

by LordOfTheNoobs on Monday December 28, 2009 @05:40PM (#30576076) Attached to: Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA

Mitochondrial DNA is separate from the DNA of the host organism. It is inherited through the colony of mitochondria living in the egg the mother forms. No Ibex mother, no Ibex mitochondria. The mitochondria reproduce without interference from the hosts nuclear DNA. I don't know that this qualifies the animal as a hybrid, but as an environment its cellular flora have been replaced.

Comment Re:Required reading (Score 1) 628

by LordOfTheNoobs on Friday March 27, 2009 @11:53PM (#27367559) Attached to: Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain

He was anthropomorphising them to "feel safe". What he meant was their `wriggle program` is interrupted by their `cling to shit` program when activated in that order. The thing just grabs when it detects leg contacts. Apparently they only have enough RAM for one program to run at a time. Don't waste your empathy on base stupid creatures. Go love a puppy, or a gorilla or just about anything else. Insects and their aquatic brethren are mindless automatons. Nothing more.

Submission + - "DC Madam" Posts 13 Years of Phone Records (examiner.com)

Submitted by GapingHeadwound on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @02:23PM

GapingHeadwound writes: Time for /.ers to get to work...

From the article:

In a move that will certainly set into motion hundreds of bloggers and journalists eager to unearth the next Washington sex scandal, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, aka the "DC Madam," has posted 13 years worth of phone records on her website Monday afternoon. The records cover Palfrey's time as head of "Pamela Martin & Associates," a Washington, D.C.-based escort service. As Yeas & Nays noted last week, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler recently lifted the temporary restraining order prohibiting Deborah Jeane Palfrey from releasing those telephone records.

Submission + - Search the DC Madam's Phone List (dcphonelist.com)

Submitted by

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @02:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: The "DC Madam", Deborah Jeane Palfrey, released her phone records yesterday. At least one Senator has been found on the list. Now, you can search for others — dcphonelist.com has OCR-ed and indexed the numbers, so you can look up your favorite politician or televangelist and see if they're on the list!

FCC Head Wants New Wireless Devices Unlocked 221

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @01:48PM from the maybe-in-a-few-years-innovation dept.

[TheBORG] writes with news that FCC chairman Kevin Martin wants 700-MHz wireless devices and services to be unlocked. Spectrum auctions for the 700-MHz airwaves, being opened up for fixed and mobile broadband, are scheduled for early next year. "The proposed rules would apply only to the spectrum being auctioned, not the rest of the wireless business, which still makes most of its revenue from voice calls. But Martin's proposal, if adopted by the FCC, could reverberate through a U.S. wireless industry that has tightly controlled access to devices and services... Like most devices sold in the USA, the iPhone ... allows only features and applications that Apple and AT&T provide and works only with an AT&T contract. The FCC chairman said he has grown increasingly concerned that the current practices 'hamper innovations' dreamed up by outside developers. One example:... 'Internationally, Wi-Fi handsets have been available for some time,' Martin noted. 'But they are just beginning to roll out here.'"

Submission + - Spammers haven't solved CAPTCHA after all

Submitted by on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @01:40PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to New Scientist's Technology blog, spammers probably haven't figured out how to defeat CAPTCHAs at all, despite recent reports suggesting they had. It seems that the Trojan program credited with creates free email accounts by 'overcoming' CAPTCAs actually just copies each CAPTCHA and sends it off somewhere else for processing. The CAPTCHA is indeed solved, but the process may well be done done manually. And at least one CAPTCHA expert things the speed with which it works — 500 accounts an hour — suggests a person is doing it.

Submission + - Fallout 3 Van Buren tech demo released

Submitted by gbridge on Thursday May 03, 2007 @11:57AM

gbridge writes: Over eight years since the release of Fallout 2, the original (pre-alpha) tech demo of Black Isle Studio's abandoned Fallout 3 Van Buren project has made its way into the public domain. It's obviously a long, long way from being even beta quality but fans are rejoicing that they finally have something of the cancelled project to see for themselves. Bethesda have also given Fallout fans something to look forward to by announcing that a teaser video of their own interpretation of Fallout 3 will be released in 33 days time.

CUTEST WEB SITE EVER DISCOVERED!!! 341

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 31, 2006 @11:37PM from the danger-cute-alert-omg-lol dept.

ToeSocks06 writes "The cutest site i've ever or youve ever seen is this one CLICK IT NOW LOL!!! because they have the cutest pictures you will ever see :) :) :) Like hamsters wearing SO CUTE hats and so many kittens zomg i love kitties especially that brown one i hope they show him with hats to LOLOLOLOLOL!!! Ok I gottta go now bye!!!"

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