I can see H1N1Virus near here. Same point.

You can already precache a 10km square area around any point (saved permanently) plus cache 150 Mb of rolling data. That's been good enough for me to travel everywhere I've wanted so far (including a five month backpacking trip last year).

Yes, it would be great to have continent maps available for download, but the current options are a lot better than nothing.

less guns will only lead to less deaths

Better to have more deaths than to have the only deaths be at the hands of criminals and a criminal government.

Thanks for the insight from your posts. I thought the description of your requirements and thinking were very reasonable. Good luck on filling out your team and on a successful project.

Well that explains why blacks overwhelmingly vote Republican. Republicans love blacks and would never betray them for white votes, plus Republicans are so honest they would never use passive-aggressive rhetorical tactics like the lie of omission.

Who made your CPU chip? Many fabs including ones in the US make the chips, even if it is packaged elsewhere.

cancer is not evolution....it is caused, for most cancers, by a local mutation of somatic cells that produces cancer cells in a specific tissue. The mutation is due to environmental conditions (poor nutrition, poor habits, etc).

I'm reading some fascinating stuff (Biology of Cancer - Weinberg) that says there are huge amounts of point mutations taking place throughout the body all the time from oxidants. Also with LOH and inherited loss of genetic viability, indications were that while there are certain effective carcinogens, probably most cancers are not caused by poor nutrition and poor habits as you say.

I think a point to be made is that the opposite of accellerated aging due to lack of AUF1 (and its effect on causing repairing ends of DNA) is not delaying aging and prolonging life, it's normal aging.

And while delaying aging based on perpetually repairing ends of DNA, as an interested layman reading Weinberg's Biology of Cancer, cell immortalization "is a step that appears to govern the development of all human cancers."

In other words, that's one of the universal mutations that enable human cancer, as I understand it. Otherwise the cells with critical mutations enabling cancer would die off.

The requirement for 50/50 representation on the bids is the problem. The contract bid should be and even mix of the market. The current bid process gives a few companies all the entries while excluding the majority of potential clients.

This is NOT free enterprise where the best offering gets the job. What happened to hire the best? Lost to PC.

How does Slashdot accept such a crappy post?!

I believe they welcome this stuff with open arms, and add an obscure summary with sensational headline to boot.

And slashdotters tear it aprt even while complaining. Win-win for everyone.