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Comment: Re:Probably not the best idea... (Score 1) 285

by Vegan Cyclist (#43526439) Attached to: Protesting Animal Testing, Intruders Vandalize Italian Lab
If you look up the definition of 'humane', it would preclude their use in labs in the first place...nothing about this is 'humane'. As for 'animal cruelty stories in the media' - this almost NEVER happens. And if it does get out, it's usually because of activists, not someone within the lab.

Comment: Outlook Express! (Score 2) 282

by Vegan Cyclist (#43315895) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails?
heh - i have all my email going back to '98 in Outlook Express. Best email program ever! It's nearly perfect for what i want. (Any way to get it to do inline spell checking, ie, underlines misspelled words as you type?) Still running it on an XP box. Been using Windows Live Essentials a bit for Win8, it's not horrific, but lacks some of the characteristics..hope MS injects some of the OE spirit into it..
Technology

Gartner Says 3D Printers Will Cost Less Than $2,000 By 2016 170

Posted by samzenpus
from the get-you-one dept.
colinneagle writes "Widespread adoption of 3D printing technology may not be that far away, according to a Gartner report predicting that enterprise-class 3D printers will be available for less than $2,000 by 2016. 3D printers are already in use among many businesses, from manufacturing to pharmaceuticals to consumers goods, and have generated a diverse set of use cases. As a result, the capabilities of the technology have evolved to meet customer needs, and will continue to develop to target those in additional markets, Gartner says."
Mars

4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover 101

Posted by samzenpus
from the take-a-look dept.
SternisheFan points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."

Comment: Re:They get it (Score 1) 404

by Vegan Cyclist (#43288857) Attached to: T-Mobile Ends Contracts and Subsidies
Not necessarily... Where i live in Victoria, BC, in my basement suite i can just barely get a connection with my Rogers supplier, but when friends on Bell visit, they have no bars. (Yes, i'm centrally located IN the city, in Fairfield.) This would be evidence that they aren't sharing at least some towers...

Comment: Re:Not as strange as it sounds (Score 1) 976

3. I'd also like the see the footprints of more foods. There's probably a 10x, if not 100x, difference between the highest and lowest foods, and as you say, we don't all eat just asparagus.

Scroll down about four panels: http://www.ewg.org/meateatersguide/at-a-glance-brochure/

Medicine

+ - Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable to Drinkers

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Ariel Schwartz reports that researchers are working on an alcoholism vaccine that makes alcohol intolerable to anyone who drinks it. The vaccine builds on what happens naturally in certain people--about 20% of the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean population--with an alcohol intolerance mutation. Normally, the liver breaks down alcohol into an enzyme that’s transformed into the compound acetaldehyde (responsible for that nasty hangover feeling), which in turn is degraded into another enzyme. The acetaldehyde doesn’t usually have time to build up before it’s broken down. But people with the alcohol intolerance mutation lack the ability to produce that second enzyme; acetaldehyde accumulates, and they feel terrible. Dr. Juan Asenjo and his colleagues have come up with a way to stop the synthesis of that second enzyme via a vaccine, mimicking the mutation that sometimes happens naturally. "People have this mutation all over the world. It’s like how some people can’t drink milk," says Asenjo. Addressing the physiological part of alcohol addiction is just one piece of the battle. Addictive tendencies could very well manifest in other ways; instead of alcohol, perhaps former addicts will move on to cigarettes. Asenjo admits as much: "Addiction is a psychological disease, a social disease. Obviously this is only the biological part of it.""

Comment: I wanted to see this as an episode of House (Score 1) 198

I've read similar stories about set steps being better able to deal with certain medical emergencies than just 'doing what's standard', and thought the IBM Big Blue computer and the way it operates would be a boon to medical sciences...and this would have been an amazing episode of House: where he competes against something like a medical version of Big Blue. =)
United States

+ - "fiscal cliff" merely a distraction-> 1

Submitted by crutchy
crutchy writes "Is the "fiscal cliff" just a distraction? The real cliff would seem like a currency crisis as defined by the Triffin dilemma.

The US has enjoyed huge financial advantage and potential for more than half a century, but I really feel sorry for American youngsters, who are set to inherit a financial disaster the likes of which the world has never seen before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma"
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