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Comment: Lazy Morals (Score 1) 190

by bityz (#43216947) Attached to: LazyHusband Smart Phone App Compliments Your Wife for You (Video)
okay Ethan's Dad, it's time to give your kid some guidance:

from the transcript

one of our next app is Bargument which allows you to create a Wikipedia page that is completely fake, to prove arguments at bars, so that you are right and the other person is wrong

making it easier to add crap to Wikipedia is not being a good netizen.

Comment: are the dna synthesisers regulated? (Score 1) 149

by bityz (#43028333) Attached to: Software Lets Scientists Assemble DNA
from the article:

Once satisfied with the results, a scientist can save her invention to a file, click the order button and ship the virtual creature’s specs to a DNA synthesizing lab such as GenScript or GeneArt, which can assemble actual physical DNA based on the specs. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/27/programming-life-with-click-mouse/#ixzz2M8XF9cfu

So my question is: are the DNA synthesizing labs regulated? Will they just synthesize anything that is submitted, or is there some scrutiny? And what is the risk if they do synthesize something bad? What is the amount of effort needed to weaponize even dangerous DNA? If it is relatively easy, then regulation of the synthesizing labs is well advised.

Comment: Re:The Devil is in the Details... (Score 1) 329

by bityz (#42673195) Attached to: When Was the Last Time You Used a Landline Phone?
Bravo! Much more detailed, but similar to what I was wondering... when does "landline" begin? If I were on a cellphone with someone else on a landline, would that count? If both ends were cellphones, would that count because of the infrastructure between? If it is a plugged in phone, but VoIP, does that count? Do I have to be using a radio with another radio to answer "never"?

Comment: Question: water consumption rate (Score 1) 114

by bityz (#41854241) Attached to: Volcano Power Plan Gets US Go-Ahead
Does anybody know the projected steady-state water consumption rate when running in production? From the report on the test plan, it looks like they are assuming (rather optimistically) a 2% leak in the in-ground flow, but it is unclear to me what the evaporative loss would be during a production run rather than a test.

Comment: Re:DOA.. (Score 1) 377

by bityz (#41778305) Attached to: Apple CEO Likens Surface To Car That Flies, Floats
uhhhmmm... that's an ad, not a competition or a test with any validity. Their conclusions should be treated as a forgone part of a branding campaign. I would be curious about more information on the "competition", but in viewing the ad, they lost me as soon as they said that "putting together a PC takes concentration" while focusing on the VGA connector. Clearly they were pushing a message based on a the integrated monitor as a differentiator.

Comment: Re:Any word on effects (Score 1) 56

by bityz (#40091927) Attached to: Stanford Bioengineers Create Rewritable Digital Data Storage In DNA
The bit they are triggering is responsible for changing the color of fluorescence. From TFA:

They used RAD to modify a particular section of DNA within microbes that determines how the one-celled organisms will fluoresce under ultraviolet light. The microbes glow red or green depending upon the orientation of the section of DNA.

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