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I was the love child of Dr. Frankenstein's monsters, interestingly, because they were both made of individually working components, I came out normal. Sometimes, it's difficult, not to mention scary when your parents are mistaken for zombies, other times it's cool, halloween, concerts, you know freakshow stuff they fit right in. I spent a while visiting morgues and hospitals trying to figure out who my real parents were, but because their body parts were mostly stolen, it's pretty much a dead end. Currently, I'm just looking for a girl with a similar lifestyle history so I can settle down with someone I'm compatible with. If you know any girls whose parents were vampires that'd be great, but only if she came out normal. Oh, and do you know if monster-hood skips a generation?

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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 26, @10:03PM (#23958453)
Attached to: Mars Soil Appears To Be Able To Sustain Life

They went to great lengths to avoid contamination of the Mars environment with life from Earth. One of their objectives is to see if there's life on Mars, remember?

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by Rogerborg on Thursday June 26, @07:03PM (#23958235)
Attached to: Mars Soil Appears To Be Able To Sustain Life
Lichen, although don't beat yourself up about being unable to find that information despite having the totality of human knowledge at your fingertips. Your mother probably drank a lot during pregnancy.
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10, @11:03AM (#23722245)
Attached to: Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools
and gasoline killed steam, and steam killed sail, and sail killed slave rowers...

Its called progress.
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  Science: The Future of Space Sports 2008-04-25 13:55

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 25, @01:55PM
from the enemy's-gate-is-down dept.
Loether writes "Space.com has a fun article about how astronauts aboard the ISS play 'sports' in zero gravity. It talks about learning how to throw in a straight line instead of the arc we all take for granted, relay races, and using large water filled bags as medicine balls. 'We realized that you could toss and catch and then go for a ride on this big thing as it takes you away.' The astronauts also put out a request for new ideas for space sports. Have any suggestions?"
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 [+] story, science, space, entertainment, sex, sports, endersgame

  News: Newspapers Are Dying, Blog At 11 2008-03-30 14:36

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 30, @02:36PM
from the news-that-fits dept.
The New Yorker is running a long and thoughtful piece by Eric Alterman on the death and life of the American newspaper. It's not news that newspapers are dying, but the acceleration of the process in the last few years is startling: "Independent, publicly traded American newspapers have lost forty-two per cent of their market value in the past three years... The columnist Molly Ivins complained, shortly before her death, that the newspaper companies' solution to their problem was to make 'our product smaller and less helpful and less interesting.'" The article goes on to profile The Huffington Post as exemplar of what is replacing paper and ink. "The Huffington Post's editorial processes are based on what Peretti has named the 'mullet strategy.' ('Business up front, party in the back' is how his trend-spotting site BuzzFeed glosses it.) 'User-generated content is all the rage, but most of it totally sucks,' Peretti says. The mullet strategy invites users to 'argue and vent on the secondary pages, but professional editors keep the front page looking sharp.
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 [+] story, news, media, internet, mullet, hahayourmediumisdying, mullets

  Science: Artificial Bases Added to DNA 2008-01-30 11:55

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 30, @11:55AM
from the totally-faked-you-out-man dept.
holy_calamity writes "Researchers have successfully added two 'unnatural' DNA letters to the code of life. They created two artificial base pairs that are treated as normal by an enzyme that replicates and fixes DNA inside cells. This raises the prospect of engineering life forms with genetic code not possible within nature, allowing new kinds of genetic engineering."
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 [+] story, science, biotech, dna, garciaisawhiner, !whatcouldpossiblygowrong

  Your Rights Online: Lawyer Puts $10k Bounty on Blogger's Identity 2008-01-28 19:11

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 28, @07:11PM
from the turn-yourself-in-for-ten-grand dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Raymond Niro of Niro Scavone Haller & Niro is fighting back against criticism from the Patent Troll Tracker blog by offering a $10,000 bounty for the identity of the person behind it. He thinks the blogger might work for Microsoft, Intel, or has connections to a 'serial infringer' and that could 'color' what they say."
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 [+] story, yro, internet, iamspartacus, privacy, streisandeffect, lol

  Hardware: Panasonic To Ship Form Factor-Standard Blu-ray Drive 2007-12-28 13:36

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 28 2007, @01:36PM
from the nice-when-the-parts-actually-fit dept.
Lucas123 writes "Panasonic plans to unveil the thinnest Blu-ray Disc drive made yet at the upcoming CES show. The drive is 9.5mm high, which allows it to fit into standard laptop form factors instead of requiring manufacturers to redesign systems to fit high-def DVD players as they've been doing. 'Panasonic has already begun offering samples of the drives to laptop makers with the hope that the companies will build it into new PCs.'"
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 [+] story, hardware, media, portables, formfactorisjargon

  Your Rights Online: Tiny, Morphing, Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes Developed 2007-12-20 17:42

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 20 2007, @05:42PM
from the go-go-gadget-gadgetery dept.
tkohler writes "The Air Force Research Lab is developing an Electric Motor-powered Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) that can 'harvest' energy when needed by attaching itself to a power line. It can also temporarily change its shape to look more like innocuous piece of trash hanging from the cable. For domestic spying, maybe it will morph into a pair of sneakers?"
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 [+] story, yro, military, privacy, technology, toy, mightymorphingpowerrangers

  Your Rights Online: MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit 2007-12-03 22:05

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 03 2007, @10:05PM
from the sauce-for-the-goose dept.
bobbocanfly writes "Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has succeeded in getting the MPAA to remove their 'University Toolkit' after claims it violated the GNU GPL. After several unsuccessful attempts to contact the MPAA directly, Garrett eventually emailed the group's ISP and the violating software was taken down."
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  Mobile: Intel, Microsoft Despised the XO Laptop 2007-11-24 16:59

Posted by kdawson on Saturday November 24 2007, @04:59PM
from the immune-response dept.
gregsim writes "The Wall Street Journal today reports that the new XO laptop, centerpiece of the One Laptop Per Child project, is stimulating an active response from both Intel and Microsoft. The companies evidently feel threatened by the little upstart, intended to help third-world children. (The XO runs Linux and uses AMD chips.) Microsoft has cut their software to $3 each and Intel has designed their own laptop called the Classmate to sell between $230 and $300, nearly double the XO's price. Rather than defend the relative merits of his creation, professor Negroponte is crying foul and (if the article is to be believed) not even arguing the technical merits. The initial demand for the XO has fallen well below Mr. Negroponte's projections as Intel and Microsoft have successfully argued that their entries are superior. 45,000 have been ordered through the Give One, Get One campaign. I am happy that I ordered mine — it will be a landmark model in any case."
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 [+] story, mobile, education, xo, incoherent, bastards, money

  Your Rights Online: Amazon Patents Bad Service For Bad Customers 2007-11-24 11:51

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday November 24 2007, @11:51AM
from the well-not-quite-but-still dept.
mikesd81 writes "Techdirt reports that Amazon has been awarded a patent for Generating Current Order Fulfillment Plans Based on Expected Future Orders. Essentially, if Amazon deems that you won't be a long time customer or ordering again soon, your order will take longer to be expedited."

  Linux: Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Survey Results 2007-11-22 16:37

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 22 2007, @04:37PM
from the this-one-goes-out-to-all-the-penguins-out-there dept.
DeviceGuru writes "While the Linux Foundation's third annual desktop Linux survey doesn't officially end until November 30th, the number of daily respondents have shrunk to a trickle and the Foundation is working on analyzing the results. They now have up an early look at the raw data. For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey compared to fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey. Not surprisingly, the Ubuntu family of Linuxes is the most popular among organizations, at 54.1 percent. This was followed by the Red Hat family — RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora/CentOS) — with 50.2 percent. The Novell SUSE group — SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) and openSUSE — came in third, with 35.2 percent."

  Science: Open Source Math 2007-11-18 12:10

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 18 2007, @12:10PM
from the wouldn't-it-be-nice dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The American Mathematical society has an opinion piece about open source software vs propietary software used in mathematics. From the article : "Increasingly, proprietary software and the algorithms used are an essential part of mathematical proofs. To quote J. Neubüser, 'with this situation two of the most basic rules of conduct in mathematics are violated: In mathematics information is passed on free of charge and everything is laid open for checking.'""

  Mobile: IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops 2007-11-16 00:11

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday November 16 2007, @12:11AM
from the caucophony-of-pleasure-and-pain dept.
Ian Lamont writes "Are laptops really as great as they're cracked up to be? We love their portability, and we've been charting the steady rise of laptop sales for years. Yet while many of us depend on them for work, our IT departments view them with mixed feelings. IT managers point to wi-fi configuration, complicated authentication procedures, and eight other issues as making their jobs a lot harder. What else is missing from the list of laptop limitations? What would you like to see in the next generation of laptop computers?"
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 [+] story, mobile, portables, cheesewiththatwhine, it, laptops, hotspotonyourcrotch, hardware

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