GiganticLyingMouth - Slashdot User

Comment Re:So the Fortune 500 Companies are all terrorist (Score 1) 720

by GiganticLyingMouth on Thursday February 02, 2012 @07:01PM (#38909337) Attached to: Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist

Not just Fortune 500 companies, I have to VPN into my school network (a public, UC school no less) in order to check out license files for certain software and to access scholarly journals when I'm off campus

Comment Re:It's all moot anyway.... (Score 1) 630

by GiganticLyingMouth on Friday January 27, 2012 @03:59PM (#38844005) Attached to: America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware

Agreed, more funding would go a long way. In high school my sister had a history book (for AP European history) that was written before WW2. It left a lot to be desired, to say the least. And our school district is considered one of the good ones in the area...

Comment Re:Again with the visas (Score 1) 630

by GiganticLyingMouth on Friday January 27, 2012 @03:52PM (#38843923) Attached to: America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware

A minor quibble, the president was advocating manufacturing jobs (more in line with what you're saying) while the New Yorker story was the one making the case that our future is in software.

Comment Re:I really hate this article (Score 5, Informative) 464

by GiganticLyingMouth on Saturday January 14, 2012 @12:09AM (#38695000) Attached to: Homeless Student Is Intel Talent Search Semifinalist

Actually her family had been homeless since she was young, but were able to move into a house recently for some time. Then the parents got into a car accident, and they had to leave. So yes, she has been homeless for much longer than 13 days. (this information was included in the yahoo article about her, which was on their site a days or two ago)

Self-Destructing Bacteria Create Better Biofuels 139

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 10, 2009 @05:40AM from the kamikaze-gas dept.

MikeChino writes "Researchers at Arizona State University have genetically engineered cyanobacteria to dissolve from the inside out, making it easy to access the high-energy fats and biofuel byproducts located within. To do this they combined the bacteria's genes with genes from the bacteriaphage — a so-called 'mortal enemy' of bacteria that cause it to explode. Cyanobacteria have a higher yield potential than most biofuels currently being used, and this new strain eliminates the need for costly and energy intensive processing steps."

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