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Comment Re:Fluorescent, not bioluminescent (Score 1) 206

Marginally related: This reminds me of a article I read many many years ago on research done with UV on Egyptian pharaoh Mummy bones. If during your life you have taken tetracycline, your bones will develop a UV glow not present if you have not. It seems there is was a swamp in lower Nubia that developed a insect the bite of which was deadly yet those who ate some local plant (I read this years ago and forget the specifics), developed an immunity due to naturally occurring tetracycline. UV glow can occur due to many biological reactions. By the way: The Mummies: Glowed ..

Comment Re:Popcorn Hour (Score 3, Informative) 516

Agreed. I also use Popcorn hour, before that I used a Avel Link Player and before that a MyIhome from El Gato ALL use the Sybas software. The Popcorn Hour handles the most encodes and you can plug in multiple servers. plus it will take a BluRay and a hard drive. Also the client for it runs on PC (XP Vista Win7) Mac 10.3 and on with a G4 of around 900mhz and up or Linux. Highly recommended

Comment Only 4 times and all of 10 years? (Score 1) 162

The human inverse squared Moore's Law takes hold. I would expect that after 10 years the 10 trillionth device would be plugged into the 4th dimensional matrix that traces its origin to today's interwebs. I would also suspect this device would be a just born human and all the concerns we have today of security, privacy, and data will look somewhat...quaint.

Comment Re:How do you define "different book"? (Score 1) 109

In the 1480s a edition of Dante's Divine Comedy was printed in Venice. In 1481 another was printed in Florence. Each is the exact same text barring printer mistakes and if you are lucky enough to have the Florence one which includes the plates; illustrations. Each is also an absolute work of art in its own right and distinct from the other. Should these be recorded as one book or two?

Comment Re:Um, um... (Score 4, Interesting) 495

Speaking as a former "artist", who, to be published, had to sign a contract that reminded one of a ransom note or the plans Genghis Khan drew up for the fair treatment of a raised city... I am somewhat familiar with the industry. Our record sold moderately; not great but OK. It earned a few hundred thousand and I have a photocopy of my one royalty check for a whopping Twenty Bucks! Some years later I got the ASCAP rights for one of my songs reassigned to me, because the label had inadvertently let it lapse after 20 years. That search and work cost far more then I ever earned from it. But it was the principle of the thing. I am very happy the Internet is raining on the parade of these ghouls.

Comment Re:We All Wish (Score 4, Insightful) 872

The emails the emails everyone is all over the emails. Look at the data and the CLISTS he uses to manipulate it. I did. I saw loops that went out and nab a separate file and shoot the numbers from it into the middle of a generated graph to "smooth" it. and that was the LEAST suspicious thing I noticed. To this day I have seen little if any discussion of the data files and code contained in FOIA2009.zip Everyone is so into tattler TV that they read the nasty things people say (emails). What about what they...DO??

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