Amyloid beta was there and it was targetable by the methodology available to drugs companies. Now, they've discovered it doesn't work, and there's a few years of lag time between findings synchronising. I don't think there are any more gamma-sec or beta-sec programs in drug discovery. Let's just hope there's another target around.

Exactly the same thing happens to politicians, celebrities, and the CEOs of companies involved in unpopular accidents. Maybe guilty, maybe not, but the life is suddenly ruined for no reason. And what happens on slashdot? People bay for blood.

The key for me is not to fill it before I buy a new drive/build a new machine. Before I bought this one I was actually uninstalling games to make space for other ones. It's an unnecessary stress and worth paying to get rid of. Now, the odds state that the drive will die or become obsolete before it fills up, and that suits me fine. I've been doing this since my first drive of 500MB, that was a pain. I remember deleting a 70MB FMV from my install of dungeon keeper to make enough space for quake 1.

Also, I end up with a boxed history of my life that way, since after each upgrade I just pull/archive the old disk. They go 500MB, 5GB, 60, 160.

I'm a moderate gamer, I work and do other stuff so I only play about 10-15 hours a week, and my Steam cache alone is 146GB, almost the size of my last hard drive. I don't even have all my games downloaded, and I have a fair few not on Steam as well.

For the last few years, the Guardian has had the journalistic integrity of a Michael Moore film. It makes me ashamed to vote liberal democrat that the champion newspaper is so blatantly biased and full of loaded phrases and poor practices.

Oh please, so many problems in the US today are by enforced empowerment of litigious idiots. Not perfect? RARGH SUE. What's this? one of little jimmy's toys comes from a country where people sometimes fall over? RARGH SUE. What's this? my tap water has one atom per gallon of uranium, only detectable due to recent advances in hypersensitive ICP-AES? RARGH SUE. Liability is paralysing your nation, and all this will mean is less people making pacemakers.

This is from the main page of Angewandte, the "International English" link is in english, and it's also been reposted below. Fwiw, The link in the article isn't broken, it just only works if you're logged in via an institution with access to the full paper. IAAC (I Am A Chemist). Cool stuff!

Gosh, perhaps the dozens of robots with bright lights and cameras scouring the seabed looking for a broken oil pipe can also spot fish? This is no coincidence. There's hundreds of unique species per square mile of ocean.

Get the money flowing to places it hasn't gone before.

What, a giant US company that does all its manufacturing in china? I think that's how we got into this mess to begin with.

I lose! Good day sir!

But seriously though, as a brit I see a few stories a day here that are from my country, and almost every comment involves US litigation law, or US gun law, or US copyright law, or US constitutional rights. I just chose a poor time to go mental about it.

This is true, but my comment was more of a visceral attack on the ignorance of the "oh well, no more ballons or fusion, shrug" crowd.

Bzzt, some wrong. This is in the UK. No SSN, different fraud liability laws.

My understanding of superconductors was that High Tc used a departure from standard superconducting theory that meant they couldn't survive/sustain a magnetic field. All I know is, if a usable NMR was possible using nitrogen only, it'd exist and everyone would have one. Perhaps the relatively small cost of helium compared to the rest of the machine is what's been suppressing research in the field so far.

If the cost of helium spikes by a factor of 20, then so does the cost of an MRI and the costs of medicinal chemical research. At least they won't be able to scan for the cancers they can no longer cure, right?

The problem is that precision gets lost in the conversion. I'm sick of seeing news reports that claim something like "The accident may cost over £658,891" when what they're actually doing is reporting too many sig figs on an ass-sourced "$1 million". Or "PRECISELY 91 CENTIMETERS" when the source was "feh, about 3 feet" and a meter would suffice.