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Comment Yeah ... (Score 2, Informative) 249

Historically, that is how we've judged the success of cloning, or genetically manipulated animals. A lot has to happen after fertilization -- blastulation, gastrulation, then further development, any one of those can be considered a success. Early cloning experiments with the common frog (Rana pippens) were considered successful because the made it to the gasturla stage, another frog species formed viable embryos, but not frogs, and was still a success. Dolly surviving well into adulthood was a fluke, and she still died early, of something that might have had a genetic cause. It really is all how you care to define success. If you thought we were a few years away from re-creating Jurassic Park, or someone promised you a harem of 50 Jessica Alba clones in a few years time, yeah, this is a very disappointing story for you.

Comment Pure opinion ... (Score 1) 586

... I'm currently using AVG under Win 2000. I recognize it may be a little slow for some people, but when I installed it, I used custom install so it didn't install: email checker (I only use web based email), link checker (that was a real dog, a noticeable pause with the Google searches.) I'd tried Avast!, but that was annoying me, a daily large pop-up, advertising the full package, often not in English. But hay, that's just me.

And likely, the original poster as well. We all have ideas about what we want: robust safety, snappy response, unobtrusive computer usage. On same level, everything, from McAfee's bloatware, Norton's resource hogging, and the various free options end up with a mix of all three.

Mozilla

Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed 312

darthcamaro writes "Mozilla has now come around and is taking seriously the concerns of Ubuntu and others about the Firefox EULA, which we discussed vigorously the other day. In fact Mozilla told InternetNews.com that the EULA itself is flawed and will be replaced with something else. Quoting Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker from the article: 'There is a need for something, something to explain the license[.] I'm not sure I would call it a EULA because that has a meaning to many people of adding restrictions to software and we won't be doing that. We'll be having a license agreement much as Red Hat has a license agreement that says the software is available under the GPL and don't use our trademarks et cetera. So we'll have a license agreement but we won't think of it as a EULA.'"
Politics

Scott Adams's Political Survey of Economists 939

Buffaloaf writes "Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, wanted to have unbiased information about which presidential candidate would be better for the economy, so he financed his own survey of 500 economists. He gives a bit more detail about the results in a CNN editorial, along with disclosure of his own biases and guesses as to the biases of the economists who responded."
Businesses

Tech Vs. Business? 607

An anonymous reader writes "I've recently found a spot in a large company, and I'm noticing that here a lot of people on the technology side are very anti-business. Tech makes up about 40% of the total line of business staff, but the whole LOB is only a tiny percentage of the larger company in the financial industry. I personally haven't seen this before in prior jobs, but I'm told that this animosity is commonplace. So I come to Slashdot to find out if others have experienced this adversarial relationship between business and tech, and if so, what was the effect on the overall success of the business?"

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