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Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 0) 1605

This will end up being a classic be careful what you wish for situation, when the anti intellect Republicans stop the immigration of the smart people from the rest of the world, that has propped up the US for so long. No more excuses for Republicans, they own the results of their moronic policies and bigotry.

Comment Re:Genocide (Score 0) 263

900 deaths in Australia so far, with 15 times less population. That rate would mean 15,000 dead Americans. Itâ(TM)s not because we are an Island, itâ(TM)s because we locked down hard and early, and we cooperated with our govts in a by partisan manner, who in term listened to the experts. Not only that but our economy is doing better as well. Turns out that politicising a pandemic isnâ(TM)t a great idea.

Comment Re:Tragic (Score 0) 413

I lost my closest freind, who was a super smart guy, 20 odd years ago. He was a defence dept researcher, and brilliant programmer and musician.(How many people get a navy ship to play with for their projects) At only 25 he could not snap out of the life loop he was in. The effects of his actions continue right up to now, for all his friends. Suicide is very common in weapons researchers sadly. It is incredibly sad when we lose someone both brilliant and modest.

Comment Funny (Score -1) 8

Your paranoia about Obama is great. I cannot tell you how much amusement it gives me. Gun nuts like yourself should be disarmed immediately, sock puppet. Please make me a foe, new accounts are cheap and easy to make. Oh and stop the AC slashstalking you have been doing lately too asshole!
Biotech

Platypus Genome Decoded 133

TaeKwonDood writes "Is it reptile, bird or mammal? Some of each. Does it have venom, lay eggs and lactate? Yes. Upon discovery in 1798, fellow scientists thought it was for an episode of 'Thou hast been Punk'd,' but this Australia native, on home on land and in water, is real and, finally, it gets its own decoded genome. It's no surprise the DNA is as messed up as the critter itself."
Idle

Boss Waterboards Employee in Team Building Exercise 13

As part of a team building exercise, Chad Hudgens agreed to be waterboarded. "He lay on his back with his head downhill, co-workers knelt on either side of him, pinning the young sales rep down while their supervisor poured water from a gallon jug over his nose and mouth." His boss told the employees present, "You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there. I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales." Chad thought about it for a few days and is now suing. General counsel for the company, George Brunt says, "We're not the mean waterboarding company that people think we are. I don't know if this would even be an issue if it weren't for Guantanamo Bay." He added that the company has seen great success with other torture themed training such as "The Iron Boot of Productivity" and "Drawn and Quarterly Reports."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - DMCA means you cannot delete files on your own PC (wired.com)

DragonHawk writes: "According to Wired, John Stottlemire found a way to print duplicate coupons from Coupons.com by deleting some files and registry entires on his PC. Now he's being sued for a DMCA violation. He says, "All I did was erase files or registry keys." Says a lawyer: "It may cover this. I think it does give companies a lot of leverage and a lot of power." So now the copyright cartels are saying that not only can we not copy things on our computers, but we cannot delete things on our computers. Time to buy stock in Seagate."
Biotech

Submission + - Physicists Discover Interstellar Dust 'Alive' (sciencedaily.com)

reezle writes: An international team has discovered that under the right conditions, particles of inorganic dust can become organised into helical structures. These structures can then interact with each other in ways that are usually associated with organic compounds and life itself.
Quite bizarrely, not only do these helical strands interact in a counterintuitive way in which like can attract like, but they also undergo changes that are normally associated with biological molecules, such as DNA and proteins, say the researchers. They can, for instance, divide, or bifurcate, to form two copies of the original structure. These new structures can also interact to induce changes in their neighbours and they can even evolve into yet more structures as less stable ones break down, leaving behind only the fittest structures in the plasma.
"These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter," says Tsytovich, "they are autonomous, they reproduce and they evolve."

Toys

Submission + - Boeing's new 787 wings: Amazingly bendy (wired.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Boeing is making the wings of its new 787 out of carbon fiber instead of metal. That means the wings are so strong and flexible that they could bend upwards and touch above the fuselage — or come close. The company is expected to deliver the first 787 to All Nippon Airlines in May 2008. From Aviation Week:

Boeing has completed static testing of a three-quarter wingbox, but engineers are still considering whether to limit testing of the full wing to a 150% load limit held for 3 sec. of to continue bending it to see when it breaks. "There's a raging debate within the engineering team to see if we should break it or not," says [787 General Manager Mike] Bair.

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