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Comment Re:Typical Italian sense of time (Score 4, Funny) 442

As an italian I can testify you are wrong.

You don't arrive late thinking you are in time.
You arrive late and blame traffic, war, biblical plagues; and share simpaty with other meeting partecipants.

I hope the neutrinos were early (for the sake of new physics), but still, they were behaving terribly rude! ;)

Comment Re:Aging is probably NOT in the telomeres (Score 1) 371

germ cells.

AND

cancer cells.

Which is a good sign for the usefulness of telomerase for single cells.
And an obvious problem if instead you want to use it for whole organisms.

Most of the stuff we know helps cells live longer, cancer already knew. And its using it.

which makes it a little complicated to go from the lab to a pill that makes you live longer.

Comment Re:Data transfers (Score 1) 245

Vodafone charges more than that for an sms in roaming, (for some european plans.)

Besides most sms are much shorter than the limit. so 600 bits looks more that average. that would be 0.80 $

So there you have it.

Vodafone is more expensive.

Censorship

Italy Floats Official Permission Requirement for Web Video Uploads 131

An anonymous reader writes with some bad news from Italy, noting that new rules proposed there would "require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web." Understandably, some say such controls represent a conflict of interest for Silvio Berlusconi, "who exercises political control over the state broadcaster RAI in his role as prime minister and is also the owner of Italy's largest private broadcaster, Mediaset."

Comment Tipping point (Score 5, Insightful) 770

This is the end ....

my feeling, in 30 years this moment will be viewed as the tipping point, the moment in which america stopped being the siphon of the worlds best minds.

For the first time in history the melting pot hasn't managed to retain the best.
Those people will bring a BIG BOOST in their respoective countries ruling intellighentia.

lots of sour grapes here, but have no one else to blame ....

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