Comment Re:Goliat! (Score 1) 32
Considering it's a 10cm^3 cube, it's good to know we still have our sense of (self-)irony :)
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Comment Re:Silly (Score 2) 363
Why would it require a cookie for that? Wouldn't the "do-not-track" header be enough for that?
Comment Re:Huh... (Score 2) 450
The thing is AFAIK he is now estimated to have a fortune of about 6 billion dollars, and I expect he expects it to grow. Giving away 3 billion dollars still lets him live like a king and earn him public "karma". Anyone except the stupidest/most evil people around would do the same.
Comment Re:I for one (Score 1) 435
That would, probably once and for all, settle the debate if "gayness" is genetic or a "lifestyle choice".
Team Use Stem Cells to Restore Mobility in Paralyzed Monkey 196
interval1066 writes "From the article: 'Japanese researchers said Wednesday they had used stem cells to restore partial mobility in a small monkey that had been paralysed from the neck down by a spinal injury.' This is huge news in the world of stem cell research; restoring some muscular control to a simian is a huge step. This means that stem cell therapy is a demonstrably viable path to restoring motility for millions of accident victims, palsy and ms sufferers, the list just goes on."
Comment Re:Little difference? (Score 5, Interesting) 839
They had to spend months with only what drinkable water they could carry, which was at that time as daunting as it is now to carry the fuel(energy) needed to get to Mars
Comment Re:A bit big for their britches? (Score 1) 640
Now they haven't. Fedora is the "bleeding-edge" distro, which regularly ships with beta software bundled. The only time I remember Ubuntu doing the same was with FF 3 beta, which was included in 8.10 if I'm not mistaken.
Comment Re:What about other people's data about me? (Score 3, Informative) 200
You can tag anything with any name on Facebook, it's just that the tag won't link to your profile if you don't have one.
Comment Re:What about other people's data about me? (Score 1) 200
How is this any different than the pre-internet world?
Comment My old school phone... (Score 1) 487
I have a very low-end Huawei phone that doesn't auto-update it's clock to account for daylight savings and it woke me up an hour earlier than it should have.
Submission + - Can Google make the Universal Translator reality (tekgoblin.com)
tekgoblin writes: Google Translate has been available for a long time now and can translate text or webpages with a single click. Well Google is working on a way to do that with your voice quite similar to the way it worked in Star Trek. Google is calling it Conversation Mode on Google Translate. However Google is no where near to releasing it to the public, Google states that it is in early beta.
Comment Re:early (Score 3, Informative) 473
I think they were aiming for the symbolic 10/10/10 date for the 10.10 version.
Submission + - Congress Reacts To Successful Falcon 9 Launch (spacepolitics.com) 2
FleaPlus writes: The successful inaugural launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9, privately developed and built at a cost of less than $400M (including another Falcon 9 to be launched this summer and five earlier Falcon 1 rockets), has been hailed by a number of space organizations and former astronauts. However, it's also quite interesting to look at the reactions from those in Congress who control the purse-strings for NASA (one of SpaceX's biggest customers). The successful launch was congratulated by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL and former astronaut) and Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL), both praised and criticized by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) due to the successful launch being a year later than previously predicted, and blasted by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) for merely replicating what 'NASA accomplished in 1964,' who added that the company's success 'must not be confused with progress for our nation's human spaceflight program.'
Comment Re:His only chance for solitidue ... (Score 1) 165
Unless... what if that is in the prophecies as well?
Comment at my uni... (Score 1) 422
In the middle of one of the university buildings (not in a dorm) there's a network with the SSID "IHaveNetYouSuckerDont".
