I don't know if that's the right term, but surely a dna "hashtag" is a more effective than sticking a silicon label on to the embryo sack? Or can't one get DNA sequences (unique?) from an embryo?

I'm finding that as I grow older, I need to find more family games, which can be played in your living room with your family -- if you're not too dorky to have one -- or just your partner. Being a full-time software engineer by day, student of computer science by night, the free time I have with wife and kid demands that I not be in front of a pc and instead in the lounge/bedroom. And obv, automatically the platform changes, and if you're going to play with your wife and kids, then the type of game changes too.

My wife has taken a fancy to God Of War, Tekken, but she doesn't much like Tomb Raider. So my choice in games has evolved to family games, or at least games that we both like. Also, to games that can be played while entertaining family/couple friends.

But to find that picture, what did the FBI search for?

"pictures man looks like older osama bin laden lookalike" ?

What is the search strategy for finding a picture of the future Barak Obama?

My gut feel is that Microsoft (or somebody Big) fucked them (the authors of Decaf) in the arse and that's why they killed Decaf.
If i were a malicious hacker I'd rip decaf's internals out and either continue or repackage it. What kind of whackjob writes something like Decaf AS A LESSON TO THE WORLD. Sounds like one of those villains from Bond movies..

Is there a reason they don't just use usb or normal networking? Perhaps I'm just trivializing space technology, but what's the difference between space computers and home computers [besides the fact they use real-time operating systems]? Surely that just means the computers never go to sleep?

I'm sure that technology already exists - so it just needs $200 Billion to test and make sure it works in space?

That's the million dollar question.

I knew fellow grad student who got into serious shyte for hacking. He was sentenced to a couple of hundred hours of community service - which he did at the very place he hacked in to. The staff, who didn't know as much as he did about computer stuff, handed him on a silver tray the New passwords (once they'd restored the system to normality) and put him in charge of the main servers etc. Of course he didn't pull any similar stunts because he was graduating soon...... If you were a decent guy, you'd try to regain the trust of the people you'd screwed...

All jokes aside, nuclear waste "mutated" E Coli. Why am I the only one who thinks this is a bad idea?
Making life radioactive? is that really a good idea?

How is this amazing news? What does it prove? that spiders existed 10 zillion years ago? That they looked like spiders do now? Or is it just the fact that they made the 3D model? If so, big deal - they've done it before with other fossils.... *shrug*

sounds a bit like humans....

"self-replicating" suggests to me that that the robot would be able to create another object of exactly the same structure as itself.
On Earth - maybe, just maybe it can find the components necessary to put together another one of itself... but on mars? is there life on mars, firstly, and are there left over nano-robot components from which to build more nano-robots?

Sounds flashy and all.. but not feasible.

really? Is it the delete key or is it the backspace key that is used most?
Personally, I mostly use the backspace key in favour of the delete key - I think because that's the one that's closer to normal typing keys.

From personal experience of typing (being a software developer, my life has been on computers for over 15 yrs) - I notice I prefer to backspace over other key combinations.

Deleting "prefer to" I would backspace X 9, to replace with "'would rather" instead of [ctrl][shift][left,left][backspace]... but maybe that's just me...
I;'d[backspaceX3]'d be interested n[backspace]knowing who the users were[backspaceX4]are.

*snicker*
No they didn't lose the tapes... They're right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy8S9VQ8OhY (vid of Michael Jackson)

I reckon they should instead funnel the cr@p and hot air that George Bush emits from his pie-hole into channels for processing. That'll provide more than enough energy for the world and we won't have to 'rape' the earth.

I've managed a Computer Lab at an IT college, who's prime users are pesky students with an interest in downloading MP3's, warez and porn. I can confirm the above-said about Avast. Avast is now THE only antivirus tool I use. If you cant purchase it, I think they also have a free tool for cleaning (not the Avast Home version) which works well for support.

In my books it's either Avast, or Linux.

After reading many comments in this feed, I decided to get over to http://www.bing.com/ to search for something I use regularly (eclipse rcp) and compare it to Google's results on that same topic. But, I got this error when I hit [Enter]. In the 5 years I've been using Google, this sort of error has *never* happened [to me]. That was my cue to get off slashdot, stop wasting time with Bing and start some work.

ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file!

Stack Trace:

0:ENSURE_WARN(false,_installLocation: engine has no file!,2147500037)

1:()

2:()

3:()

4:epsGetAttr([object Object],alias)

5:()

6:SRCH_SVC_getEngineByAlias(http://www.bing.com)

7:getEngineByAlias(http://www.bing.com)

8:getShortcutOrURI(http://www.bing.com,[object Object])

9:canonizeUrl([object KeyboardEvent],[object Object])

10:handleURLBarCommand([object KeyboardEvent])

11:anonymous(textentered,[object KeyboardEvent])

12:fireEvent(textentered,[object KeyboardEvent])

13:onTextEntered()

14:handleEnter(false)

15:onKeyPress([object KeyboardEvent])

16:onxblkeypress([object KeyboardEvent])