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Comment Re:Actually not really a problem (Score 1) 374

by impus on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:59PM (#49580537) Attached to: Who Owns Pre-Embryos?

We've just been through the process too, in California.

We both signed a contract to say what should happen to leftover frozen embryos in various situations, including if we were to break up. We chose to donate them for research in all cases. Other options included donating them to other couples, or having them destroyed.

I'd assumed this sort of contract was standard practice, if only to protect the embryo storage company from this sort of dispute, let alone the patients. Apparently not.

Circuit City Closes Its Doors For Good 587

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 16, 2009 @05:19PM from the gonna-have-a-heart-attack-and-die-from-not-surprise dept.

bsharma is amongst the hordes of people wanting us to share the news that long beleaguered retailer Circuit City has finally decided to close for good, asking for court approval to close the remaining 567 US stores. "Whalin said management mistakes over the past few years combined with the recession brought down Circuit City. 'This company made massive mistakes,' he said, citing a decision to get rid of sales people and other mismanagement. What's more, given the credit market freeze, Whalin added that no manufacturer wants to sell to any retailer who doesn't have money to pay for the merchandise. At the same time, Whalin said there's still a very slim chance that one or more firms that have expressed an interest in buying Circuit City could still buy it out of bankruptcy over the next few days."

Comment Re:Circumvention? (Score 3, Interesting) 301

by impus on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @12:56PM (#25644543) Attached to: EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key

If they're using a standard CD key format then no guessing is needed. The final digit is a checksum of the others.

Oil-Immersion Cooled PC Goes To Retail 210

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 20, 2008 @05:18PM from the next-up-hot-grits dept.

notthatwillsmith writes "Everyone's seen mods where someone super-cools a PC by submersing it in a non-conductive oil. It's a neat idea, but most components aren't designed to withstand a hot oil bath; after prolonged exposure materials break down and components begin to fail. Maximum PC has an exclusive hands-on, first look at the new Hardcore Computer Reactor, the first oil-cooled PC available for sale. Hardcore engineered the Reactor to withstand the oil, using space-age materials and proprietary oil. The Reactor's custom-manufactured motherboard, videocards, memory, and SSD drives are submersed in the oil, while the dry components sit outside the bulletproof tank. The motherboard lifts out of the oil bath on rails, giving you relatively easy access to components, and the overall design is simply jaw-dropping. Of course, we'd expect nothing less for a machine with a base price of $4000 that goes all the way up to $11k for a fully maxed out config."

AppJet Offers Browser-Based Coding How-To, Hosting 63

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @03:40PM from the talk-about-rapid dept.

theodp writes "Know someone who wants to learn to program? Paul Graham advises programmer wannabes to check out The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming on the Web from AppJet, which aims to be 'the funnest and easiest way for a beginner to get started programming.' Setting the guide apart from other tutorials is the ability to edit and run any of the all-Javascript examples directly in your browser. Newcomers to programming and experienced developers alike can also publish their AppJet creations on the web. Sure beats GE BASIC on the General Electric Time-Sharing Service!"

Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People 440

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @02:56PM from the walking-the-line dept.

Calopteryx sends in a New Scientist summary of research from Sweden pointing toward the existence of a gene that influences monogamy in men. (The article doesn't mention women, and the study subjects were all men at least 5 years into a heterosexual relationship.) "There has been speculation about the role of the hormone vasopressin in humans ever since we discovered that variations in where receptors for the hormone are expressed makes prairie voles strictly monogamous but meadow voles promiscuous; vasopressin is related to the 'cuddle chemical' oxytocin. Now it seems variations in a section of the gene coding for a vasopressin receptor in people help to determine whether men are serial commitment-phobes or devoted husbands."

Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome 604

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @01:30PM from the waxing-philosophical dept.

tandiond writes to tell us that in a recent blog posting, Mozilla CEO John Lily shared his thoughts on Google's new browser project, Chrome, and what that means for Mozilla. "It should come as no real surprise that Google has done something here — their business is the web, and they've got clear opinions on how things should be, and smart people thinking about how to make things better. Chrome will be a browser optimized for the things that they see as important, and it'll be interesting to see how it evolves." Mozilla's Europe president, Tristan Nitot also chimed in during an interview with PCPro, stating that they don't view this as a direct attack on Firefox, even if it did catch them by surprise. "I'll take another example: just before Microsoft launched Vista, it invited us [to work with it] so that Firefox works better on Windows Vista. Because for it, Firefox being a top-tier application that was very successful - we now have 200 million users around the world - it could not afford to have Firefox run slowly on Vista. Therefore, it helped us improve Firefox for Vista. That's just the same for Google. It wants Firefox to perform well with its applications, that's for sure. Indeed, it even wants IE to perform well with Gmail and the rest. It's just that it has very limited control over this. That's why Google's been frustrated and it is launching this Chrome browser."

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