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Comment A Worthy Canadian Initiative (Score 1) 64

by moylek on Friday August 28, 2009 @10:38AM (#29230753) Attached to: After Canadian Prodding, Facebook To Change Privacy Policy

Of course, noone's going to be reading this reply, since I just gave it what The New Republic declared to be the most boring headline in the world. Still. hooray. hooray for canada. *golfclap*

Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 242

by moylek on Monday February 16, 2009 @12:53PM (#26873689) Attached to: Acquired Characteristics May Be Inheritable

That being said, the article is rather short in one important area: a suggested mechanism for this sort of inheritance. Without that, it's bound to be mired in controversy for some time.

Of course, Darwin's theories gained significant ground for decades before the discovery of Mendel's work provided a mechanism.

Comment We've had this for Years (Score 1) 119

by moylek on Thursday August 30, 2007 @09:56AM (#20410803) Attached to: Solar Powered Wi-Fi

I'm surprised to heat this as "news". We've had a functional solar-powered mesh at McMaster University for years, the product of a research lab: http://owl.mcmaster.ca/~todd/SolarMESH/ Although, even then, I'm surprised to find that this is worth a "research lab" ... it seems like a pretty obvious idea requiring things you can buy at Radio Shack.

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