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Comment Re:Good to see game developers put their foot down (Score 1) 277

by platipusrc on Saturday December 05, 2009 @12:33PM (#30335642) Attached to: New <em>Aliens Vs. Predator</em> Game Doesn't Make It Past AU Ratings Board

Most of the blood was put there by government killing. If you aren't talking about that, then GM and SAB Miller have a lot more blood on their hands than the gun manufacturers.

Comment Re:the real threat will be government intervention (Score 1) 388

by polar red on Saturday December 05, 2009 @11:59AM (#30335368) Attached to: The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism

Free markets are fully compatible with the concept of government, it's just that the reach of government into the economy is extremely limited.

that's why 'free market' does not work with humans in it. humans are greedy and selfish; that's why some of those humans employ(read:enslave) children in third world countries to produce cheap garbage to sell in the first world to idiots. who's gonna help those children ?

Comment Re:Questions? (Score 1) 540

by rm999 on Thursday December 03, 2009 @07:25PM (#30318428) Attached to: Google Launches Public DNS Resolver

I hope they aren't using the statistics on this stuff for anything important - talk about a vastly biased sampled. The majority of people don't know what DNS is, let alone how to change the DNS server.

Mobile Carriers Cry "Less Operating Systems" 217

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 12, 2007 @09:59AM from the less-qq-more-pew-pew dept.

A NYTimes story says "Multiple systems have hampered the growth of new services, mobile phone executives say. " The story does a good job of capturing some of the changing dynamics in the mobile OS market — but rightly raises the point that given the sheer size of the mobile market, it's unlikely we're going to see the homogenization we have in the desktop market.

Drug Selectively Removes Rats' Memory 64

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 12, 2007 @09:54AM from the there-is-nothing-to-see-here dept.

rednuhter writes "Nature online is reporting scientists have used drugs to selectively remove one memory while not affecting another. Musical tones were played to the rats and at the same time the subjects were given a mild electric shock. Half the study group were given the drug (not approved for use in humans) and then the experiment was repeated with a new tone. The following day the rats that had not been given the treatment were afraid of both tones while the treated half were only afraid of the second tone: the memory of fear of the first had been erased."

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