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Comment Telomeres (Score 1) 67

by Steamhead on Saturday January 10, 2009 @02:04PM (#26399797) Attached to: Increasing Stem Cell Production For Faster Healing

I'm not a biologist, but wouldn't this shorten your life span?

I remember reading about Telomeres and how they shorten as you age (and this is why you age).

Would this accelerated growth/generation cause these to shorten at a more rapid pace?

Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth 397

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 06, 2008 @08:11PM from the big-kaboom dept.

musatov writes "There's talk on The Minor Planet Mailing List about a small asteroid approaching Earth with a 99.8% probability of colliding. The entrance to the Earth's atmosphere will take place October 7 at 0246 UTC (2:35 after this story goes live) over northern Sudan, releasing the energy of about a kiloton of TNT. The asteroid is assumed to be 3-4 meters in size; it is expected to burn up completely in the atmosphere, causing no harm. As a powerful bolide, it may put on quite a show in the sky. For those advanced enough in astronomy to observe, check the MPEC 2008-T50 and MPEC 2008-T64 circulars. NASA's JPL Small Body Database has a 3D orbit view. The story has been already picked up by CNN and NASA."

Comment Re:I'm fine with 80 gigs... (Score 1) 398

by Steamhead on Thursday May 15, 2008 @12:21AM (#23414010) Attached to: How Much Data Storage Do You Really Need?

Wow, you and me are like two peas in a pod.

Feed Judge tosses Jack Thompson's lawsuit against Gawker Media (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:52AM

Blog: Video game foe had sued the blog publishing company for refusing to remove Kotaku comments that he deemed 'threatening.'

Multiple Desktop Users on a Single Machine? 106

Posted by Cliff on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:35AM from the multiple-heads-why-not-multiple-consoles dept.

_Sharp'r_ asks: "I'm trying to design the least expensive way to make OpenOffice, email, and a web browser available to students in a new charter elementary school. In my past experience working with charitable computer donations, I can usually get three to four working computers out of five donated 'broken' computer systems, usually with plenty of monitors, keyboards and mice left over. I'd like to use one computer for multiple students by attaching multiple monitors, USB keyboards and mice. What drivers/OS versions support multiple local input devices and monitors that can be attached to a specific login session? Will this require virtualization? Is there a config I haven't found that you can use to assign these devices to specific ttys? Have you done this before?"

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