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Re:Ask PG: Have you ever been to India or planning to? on Sunday November 07, 2010 @01:25AM (#1878844)
If you can take a trip into Punjab, it's breathtaking to take a walk in the morning fog amongst the irrigation canals and fields of crop. If you have any local friends it's a lot of fun to visit places like that which you wouldn't normally visit.
I looked up Russell Crowe but misspelled it Russel Crowe and the page says "Oops, we couldn't find what you were looking for." you should show what my input was so I can google it to correct or have a "did you mean..." function.
Re:2010 Startup School: October 16 at Stanford on Friday August 20, 2010 @01:10AM (#1619570)
It will be on justin.tv
This should definitely be a feature. Also, when somebody posts it scrolls down to the bottom. Sometimes the bottom half of the window showing the chat turns black and blocks out the text in opera on mac.
Re:'Porn mode' not necessarily anonymous on Sunday August 08, 2010 @03:08PM (#1585898)
They really should have covered Opera if it was the only one without extensions, but I don't know how much effort it would have taken, I hope it wasn't out of laziness.
Re:How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @07:52PM (#1516364)
They were huge on Reddit. The old spice guy was doing personalized videos to questions redditors posted.
Re:Antibody Kills 91% of HIV Strains on Friday July 09, 2010 @02:04AM (#1499899)
you have a good point but we have no idea which areas are affected by the antibody. If Africa has a majority of strains that are cured, then I'm sure they could stem the spread of the disease in more developed areas. I don't think that belief is widespread outside of africa, or at least I wasn't aware of it.
Re:Antibody Kills 91% of HIV Strains on Thursday July 08, 2010 @05:03PM (#1498772)
I remember reading in "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell how STDs like HIV can be effectively stopped before they become epidemics. If this antibody can be administered and eliminate a large chunk of people with weaker strains of HIV, then assuming the stronger strains of HIV are in the same geographic area, a strong campaign of eliminating HIV spreading behavior in those areas could really reduce the spread of the disease. But like another poster said we don't know which strains are most prevalent, so it could be that a stronger strain is more widespread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Cowboys is a good documentary on the drug trade that has an interesting portion on the use of submersibles in the drug trade. That documentary came out in 2006 and it showed how drug runners had already evolved past these vessels by using containers shaped like driftwood logs and attaching them by long ropes to fishing vessels. The driftwood containers had gps trackers on them so when the coastguard came close they would sink them with the rope attached and another ship would pick them up later. I think its available on thepiratebay.