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• On the post: Daily Deal: iCollege IT Security and Management Bundle

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 20 May, 2015 @ 10:59pm

  Re: Re: Re: Location of Exams

  Sorry, but I don't have personal experience with these tests.

• On the post: Daily Deal: iCollege IT Security and Management Bundle

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 20 May, 2015 @ 04:03pm

  Re: Location of Exams

  Super-King,
  
  Which test? The tests that require you to show up to a particular location usually have testing service providers with locations in Canada/US/Mexico... are you planning to take all of these exams?
  
  for example: http://www.isaca.org/certification/pages/exam-locations.aspx

• On the post: DailyDirt: Robots Doing The Heavy Lifting

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 12 May, 2015 @ 04:59pm

  Re: Re:

  And the others aren't?
  
  The other kinds of supersuits aren't "inflatable" and are generally made of hard materials that could be harmful if you fell on them in just the wrong way by accident.
  
  (Not that the other supersuits are specifically designed to hurt the people who wear them....)

• On the post: DailyDirt: To Seek Out New Life And New Civilizations…

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2015 @ 10:33pm

  Re: Re: Typo: "Goldilock's"

  Fixed. Thanks for the grammar link.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Will This Problem Ever Go Away?

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2015 @ 03:55pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: This is why

  heh.. uh.. https://deals.techdirt.com/sales/the-linux-learner-bundle

• On the post: DailyDirt: Problems With Peer Reviewed Publications

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2015 @ 11:57am

  Re: On peer review

  Gene, I meant more difficult... analogous to the ways spammers use software to get around spam filters. Legit publishers won't use it, but sketchy journals that are trying to sound legit would.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Suicide Isn't Painless — Neither Is The Death Penalty (Yet?)

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2015 @ 08:06am

  Re: "If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff,"

  You're right. Removed.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Keeping Information For A Really, Really, Really Long Time

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2015 @ 04:53pm

  Re:

  DNA made by a computer and brought to life? Done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium

• On the post: NSA's Stealing Keys To Mobile Phone Encryption Shows Why Mandatory Backdoors To Encryption Is A Horrible Idea

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2015 @ 01:14pm

  Re: warrantless-free?

  Corrected. I picked warrant-free.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Catchy Music Breakdown

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2015 @ 03:07pm

  Re:

  hmm. fixed that link.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
  
  Not sure how that link got messed up, but thanks for pointing it out.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Cyborgs Animals To Do Our Bidding

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2015 @ 08:13pm

  Re:

  You got me.. I've never owned a cat myself. I like cats. I know they can be trained to do certain things.
  
  But would I rely on a cat to do something critical like help spy on a foreign ambassador? Uh. No. Would you?

• On the post: Google Quietly Argues Broadband Competition, Google Fiber Build Out Could Be Aided By Title II

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2015 @ 04:33pm

  Re:

  Aha. good catch. typo fixed. :) thanks.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Made In The USA Rockets

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2014 @ 01:29pm

  Re:

  The recent Antares rocket explosion may have been caused by a Russian engine failure.
  http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/31/us-space-orbital-sciences-idUSKBN0IK1YW20141031
  
  Also in that link:
  The Atlas 5, one of two rockets used primarily for U.S. military missions, is powered by another Energomash engine, the RD-180.
  
  Moscow threatened to cut off exports of the RD-180 for U.S. military missions in response to U.S. trade sanctions spurred by Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. So far, however, business has continued uninterrupted, says United Launch Alliance, a Boeing and Lockheed Martin partnership that manufactures and flies the Atlas rocket.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Flying Cars Are Here!

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2014 @ 10:08am

  Re:

  We did....
  
  https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140814/17233828217/awesome-stuff-flying-cars-hover-bikes-ultrasonic-levitation.shtml

• On the post: DailyDirt: Crowdfunding Science!

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2014 @ 05:14pm

  Re: Patent-free chemotherapy drug development

  Yup. We've covered that project before.
  
  https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140925/08202528637/crowdfunding-patent-free-drug-treating-cancer .shtml

• On the post: DailyDirt: Crowdfunding Science!

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2014 @ 11:13am

  Re:

  There are different forms of vitamin A. These guys took vitamin A2.
  
  http://neuronresearch.net/vision/pix/vitaminAs.gif

• On the post: DailyDirt: Looking Fashionable In New Spacesuit Designs

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2014 @ 06:34pm

  not quite...

  Hmm. not quite a dupe, except for the BioSuit. Maybe I should lay off the space-related DailyDirts for a while?
  (I've been tempted to do one on all the crashes and explosions recently....)

• On the post: DailyDirt: Looking Fashionable In New Spacesuit Designs

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2014 @ 10:06pm

  Hmm. I've actually done quite a few DailyDirts on input devices... So if I included links to all of them, it would take up quite a bit of space.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Hoverboards Are Real!

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2014 @ 06:22pm

  Re: Re: Real, but REALLY impractical

  This particular hoverboard may be a hoax of some kind, but it may be possible to someday have hovercrafts that don't require blowing air systems... and Toyota might be looking into it:
  http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/9/5793494/toyota-has-been-investigating-cars-that-hover-above-the-road

• On the post: DailyDirt: Meals On Mars

  

  Michael Ho ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2014 @ 12:28pm

  Re: dis-comfort foods

  pundit,
  
  Perhaps you might find it hard to swallow... that you're already eating/drinking recycled bodily wastes from dinosaurs and many other animals (including humans). (And there is no noticeable tang at all.)

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