Blog full o' bitter!
If you watch Leno you have probably heard of The Fruitcake Lady. I don’t watch Leno and have never heard of her until today when a co-worker sent me a clip. I couldn’t uplaod that one so I found another one on the web to link for y’all. What a gem:
Sounds like they are actually putting some of the real stuff in the fake stuff to make the fake stuff work. How clever is that?
Several unscrupulous drugmakers have given their herbal erection pills a pinch of special ingredients — chemicals that are terrifyingly similar to real Viagra and Levitra. Dutch public health scientists caught them while analyzing a batch of seized pharmaceuticals.
WTF is with the “terrifyingly similar” comparative? If Viagra and Levitra is so terrifying why are so many people taking it? Is it just terrifying to the drug makers? Or is it actually dangerous? Given the amount of money at stake in the limp penis market how can one ever believe what anybody says? One thing is for certain though, whatever the truth of the matter is, there are some very concerned people looking into it to it. For safety reasons, or course.
When several unusual molecules showed up in their initial screen, the scientists did some further analysis with a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer. It can give detailed information about the shape and composition of a chemical. Using that instrument, de Kaste and his colleagues verified that they had indeed found molecules which are very similar to prescription erectile dysfunction drugs, but not quite the same. When the researchers purified and tested the synthetic additives on a phosphodiesterase enzyme, the protein which erection pills affect, they learned that each of the phony medications was nearly as strong as the approved ones.
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Moore’s law continues.
The Core series will eventually be superseded by the Nehalem, a multithreaded architecture capable of, you’ve guessed it, eight cores per chip. The first 45nm Nehalems will also be available later this year. (Link)
What the hell are we going to do with so much cheap computing power?
Somebody is going to want to nip the personal robocop idea in the bud I bet. Everybody is going to want one. I want one.
I think the cops wont like the idea too much once it’s a commercially available item instead of a smoker mounted to a scooter. It’s hard to bully and intimidate an Old Smokey.
How cool (or scary) would it be to watch a recording of your dreams (or nightmares)?
