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  1. Re:OT: Exploding Water! by CKW · · Score: 1 · on Virus Scares and False Authority Syndrome

    The 'exploding water' thing predates the e-mail by a few years. When we got our first microwave (a Toshiba, IIRC) the manual contained a warning
    Same here. I don't know where I learned it, perhaps from the manual of my parents old huge massive microwave from the 80's. But I've always known that when you microwave water you need some sort of particulate matter in the water to provide nucleation centers for bubbles and steam, otherwise what you describe could happen.

    Here is a great reference. Someone who got 1st and 2nd degree burns from this effect.

    To those websites who self rightously call this a hoax or an un-necessary warning, no-one (except us Physicists or Engineers) would expect anything like this, this superheated nucleation water explosion effect. It's not a predictable thing given the average person's experiences. Thus finding some way of warning everyone in the world (ala Microwave instructions) is actually justified.

    The same goes for filtration and vacuum drains at swimming pools. A half dozen young people have been killed in Ontario Canada alone in the past decade. Broken or missing grates in pools mean it's very easy for a small child to get wedged into one of the pool filter vacuum spouts, and a grown adult can not dislodge them. If a young girl with long hair gets it entangled in a sub-surface moving part, she's a goner. It's actually quite pathetic, but even after a half dozen "coroner's inquests" (which merely deliver "recommendations", and have no legal force), it still happens.

    It's not just the airline industry, everything we do is "Tombstone Technology".

  2. Who is Santa by Felinoid · · Score: 3 · on Is There A Santa Claus?

    Santa as a mem: The idea of good will past down from generation to generation vea a holiday
    Santa as a religious icon: Saint Nick...
    Santa as a pagan god: "But very few people realize that history clearly shows that Woden was renamed St. Nick or Santa Claus,"
    Santa as a spelling error: Could it be Satan?
    Santa as a perl module: Santa.pm [Gives gifts to good little varables].
    Santa as a Slashdot troll: "First Gift"
    Santa as a Linux user: RedHat...
    Santa as an evil information gathering dark conspericy: "He's making a list and checking it twice.. gona find out whos naughty and nice" [and sell the information? Think those presents are free?]

  3. .DOC translations... by JDevers · · Score: 1 · on Software Licenses Get Worse
    I've posted rich text format and plain text format translations of these two documents.

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    1. I'm sure my ISP would appreciate it if those who are able to convert these files on their own would do so... ;)
  4. .DOC translations... by JDevers · · Score: 1 · on Software Licenses Get Worse
    I've posted rich text format and plain text format translations of these two documents.

    ucita.txt

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    nccusl.txt

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    1. I'm sure my ISP would appreciate it if those who are able to convert these files on their own would do so... ;)
  5. .DOC translations... by JDevers · · Score: 1 · on Software Licenses Get Worse
    I've posted rich text format and plain text format translations of these two documents.

    ucita.txt

    ucita.rtf

    nccusl.txt

    nccusl.rtf

    1. I'm sure my ISP would appreciate it if those who are able to convert these files on their own would do so... ;)
  6. .DOC translations... by JDevers · · Score: 1 · on Software Licenses Get Worse
    I've posted rich text format and plain text format translations of these two documents.

    ucita.txt

    ucita.rtf

    nccusl.txt

    nccusl.rtf

    1. I'm sure my ISP would appreciate it if those who are able to convert these files on their own would do so... ;)