Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
I still don't get why you Americans insist on naming things after the most popular brand name when they already have proper names either, to the rest of the world it's like calling all card Fords or all computers IBMs.
Because Paracetamol isn't just paracetamol; it's also called acetaminophen and on occasion Panadol. Technically the proper chemical name for it is N-acetyl-p-aminophenol so why not use any of those names instead? The reason being that most people in the US know what Tylenol is. The rest of the English speaking world could call it whatever it wants but the majority of Slashdot's readership consists of Americans.
Paracetamol is not better known as Tylenol, only a tiny proportion of the world population know paracetamol as Tylenol.
Nonsense. Slashdot is a US centric site and here the brand name is Tylenol.
Paracetamol is metabolized whether there is alcohol involved or not; Paracetamol is unhealthy for the liver regardless.
both of them are bad for the liver. The combination of the two is worse than either of them by themselves. The maximum dose of Tylenol is cut in half if it is taken with a reasonable amount of Alcohol. SO the statement that taking Tylenol and Alcohol together is bad for your Liver is still true.
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Most people in the West who are not Jewish celebrate Christmas, with or without the religious part.
Actually many jewish people celebrate the holiday as well. Just it's not a religious holiday in any way for them any more than it is for atheists like me. It's become a general purpose holiday of giving that is often divorced from its original religious roots.
If you can read the source code of a program, the function can be modified and thus a hypothetical open source DRM program could be engineered to decode the media wtihout implementing DRM's limitations. Which is much of why DRM is so disgusting. Not only does it severely limit what someone can do with their legally bought media, it also must be proprietary in order to hide the key from the user themselves.
In the US this judgement may not have been necessary for the reasons you've outlined but this was not in the US; it was in Canada where this legal judgement was apparently required.
NOt likely. Microsoft has been stockpiling a massive arsenal of patents (as has IBM) in order to use patents as weapons. I really doubt that they would push for change in the right direction because it would likely mean that they'd lose a lot of their weaponry in doing so.
Everything has a bias to it. Slashdot has a libertarian leaning bias, Dailykos has a left bias and Fox News is right leaning. It is the reader's job to look critically at what other people say and decide for themselves regardless of the political slant. As for leaving off the D-fla next to his name, I'd say that you could look at it two ways: 1) a party shouldn't be singled out in media or 2) party affiliation is irrelevant; the conduct of a particular congress critter is what is important. Mostly I'd say that 2) is most correct as much of the problem in politics is that people mindlessly vote along party lines eg. republicans/democrats as a whole are evillll instead of crosscritter X is specifically an arsehat. It's irrational.
Nice try but that car is a Skoda Octavia which is made by Skoda Auto not BMW. At the time of the crash, the car was going at nearly 90 mph which was about 3x the speed limit of the area. The driver was in the wrong lane and was intoxicated. The cause of the crash was entirely the fault of the driver not the car its self.
Unfortunately the summery took this bit drectly from TFA and it is as you'd suspect, technically incorrect. Ice breaks open the cells (lysing them) which causes the cell contents to spill out of the cell into whatever medium they are in. This quite predictably, kills the cells. However, ice that forms extremely rapidly forms a glass-like phase of ice that does less harm to the cells. The interesting things about this new antifreeze molecule are that 1) it's not a protein; it's a fairly simple molecule and 2) it's lipophillic (tends to hang around fatty things like cell membranes) which makes it a very useful discovery in terms of biological antifreeze molecules.
Rapid freezing of tissue should act in a similar fashion. THe problem of course is being able to freeze tissue at the rate required to form the glass-like phase of ice. I suspect that this antifreeze molecule may work in cryogenic preservation if it shows low toxicity/immune response from the host. Something to keep in mind about frozen tissue as well is the fact that even at these extremely low temperatures, chemical reactions that degrade the sample still occur so there is a limit to how long even the most sturdy cells (like cancer cells) can be stored. If the tissue is frozen for too long of a time, revival may prove to be unlikely or even impossible.
They're against people having animals as pets but locking up thousands of animals in cages just to be euthanized is ok? PETA is an organization that depends on crazy PR stunts to raise funding; as long as killing thousands of animals is cheaper for them than the alternative they will continue to do so.
in 2007, PETA workers were tried for 37 counts of animal cruelty. They were also guilty of killing and then "disposing" of dead animals in dumpsters. PETA isn't being kind by killing these animals; they're just following the line of reasoning and behavior that they've always gravitated toward: that raising funding through crazy stunts is more important than the welfare of any animals under their care.
They could be using it for cruelty-free ice-cream substitute or medical supplies not derived from animals... um...
The problem with that is that they've admitted that the freezer was indeed for the purpose of storing dead animals. They euthanize larger animals on occasion which likely necessitates the use of a larger freezer. If I sounded "a bit trollish" it is because PETA's actions have been fairly despicable in my view. I don't think that they have done anything that merits anything less than making sure as many people know about their high kill rate as possible.
seventy minute analysis of this mother of all train wrecks.
You seem to have forgotten about the Star Wars Christmas special. The review its self is just too long... 70 minutes of video to review a 10 year old movie is a bit much.
Or the animals PETA is euthanizing... Over 85% of the animals they take in are killed instead of adopted. So many animals were killed by PETA in fact, that they purchaced a 9,000$ freezer to temporarily store the animals that have been killed.
will still take the drugs tested on animals when they become ill.
Maybe maybe not. If they're really concerned about the animal testing, it is conceivable that they may try out alternative medicine before they actually use drugs that were developed using animal testing methods.
If you are thinking that anthrax is a virus then you'd be wrong. It's a bacterium and it isn't "impossible" to develop a vaccine for it. Viruses like Influenza tend to mutate and adapt faster than bacteria generally do and there are vaccines for Influenza so...
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I'm curious where you got the 52% figure from; or was that something you've pulled out of thin air? Perhaps we should have a poll.
The FAQ seems to disagree with you.
Because Paracetamol isn't just paracetamol; it's also called acetaminophen and on occasion Panadol. Technically the proper chemical name for it is N-acetyl-p-aminophenol so why not use any of those names instead? The reason being that most people in the US know what Tylenol is. The rest of the English speaking world could call it whatever it wants but the majority of Slashdot's readership consists of Americans.
Nonsense. Slashdot is a US centric site and here the brand name is Tylenol.
both of them are bad for the liver. The combination of the two is worse than either of them by themselves. The maximum dose of Tylenol is cut in half if it is taken with a reasonable amount of Alcohol. SO the statement that taking Tylenol and Alcohol together is bad for your Liver is still true.
If you don't want to be sober until later then you shouldn't take the antidote. Alcohol doesn't give you a choice in the matter, synthehol just might.
You are correct. Paracetamol which is better known as Tylenol, metabolises into N-acetyl-p-benzoquinoneimine which is what actually damages the Liver.
Actually many jewish people celebrate the holiday as well. Just it's not a religious holiday in any way for them any more than it is for atheists like me. It's become a general purpose holiday of giving that is often divorced from its original religious roots.
Eh.. If he's traveling at relativistic speeds in our atmosphere then Santa and reindeer are now a relativistic plasma.
Anticipation of ACTA?
At some point there's going to need to be decrypted data at the device its self and once that happens it's game over.
If you can read the source code of a program, the function can be modified and thus a hypothetical open source DRM program could be engineered to decode the media wtihout implementing DRM's limitations. Which is much of why DRM is so disgusting. Not only does it severely limit what someone can do with their legally bought media, it also must be proprietary in order to hide the key from the user themselves.
Neither party has any interest in the future. One focuses resources on entitlements and the other on war.
In the US this judgement may not have been necessary for the reasons you've outlined but this was not in the US; it was in Canada where this legal judgement was apparently required.
NOt likely. Microsoft has been stockpiling a massive arsenal of patents (as has IBM) in order to use patents as weapons. I really doubt that they would push for change in the right direction because it would likely mean that they'd lose a lot of their weaponry in doing so.
He's in the house of representatives in the 8th district of Florida.
Everything has a bias to it. Slashdot has a libertarian leaning bias, Dailykos has a left bias and Fox News is right leaning. It is the reader's job to look critically at what other people say and decide for themselves regardless of the political slant. As for leaving off the D-fla next to his name, I'd say that you could look at it two ways: 1) a party shouldn't be singled out in media or 2) party affiliation is irrelevant; the conduct of a particular congress critter is what is important. Mostly I'd say that 2) is most correct as much of the problem in politics is that people mindlessly vote along party lines eg. republicans/democrats as a whole are evillll instead of crosscritter X is specifically an arsehat. It's irrational.
Nice try but that car is a Skoda Octavia which is made by Skoda Auto not BMW. At the time of the crash, the car was going at nearly 90 mph which was about 3x the speed limit of the area. The driver was in the wrong lane and was intoxicated. The cause of the crash was entirely the fault of the driver not the car its self.
Unfortunately the summery took this bit drectly from TFA and it is as you'd suspect, technically incorrect. Ice breaks open the cells (lysing them) which causes the cell contents to spill out of the cell into whatever medium they are in. This quite predictably, kills the cells. However, ice that forms extremely rapidly forms a glass-like phase of ice that does less harm to the cells. The interesting things about this new antifreeze molecule are that 1) it's not a protein; it's a fairly simple molecule and 2) it's lipophillic (tends to hang around fatty things like cell membranes) which makes it a very useful discovery in terms of biological antifreeze molecules.
Rapid freezing of tissue should act in a similar fashion. THe problem of course is being able to freeze tissue at the rate required to form the glass-like phase of ice. I suspect that this antifreeze molecule may work in cryogenic preservation if it shows low toxicity/immune response from the host. Something to keep in mind about frozen tissue as well is the fact that even at these extremely low temperatures, chemical reactions that degrade the sample still occur so there is a limit to how long even the most sturdy cells (like cancer cells) can be stored. If the tissue is frozen for too long of a time, revival may prove to be unlikely or even impossible.
They're against people having animals as pets but locking up thousands of animals in cages just to be euthanized is ok? PETA is an organization that depends on crazy PR stunts to raise funding; as long as killing thousands of animals is cheaper for them than the alternative they will continue to do so.
in 2007, PETA workers were tried for 37 counts of animal cruelty. They were also guilty of killing and then "disposing" of dead animals in dumpsters. PETA isn't being kind by killing these animals; they're just following the line of reasoning and behavior that they've always gravitated toward: that raising funding through crazy stunts is more important than the welfare of any animals under their care.
The problem with that is that they've admitted that the freezer was indeed for the purpose of storing dead animals. They euthanize larger animals on occasion which likely necessitates the use of a larger freezer. If I sounded "a bit trollish" it is because PETA's actions have been fairly despicable in my view. I don't think that they have done anything that merits anything less than making sure as many people know about their high kill rate as possible.
You seem to have forgotten about the Star Wars Christmas special. The review its self is just too long... 70 minutes of video to review a 10 year old movie is a bit much.
Or the animals PETA is euthanizing... Over 85% of the animals they take in are killed instead of adopted. So many animals were killed by PETA in fact, that they purchaced a 9,000$ freezer to temporarily store the animals that have been killed.
Maybe maybe not. If they're really concerned about the animal testing, it is conceivable that they may try out alternative medicine before they actually use drugs that were developed using animal testing methods.
If you are thinking that anthrax is a virus then you'd be wrong. It's a bacterium and it isn't "impossible" to develop a vaccine for it. Viruses like Influenza tend to mutate and adapt faster than bacteria generally do and there are vaccines for Influenza so...