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  1. Re:Gut flora on Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities' Obesity Rates · · Score: 1

    It is not always doable, at least long term.

    Try this: Hold your breath. When you are just about to pass out, take a quick shallow breath. Just enough to not feel like you're passing out. Don't stop, not even for a day, ever. Let us know how that's working out for you next week.

  2. Re:Gut flora on Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities' Obesity Rates · · Score: 0

    And here we have it! The first desperate attempt to keep the blame on the obese person! I knew it wouldn't take long.

    Haters gotta hate but women and black people are off-limits now, so what're they going to do?

  3. Re: About right on In Florida, Secrecy Around Stingray Leads To Plea Bargain For a Robber · · Score: 1

    It is exactly the victim's psychology that determines the severity of the assault unless/until there is also battery.

    You might giggle telling the story of the Barbie BB gun bandit, but you might suffer PTSD if the threat seemed credible. Because the latter may reasonably be expected to more severely impact the victim's life than the former, it is a more serious crime.

    It that REALLY so hard to understand?

  4. Re:No time zones, no DST, centons on Daylight Saving Time Change On Sunday For N. America · · Score: 1

    But it's not actually easier. I say that because Zulu time is available right now for use in scheduling things across timezones.

  5. Re:But, our climate models are perfectly accurate on El Nino Has Finally Arrived, Far Weaker Than Predicted · · Score: 1

    OK, for those of us who slept through grade school, 2 < 15.

  6. Do not stare into laser with remaining eye on Make Those Brown Eyes Blue · · Score: 1

    'nuff said

  7. Re:rip off on Make Those Brown Eyes Blue · · Score: 1

    That's a bit more than return on investment there.

  8. Re:ahhhh....That old scam on El Nino Has Finally Arrived, Far Weaker Than Predicted · · Score: 1, Troll

    Too bad there's no "not even wrong" moderation...

  9. Re:But, our climate models are perfectly accurate on El Nino Has Finally Arrived, Far Weaker Than Predicted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nice try, but 15 years of weather statistics is climate. One winter is not. The science has been fairly consistent, only the specifics seem up for grabs.

    You might also want to note that El Nino isn't itself part of climate change.

    And I wouldn't crow too much about the name change. The term 'global warning' has mostly fallen out of favor due to idiots thinking a slightly chilly morning in the middle of winter meant it couldn't be real.

  10. Re:But, our climate models are perfectly accurate on El Nino Has Finally Arrived, Far Weaker Than Predicted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Weather != climate.

    If you flip a coin and get heads twice in a row, do you claim statistics is bunk?

  11. Re:Let's do the Chicken Little Climate Change danc on El Nino Has Finally Arrived, Far Weaker Than Predicted · · Score: 0, Troll

    It looks like you're the only one saying that.

  12. Re:Sounds cool on New Paint Based On Titanium Nanoparticles Creates Self-Cleaning Surfaces · · Score: 1

    While each particle has less mass, the total mass of substance is what matters to effects on a person. In particular, the mass that makes it to the brain.

    If anything, I would expect a low mass to facilitate being carried in the blood. Consider, water can easily carry dust but very rarely boulders.

    One other interesting application of nano-scale features is to make sterile surfaces. The nano features essentially shred cell membranes. This has implications for the effect on human health of free floating particles.

  13. Re:Lest Anyone Forget... on House Republicans Roll Out Legislation To Overturn New Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    No. The 'new' rules are the rules that were in effect in 2005 before they got relaxed. We had been free to buy our own phones and plug them in for decades.

    You should give whoever gave you those talking points a good thrashing for misleading you.

  14. Re:Lift the gag order first... on House Republicans Roll Out Legislation To Overturn New Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Really, does net neutrality need that many pages?

    Sadly, yes. They really do need that many pages. They're dealing with a pack of 'corporate people' who will happiny pay lawyers millions to contort and frankly torture every single sentence in the regulations to claim they mean just about anything but the plain meaning any 8 year old could easily understand. They will even try that old pre-school favorite of "no means yes" if they can get away with it.

    For such people it really does take a 300 page wall of text to explain what any child could understand from a single page.

    Unless or until the FCC is granted the power of "go to your room until you learn to act your age", this will be necessary.

  15. Re:Sounds cool on New Paint Based On Titanium Nanoparticles Creates Self-Cleaning Surfaces · · Score: 1

    If the particles can become airborne at all (for example, applying or scraping a coating), they will almost certainly cross either through the lungs to the blood and then to the brain, or directly through the olfactory bulb.

    IIRC there has been some research to show that nano droplets do make it to the brain while larger droplets do not.

    Many safety filter masks block micron scale but not nano scale particles. Particles that small have a way of diffusing everywhere.

    This suggests that even a long safety record for a substance is nearly meaningless once it is formed into nano-particles.

    That is not to say there can never be a safe use, particularly if the particles can be affixed to a surface firmly enough to count as nano-structure, but it suggests that our existing rules of thumb for safety are worthless here.

  16. Re:Things aren't supposed to live forever. on The Abandoned Google Project Memorial Page · · Score: 2

    Sure, eventually. But keep doing it too soon and when transitioning to something else is too painful and people will start avoiding your new shiny so it doesn't get yanked out from under them later.

  17. Re:Sounds cool on New Paint Based On Titanium Nanoparticles Creates Self-Cleaning Surfaces · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nano particles can cross the blood brain barrier. What makes you think that's A-OK? Surely that warrants caution at the least?

    Lilly pads and similar have a significant nano-structure, not a coating of nano particles.

  18. Re:I'm dying of curiousity on Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't. I have formed an opinion of what the diagram is trying to communicate. Understanding a communication is not the same as believing it.

    But just in case, you must send me all your money!

  19. Re:I'm dying of curiousity on Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare · · Score: 1

    Headers and kernel linking are separate issues. The headers are definitely part of the documented public API.

    Meanwhile, when the module system was built for the kernel, all of the modules were GPL and the question wasn't even considered. It's a bit of a special case, when it's Free software, what constitutes the public API? Linux clarifies that marking the function as _GPL makes it the public API in kernel space.

    In non-Free software, non-public API is that which is not in the headers or that which no proper way to access it is provided. Effectively, "intent of author" has always been the standard, Linus just documents it a lot more clearly than others.

    Oracle should lose. I simply can't see bare documentation of an API as a creative work and simply offering the same API is more akin to writing a distinct work in the same genre than it is to copyright violation. Otherwise, there could only ever be one detective novel (if you've seen one McGuffin, you've seen them all) and one space opera, etc. That is, nearly every environment has a read function that takes some sort of handle (generally returned by an open function), a size, and a destination. There's not many ways to express that in a header.

  20. Re:Fascinating ship on Paul Allen Helps Find Sunken Japanese WWII Battleship Musashi Off Philippines · · Score: 1

    The thing is, there are so many consequences for being the first to go nuclear it actually detracts from the threat.

    OTOH, big deck guns can pound away for days for less than the cost of a single missile.

    The continuous nature of it wears on the enemy in the way a single missile doesn't.

  21. Re:I'm dying of curiousity on Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare · · Score: 1

    Yes, I made factual claims ABOUT THE DIAGRAM.

  22. Re:I'm dying of curiousity on Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare · · Score: 1

    I have no opinion on the facts of the situation. I only know what the diagram clearly claims.

  23. Re:I'm dying of curiousity on Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare · · Score: 1

    And according to the diagram, parts of the linux kernel are incorporated INTO the hypervisor. That, I imagine, is what has lead to a legal dispute.

  24. Re:I'm dying of curiousity on Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare · · Score: 1

    The diagram remains clear. It shows what I said it does. Your question is more about if the diagram shows reality or not.

    I note though that the Linux kernel is at the bare metal level itself.

  25. Re:I'm dying of curiousity on Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare · · Score: 1

    Actually, he said the same thing I said, in different words.

    For example, he points out that using the defined API, such as system calls is not a derived work, but digging into the internals is.