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  1. Re:So is this important, or nothing at all? on New Study Finds More Post-Surgery Deaths Globally Than From HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria Combined (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, would they have been better advised to skip the surgery. Then at least they can die without having gone through that one last traumatic and expensive experience.

  2. Re:minority on Crime Prediction Software 'Adopted By 14 UK Police Forces' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    or maybe there are more victims in high crime areas, and thus they merit greater protection and service from their police.

  3. minority on Crime Prediction Software 'Adopted By 14 UK Police Forces' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    A pool of water with three people in it has been created. Police are looking into it

  4. Re:Being in prison isn't consensual? on Prisons Across the US Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People's Voice Prints (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    and the people outside of prison ?

  5. Re:People, Just Floss on We May Finally Know What Causes Alzheimer's -- and How To Stop It (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    mental floss ?

  6. Before we call in Thanos on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect it is all down to scientists over-collecting

    Before, both the sticky ground plates and canopy plates would be covered with insects. You'd be there for hours picking them off the plates at night

    If we engage more scientists to research the issue it will only get worse

  7. Re:Global warming? on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    almost everyone lives west fo the 100th meridian, if you keep going west you come back to it

  8. Among other definitions ! I found online that a state line is: "a border between one state and another in a country with states"

    This would seem to mean that it does not apply to crossing the border between, say, Minnesota and Canada and perhaps again crossing the border between Canada and Alaska.

    Maybe Alaska will become the online vegas

  9. It sounds like it is very timing critical, to catch the cancer cells at the exact right moment.

    Also, although it says that EMT is usually associated with embryonic cells, does it mean that there are no normal cells that would be affected ? I'd hate to have my brain suddenly turn to fat like the rest of my body.

  10. Re: Vocational debt maybe on No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job) (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Lozenge

  11. I used to do 9x9 over a 2-week period. It was pretty popular and I enjoyed doing it. I think if the work week were only 4 days out of every 7 I'd be looking for a side gig.

  12. not sure I'd want to ditch in the ocean (at all really, but even more) with a 960KWh battery next to me.

  13. Some rule of headlines says no anyway. But the reason is that the Dems and Reps will want to nurture it as a wedge issue rather than fix it.

  14. It's like adhesive spray only instead of the can being full of adhesive it's full of bears.

    Safe enough if used under the right conditions for re-populating wilderness areas, but wreaks havoc when used in a workplace environment.

  15. Re:I for one welcome... on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1

    I believe that many countries support multiple emergency codes, so that foreign visitors still get through to the emergency services even if they dial a code that is not normal for the country they are in at the time.

  16. They probably designed the entire format just so that they could include this zinger...

    [Definition:] An EXI header MAY start with an EXI Cookie, which is a four byte field that serves to indicate that the stream of which it is a part is an EXI stream. The four byte field consists of four characters " $ " , " E ", " X " and " I " in that order, each represented as an ASCII octet, as follows. ' $ ' ' E ' ' X ' ' I '

  17. But now that they recognize emergency vehicles and pull over it should be possible to clear the teslas out of the way with a few flashing lights.

  18. Re:Yet another MASSIVE government fail. on Marriott's Breach Response Is So Bad, Security Experts Are Filling In the Gaps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    you should put that on a bumper sticker - if there's any space for it on your car.

  19. Any predictable mailing like this is an attack vector. People are likely to be expecting an email from Marriott, possibly even one that links to a "credit protection service" ready to accept your personal details for registration. I'm surprised an attacker did not beat them to the punch. Any large organization should have plans for this set out in advance.

  20. Re:Nothing Bizare about IPv6 on Mapping the Spectral Landscape of IPv6 Networks (duo.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the tip of the iceberg though. There's link local addressing, how subnetting is handled etc. and that's even without going into the other aspects of the protocol like extension headers and replacement of ARP, tunneling IPv6 over IPv4 and vice versa etc. It's a lot to take in.

  21. Re: article discusses Australian ruling on Companies 'Can Sack Workers For Refusing To Use Fingerprint Scanners' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    or by running the same hash algorithm to identify anything the employee touched.

  22. MOST countries maybe - but do you know that they need to collect this in the USA ? What's driving that requirement, Homeland security ?

  23. I often get asked for ID when I check in, not when I make a booking. I suspect they harvest the information then.

  24. It's a problem of degrees. Name: yes, Phone number: good idea, Address: maybe, Credit card number: no - the card company can process that, DOB - wtf ? Drivers license number, Passport number - really ! They help themselves to all this information because there is no liability attached to it whatsoever and it helps them collect debts and it can be sold.

    This is a problem entirely of their own making and they should be held accountable. A monster fine may well drive one of them out of business, but it sure as hell will make the other hotels more careful, and a bunch of hotel properties come on the market for someone else to run - it's not like a draconian fine would put an end to the hotel business, but it might put an end to the "let's just ask for his SSN while we're at it" business.

  25. so is this web-cramming, mobi-cramming, cell-cramming, what ?