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  1. Re:Or maybe the sense of smell... on Lost Sense of Smell Is a Strong Predictor of Death Within 5 Years · · Score: 2

    It has nothing to do with your body being in working order or not. They're a bacterial colony that grows on your skin. Like grass growing on a field. The earth does not extrude the grass, and your body doesn't produce the bacteria.

    Yes, it does. For the same reason some people are lactose intolerant and some aren't - the body supports the colony. If the body isn't the right environment, the colony will not grow correctly.

    You can scrub yourself with sand

    My skin's not quite that thick. I don't have standard-issue skin.

    Of course, you'd know all this if you read the fucking article.

    I read it (skimmed it - wordy garbage). I do not see how that makes every human body genetically uniform.

  2. Re:Wait, what? on Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes In FBI's Story · · Score: 1

    Bonus points for the fact that nobody noticed how your pop culture reference was actually relevant.

  3. Re:Makes Sense on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Google is now mostly an Irish company with its headquarters in the US. Thanks to their tax haven, they have a substantial EU presence.

  4. Re:Or maybe the sense of smell... on Lost Sense of Smell Is a Strong Predictor of Death Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Yes, and for people whose bodies work 100% to specification, that's true. Don't be surprised if you find out that not everyone's born with a body that's in perfect working order.

    Second, many people don't want dirt and grime on them. Soap makes it easier to get rid of. Therefore, most take the acceptable loss of a regular cleaning regimen in return for having clean-looking skin without much scrubbing.

  5. Re:Or maybe the sense of smell... on Lost Sense of Smell Is a Strong Predictor of Death Within 5 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you wait until you stink to wash, you already have issues.

  6. Re:I should be dead on Lost Sense of Smell Is a Strong Predictor of Death Within 5 Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a good thing someone leaned over your corpse and hit the submit button. We are thankful they got your message out.

  7. A Telomere Canary on Lost Sense of Smell Is a Strong Predictor of Death Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a Telomere Canary. That is, an outward sign that cells are no longer able to replicate accurately.

  8. Re:For fucks sake on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    In other words, yesterday's bloat is today's lightweight OS.

  9. Re:Windows should go 64-bit exclusively on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't make x64 moot. Each program can have a 4GB address space of its own. That alone is worth the price of admission.

  10. Re:Apple has no problem leaving old hardware behin on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    That blame really lies with Google for dropping support. Keep the old OS. It's stable enough anyway. You could probably get a binary of Chromium that still supports your version (but without higher OS X - specific graphics speedups).

  11. Re:Shake the bad bits out of the cable on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    You have to get creative to try to get a consumer to check both ends of a USB cable to make sure it's actually plugged in.

  12. Re:Excuse Me? on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    "device drive" must be "device driver", but still doesn't explain how you'd have any more than one driver per device actually loaded.

  13. Re:I don't think we are giving anything up. on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 2

    Why should they close their video editing and raster/vector art software to run the word processor? Photoshop and a video editor will gladly eat up 16GB of RAM for cache.

  14. Re:This is aimed at carriers like Verizon Wireless on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    True, but being honest isn't as fun.

  15. Re:Skipping a version number on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    We've already had 95 and 98. Those both start with a 9...

  16. Re:Screens too small for Windows on HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet · · Score: 1

    Or just use resistive touch screens instead of capacitive. They can have screen covers just as easily as a keyboard, or even made to be fully waterproof for easier cleaning.

    But that belongs with a full-size touch screen rather than a tablet if there's a lot of data to present. Keyboards are no more easy to disinfect.

  17. Re:sub-100$ ?!? on HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet · · Score: 1

    Sub $100.01 doesn't have quite the same ring to it. The point is, it's at or near the threshold and not well above.

  18. Re:Should be free on HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet · · Score: 2

    They might want to run a reader app (similar to Adobe Reader) that would format 100% correctly.

    I don't even want to buy Office for a desktop if they're going to keep going with subscription service.

  19. Re:Screens too small for Windows on HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet · · Score: 1

    That's because Capacitive touch screens require a capacitive surface to work. You could use a stylus with a special tip for these rare circumstances.

  20. Re:This is aimed at carriers like Verizon Wireless on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have you ever tried to use Bing?

  21. Re:Google has 20 apps? on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    And Google probably counts the entire list as part of the OS.

  22. Re:LOL ... on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 1

    I'm understanding of humor just doesn't find it funny.

  23. Re:LOL ... on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 1

    Your understanding of fish reproduction leaves much to be desired.

  24. Re:About Time on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 1

    dust cloud surrounded by vacuum? I mean, gravity would eventually coalesce that into a planet. But void in this sense would likely mean "empty." Devoid of life.

  25. Re:Score one for the other team on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 1

    It's certainly possible for a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias to both come into existence and immediately begin a freefall to earth, the former of which has just enough time for an existential crisis.