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  1. Noone will choke to death from touching a peanut butter sandwhich. They won't like it (blisters will likely occur), but that will just teach 'em not to touch places where peanut butter sandwiches have been. But don't blame the kids with allergies for the way your school "handles" this problem. Although this does depend on the age of the kids. At age 3-, you can't expect the kids to take care of this issue themselves. At age 10, I sure as hell expect kids to watch out what they put in their mouth.

    Objection: A good many people absolutely can die within minutes from just touching what amounts to peanut dust. I work with someone like that and I've seen it personally.

  2. Re:Editorials on Jeff Bezos Buys the Washington Post · · Score: 1

    I do wonder though if Murdoch is trying to sell off his news papers.

    He's been meeting with the owners of Charmin I think to talk about that very topic.

  3. Re:people talk about "tier X" datacenters, but dif on Ken Brill, the Man Who Defined the Data Center, Dies · · Score: 4, Informative

    on what each tier means.

    This is a case where there are too many different standards, all using the same terms.

    In any case, administrative processes are going to affect uptime numbers far more than simple infrastructure redundancy

    remember that Google (who has some of the best uptime around) doesn't bother with dual power for it's servers, so it could not be more than a lowly tier 2 datacenter per some standards.

    The actual standards define availability redundancy and concurrency of systems, not of individual devices. When your systems are composed of multiple independent devices, it affects what is looked at accordingly.

  4. Re:Not just NYC on Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC · · Score: 1

    Yes, they are. Now if you would be so kind as to inform the person who created the cell phone implementation of EAS that would be swell! Because I have received all three of those alert types since AT&T pushed this out. My current choices for those wireless EAS alerts are Weather Alerts On or Weather Alerts Off.

    Yes, they are. Now if you would be so kind as to inform the person who created the cell phone implementation of EAS that would be swell! Because I have received all three of those alert types since AT&T pushed this out. My current choices for those wireless EAS alerts are Weather Alerts On or Weather Alerts Off.

    That's your shitty carrier, not the EAS system. Blame AT&T.

    Verizon's app for example has 5 tiers of classification you can turn on and off.

    Moderate Alert (Watches and the like)
    Severe Alert (Most all the warning class goes here)
    Extreme Alert (Tornado Warnings pretty much)
    Amber Alerts (Self explanatory)
    Presidential Notifications

  5. Re:Not just NYC on Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC · · Score: 1

    Yea, I really wish the weather alert controls were a bit more granular. I don't want to be woke up for a severe thunderstorm warning or flash flood warning (If my particular home floods, you better have an ark ready to go). I do want to be woke up for more urgent things like tornado warnings. Being woke up by an actual tornado (had this happen) is not pleasant.

    Tornado warnings are classified as extreme, which is a tier higher than the others you listed.

  6. Re:what about cuting down all the ac to dc to ac on Making Your Datacenter Into Less of a Rabid Zombie Power Hog · · Score: 1

    Why can't there BE UPS with ATX DC out?

    Because there's this thing called resistance...

  7. Re:Well, sorta on Scientists Work To Produce 'Star Trek' Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    They were referred to by name in more than just TOS. Next Gen, Voyager, etc all had use for them at one point.

  8. Re:Money on Pitcher-Turned-Law Student On Cheating In Baseball · · Score: 1

    This kind of "logic" that completely ignores any outside effects other than the object itself breaking even in funding is a lot of why our infrastructure is so fundamentally broken today in so many ways.

    Public transport, utilities, mass transit, schools, etc etc etc

  9. Re:Science in this case is another special interes on The Canadian Government's War On Science · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bingo. Eisenhower warned about the Military-Industrial Complex, but everyone seems to forget his other warning in the same speech about the government-science complex.

    At least 90% of the results I see from government-funded 'science' look to be a total waste of my tax dollars.

    The other 10% form the foundation of our economy. Most of them were unintentional. Which is why anyone who responds with the above just looks like an uninformed fool.

  10. Re:Standardize! on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    The only cool thing about the web is the delivery model.

    CSS, HTML and Javascript should be optional components you *can* use to build web apps, not "the one way" because they're horrifically shitty for anything but simple use cases.

    If the web was more bare bones, it would be a much richer, faster, better, diverse place... as long as the security model works. Something like Google's Nacl would be much better than web sites as we know them.

    But isn't it part of the beauty of the web delivery model that it works across different devices and OS's without having to target them separately/distribute a new runtime environment (repeating Java/Flash..)? Good luck getting Nacl onto iOS devices fx.

    Native apps that just use the internet for communication really isn't new at all, have been quite common all along (I'm fx running streaming Spotify in the background here), but isn't the web.

    There is a great quote from a former coworker of mine.

    Anal works on both genders too, that doesn't make it great, or even less shitty, or that working on all genders in the same way is something you should strive for just because you can.

  11. Re:Fuck Islam on Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass. · · Score: 2

    In my experience, the people who are willing to apply that standard to christianity aren't willing to apply that standard to any other religions.

    I totally would, if Muslims would come out and criticize Islamic terrorism, but most Muslims seem to clam up instead. And at times I have overheard them secretly cheering (I used to work with Muslims that made statements like this when they thought nobody was listening). Christians are quick to criticize "Christian" lunatics like WBC.

    You're cherry picking the home team, and generalizing the away team. I know a lot of "Christians" that think abortion clinic bombings are justified because the victims are legal murderers.

    WBC isn't the only lunatic group as viewed from the outside.

  12. Re:If shortage == true then pay = pay + 1 on H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad · · Score: 1

    Of course the job ads do not mention the pay so pay can't be the problem.

    This is the stupidest thing I have ever read. If you have high pay, advertise it and you'll get lots more interest. Oh you don't want to be stuck paying what you advertise, or your advertisement turns people off because it's too low? There's your problem right there. I generally ignore any job that won't tell you up front what their salary band is. I'm a CCIE. Good luck finding that talent being a cheap ass. Good, fast, cheap, pick 2.

  13. Re:Sorry, little retro rockets won't work for that on Neil deGrasse Tyson On How To Stop a Meteor Hitting the Earth · · Score: 3, Informative

    Taking a 30,000 kg ship at 20 km from the asteroid and the gravitational constant to be 6.7x!0^-11 m^3 kg^-1 s^-2, you would have a gravitational acceleration of about 5x10^-14 m/s^2. To move it 6,400,000 m (one earth radius) would require 1.6x10^10 seconds (about fifty years).

    Also, for two asteroids orbiting each other, if these are "small" asteroids, what gravity would obtain between them? Two asteroids of radius 20 kilometers each with 50 kilometers between their centers (and having earth's density for a mass of 5x10^13 kg each) would have a mutual gravitational acceleration of 1.3x10^-5 m/s^2. Would it be that hard to separate them?

    But you aren't talking about moving it X distance, you're talking about deflecting it X angle...

    Even 1 degree is a decent change at a few AU

  14. Re: False Takedown Notice? on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Slaughter in the name of Jesus was 500 years ago. Slaughter in the name of Muhammed was 5 days ago. Smaller scale, granted, but it's too soon to joke about.

    I think you mean 5 years ago at most, unless you're willfully ignoring all the abortion clinic murders among other atrocities committed in the name of a christian deity...

  15. Re:Competition on Cisco To Buy Meraki For $1.2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Cisco may be overpriced by a good bit in a lot of areas, but they also have a lot of competition that is the equivalent to a Resident Evil zombie as far as intelligence goes.

    Example: Have you ever used dell switches? Go ahead, ask them the buffer sizes for the ports and or the backplane connection / ASIC mappings, good luck even *finding* someone who can tell you, because they sure aren't documented anywhere accessible.

  16. Libretarian complaining about how corporation treats little guy when they're the little guy...

  17. Re:MySQL sweet spot on Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? · · Score: 1

    This is such bad design I don't even know where to begin. You aren't looking for a database with that design, you're looking for a text file.

  18. Re:Not only that... on Some USAF Pilots Refuse To Fly F-22 Raptor · · Score: 1

    Famine is far more effective than any army or disease could ever hope to be.

  19. Re:Curses! on Insects Develop Pesticide Resistance Through Symbiosis With Gut Flora · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it's the part about disagreeing with them that does it more than anything else.

  20. Re:Not just florida... on Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers · · Score: 1

    It does if they want to receive government subsidiarity, on both of your examples. I don't know if you're just trolling at this point, or really this ignorant.

  21. Re:Not just florida... on Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers · · Score: 1

    Vouchers are a backhanded way to have taxes fund schools that don't have to follow separation of church and state among others, and that is the main issue with them. Go back to your rock.

  22. Re:GW on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    You lost all credibility when you said "banning the light bulb".

    No one has done any such thing. There have been efficiency limits set for light bulbs, just as cars, and many other things you use, have had set in the past. Claiming that light bulbs have been banned, even incandescent ones, is simply showing ignorance, and or an agenda of misleading others.

  23. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Taliban feel the same way about women covering their faces in public, or insulting their prophet, as you do about a woman and a doctor choosing wether carrying her child to term is best for her and or the child. You should really think about how you feel about their moral belief on those issues, and would you like to be subject to their laws, before you condemn others for not agreeing with yours on another.

    Just because you believe something is a mortal sin, does not make it right for you to enforce your beliefs on others. Don't you believe they will be judged anyway by your diety? Why do you believe that it is your duty to impose the will of your diety, do you not believe him capable of it without your might, let alone your two cents?

    Religious freedom is also not just about your ability to practice your religion in peace, but for everyone else to practice theirs as well.

  24. Re:we actually banned CFCs on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 1

    And people are yelling about how freon costs so much and the government should not be picking winners and losers.

  25. Re:Cost on PlayStation 4 'Orbis' Rumors: AMD Hardware, Hostile To Used Games · · Score: 1

    Yes and that's all anyone cares about of them. Sony won't need a distribution channel for games when they're avaliable through psn and amazon.com.

    Last I checked, walmart still sold the consoles, so no one really needs Gamestop from supply side.