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  1. Re:I got a butt chewing for giving my daughter hon on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Honey can contain clostridium botulinum spores which are fatally toxic to babies (the spores are harmless to adults). Not giving babies honey is less a case of "it might cause some side effects later in life" and more a case of "it might kill them tomorrow".

  2. Re:Not so hard to get around on Apple Patent Could Have "Broad Ramifications" For VR Headsets · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I think you're right. From what I understand, a product would need to violate every clause of Claim 1 in order to violate this patent. If a single clause isn't violated, then I don't think there's a violation. (e.g. A cup without a handle doesn't violate the patent for cups with handles).

    But... Doesn't Google Cardboard already do this? AFAIK, there's no detection mechanism that determines if it's being used in the frame.

  3. Re:POS on Book Review: Hacking Point of Sale · · Score: 1

    POS = Any point of sale (eg. cash register) system.
    Windows POSReady = A version of Windows meant for a POS system (usually XP or 7).
    PCI = Security guidelines that are supposed to protect debit/credit card information.

  4. Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    > If you are honest and actually tell the patient "it's just a sugar pill" then it's not going to have any affect
    This paper seems to disagree with you: http://www.plosone.org/article...

  5. 5 months late on Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams · · Score: 2

    They were caught in October.
    http://www.secularism.org.uk/n...

  6. To quote one of my professors... on Why P-values Cannot Tell You If a Hypothesis Is Correct · · Score: 1

    "A p-value of 0.05 means there's a 5% chance that your paper is wrong. In other words, 1 in 20 papers is bullshit."

  7. Case has been dropped on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/16/us-usa-googleglass-trial-dismissal-idUSBREA0F1XR20140116

    A San Diego court commissioner dismissed a traffic ticket on Thursday against a California woman who drove with Google Glass, a tiny computer mounted on an eyeglass frame. Court Commissioner John Blair said he was dismissing the citation against Cecilia Abadie on the grounds there was no proof her Google Glass was operating when she was pulled over in October by a California Highway Patrol officer

  8. Re:"Bar Mitzvah"? on Is a Postdoc Worth it? · · Score: 1

    That usage is pretty common in more observant communities.
    The phrase basically translates to "child of the commandment" (or "subject of the law" according to some rabbis), so it's grammatically correct to refer to the celebrant as "a bar mitzvah".

  9. Re:Is it working? on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    It sounds like that diet wasn't twerking for you...

  10. Re:And let's not forget... on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Governments might be chosen by the people, but it's the corporations who actually influence policy.

  11. Re:For the record on Why Amazon Fights State Sales Tax, But Supports It Nationally · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You think that's bad?
    I worked at a cafe in Ontario, and we had so many tax rules that the company writing our POS software couldn't even get it to work properly.

    It looked something like this:
    Non-food items are charged 13% tax
    Some non-food items are charged 5% tax
    Most food items are charged 13% tax
    Some food items are charged 5% tax
    Other food items are tax free
    If you spent less than $4 on certain food items, it was tax free
    If you were buying "bakery" items (bagels, etc), then they were tax free if you were buying at least 6, but the total had to be under $4, and you couldn't buy a drink with it.

    And this was just for a coffee shop.
    I can see why Amazon would be willing to charge X% nationally, as long as they don't need to deal with crap like that.

  12. Re:perplexed on IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down And Pay Up to $110 Million · · Score: 1

    That might be because it's not a farewell message. It's a 10 year anniversary post from Jan 22, 2013.

  13. Re:Obligatory: on Mini-Brains Grown In the Lab · · Score: 2

    But when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far!

  14. Re:... Keyboard shortcuts are news? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    Ctrl-Shift-N does something infinitely more useful in Chrome.

  15. Re: Free speech on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 2

    Try?
    They successfully removed the apostrophe from Tim Horton's.

  16. Re:Notify Xerox First on Xerox Confirms To David Kriesel Number Mangling Occuring On Factory Settings · · Score: 3, Funny

    Corporations are people too!

  17. Re:Because they will kill AND torture Snowden on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 1

    -(A v B) = -A ^ -B
    If they don't kill or torture him, they don't kill him and they don't torture him.

  18. Re:what is MP? on British Porn-Censoring MP Has Website Defaced With Porn · · Score: 1
  19. Re:First to say it on Research Suggests Mars Once Had a Thick Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    There was a short story I read like that, except I can't find it online.
    Earth was prosperous, until war and climate change made it uninhabitable. There was a legend of another prosperous/utopian planet they could go to when their own became uninhabitable, so humanity gathers the last of their resources, and all of humanity (whatever's left of it at this point) migrates to Mars.
    At the end, they find a plaque on Mars saying that Earth was the planet where humanity would go when their own planet (Mars) was uninhabitable.

  20. Re:4#10=23? on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1

    They used # as an arbitrary symbol, to represent some operation where 4#10=23.
    Sort of the way that we use + as an arbitrary symbol to represent the operation where 4+10=14.

  21. Re:Climax on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're remembering it wrong.
    They told him they needed a hero, but they never told him that he was going to lead the fleet. He thought it was going to be a defensive war.
    Also, they attacked Earth first (First Invasion; that's when they used Eros as the staging point, that's when humanity "discovered" the ansible and artificial gravity). Then they attacked again (Second Invasion; Mazer defended earth). After that, they realized that humanity was intelligent and they decided to stop trying to invade Earth.
    The Third Invasion was Ender attacking them.

  22. Patent, Wait, Sue, Profit on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sell an Algorithm To Venture Capitalists? · · Score: 1

    See subject.
    That's how everyone else seems to be doing it now.

  23. Re:Because the Jedi code forbids it! on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 4, Funny

    You make it sound like you've never seen episode 2.
    I envy you.

  24. Short Answer: No on StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Released · · Score: 1

    Long Answer: There's an offline mode that you can use to play campaign & custom maps. The caveat is that you need to log in using your battle.net account once every 30 days for it to work.
    My internet's been down for the last hour or so and I've been playing the campaign without a problem.

  25. Simple solution on Canadian Newspaper Charging $150 License Fee To Publish Excerpts · · Score: 4, Informative

    I clicked 'Quit asking me', and then it let me copy it anyways.
    Sometimes there are simpler solutions than disabling javascript or copying it from the HTML.