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  1. Re:Economic value is more robust than that on Most Doctors Work While Sick, Despite Knowing It's Bad For Patients · · Score: 1

    Fortunately most people have robust immune systems so the system still works

    We are talking about sick people, right? Or perhaps you believe people waste their time waiting to see the doctor just for the fun?

  2. Magnesium-lithium case on Two-Pounder From Lenovo Might Be Too Light For Comfort · · Score: 1

    A magnesium-lithium case: aren't that two metals highly inflammable?

  3. Phishing on Running a Town Over Twitter · · Score: 1

    For civil servants, receiving instructions from city mayor directly through twitter looks like a beg for social engineering.

  4. Re:Economic value on Most Doctors Work While Sick, Despite Knowing It's Bad For Patients · · Score: 2

    The doctor exposes his patients to some germs and have them create the appropriate antibodies. That's immunization!

    Except that the patient is likely to be already sick, and it is not the best time to introduce new germs.

  5. Economic value on Most Doctors Work While Sick, Despite Knowing It's Bad For Patients · · Score: 2

    If a doctor contaminates patients, then the economic value of his work day is probably negative.

    I noted the point of high workloads, but it just suggests that we need more doctors, and that subsiding would make sense.

  6. Re:Drop the hammer on them. on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    I am Belgian. Greece owes me, my wife and children over 3000 euro.

    This is only true because you let your corrupted elected officials turn the once privately owned Greece debt into your public debt. They did it so that major German and French bank banks remain competitive.

    EU leaders have a greater responsability than the People of Greece. And you are responsible for not checking (not even knowing!) what your elected official did.

    Now we could spread Greece debt on 40 years as they asked, and you would not loose a euro cent. But EU leaders wanted to make an example: There Is No Alternative. Hence their only acceptable plan was to loan Greece money so that they could payback, and ask them to destroy their own economy. In the end Greece chose default and everyone loose.

  7. TARGET2 on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    Now perhaps the EU could either reconnect Greece to TARGET2 or acknowledge they have excluded them in a way that was not considered in EU treaties.

    And on that later point, I cannot wait to see Greece suing the European Central Bank in the EU justice court, since the ECB acted in contradiction with the treaties.

  8. Re:So paying more in the long run is better? on Leased LEDs and Energy Service Contracts can Cut Electric Bills (Video) · · Score: 1

    Was this some sort of lease to own scheme? Municipalities tend to pay very little for cash less than a leasing company

    EU, which is always ahead on the matter of economical stupidity, now even mandates member state to that a deficit under 0.5% of GDP, which means loaning to invest is forbidden. It seems considered better to spend money to lease instead of paying a debt.

  9. ATX power supply on UK's National Computer Museum Looks For Help Repairing BBC Micros · · Score: 1

    I just replaced a fried power supply from a 30 years old 8 bit computer. I used a modern ATX power supply and it works fine.

    As noted earlier, the only problem is the missing -5V line, which existed in AT power supplies but was removed in ATX. But many ATX power supplies still offer the -5V line through the "reserved" pin 20 (it faces the grey wire "power good" on pin 8). If there is a white wire there, you have it.

  10. Too bad on European Government Agrees On Net Neutrality Rules, With Exemptions · · Score: 1

    This may have been an opportunity for EU to make something useful for its Peoples. But given how stupidly EU leaders manage the Greece debt crisis, I am not sure EU will exist long enough to implement net neutrality.

  11. Your tax dollars at work on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    This is US taxpayer dollars at work, but it may not be that bad, actually.

    US economy works through permanent Keynesian stimulus on military industry. Public money pored here irrigate the whole economy, even after profit has been made, since the thing is really big: US accounts for 50% of worldwide military expenses.

    The problem is that having huge military expenses means you have a huge military power, and the temptation to use it, which will make everyone in the world hate you. The F35 is a solution to this problem: big expenses, but no military power gained. This is a very clever move.

  12. No appeal? on Apple Loses Ebook Price Fixing Appeal, Must Pay $450 Million · · Score: 1

    They do not appeal, despite the settlement being bigger than their ebook sales.They must really feel guilty!

  13. Re:glusterfs on Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly, Version-Preserving File Sharing For Linux? · · Score: 1

    It is supposed to wok in latest 3.7.x releases.

  14. You are just angry because you did not get the +1 funny mod points you expected to deserve.

  15. Dispersion on Scientists Overcome One of the Biggest Limits In Fiber Optic Networks · · Score: 1

    I thought dispersion was a greater problem than cross-talk.

  16. How many calories in a pound of cotton?

    In a pound I do not know, but in 100g I would say around 500 kcal that a human cannot absorb.

  17. Glusterfs trash feature is able to recover previous file versions.

  18. Usual coportate reaction on Charter Hires Net Neutrality Activist To Make Policy · · Score: 2

    When we attempt to impose rules on corporation, first they scream they will not be able to do business anymore and this will destroy whatever is at stake.

    But in the end, while there is non zero profit to be made, corporation will cope with the new rules.

  19. Re:This is wrong on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access To Airports In France · · Score: 1

    A little problem solver that guy was.

    Sure, dictatorship is a efficient solution to shut up people complains. Latin America tried it a lot with great success.

  20. Re:I don't get the problem with going after Uber on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access To Airports In France · · Score: 1

    Anyway, I really just don't think the Police are at all interested in dealing with the Uber

    Police started busting UberPOP users yesterday in Paris: stopping cars with one passenger at the back and checking if that person and the driver knew each others.

  21. Re:Just doing their job. on WikiLeaks: NSA Eavesdropped On the Last Three French Presidents · · Score: 1

    [socialists] of force to implement their agenda

    You should not confuse socialists from Russia or China with socialists from France. In 1944, the french communist party, which staffed a lot of France insider resistance, mostly controlled the territory after the Germans were defeated. The french communists had enough power to perform coup, but they did not.try it.

    And anyway, Francois Hollande is not a socialist, despite his claims. His governments' action suggest he is more neoliberalism fan boy

  22. Re:No controversy here on WikiLeaks: NSA Eavesdropped On the Last Three French Presidents · · Score: 1

    The NSA is supposed to spy on officials.

    NSA is also supposed to not get caught. And french officials are supposed to be outraged even if France does that same kind of spying. At least they did not did it AND get caught.

  23. Re:First look at unborn baby's adult face on Building the Face of a Criminal From DNA · · Score: 1

    The broad use and real revenue would be an adult picture of your unborn child or new baby

    And even if the technique does not work, you will make money for 20 years before anyone notice this was a scam. How clever!

  24. Natural sugar on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 1

    While removing chemical stuff is good, too much natural sugar still leads to natural diabetes

  25. Re:Homeopathy in France on Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight? · · Score: 1

    Can anyone (ie: not a doctor) in the US give such a prescription? In most EU countries it would be illegal medicine practice.