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  1. Re: hot hOT HOT! on UK's Newest Tokamak Fusion Reactor Has Created Its First Plasma (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    During, while you're bouncing it around your mouth fast enough to avoid third degree burns.

  2. Re:Who paid for this study? on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    The Authors of the book "Life Extensions" used to eat a teaspoon of BHT every day, but I don't particularly recommend it.

  3. Re:Who paid for this study? on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    jerky is primarily dehydrated, oxidation, especially in fats is called rancid and tastes foul. Many of the spices added to jerky have anti-oxidant properties.

  4. Re:We scientists must improve our reliability. on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    How do you know?

    We fucked up the ozone layer.

    The first time we saw the ozone hole was the first time we looked, the first time we had the technology to see it. The truth is, we are just assuming that there ever was a time when the Ozone Hole didn't exist. It's just as likely the Ozone Hole exists because it always existed.

    We've filled the ocean with plastic and oil.

    Who's We, you got a mouse in your pocket?

  5. Re:Who paid for this study? on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    Chemicals that usually fall into the artificial color and preservative category which are usually again, man made and contribute no nutritional value.

    So your sure that what preserves your food doesn't preserve you as well? I think Polar, and Grisly bears, Man-eating sharks, lions and tigers will be disappointed!

  6. Re:MS08-067 Still Out There? on NSA's DoublePulsar Kernel Exploit a 'Bloodbath' (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You would be amazed at how many pieces of mission critical software will only run on Win2008 or WinXT. Small shops can't always afford to drop $50K on new hardware, that has the new software that runs on Win10 or Win2012; not to mention another $50K for new clients and server.

  7. Re:Hmmm... on Physicists Observe 'Negative Mass' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cool, if you had one tank of fuel with positive mass, and one with negative mass, you could decelerate by just switching fuel!

  8. Re:Unfortunately ... on Physicists Observe 'Negative Mass' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If I had points, you'd get +1Funny

  9. Re:I have always wondered... on South Indian Frog Oozes Molecule That Inexplicably Decimates Flu Viruses (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy they just patent the use of the polypeptide to treat influenza in humans, pigs, birds, dogs and cats. After that you patent the GMO methods to produce the polypeptides.

  10. Romans only did it very rarely. the Legionnaires were one of the first professional Armies in the world and Rome invested considerable time, effort, and money in their training and maintenance.

  11. Re:The fate of the fibers on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Mostly the ultrasound causes nodes of pressure and vacuum to form in the air; the vacuum reduces the boiling point of water in the fabric and boil off the water, which is then vented outside. Ultrasonic cleaners work by causing steam filled cavitions pockets in the working fluid, they literally steam clean things at room temperature.

  12. Re:The next steps on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Ultrasonic Clothes Washing machine were in Popular Science back in the middle '60s, I think it was the issue that had the flying car on the cover.

  13. Re:What these scientists really need: on Physicists Detect Whiff of New Particle At the Large Hadron Collider (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You want fries with that?

  14. but if "THAT computer" is a virtual machine,
    running inside a virtual machine,
    running inside a virtual machine,
    running inside a virtual machine ...

  15. So you're the one that controls the roomba and is responsible

    Do not, under any circumstances, let your Roomba run over dog poop. If the unthinkable does happen, and your Roomba runs over dog poop, stop it immediately and do not let it continue the cleaning cycle. Because if that happens, it will spread the dog poop over every conceivable surface within its reach, resulting in a home that closely resembles a Jackson Pollock poop painting.

    It will be on your floorboards. It will be on your furniture legs. It will be on your carpets. It will be on your rugs. It will be on your kids' toy boxes. If it's near the floor, it will have poop on it. Those awesome wheels, which have a checkered surface for better traction, left 25-foot poop trails all over the house. Our lovable Roomba, who gets a careful cleaning every night, looked like it had been mudding. Yes, mudding - like what you do with a Jeep on a pipeline road. But in poop..

     

    Then, when your four-year-old gets up at 3am to crawl into your bed, you'll wonder why he smells like dog poop. And you'll walk into the living room. And you'll wonder why the floor feels slightly gritty. And you'll see a brown-encrusted, vaguely Roomba-shaped thing sitting in the middle of the floor with a glowing green light, like everything's okay. Like it's proud of itself. You were still half-asleep until this point, but now you wake up pretty damn quickly..

    And then the horror. Oh the horror..

    Jesse Newton

  16. Re:When can we formally opt-out from AI use? on AI Can Predict Heart Attacks More Accurately Than Doctors (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    ... have an order that legally prohibits the use of AI/AI-derived treatments in nearly all cases. For the rest, a statement accurately documenting how no medical personnel were reassigned or terminated due to AI implementation - whether by direct or indirect means.

    You can't, that horse is out of the barn.
    Your insurance will keep asking for more supporting data until the AI says "approved", "Alternate benefit will be reimbursed" or "treatment requested not indicated." Then your Doctor says "your insurance will not cover the gold standard treatment, but you can pay out of pocket; or we can use the standard treatment that is covered, what do you want to do?'

  17. At some point you need to rely on trust so that you can leave the flexibility in the process to bend the rules in an emergency.

    But Dude, It's always an emergency! (Now watch this get +5 insightful, instead of +1 funny)

  18. Re: permissions on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? · · Score: 1

    Well, mostly like cockroaches then.

  19. I don't know but my grant proposal "How do people who are blind from birth dream and does it still involve the visual areas of the brain and how does it differ from Climate Deniers who are blind from birth dream and does it still involve the visual areas of the brain." just got accepted.

  20. COBOL sucks donkey dicks for writing user interfaces, it excels at business logic; whereas C sucks donkey dick for writing business logic, but excels at low-level crap like UIs. I don't understand the problem, some COBOL is spaghetti code but not as much as you would think.

  21. Take a look, Indonesia and Australia are only 186 nautical miles apart.

  22. Oh I didn't realise that the Great Barrier Reef was in Indonesia. Thanks for correcting that.

    Different reefs, very close to each other and water tends to be at common levels. The same winds and currents from the El Niño that push water from the west pacific toward the east pacific effects both Australia and Indonesia.

    The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; Australia

  23. Re:Meh, will be gone in next ice-age anyway. on 'Unprecedented' Bleaching Damages Two-Thirds Of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Those so called warm periods were localised. They didn't encompass the entire planet.

    Yes and every scientist who's income depend on the current warm period being unique and unprecedented, global in scale and perpetual, while warming have to be local and self-limited event agree!

  24. Re:I'll bet on 'Unprecedented' Bleaching Damages Two-Thirds Of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Oh Bullshit, these rent-seekers did an aerial survey, the coral bleaching is due to a rapid drop in sea level.

    Abstract. The 2015–2016 El-Niño and related ocean warming has generated significant coral bleaching and mortality worldwide. In Indonesia, the first signs of bleaching were reported in April 2016. However, this El Niño has impacted Indonesian coral reefs since 2015 through a different process than temperature-induced bleaching. In September 2015, altimetry data show that sea level was at its lowest in the past 12 years, affecting corals living in the bathymetric range exposed to unusual emersion. In March 2016, Bunaken Island (North Sulawesi) displayed up to 85% mortality on reef flats dominated by Porites, Heliopora and Goniastrea corals with differential mortality rates by coral genus. Almost all reef flats showed evidence of mortality, representing 30% of Bunaken reefs. For reef flat communities which were living at a depth close to the pre-El Niño mean low sea level, the fall induced substantial mortality likely by higher daily aerial exposure, at least during low tide periods. Altimetry data were used to map sea level fall throughout Indonesia, suggesting that similar mortality could be widespread for shallow reef flat communities, which accounts for a vast percent of the total extent of coral reefs in Indonesia. The altimetry historical records also suggest that such an event was not unique in the past two decades, therefore rapid sea level fall could be more important in the dynamics and resilience of Indonesian reef flat communities than previously thought. The clear link between mortality and sea level fall also calls for a refinement of the hierarchy of El Niño impacts and their consequences on coral reefs. Coral mortality induced by the 2015–2016 El-Niño in Indonesia: the effect of rapid sea level fall

    You have to get into the water where the corals are bleached and take observations to tell what is happening, for the most part, bleaching occured in upper 15 cm of the reefs before temperatures had reached NOAA’ Coral Reef Watch’s bleaching thresholds.

  25. If the Clown isn't motivated to send the thingy back for a full refund, he's unlikely to be motivated to bring suit either. I do have a work-arround for the clown's problem, all he has to do is sit in the driveway for 15 seconds and make sure the garage door is actually closed. The ass-wipe probably texts and drives, speeds, fails to stop for school buses and passes in no-passing zones too.