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  1. If you do not use IE then renaming the directory containing Internet Explorer will bring up a "name.mht" file choose application to open this file dialogue. As a temporary defense this works for me.

  2. Re: I am willing to be vaccinated against Ebola, b on New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It seems a pity that we cannot just stay quiet and allow the 5G tin foil hat, chemtrail, anti vax, Trump supporters to just die off from a disease we can vaccinate against. Sadly it involves sacrificing too many infants, old people and the immune compromised sick. It would be hilarious though.

  3. Re:Wonder what else you could grow in this on Startup Sells Pot 'Grow Fridges' That Are Tended By Robots (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    The web site indicates that a large variety of other plants can be grown. On the other hand the web site is glossy and devoid of any detail about the product. Avoid.

  4. Shoe Event Horizon on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 2

    Douglas Adams only got one thing wrong. The collapse of civilization occurs because of peak mobile phone, not the shoe event horizon.

  5. Indeed, the study is being reported in a scaremongering way. For example the risk being reported is an increase from 38 to 40 people out of 100 dying over 30 years. It also does not prove an association between eating eggs and cholesterol, it could be an association between fried breakfasts and cholesterol because people who eat fried breakfasts eat more eggs. So yes, it is just scaremongering. See more analysis here https://jamanetwork.com/journa...

  6. Re:Republicans launching fake propaganda sites? on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    This comment epitomises political disruption propaganda. It has no other purpose than to inflame the debate. It is almost certainly not left or right wing but is almost certainly paid for by an enemy of the United States.

  7. Re:it's kind of funny, on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Pot kettle black.

  8. Re:Welcome to the age of GMO on Scientists Release Controversial Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In High-Security Lab (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I agree with your concerns and note the availability of some of this technology already. Such has always been the way of technological progress, first in government institutions, then big business and then to many. All the more reason we should see considerable resources devoted to understanding it in places we have some transparency from. The academic world has already loudly disparaged the Chinese HIV human experiment and there will continue to be debates about what is acceptable use. The public appetite for Nationalism worries me because this is yet another issue that requires global attention.

  9. Welcome to the age of GMO on Scientists Release Controversial Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In High-Security Lab (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The world is going to be transformed over the next few decades by work like this. Problems like malaria will be addressed. The bad news is that these early efforts carry unknown risks the good news is that the work is being done by experts in the field. This sort of work will be accessible to hackers in very few years so lets hope that regulated agencies beat them to it. If you thought the nuclear standoff of the cold war years was bad just wait for the biological equivalent. The genie is out of the bottle now, work like this is as much a part of national defense as hyper-sonic missiles.

  10. Some animated maps of North Atlantic jetstream forecasts.
    https://www.netweather.tv/char...
    I assume airlines already use these to take different routes but I do not know whether they do.

  11. Re: SaaS is news? on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Fashion and marketing rearranging the user interface has not improved office software since the millenium. The cloud and software as a service might interest some but they are not a requirement. New things that are repainted old things are aimed at the gullible and get called out.

  12. Curious, I have never even seen a post removed from r/UK. Apparently our politics has not yet been infiltrated by trolls as yours undoubtedly has.

  13. Rule 34 is an Internet rule that states that Internet pornography exists concerning every conceivable topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  14. Amusingly Facebook sells you to the highest bidder so the Chinese own anyone they want already. Reddit forums are probably of use to the Chinese with appropriate oversight. Everyone seems to forget that the great firewall of china does not mean they are technologically backward. They adopt things like mobile payment faster than the rest of us.

  15. Also I am not keen on paying a whole new industry to clean Stainless Steel containers when I could just take my own clean plastic tub to the shop and have it filled instead. I am not convinced that this "new" idea is going to work.

  16. Even more concerning is the trope that a political faction has anything to say about scientific facts. The fact is that GMO is mostly harmless as any half assed study of the subject and the safety tests done on it will reveal. The political fact is that Monsanto is a predatory capitalist corporation that uses GMO to enforce a distastefull business contract. Untangling the two issues has become impossible because everybody has been polarised by the politics first and is unable to discuss the science objectively. I have no idea why this is true but it is undobutedly true.

  17. Re: Could be worse on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Unless you read the copy of Byte that described the Lisa computer interface that Apple stole of course. The MAC was wonderful but there were competitor operating systems like the Digital Equipment Corporations GEM or even the Comodor Amigas that were equally utilitarian. Apple was fortunate to be able to compete with the IBM pc in the business market and exclude the competition. The rest is history, another monopolistic giant corporation took over the world and we now think it was the only innovator in the market. Bullshit.

  18. Re:Fuck Facebook on Facebook Is Shutting Down Moments (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, Facebook should be broken up into firewalled entities with a market cap of ten million dollars. Facebook is possibly a greater threat to humanity than climate change.

  19. Re:exactly how are you going to break it up? on Advocacy Groups Are Pushing The FTC To Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of arguments that the ire directed at "big government" and "the deep state" should instead be directed at the very real "big brother" that Facebook and other data collection companies like Google represent. This is not a partisan view particularly and indeed should be of more interest to those on the right.

    Do you really want one company to monitor your every move and to be there ready to tell you what to do at every moment of your life - what school to go to, where to get married, which vaccine you kids should get, which house you should buy, where you should work, what healthcare you should buy, where to invest your 401k, what food you should eat, which political party you should vote for, which funeral you should buy. Because pretty soon the smart algorithms they use on your data will be making you offers that you cannot refuse because they will have fed you all the information you use to make your decisions.

    Sounds like "communism" to me where the big powerful folk running your life tell you what you are allowed to do. There are many good reasons for breaking up the operational divisions of Facebook and other big tech companies.

  20. Re:Mix the anti vax idiots with on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Migration across that boarder has not been this low since 1971. The measles outbreak is clearly due to low takeup of vacination.

  21. Re: Because it gives you more funding on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Scientists Constantly Surprised By What They Discover? · · Score: 1

    Of course nobody gives money to a charity that has the job of helping the slightly disadvantaged. It is human nature to shout louder to be fed as anyone with many siblings will know. The thing is society has no parents to dispasionately hand out the goodies, only "the market" and whether an emotional response can be generated. No suprise then that everything in the media is always being shouted at volume 11.

  22. Re: Two questions. on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh shut up you two children. Have you read the science goals pdf yet? No, I thought not.

    Well I have not read any more than the executive summary and I have some good news for both of you. No one is going to fund it. No one is going to fund it because it has no purpose that will fit in a tweet. It is not being built to find or prove anything, it is being built just because it can do more of the same but better.

    I think you should put your money into genetics and medicine instead, leave measuring the ~ phase factor of the Higgs ~ to the Chinese because they are infinitely adept at copying stuff that people have already done in style (see landing on the dark side of the moon).

    The future is bright and it is also very tiny, it is in microbes, viruses and cells. Put a fuckton of money into the basic research on it and it will be an industry bigger than 'tech' inside 40 years. I speak as a former semiconductor manufacturing engineer so my guess is at least as good as yours. Also have you seen what is going on in genetics? Or how much compute power is going into the field? - protein folding I am looking at you right now.

    Don't get me wrong, my favorite hobby is cosmology and particle physics. But my new hobby is now microbiology.

  23. On the other hand I note that the USA has elected a misogynistic president and it is claimed that this is partly as a backlash against "SJW". Polarization has not been a successful strategy.

  24. Re:Choose your own adventure... on Earth's Magnetic Field Is Acting Up and Geologists Don't Know Why (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    The magnetic field is excluded from the interior of superconductors so point 2 is incorrect. As trivially shown by the use of superconducting magnets in the Large Hadron Collider. See Meissner effect.

  25. Re: What the fuckvertisement?!? AI airbrush ad? on Procter and Gamble Unveils New Device That Aims To Remove Signs of Aging (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever the merits of the makeup device it has to be said that the catalogue of dodgy products you linked to was the most amusing thing I have seen for ages. Thanks!