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  1. Carelessness neutrophils on Immune Cells May Play a Role In Causing Cavities (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know we've seen worse in science reporting, but 'overzealous' is not a helpful term to use in describing the immune system.

    They still saying acid produced by bacteria is the underlying cause, so nothing new there, *but* they've identified a mismatch between the immune system's strategy for responding to the bacteria and the altered chemical environment created by said bacteria, and that insight potentially could prove very valuable in determining improved treatments.

  2. I think it's just a rumour for now.

  3. Some vision better than none on George Lucas Actually Consulted For The Script Of 'Star War: Episode IX' (collider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lucas couldn't make it worse.

    (Not something I would have said after the prequel trilogy, but times change.)

  4. Fox Con on Foxconn is Confusing the Hell Out of Wisconsin (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like they were subtle about it. They even have "con" in their name.

  5. Re:So let me understand this correctly on EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content' (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    Before the printing press the scarcity was not artificial. Intellectual property wasn't even an idea until the modern era.

  6. Re:So let me understand this correctly on EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content' (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    But you REMEMBER him, that was his entire point.

    I honestly have no idea who you mean. Historians certainly have no consensus as to who was most responsible for the library's destruction, or even in which century the worst things happened. Or did you mean the founder, who was proabably one of the Ptolemies?

  7. From the summary I can't tell if I'm supposed to mock Google for re-inventing message boards or mock Google for re-inventing e-mail.

  8. Re:I'm in the Ku Klux Klan on Two Out of Three Hotels Accidentally Leak Guests' Personal Data: Symantec (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I really hope that's irony but shocking number of people actually think like that.

  9. Re: This judge needs to be barred! on Man Caught Wearing Earbuds With a Dead Phone Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    The deaf are very obviously not being distracted by anything they hear.

  10. If taxation is theft then using any government service is also theft.

  11. When I saw the headline my first thought was they were saying it was good news that it was only two out of three and not any higher. Maybe I'm too cynical.

  12. Re:AI is a solution looking for a problem on Facebook is Using AI To Map Population Density Around the World (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I know the notion of "artificial intelligence" can really get stretched but this seems like they're conflating AI with "anyting on a computer". Definitely you want computers doing this (because of the volume of data), but aside from a little bit of classifying building types or land use there isn't much more than simple counting involved.

  13. Why facebook?

    Remember who Facebook works for. (Advertisers if you forgot.)

  14. I am unsurprised by the notion of taking away a free service that is really not encroaching on the private sector to many meaningful degree, but what's with the Orwellian langauge? No-one is fooled about who this is putting first.

  15. In other words... on Samsung's Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Sensor Fooled By 3D Printer (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He fooled a fingerprint reader using... an exact reproduction of his fingerprint. On the fourth try.

    That seems incredibly unsurprising.

  16. Are we sure this is from a "futurist"? People were saying the exact same thing about industrialization 200 years ago.

  17. That sounds like a description of the Pentagon.

    Who also have an interest in drones that can approach homes silently.

  18. ...how much harm a politician would suffer from the truth.

  19. Re:Grammarly = bad grammar on On its 10th Anniversary, Grammarly Looks Way Beyond Grammar (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't trademark ordinary English words, thus, Grammarly the proper noun. They got that one right.

  20. Now, I realize even humans are not 100% perfect at recognizing faces, but is facial recognition really good enough for this kind of application? You know it will get it wrong at least some of the time.

  21. Re:A quantum leap is actually ... on Scientists Find 66-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Day The Dinosaurs Died (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    A quantum leap is a leap that cannot be made incrementally.

  22. No sympathy on The Dangers of Sharing Your Screen With Co-Workers (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Employers treat employees pretty badly, but is it really asking so much to expect people to behave like professionals while at the workplace?

  23. Re:Daylight SAVING time on EU Parliament Votes To End Daylight Savings (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean... we're not earning interest on the daylight we're saving?

  24. Re:All or nothing on EU Parliament Votes To End Daylight Savings (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Daylight saving time is about the summer, not the winter.

  25. All or nothing on EU Parliament Votes To End Daylight Savings (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate the time changes but it may be going a little too far to completely abolish it everywhere. At high lattitudes, it does make a certain amount of sense. Daylight at 9:00pm really is more useful than daylight at 4:00am.

    The problem has been politicians doing it for show (2005 US Congress, and a bunch of weak-willed Canadian politicans who followed suit for no reason) for locations where the benefits were minor if not outright imaginary.