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  1. Who's spamming me on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 1

    I use a different email address for each company I ever give an email to. So far, I have had three email addresses end up as spam targets. These were used for the following companies:

    MacMall
    NetBank
    21st Century Insurance

    The 21st Century Insurance one I only just now noticed while checking my logs. The other two I have contacted about this matter, MacMall several times, with never a response. Regardless of whether they purposely gave/sold my address to untrustworthy parties or had them stolen through lax security, I have no plans to ever do business with them again.

  2. Re:Science education..... on 'Civilization on Mars' Claims Debunked · · Score: 2, Informative


    1) Instant (using the ATP stores in the muscles themselves)
    2) Anaerobic (without oxygen): This generally is done by burning carbohydrates in your body
    3) Aerobic (using oxygen): This is burning fat with the presence of oxygen.


    Sorry, that's incorrect. Carbohydrate metabolism has two steps: glycolysis which is the anaerobic part and the citric acid cycle (aka TCA cycle, aka Kreb's cycle) which is the aerobic part. When your body uses carbs it goes through both glycolysis and the citric acid cycle as long as it can. When a tissue starts running out of oxygen, such as when you are running for a while and your oxygen supply can't keep up, you can't do TCA, so glucose metabolism stops at the end of glycolysis and produces lactic acid. The buildup of lactic acid is what gives you the sensation of burning in your muscles. Fat and protein metabolism does not go through glycolysis, only TCA, which happens when you are low on carb stores.

  3. Re:Please look at the data before speaking. on Skeptical Environmentalist Saga Continues · · Score: 1
    Yes, please look at all the data:

    Last year, the US National Research Council established an expert panel to assess whether the 'apparently conflicting surface and upper air temperature trends lie within the range of uncertainty inherent in the measurements and, if they are judged to lie outside that range, to identify the most probable reason(s) ...for the differences'.

    The panel concluded that:

    the warming trend in global mean surface temperature over the last 20 years is real;

    the disparity between satellite and surface records does not invalidate that conclusion;

    recent corrections to the satellite data reduce the disparity, but a significant difference remains;

    evidence suggests that the troposphere may have warmed more slowly than the surface between 1979 and 1998 due to both natural and man-made causes. The panel stressed that such short records, with arbitrary starting and ending points, should be used with caution.


    from http://www.dar.csiro.au/publications/greenhouse_20 00a.htm
  4. Re:Why? on Sonic the Brain Chemical · · Score: 2, Informative

    Despite what the story says, Sonic Hedgehog is an old gene. The origin of the name is that there was a gene first discovered in fruit flies which was named Hedgehog, presumably because flies missing the hedgehog gene reminded the researcher of a hedgehog. Since then, related genes have been found and given hedgehog-related names, like Desert Hedgehog and Sonic Hedgehog.

    Fly geneticists like to go for amusing names. For example, there is a gene responsible for development of the 7th cell of the fly ommatidium (the ommatidia are the individual facets of the comound eye). That gene was named "sevenless". Since then, related genes have been named "bride of sevenless" and "son of sevenless", to name just two.

  5. contents on Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.1.4 · · Score: 1

    Here is a contents list from the installation. I'm not showing the contents of the updated directories to keep the list short, though the update is pretty small to start with.

    ./System/Library/CFMSupport/DiscRecordingLi b
    ./System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.pli s t
    ./System/Library/Extensions/ATTOExpressPCI.kext
    . / System/Library/Extensions/AppleSCCSerial.kext
    ./S y stem/Library/Extensions/AppleSym8xx.kext
    ./System / Library/Extensions/System.kext/Contents/PkgInfo
    . / System/Library/Extensions/System.kext/Contents/Plu gIns
    ./System/Library/Extensions/System.kext/Cont e nts/PlugIns/BSDKernel.kext
    ./System/Library/Exten s ions/System.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOADBFamily.kext
    . / System/Library/Extensions/System.kext/Contents/Plu gIns/IOKit.kext
    ./System/Library/Extensions/Syste m . ext/Contents/PlugIns/IOSystemManagement.kext
    ./Sy s tem/Library/Extensions/System.kext/Contents/PlugIn s/Libkern.kext
    ./System/Library/Extensions/System . kext/Contents/PlugIns/Mach.kext
    ./System/Library/ P rivateFrameworks/DiscRecording.framework
    ./mach_k e rnel