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  1. My Jawbone Identification Skills Might Be Wrong on Blue Gems In Teeth Illuminate Women's Hidden Role In Medieval Manuscripts (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    But I'm pretty sure that's Saint Scholastica.

  2. The protein looks like this one on Chinese Scientists Are Developing A Vaccine Against Cavities (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    BMA-RPAC-19, partial [Brugia malayi]
                    1 mtslldserk veildvdsfr sdpsnltvil yeedhtigns lkhvlckmrd vefcgynvph
                  61 pledkilirl qtkrgvsaas mlmkgfeele cifasirqkf dssyalyttn ted

    Basepair 37 as driven by Basepair 39

  3. Math Is Over Too on Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says We Need To Start Over (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Because I Solved Diffie-Helman Exchange For Catalytic Conversion: https://pastebin.com/ZVvLYYiV

  4. at least 5.21% is accurate on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    what will they think up next?

  5. Re:AT&T had zero choice on AT&T Helped the NSA Spy On Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure they admitted to exactly this method of Trunk Preservation on Sea Quest?

  6. Re:but but on Astronomers Discover Nearby 'Young Jupiter' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    #50319267.

  7. Re:Or could it be the way they're taught on BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you went to school but I went to public school in Kentucky and I remember quite vividly an early maths curriculum very different from what you seem to recall. I will include the schools that I attended for what it's worth.

    Goshen Elementary, Goshen, Ky
    grade 1 - addition, subtraction, shapes, numbers generally under 10, digital time
    grade 2 - addition, subtraction, 'doubling', 'tripling', analogue time
    grade 3 - multiplication up to 12x12, 'negative' numbers, perimeters and areas
    grade 4 - remainder based division up to 144/12, geometric rules of simple shapes
    grade 5 - review and expand on all the above, prepare for tests

    South Oldham Middle School, Crestwood, Ky
    grade 6 - review earlier stuff, introduce negative numbers, multiplication of large numbers
    grade 7 - long division, introduction to exponents, general euclidean geometry
    grade 8 - algebraic functions, simple trigonometry, exponential growth and decay, compound interest, triangulation and other applications of 6-8, prepare for tests

    Shelby County High School, Shelbyville, Ky
    grade 9 - euclidean geometry, algebraic functions
    grade 10 - matrix algebra, simple trigonometry
    grade 11 and up were AP classes and thus cost money so I did not take them.

    Interestingly enough though, our stories merge perfectly after 9th grade.

  8. troll much? on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 1

    riiiight.. because we all know how lax Debian/GNU is about their patent/license concerns compared to Red Hat.

  9. and yet.. on Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    It's still significantly slower than Opera.

  10. and mike myers? on Slashback: Membership, Quarkiness, Audioggogy · · Score: 1

    seeing as "mike myer's brush with the humor police" is mentioned in the summary, you may want to at least mention his name somewhere.. you possibly even wish to go so far as to explain just what sort of brush this happened to be.

    was it bristley? pokey? does he have grounds to sue for brutality?

  11. Re:More viri on MS- why? on Linux Virus Alert · · Score: 1

    let's do a quick analysis of the ways to get a virus in MS OSes vs. linux..

    In MS you have a plethora of options for contracting virii, you can read your email, you can visit a web site, you can use AIM.. not to mention that it is routine in MS OSes to download and execute unknown binaries.. all of these are tasks performed every single day by most windows users.

    Contrast this to linux where you have only a single option: execute an unknown binary as root, a very rare task indeed.

    The inherent difficulty in contracting a virus in linux has little or nothing to do with any of the things you mentioned. It comes down essentially to the file systems. On linux, or most any other multi-user operating system it is a very rare occurance that normal users have the ability to introduce a virus into the system.

  12. Origami on Research Publications Web Page? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been working on a project to organise and present documents by faculty at the University of Kentucky called Origami. Take a loot here to see where i've gone with it. It's written in PHP and uses mysql and the local filesystem to store paper information. If you'd like I can write some quick documentation and send you a tarball of what i've got so far.