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  1. Or even... on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    marine animals are ingesting it with or instead of their food. If so, is it possible some species will evolve to digest plastic and metabolize it? Will that make those creatures toxic to humans?

  2. Ooops! How do I Delete Posts? on Ask Slashdot: Is It Feasible To Revive an Old Linux PC Setup? · · Score: 1

    On further checking, Debian 3 seems to be in the 2.2 kernel series with the right libraries for Corel.

    All my posts on this subject were wrong and should be ignored.

  3. Oldtimerz setting in on Ask Slashdot: Is It Feasible To Revive an Old Linux PC Setup? · · Score: 1

    I just checked and you're right about the kernel being in the 2-series, 2.2.x. Thanks for that; apparently it wasn't the change to the 2-series kernel that caused the incompatibilites, but to the 2.4- versions from 2.2.

    I was right about the libraries, though.

    IIRC Debian 3 was released about the same time as RH 7, which makes using anything Corel doubtful.

  4. Debian-3 on Ask Slashdot: Is It Feasible To Revive an Old Linux PC Setup? · · Score: 2

    You've got mix of incompatible requirements here. IIRC Corel's support for L:inux ended with the introduction of libc6 and kernels in the 2.0 series. These linux binaries will not run on Debian-3, which had both. I know, I tried to keep WordPerfect for Linux going on RH-6.2 till about the time Debian-3 was introduced but it became a losing proposition.

    Worse still, source code for Linux-kernel series 1.x will not usually compile on later kernels which require an incompatible libc.

    YMMV

  5. Or Change the Theory on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 0

    This could lead to the acceptance of alternative cosmologies that have been bubbling up for years. Try these links:

    http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_...
    http://vixra.org/pdf/1404.0123...
    http://www.researchgate.net/pu...

  6. Man-in-the-Middle? on WikiLeaks Publishes Secret International Trade Agreement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    |(T)he US is particularly keen on boosting cross-border data flow, which would allow uninhibited exchange of personal and financial data.|

    Perhaps the traffic between nodes will give the NSA some useful information about people's transactions to "Keep us safe." Or the US IRS about offshore deposits?

  7. Re:The Reason... on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Why the percentages? In real terms life expectancy from adulthood (20+) increased 17-22 years while the infant (0) life expectancy has increased by 37-40 years. According to the chart you referenced.

  8. The Reason... on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The reason average life expectancy has more than doubled in a century or two is that infant mortality has been reduced, bringing the average up.

    There is not so much difference in survival expectancy once on is an adult.

  9. Re:That's nothing. on LinkedIn Spam Lawsuit Can Continue · · Score: 1

    I agree; that's why I posted. I berated that guy righteously, and some others, too. I called him every name in the book. If I were him (and presumably innocent) I'd want to sue someone. I'm just glad I didn't CC: my remarks to others....

  10. Re:That's nothing. on LinkedIn Spam Lawsuit Can Continue · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, me, too. I found one "offer" from linkdin that looked like it was sent by a guy whose craigslist ad for a cheap Mercedes I had responded to; I sent him a flame email calling him out for it.

    Now, I look like the a**hole....

    Thanks, linkdin. NOT.

  11. This flies in the face of current theory, which says infants flush "excess" synapses and children continue to do so on a lesser scale for years. See

    Huttenlocher P. Neural Plasticity: The Effects of the Environment on the Development of the Cerebral Cortex. Harvard University Press; 2002.

    Or any decent Google search will support this.

    Unless a lchemical ink can be shown in the chemistry resultant from the anaesthesia which might cause the synapses to morph, it will be very hard to "prove" this hypothesis.

    Correlation does not prove causation.

  12. Re:How can I not be a Cynic... on Inside Ford's 3D Printing Center Where More Than 20K Parts Are Made Each Year · · Score: 1

    OK: Here's both barrels.

    It used to take five years or more to develop a new model auto, back in the twenties through 60s. This lag time caused bad decisions like the introduction of 12- and 16-cylinder cars in the middle of the Great Depression and Edsels, planned in 1952-3 and introduced in 1958, after the target market had lost their jobs in a deep recession.

    These printers doubtless help reduce the time and make carmakers more nimble.

    That's the real story, and it is neither in TFA nor the summary.

    Call me a cynic....

  13. How can I not be a Cynic... on Inside Ford's 3D Printing Center Where More Than 20K Parts Are Made Each Year · · Score: 2

    When the information so clearlyy calls for it.

    At its Dearborn Heights, Mich. facility, 14 different industrial 3D printers turn out 20,000 parts a year.

    H'mm ... that's approx 6 parts per machine per working day.

    Not much of a story here, just PR.

  14. Big News -- Not! on Official MPG Figures Unrealistic, Says UK Auto Magazine · · Score: 0

    I am old enough to remember the "horsepower wars" of the '50s and 60s in the US. Inflation was rampant then as now.

    So, what's new? It's not as if the governments know what they're doing, or their informational data is correct and unpoliticized....

  15. Your cite of the "recent" study fits with my memory from the old school. There are several kinds (at least two) of memory: long- and short-term; one is chemical, the other electrical. Each reference to the protein carrying the memory rewrites it to include the information from the new conscious understanding and context, thus changing the protein when it is recreated. I am surprised that this method of decoding/recoding has not been looked into.

  16. Re:RNot So!e:More Fracking' Earthquakes on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I am in error, For some reason I thought the book, which I have found, was published by Oxford University Press, and she is listed as "Principal Emeritus of the Faculty of Astrological Studies." Now I find the book was published not by Oxford Press but by Fowler's.

    My mistake.

  17. RNot So!e:More Fracking' Earthquakes on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    According to the late (I presume) Dean of Astrology at Oxford Univrsity (UK), Margaret Hone, no gravitational or magnetic waves are involved. An undiscovered astrological wave is the cause, according to her textbook.

    Yes, I am serious. Her textbook was published in 1955 IIRC. (I have it somewhere, but am too lazy to look for it.)

  18. More Fracking' Earthquakes on Earthquake Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma · · Score: 4, Informative

    The joint statement indicates that a likely contributing factor to the increase in earthquakes is wastewater disposal by injection into deep geologic formations. The water injection can increase underground pressures, lubricate faults and cause earthquakes – a process known as injection-induced seismicity. Much of this wastewater is a byproduct of oil and gas production and is routinely disposed of by injection into wells specifically designed and approved for this purpose. The recent earthquake rate changes are not due to typical, random fluctuations in natural seismicity rates.

    'Nuff said.

  19. Not all Get the Word on Why Speed-Reading Apps Don't Work · · Score: 2

    It was shown quite some time ago that adults "read" by recognizing the shapes of words, not their spelling. If this is true then it would explain the problems described in TFA.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
    http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...

  20. Re:Secret Laws? on Administration Ordered To Divulge Legal Basis For Killing Americans With Drones · · Score: 1

    What you said is true; that's why I doubt SCOTUS will hear it. It lets them dodge a sensitive political issue without being embarrassed since only the law is in dispute according to TFA. This argument is the legal equivalent, to my understanding, of giving up one's 5th-amendment rights because one has given some information already without invoking the article.

  21. Secret Laws? on Administration Ordered To Divulge Legal Basis For Killing Americans With Drones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am -- and the court seemed -- appalled at the idea that "secret laws" can apply in a constitutional republic.

    I doubt SCOTUS will touch this, as they tend to kick the can down the road on big issues like this, which, of course, will let it stand.

  22. Making a Safer World... on Women Increasingly Freezing Their Eggs To Pursue Their Careers · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...for procrastinators.

  23. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    The point of this article seems to be that even former SCOTUS justices can become demented with age.

  24. Re:"little influence" on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    It took a study to figure that out?

    No, it took a study to demonstrate it.

  25. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 2

    The freedom of speech referred to (presumably the one in the US Constitution) allows freedom of *political* speech.

    Other forms of speech have been regulated -- slander, shouting fire in a theater, calls to insurrection.

    I am not for Rep. Speir's bill in any way, but one can't hide this kind of despicable speech behind the first amendment.

    OTOH, making websites who do not or cannot control content responsible for same seems likely to be struck down by the courts, if passed, and unlikely to find much support among lawmakers.

    As for Ms Frank: She sounds like a terrible harridan, the kind of subhuman individual who should be locked up for good and the key thrown down her throat. As Steven Colbert would say, "The worst person in the world today."

    So sue me, ma'am, please: I got a friend who's a lawyer.