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  1. Re: Back in the old days on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily impossible, but not worth the effort on the business owner. You'd probably end up comping everything served due to wait times, versus just sending everyone home with some coupons and saving the supplies. Even assuming you were allowed to keep running the gas grill without air handlers, the work environment is probably going to also be below OSHA lighting requirements. The food warmers are going to be off, which the health inspector wouldn't like, and offering a subset of the menu is probably against your franchise license. The coolers are off but will hold temp if they aren't opened. Making change is really the least of the worries.

  2. Re: Back in the old days on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    When I worked a restaurant we always closed for a power outage because of the health code. Besides which, you can't generally change the way semi-prepared restaurant food is cooked and have it turn out well.

  3. Re:the vendors don't let them do the updates on th on It's Way Too Easy To Hack the Hospital (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, that would require re-validation, which is time consuming and expensive.

  4. Re:This will end well. on App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I keep my phone in my pocket, but I'm middle aged and not likely to get stopped by the police. The folks I see about younger than I am don't seem to put their phone away in the first place, so this will probably be very useful for them.

  5. Re:I thought it was just me? on The Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine That Science Says Doesn't Work (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    In my experience, the 12 hour stuff is less likely to give you the 'speedy' anxious side effects, probably to do with a time release matrix whereas the other dose probably dumps the whole thing in your blood all in one go.

  6. Re:Because evolution doesn't exist on 3D-Printed Teeth Can Kill 99% of Dental Bacteria (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The biome won't change much if this only kills bacteria on the tooth surface.

  7. Re:The kilogram is based on a chunk of metal? on Kilogram Conflict Resolved At Last (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, anyway. You'll find plenty of UK woodworkers use the Imperial system because it you are designing furniture for human proportions than the imperial system based on human proportions makes sense. Cooking, however... sure that's just whatever people are used to. And of course even Americans use metric at work doing science.

  8. Re:10$ that they are going to backpedal ... on Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand · · Score: 1

    You see people reading magazines in public? Other than the grocery store rack and waiting rooms at the doctor or mechanic they are more or less extinct around here. Everyone reads on their phone or tablet.

  9. Old is new again? on "E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails (clemson.edu) · · Score: 1

    Traditional Japanese joinery forgoes nails for the most part, but even a traditional western house with nails can be put together without power tools... a saw and hammer makes it a bit more work that using power tools but certainly not any more work than a CNC kit house.

  10. Re:Safer on San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    This might be why the pedestrians have the right of way... cars are required to be insured for collision and liability, persons are not. So if you run over someone and it is their fault, the local emergency services may be stuck with the bill instead of the car's insurer.

  11. Re:Flipped Classrooms on When Schools Overlook Introverts · · Score: 1

    That wasn't the lesson, the lesson to be found is: if you're the smart one in the group then they let you lead, so you divide up the tasks. Delegate out whatever you don't want to do. Just like at work.

  12. Re:Nasal rinsing ... use some care on Brain-Eating Amoeba Scoffs At Chlorine In Water Pipes · · Score: 1

    Nothing is going to grow in distilled water, the osmotic pressure and purity of the water prohibit it. You can pitch yeast in it and they die from bursting. If the water is open and become contaminated with sufficient debris perhaps it would be able to support microbes again.

  13. Re:kept my Netflix dvd subscription on Netflix Is Becoming Just Another TV Channel · · Score: 1

    Yeah, its more worthwhile for the shipping if you shop on there a lot than any of the other benefits they're throwing in with Amazon Prime.

  14. Re:Abiogenesis is a fairy tale. on Research Suggests How Alien Life Could Spread Across the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Life is just a set of chemistry reactions we've decided is special enough to have its own name.

  15. Re:When we asked about something liike this.... on US Scientists Successfully 'Switch Off' Cancer Cells · · Score: 2

    He's probably right... but with increasingly benign treatments and early detection, it could be possible to reduce cancer to a significant inconvenience. The difficulty in getting rid of every cell of it is why you can't ever be truly sure it is gone forever, but if treating it can be mundane from the patient's standpoint and without the harmful effects of current treatment that'd be a win.

  16. Re:What does Science have to say about this? on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 1

    It isn't like you really need to sterilize hard surfaces at home anyway. I don't mind cleaning a toilet with Windex since it is pointless to sterilize it and it does a good enough job cleaning it, but my wife thinks that's gross and insisted using a 'real cleaner' like Softscrub. Then she got into the organic stuff and so we're using some organic cleaner that is mostly ethanol (from organic corn, as if that matters...) and some essential oil for scent. It works as well as Windex, less harsh than bleach-based cleaners, and smells better. Good enough. I may top it off with denatured alcohol when she isn't looking... no need to pay a markup for alcohol and a few drops of oil.

  17. Re:n=6? Seriously? on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    It failed in 2/6 ferrets but all the controls died. That is quite a difference. 1000 humans would tell you less than 12 lab animals since they aren't lab bred, in controlled environments, or guaranteed naïve. If you are for reducing the use of lab animals you'd recognize that well designed small studies are the way to go rather than piddling about n.

  18. Re:I volunteer as tribute. on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    On the one hand... its thermodynamics. If you burn more than you absorb you can't help but lose weight. Some people are better at absorbing calories than others, though, which could make doing the math correctly for you a bit less simple than it seems. If I've got enzymes that don't process lipids well, then more of them will shoot on through me without contributing calories to my metabolism. If somebody else carefully absorbs every bit of energy out of their food they'll be getting more out of the same bowl of ice cream. So it is complex, but still reduces to the easy: eat less than you burn.

  19. Re:Hubris on New Genes May Arise From Junk DNA · · Score: 1

    But it is junk! You've got broken retroviruses, transposons... its a giant trash pile. Trash piles can be useful but they are different than repositories.

  20. Re:More stupid CONservative posts on The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents · · Score: 1

    As I recall the 2/3 is for passing the amendment normally. In a constitutional convention, the entirety of the constitution is up for grabs. It is a big rewrite party. I don't envision it being invoked except perhaps after some sort of governmental collapse.

  21. You'd need an energy source larger than the universe. Probably many fold larger. Plus more for continued maintenance, unless you could stop expansion. But who knows what would happen if you did that... perhaps a big crunch and a new big bang.

  22. Re:Freemium isn't going anywhere on Why the Freemium Business Model Isn't What It Used To Be · · Score: 1

    I downloaded Angry Birds on my Kindle to let my 3 year old try it out since it is popular, seemed innocuous and I figured she was old enough to play a game here and there. I was shocked at how quickly she found the "buy stuff" screen. I'd looked around in the game and missed it, figuring maybe it was free as an advert for their more recent versions, but no... hidden from adult eyes but easily found by children.

  23. Re:Considering the classic trend on How Many Scientists Does It Take To Write a Paper? Apparently, Thousands · · Score: 2

    You want to increase the level of bureaucracy and publish-or-perish mindset in research? Private research certainly isn't doing anything that doesn't increase next fiscal quarter's numbers, let's continue to hobble public research, sure...

  24. Re:My work area is set to 75f, and I am sweltering on Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist · · Score: 1

    How could they tell if/what kind of undershirt you were wearing?

  25. Re:Why can only humans read and write? on NY Judge Rules Research Chimps Are Not 'Legal Persons' · · Score: 1

    I think I see your point now. I took a primate psych elective back in school and I may be misremembering, but as I recall on many metrics a chimp tops out at about a 6 year old human level of cognition. I think the idea is that we get better than this due to our prolonged childhood, with longer periods of brain elasticity. I suppose you could teach them with an appropriately accelerated learning program with the right curriculum but, as with human children, attention span might be a problem. I know with some simpler symbolic interpretation problems they can learn to be much faster than the researchers, so the ability is there, but their cognitive biology is against them. Sort of like how you or I can't learn to speak dolphin.