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  1. Re:So the question is... on Birds Fled Area Before Tornadoes Appeared · · Score: 1

    I wonder why they think the noise was the instigation. We know that tornados have significant currents and magnetic fields; and we know that migrating birds have significant magnetic sensitivity.

    Is it far fetched to think they might have felt its magnetic effects?

  2. Re:Does anyone check? on Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For? · · Score: 1

    add to that list that with a name like 'anonymous coward', it's hard to pass the credit check.

  3. Re:Actually doubles in 60 days on Health Advisor: Ebola Still Spreading, Worst Outbreak We've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    You are, of course, correct. And my round figure of 60 days is only a round figure. Anyone who is interested can try it themselves, with as much accuracy as they needed.

    I had actually noted this the |irst time I tried to comment, but I went to log in, and my comment evaporated.

    Specifically, I had said that if you believed the data, it was 60 day doubling. But if you didn't, you had to go back to the previous curve.

    We will find out, in time, whether the infection rate was on the slower curve shown, or at the faster, previous rate.

  4. Actually doubles in 60 days on Health Advisor: Ebola Still Spreading, Worst Outbreak We've Ever Seen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Regardless of sourcing the information, the information is incorrect. According to this graph, Ebola is doubling every 60 days now -- so there has been some improvement.

    Best way to keep up on this, that I can tell, is to google "ebola africa timeline wiki", and pan down to the timeline, near the bottom of the article. You'll see the graphs.

    My favorite graph for keeping track is the logarithmic scale based on population , because it's easy to see where infection totality is: it used to be at 1 1/2 years, and now is about 5 years out.

    Another thing of interest that I noted, though: The infection rates before a country mounts a serious response, can be as fast as doubling every 3 or 5 days. For that reason, I think our CDC's active attempts to STOP a proper response, was the worst thing they could do.

    Just something to think about.

  5. Re:Pre-registered bidders on US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins · · Score: 2

    Yes, I can see where there could be risk to those who bid, either from the US Marshals (confiscation of property under seizure laws without trial) or from the drug lord.

    ---
    Add to your sig: But they deceived themselves; they did not reckon...

  6. Re:Magnetic field. on 'Dark Magma' Could Explain Mystery Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    For myself, I'm more partial to the De Meijer idea that calcium bergs in the mantle collect uranium; I would posit that a collection of such calcium bergs might make enough of a reactor to power Hawaii or iceland.

    Or, for that matter, a plume under the Scotia Plate / African Karoo (at least until a large, shallow asteroid struck one of the collection, driving it to the center, it in the Permian).

    Maybe another under the Carribean Plate â"Hudson bay, until the shock waves from the first super-critical explosion caused that one to detonate, too, splitting Pangea.

  7. Re:Some technical info for slashdotters on Researchers Simulate Monster EF5 Tornado · · Score: 1

    okay, but does your model show a 1-A plus though the tornado? because that is known to exist, and the electrical power is same order of magnitude of the wind power, so it's bound to be a significant effect.

  8. Re:Some technical info for slashdotters on Researchers Simulate Monster EF5 Tornado · · Score: 1

    I got about halfway through the video before the kids interrupted me (and it). So let me just ask:

    Did your model take into account the energy gathering and discharge that would show a multi-amp, million-volt DC discharge? Because the energy implications of that are going to be enormous to the model.

    Did it also have a mechanism that generated the lightning discharges of the storm? Because again, the lightning discharges are going to affect the electrical energy available to help / hinder the tornado.

  9. Re: sibling fairness on New Website Offers Provably Fair Solutions To Everyday Problems · · Score: 1

    I'm putting a high value on the bathroom and the foyer. when I get those two rooms, I put a coin-op pay slot on the bathroom ... and sleep in the foyer.

  10. Re:Public image created by public, not owned by yo on Pianist Asks Washington Post To Remove Review Under "Right To Be Forgotten" · · Score: 1

    True, you do not have a right to control the view of your public image. However, though I think âoeRight to be forgotten" is not how he should be going about ie, it would be okay for him to sue her for slander.

    That should be a heads-up to her, that he grandiloquence is out of control. It also occurs to me that if anyone should be suing to be forgotten, it should be her: her essay was not only graceless, it went overboard with gracelessness. She could have been much more discreet -- praised his skill, noted that he spent too much effort on playacting, noting that he did not get an encore.

  11. Re:too expensive on A Smart Electric Bike: Taking the Copenhagen Wheel Out For a Spin · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure this is patented. Currie Tech came out with such a wheel, and then quickly discontinued all mention of it. Since the focus of Currie Tech seems to be Chinese imports, I suspect that their wheel is manufactured and sold in China, where such issues as IP ownership are less formidable than here.

    That said, I'm not sure I'd want such a wheel, because I'd be concerned about loss of control. Every so often with my $450 currie tech bike, the pedal assist kicks in where it is unwanted, like at a light, waiting for cross traffic to end. I have a control on it: my hand brake cutout. However, I don't know that I'd have any limitation on misbehavior by a Copenhagen wheel.

  12. Re:Interesting Cafeteria Story in Reverse on Khrushchev's 1959 Visit To IBM · · Score: 1

    I don't know whether to believe you or not. On the one hand, it sounds like a snide remark, intended to be silly. On the other hand, in 2000 I taught school at a magnet school in one of the ex-satellite countries (Lithuania), and they do use abacuses to tote up lunches. Nothing huge about that; it's not done everywhere, but if that's how the lunch lady wants to operate and it works, more power to her.

    I think it was a mistake to consider them behind because they mix new technology and old. All these discussions about the failure of our schools... maybe it would be better to find a good mix.

  13. Re: Was pretty obvious on Skilled Foreign Workers Treated as Indentured Servants · · Score: 1

    why can't both be true? That Obama is better than the Republican alternative, and that he has hit a new low in the presidency?

    Let's consider previous presidents: Can anyone argue against Reagan>GHWB>WJC>GWB>BO?

    But now look where our biggest unexpected steps down were: GWB (whole new department of Terrorism, 2 wars) and GHWB (recession crash).

    Not to cherrypick, I'd argue you can go back further than that.

    And that isn't that Republican declared principles are wrong -- I agree with some of them them -- but the Republicans do more damage at once, given the same conditions.

    But for those who want to argue that Barak's damage is worse than any, yes, I'd agree.

  14. Re:in favor of "space suits" on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    umm, the hard hat protects you from the idiot who left his tape measure on the I beam you're guiding.

  15. Re: This should have been a no brainer on Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. The founding Fathers were avid trekkie fans. Subspace Communicators (frequency shifting cell phones) they understood. Andeif we had developed phasers instead of AK-47s, they would have had a handle on that too.

  16. Re: Yeah yeah on Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Two birds, one stone, ten mice, one cat, one bell.

  17. Re: I feel like we are living in an 'outbreak' mov on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 1

    Not fired. Quarantined. as is the case with the whole city. They need to take a one-month break, with robotic Amazon food and TP delivery on call.

  18. oh, one more question on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 2

    Of those 80 people, how many do you think work at the lochal grocery store, or a fast food restaurant? How many would be permitted to take time off for minor cold symptoms? How many could afford to do so?

  19. okay, first: they HAVEN'T identified the length or method of transmissability, because it keeps spreading by surprise.

    second: we know that in Africa they have missed many cases. Therefore, 7000 actual cases would not be far off.

    Third, the world population is 7 million, so there are 2^20 doublings (at 23 days each) between now and total infection, at the current rate.

    Fourth, the US population, including illegals, is about 350 million. So by the math, you might guess that there was 350 cases in the US, but the actual rate of spread is probably initially faster than a 23-day doubling, but slower to enter the country. So a reasonable guestimate is that we might have 120 cases, about a third of 350, but with Dallas/CDC response, we'll rapidly catch that 350 number.

    In line with that, I'd estimate that in any state that has a lot of human commerce with Dallas (including Louisiana, Virginia, Oklahoma, and California), you could estimate the number of cases by dividing the state population by 3 million, more or less.

    In other words, we're in deep trouble already.

  20. Re:Someone's going to complain on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 1

    nobody bothered to tell you? There's an app for that, you know.

  21. Re: Black holes are real, we observe them all the on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 2

    Third time's the charm: trying to come up with something you can just click-and-read:

    This one's in html:

    http://file.scirp.org/Html/1-7...

  22. Re: Black holes are real, we observe them all the on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 1

    whoops, forgot there's stuff on arxiv: just read this one:

    http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1008

  23. Re: Physics breakdown on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 1

    sorry, I forgot about this arxiv article:

    http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1008

  24. Re:Black holes are real, we observe them all the t on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 1

    No, the science isn't settled.

    http://www.worldcat.org/title/...

    But the metric being wrong means that black holes fail to satisfy conservation of energy. Assume that conservation of energy is satisfied and fix the metric -- you'll find that a cross term was dropped -- and it all works out.

  25. Re:Physics breakdown on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 1

    there are errors in the standard equations, such that the lagrangian breaks down there, because the standard equations do not properly account for energy conservation.

    http://www.worldcat.org/title/...

    Fix your metric, and it comes out correctly. And black holes then do mathe|atically exist.