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  1. Re:alrighty slashdotters with medical training on Victims of Mystery Attacks In Cuba Left With Anomalies In Brain Tissue (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Those reported sounds could just be people suddenly paying attention because of suggestion and fear after hearing about others. Try paying attention yourself and have fun listening to your own body, ringing in ears, transformer buzzings, slightly malfunctioning flourescent bulb screaming (yes, some do make high pitched noise and they shouldn't), etc. as you wind down for the evening and then lay in bed tonight.

    Until biopsy is done on brain tissue I'm voting for pathogen. And note no biopsy done to date, because it's drastic procedure.

  2. Re:alrighty slashdotters with medical training on Victims of Mystery Attacks In Cuba Left With Anomalies In Brain Tissue (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, because the effects of all those things are well known and inconsistent with the symptoms.

    It is well known what the effects of microwaves are, it heats tissues and can cause tumors in the parts of the body without blood circulation: eyes and testes. Incidence of such tumors higher in techs that work around the gear, especially in military. Look it up.

    So too effects of ultrasonic, infrasonic sounds of high decibel level.

    X-rays, now you make me laugh since I know very well the various effects of electromagnetic radiation from UV and up. I've worked in national lab and nuke plant and we were required to learn all symptoms and problems known to man caused by those. And they are VERY well known.

    The claims could just be paranoid apings of things the person heard others say.

  3. Re:Fopreign or Domestic on Kaspersky To Close Washington Office But Expand Non-State Sales (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It is known the United States Government spies on its citizens illegally; the fact that our government is trying to paint Kaspersky as bad is laughable. Ditto for the UK government that is such a lackey and bitch of the U.S. one.

  4. Re:If the other article I read is correct... on CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, take a look at zoomed in view, the sea has risen 2.1 meters in the last 1,000 years

  5. alrighty slashdotters with medical training on Victims of Mystery Attacks In Cuba Left With Anomalies In Brain Tissue (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I read the list of major infectious diseases in Cuba and see several that attack brain/nervous system and some of which can even cause "brain alteration"

    could this "attack" be a natural pathogen? It's the first thing that came to my mind reading the mass media hysteria over it, and after looking at all the interesting nasties that are in Cuba....

  6. Re:Value more than gold on Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Bitcoin 'Ought to be Outlawed' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter the *cause* for volatility, bitcoin has it while gold does not.

    No, photocopiers can't reproduce physical bill, that's been impossible for decades.

    Bank accounts are insured again that kind of fraud, Bitcoin is not. Silly of you to bring that up. You only bring up another way Bitcoin is inferior to currency.

    In summary, your arguments are those of the Bitcoin shill without logic or thought

  7. Re:Considering degrees go to women more... on To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering, Look to Community Colleges (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Indeed, and white men in particular have higher barriers in education and employment performance metrics than many minorities for whom lower standards are applied. It's disgusting, "equal opportunity" should not mean lower performance acceptable.

  8. Re:If the other article I read is correct... on CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Value more than gold on Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Bitcoin 'Ought to be Outlawed' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    no, more volatile than gold over its history. if the crypto is broken, the cryptocurrency's value goes to zero. Its existence assumes the existence of a global internet, also that governments won't destroy it. So, it has some risks that gold doesn't, though to be fair it is possible it could continue to rise in value over a long period of time unlike gold.

  10. The U.S. military is also sent to places where there are no oil interests, Afghanistans fossil fuel production is negligible and always will be. There is huge pro-israel agenda in the money spent on middle eastern stability, oil not the only concern.

    Electric cars benefit a sliver of the population, until they become cheaper there is no point subsidizing toys and status symbols for the well-to-do crowd

  11. Re:Sterilization on SpaceX Plans To Blast a Tesla Roadster Into Orbit Around Mars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    how is sterilization relevant when thing will be in orbit?

    anway we've already contaminated Mars, look it up, the kinds of sterilization done didn't wipe out some of the things we now know can surivive for millions of years on Mars dormant, just waiting for water.

  12. Re:You all need to read the FAQ from the Boring Co on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    you are ignorant of civil engineering to make that statement, plenty of other underwater tunnels in the world in different geologies and climates have trouble. cherry picking doesn't prove a point.

  13. Re:Drum roll please... on YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    what can I say, we're old...I'm in mid 50s. I and wife have children, they're grown and yes sometimes talk of sexual things.

    nope, not having place where topic of sex doesn't sometimes come up. happens at work, at home, even heard on the train. And of course we're having topic of sex in this thread, you've written it. Sex sex sex, it's everywhere.

  14. if you have to start by labeling opponents as "unitelligensia" you've already lost.

    The reality is that electric cars need to be subsidized to be competitive, which is equivalent to saying they're not competitive at all. That's because they're yet too expensive compared to fossil fuel cars.

    Yes, there will come a time when electric vehicles can stand on their own merits...but apparently that is not yet

  15. Re:Perl6, brought to you by PHP on Perl, Perl 6, and Two Application Frameworks Release 2017 Advent Calendars (perladvent.org) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    PHP may be a sloppy language that encourages buggy low-quality work such as Wordpress & modules....but you think anyone actually uses Perl 6 for anything? pfffft, Larry screwed around too long, the world at large has left it behind.

  16. Re:Intelligence without conscience? on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    yes they are, the longest lived ones have paid lawmakers to ensure their future which looks bright indeed.

  17. Re:Special Solution for a Special Problem on Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    nope

    Ultra-high voltage DC lines are a real thing and the preferred and most efficient long distance solution, working commercial 1500 miles (2400 km) is state of the art and longer lines are planned

  18. Re:Hollywood Solutions on Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    my PADD makes phone calls, does business email & scheduling, is part of a multi-factor auth system, orders stuff and pays bills.

    maybe yours is broken if it only does "consumption media"

  19. Re:ho boy, a redundant system at 10x the cost on Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ah but we have space to put additional express tracks next to existing runs, that's part of existing CTA plans already. That's *much* cheaper than putting track on new right-of-way or tunneling, no need for an exotic expensive contraption

  20. Re:the genie is not out of the bottle on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    okay, so we have a danger with automated systems with highly limited and filtered sets of data being put in charge of infrastructure, weapons systems, trading....

    sound right to you?

  21. Re:Drum roll please... on YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    topic of sex does come up at family get togethers strangely enough, a couple of bad guys are treating their wives badly and cheating ( you know, having SEX outside his marriage), one even made another woman pregnant.

    more news for you, when married people are visiting their old friends they do joke about sex sometimes. put on your shocked face.

    At work people gossip about celebrities and politiciians doing sexual things

    Oh look, the real world isn't like your little safe space between your ears, it's full of sex.

  22. Re:WTF does it take? on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 1

    that's good, you don't want to die or badly harm yourself. hope all of us here are like that.

    just pointing out what people in extreme misery, for example being tortured for weeks with only a certain death sentence at the end, have done.

  23. Re:If the other article I read is correct... on CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the oceans have been rising since the last ice age as things have been melting since the last ice age. It's normal.

    I will label you as a victim of your own paranoid hysteria and self-loathing.

  24. Re:If the other article I read is correct... on CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    some parts of Greenland have ancient layers of snow....others melt all the time. other parts were melted a few centuries ago and were green. wake me up when the truly ancient stuff melts away

  25. Re:Drum roll please... on YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    My employer is in the business where demographics and analysis of them are extremely important. Three different meansings uses of the word "sex" are relevant.

    You are a prude, not functioning in the mainstream of human interaction.