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  1. Re:Title is Correct on Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    colonies introduced to the dish expand to fill the areas in which they can survive and then mutate and spread into the areas in which they can not

    You mixed present and past tense. To be consistent:

    "... expand to fill the areas in which they can survive and then mutate and spread into the areas in which they can not survive without the mutation"

    "... expanded to fill the areas in which they could survive and then mutated and spread into the areas in which they could not prior to the mutation."

  2. Re:Title is incorrect on Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Bacteria "evade" and not "invade" antibiotics.

    They did indeed invade the part of the petri dish that was laced with antibiotics. After developing resistance there was no need for them to evade it.

  3. Re:Opensecrets.org Biggest Spenders dominated by on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Democrats had to choose between cutting off the flow from unions or letting corporations play by the same rules. There was no way the Dems were going to cut off that money hose.

  4. Re:inaccurate title on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 0

    $20M is peanuts compared to what other billionaires like George Soros are contributing.

  5. Where did that quote come from? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1
    When you post a quote you really should give the attribution. On their own website they describe the organization as:

    The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons - AAPS - is a non-partisan professional association of physicians in all types of practices and specialties across the country.

    Since 1943, AAPS has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine.

  6. Diseases can be controlled or eliminated; small pox, polio in many countries. Congratulations Sri Lanka.

  7. Re:Never report security vulnerabilites on Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If he had reported the vulnerability he wouldn't go to jail. But by exploiting it to make a candidate look bad he deserves what he'll get in jail.

  8. Consumption without production means you're printing money somewhere. That can only lead to inflation and eventual collapse.

  9. Re:Most nonsensical summary/title ever on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    GP is right.

    "We risk" how is it a risk if we do it intentionally?

    "Programming Inequality" what is not equal? That sounds like "we" are planning to intentionally cripple a segment of the population.

    "Our DNA" then the first sentence of the summary talks about artificial blood and chip implants, nothing to do with DNA

  10. Headline exaggeration on Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The general didn't express fear that robots would wipe out humanity (despite the Terminator reference).

    What he did say was that autonomous weapons need to adhere to the same rules of engagement as humans.

  11. It's brutal stuff from Japan, and could well lead to other countries making similarly robust demands. On tech specifically, the Japanese government called on the UK and EU, post-Brexit, to maintain cloud agreements between businesses at an international level, by safeguarding the "free transfer of data."

    Japan wants to use the Internet. That's really brutal all right.

  12. Facebook, ebay, YouTube, and Netflix on Apps Are Devouring the Open Web (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Internet searches are not the same as "time" spent. I don't doubt that the top few time wasters get most of the time. And of course Google knows all about YouTube anyway.

  13. What he wants and what works in the real world are apparently two different things. Cable TV offered the same deal when it started out - pay for content, no ads. It didn't work because there aren't enough people willing to reach into their pocket and pay the asking price for high quality content.

  14. Re:Good, but won't work on Richard Stallman: Online Publishers Should Let Readers Pay Anonymously (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Or he smashes the chair and does something else for a living.

  15. Re:How does it contradict? on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Taxes in the US are already lower than the EU. If Apple has to pay taxes they may as well bring the cash home.

  16. Selective memory on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary Clinton contacted Colin Powell to ask him about his use of a Blackberry while in the same role. According to a Federal Bureau of Investigations memorandum published today (PDF), Powell warned Clinton that if it became public that she was using a Blackberry to "do business," her e-mails would be treated as "official" record and be subject to the law. "Be very careful," Powell said according to the FBI. "I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data."

    So Hillary remembers every word of a brief conversation she had with Powell eight years ago, but she can't remember with the "C" in Classified stands for? Sure.

  17. Used hardware? on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    She's got a couple of hundred million in the bank and she's scrimping on the hardware? Incredible.

  18. Lawsuits on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They need to put on a show of trying to control drinking after the high profile rape case. Everyone knows it's just a ritual, but they need to do it.

  19. Re:Ask Detroit... on No Coding in Palo Alto? City Takes On Silicon Valley Growth (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Democrats and unions killed the Detroit that the auto companies built.

    Democrats maybe, but not necessarily unions.

    The problem Detroit had is similar to what Palo Alto is having now - lack of space. After WWII the auto companies needed to build big, new assembly lines to meet the post-war demand. There simply wasn't any place in Detroit to build those huge factories - so they moved away from the city. People who wanted to work for a living followed the jobs, what was left is history.

  20. Re:I Thought They Were Banned on FDA Finds Flaws In Theranos' Zika Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    She's banned from operating a lab. They're trying to get around that by selling devices instead operating them.

  21. There's something wrong with Theranos on FDA Finds Flaws In Theranos' Zika Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If the company had adhered to the FDA's rules from the beginning instead of doing everything they could to cut corners, deceive investors, and generally act like the law doesn't apply to them the FDA might have cut them some slack this time. But they poisoned that relationship. Now the FDA is going to make them follow the letter of the law, every time, no exceptions.

  22. So what's Java good for? User interfaces (GUI, WEB you name it) it's great. Need it OS independent? Use Java.

    I've used (or attempted to use) Java for user interfaces. I'm surprised you even mentioned that, it's the worst possible choice - even with the many attempts at providing a library (Struts, Spring, various desktop libraries, etc.). Do yourself a favor and learn Node.js

    OS independent for web programming? Nope, put it on Linux, there's really no other choice (well, Windows .Net is pretty good if you really want to use MS as a server). I've never found Java useful for desktop apps on any platform.

  23. Kind of like Electronic Health Records on Companies Are Developing More Apps With Fewer Developers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of having data entry people transcribing a doctor's notes we can give the doc an EHR and let him/her enter the data directly.

    Nobody cares if we replaced a fairly expensive resource with a very, very expensive resource.

  24. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Early Human Ancestor Lucy 'Died Falling Out of a Tree' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you had read the article you would know that the pattern of broken bones matches what happens when someone falls from a height of about 12 meters: broken legs on landing, then broken wrists and shoulders as the person tries to protect themself, then broken ribs and skull. Lucy had all of those; the broken wrists are especially interesting.

  25. Re:500 on Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't. But if you mentioned a Z/28 I might be with you.