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  1. Re:Marrow? on Print-On-Demand Bone Could Quickly Mend Major Injuries (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not sure if I was clear enough.
    The way similar things have been used previously is they are butted up against real living bone, so the real bone, including the marrow, grows into the portion of the implant that is left open for this to happen.

    Having something the same strength, density and hardness as existing bone has a lot of advantages. Each time the recipient moves the implant flexes against other things and a very hard surface grinds away bone into tiny pieces which can confuse white blood cells enough that they attack attached bone as well as the fragments, which means eventually hard implants end up being very loosely attached and need to be replaced with ones going into fresh bone.

    Taking notes at a materials science conference twenty years ago has finally paid off :)

  2. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If it was wind powered you'd probably do things mechanically instead of electrically - pump masses of air through filters instead of all the lossy steps of generating power and then an intense electric field.

  3. Re:potential backfire on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    The internet belongs to the NSA, GCHQ and NRO. No data flows domestically or as international data in or out without their tracking it.

    Indeed, but from various leaks it appears the NSA at least can't find their arse with both elbows so while they have stuff on a disk somewhere what are they going to do with it? They couldn't even spot the "Arab Spring" happening until they saw it on Fox.

  4. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is the lesser of two evils. Why?

    I thought I was being very explicit that there is not much point making that comparison. It's about choosing someone suitable and not the lesser evil.

    Hillary, on the other hand, is a skilled politician who would wreck this country if she managed to implement only a fraction of her stated agenda.

    Yes, yes, women wrecking the joint and all that - even though I think she is slime unfit for office aren't you going a bit far beyond ridiculous with the "wreck this country" line?

    Are you pushing the line of "Hillary is bad too so vote for Trump?" Yes or no?

  5. Re:Marrow? on Print-On-Demand Bone Could Quickly Mend Major Injuries (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The key word to keep in mind here is "scaffold".
    The body fills in the gaps like with the porous surfaces that started coming in on various titanium implants around 2000.
    Adjacent bone grows into the gap.

  6. Re:Marrow? on Print-On-Demand Bone Could Quickly Mend Major Injuries (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm curious as to the body's ability to use this for marrow

    It's not marrow, it's the hard stuff like on the surface of your teeth.
    The body fills in the gaps just like around joint replacements.

  7. Re:The nature of the Trump-fans is pretty obvious on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    While that may be true it doesn't by magic turn Trump into a Prince even if he acts as if he is as entitled as one.
    He's a scumbag that should not be trusted near taxpayers money. You don't have to play the "lesser of too evils" game.

  8. Re:potential backfire on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    My money is on a few annoyed script kiddies doing their attack of the week got annoyed by the same thing at once.

  9. Re:potential backfire on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    It got too complicated once Trump did the birther thing and then understood that he could game the media enough to run for President.

  10. Re:potential backfire on Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    Putin wins no matter who gets elected. Nobody is seriously considering getting in his way.

    What is amusing is that Trump is getting finance from Russian banks because others don't trust him. Another thing that is more depressing than amusing is that Trump does not see Putin for what he is or just doesn't care.

  11. - what about artistic nudes? Is this thing smart enough to discriminate between guys with cameras and the good stuff?

    Of course not, you'd need an automatic poet for that.
    To do it just follow Stanislaw Lem's instructions.
    First simulate a universe ...

  12. Re:uhm, these are standard on most factories on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    but didn't include the scrubbers? So this is exciting how?

    Scrubbers are for the NOx and SOx while precipitators are for dust, smoke etc.

    If they were standard, or also fitted on vehicles, there would not be such an air pollution problem.

    What you see there is a "libertarian" set of rules about pollution. Until you put something in milk that obviously is killing kids it's fair game.

  13. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Batteries are pretty good these days and you can put a lot of them on a bike. I had some students in 2000 who took the frame of a 125cc motorbike, stuck lead-acid batteries everywhere, fitted a motor and that thing could go. With the batteries of today you could get a lot more range with something that doesn't have to be very big - a Vespa sized thing is going to get you up hills.

  14. Re:If only we could stop the creation of smog... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I clicked on the comments to write exactly what the above poster wrote. Somebody please mod the above poster up, they have nailed it, but I have no points today.

  15. Re:Why so aggressive? on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You should never have replied with your ignorant shit in the first place.
    There are a lot of reasons to use virtual machines, but never security since a single machine with the same environment as the VM has exactly the same flaws apart from those extra ones that come from VM breakout to the host to make a mess of other VMs. Due to that virtual machines are less secure than the alternative of real machines.
    At least you've given me something to laugh at.

  16. Re:Why so aggressive? on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In the meantime, I'll keep on using VMs for security

    What does your boss think of such an unusual choice for such a task instead of something actually designed for security? That is of course assuming you are doing more than just running a single Window XP instance on your desktop for legacy software and are actually doing what you suggest you are doing.

    Perhaps your superiors could tell you about zones, jails, containers or the many other tools actually designed for the job?

    BTW - here are a few more of those things you say never happen:
    http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13042-013-0166-4

  17. Re:Why so aggressive? on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I already responded to your examples

    A good analogy is that you responded to my proof that horses exist with a request for delivery of a very special pony.
    Any chance of a real response instead of a pathetic goalpost shift?

    Linux and BSD are both plagued with monolithic kernels

    As is Microsoft Windows, OS X and nearly everything else. This is getting weird. Do you really know anything at all about the topic or did you just see my name and decide to try to bait me?

  18. Re:Why so aggressive? on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't help noticing that instead of addressing the examples I gave you decided to attack me instead.
    Says a lot doesn't it?
    I don't need to project do I?


    Using a VM adds a new class of vunerability instead of security. If you want something for security use something designed for it instead of a totally different tool. You are suggesting something akin to hammering in a nail with a drinking glass - WRONG TOOL FOR THE JOB.

  19. Re:Just...stop on Microsoft Forms New AI Research Group Led By Harry Shum (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you provide some proof that we will NEVER have AI? Because the way I see it, and I have been doing real AI for 15 years, it's going to be everywhere, and I'm not talking about machine learning. This is the next logical step that is part of the information revolution.

    We keep on hearing about all this ELIZA reheated stuff in the news and everything else seems to be lost in the noise.
    What is "real AI" these days?
    I suspect the above poster is like me and has not even heard about the sort of stuff you are working with through the noise.

  20. Re:Just...stop on Microsoft Forms New AI Research Group Led By Harry Shum (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    the human body is just a complex machine that follows certain rules

    You could also say that about the universe.

    With your logic, humans are not intelligent

    All we have so far is circular definitions for intelligence (boiling down to humans are intelligent because they are humans) since we don't know a lot of those rules.

  21. Re:Just...stop on Microsoft Forms New AI Research Group Led By Harry Shum (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    These days toothpaste is nanotech, hoverboards are just electric skateboards and android programming isn't getting lifelike humanoid robots to do clever stuff.

    Many of the best terms get taken away by marketing types and shat on.

  22. Re:Why so aggressive? on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    You are bitching about all kinds of shit unrelated to the topic.
    What does that tell you?

    virtual machines are used for security

    Idiocy, but not really yours - you have been fooled by marketing and are only spreading what you have been told.
    If you had taken a look at wikipedia before using VMs for "security" then you would have known better.

  23. Re:Panel on top is a feature? on Raspberry Pi Foundation Unveils New LXDE-Based Desktop For Raspbian Called PIXEL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Does the fact that my configuration files differ from the default ones mean that I created a new desktop environment?

    Some window managers allow enough changes that they may as well be, for instance the Enlightenment window manager had themes that acted like Macs (until the lawyers swooped), NeXT, Irix, ms windows and so on.
    I'd say the changes were probably very trivial but "road testing" them was the important bit.

  24. Re:Why so aggressive? on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you do anything other than whine and get things wrong?
    All it took for me to find those examples you pretended could not possibly exist was a google search - but it turns out I didn't even have to do that - there is even a wikipedia article FFS!

  25. Re:Toyota Way: All of section 2, principles 5, 6, on US Department of Labor Is Suing Peter Thiel's Startup 'Palantir' For Discriminating Against Asians (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I was sort of taking that as read but since various people have attempted to apply "quality assurance" with strict processes in areas that are reactive by nature then I suppose I can't.
    You don't want your R&D to be under strict process control. They are the ones finding out what you want as an end result and sorting out viable new processes after all.

    I've seen it implemented at a mechanical testing lab - a good fit there - but for something like component failure investigations there is a point at relatively early stages where there is no "book" to go by. You would end up with massive decision trees that would have newly developed options available nearly every time you get to some branches.