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  1. Re:Read your own link on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    research has identified nicotine's indirect involvement in cancer formation in animal models and cell cultures.[60][61][62] Nicotine increases cholinergic signalling and adrenergic signalling in the case of colon cancer,[63] thereby impeding apoptosis (programmed cell death), promoting tumor growth, and activating growth factors and cellular mitogenic factors such as 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX), and epidermal growth factor (EGF). Nicotine also promotes cancer growth by stimulating angiogenesis and neovascularization.[64][65] In one study, nicotine administered to mice with tumors caused increases in tumor size (twofold increase), metastasis (nine-fold increase), and tumor recurrence (threefold increase).[66] N-Nitrosonornicotine (NNN), classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a Group 1 carcinogen, has been shown to form in vitro from nornicotine in human saliva, indicating nornicotine is a carcinogen precursor.

  2. Re:Am bad because I'm happy this happened on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Perhaps you should try reading the entire thing and try understanding the context instead of taking Oliver North's word for it. The NRA has gone utterly psycho ever since they put that traitor in one of the leading roles in what should be a rifle club and not a political bunch calling for the overthrow of government.
    The second amendment is not a deliberate self destruct button of the USA no matter how many times the NRA keep trying to tell you that - and this is all utterly irrelevant to the discussion since the shooter was far too old to be defined as part of the Militia anyway.

  3. Re:Am bad because I'm happy this happened on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for trying anyway.
    It's a start. Maybe in a few years you'll be able to think for yourself since that's slightly more than regurgitating Oliver North's NRA propaganada

  4. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    But I think society needs disrupting factors such as him

    Maybe I was that naive once, but I'm certainly not now after meeting a few "disrupting factors" who speak like that - one of who is going to be in prison for a very long time after killing the child he molested. Milo is serious about it, he's not just asking questions about limits. That's why some fairly extreme groups decided to distance themselves from him before he does more than just advocate criminal actions and gets caught perpetrating them.

  5. Re:Am bad because I'm happy this happened on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think I am wrong than how about stating something actually relevant to the 19th, 20th or 21st centuries to show it?

  6. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't judge a person based on ONE statement,

    You haven't been paying attention if you somehow think it was just one statement that made some fairly extreme groups decide that Milo was far too extreme for them.
    Google "milo pedophillia" to be updated on what happened.

    To sum up he doesn't just hate women and people who care about society. He hates your entire way of life and thinks it's fine if someone preys on your children.

  7. Re:Am bad because I'm happy this happened on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    that right that has been used to uplift and free so many people from tyranny and oppression.

    “You could not run a coal company without machine guns” Richard Mellon

  8. Re:Am bad because I'm happy this happened on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you are serving the State in the role of a member of the Militia then you are not in the Militia.
    You are a citizen that can be called for the role but you are not in the role.

    This is all utterly irrelevant to gun ownership anyway otherwise you'd have to give up your guns when you hit the maximum age for a member of the Militia.

  9. Re:Right to bear arms on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    armed state, which is pretty much the reason the 2nd Amendment

    Indeed, it's explicitly there to arm the State.
    Oh you meant something else? Some sort of self-destruct button for the State? How about you actually read the thing and keep the National Guard in mind instead of whatever lies Oliver North at the NRA is telling you.

  10. Re:Right to bear arms on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I just wanted to point out that the 2nd isn't absolute, you have to behave yourself to secure it. Our shooter today clearly didn't meet that standard.

    While it's convenient for gun clubs to pretend that the Amendment was about something other than the National Guard it's really just a convenient lie.

    The guy was over 60 as well - take a look at the 2nd Amendment and you'll see he's outside the age range defined.

  11. Re:Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Emergency departments are full of living people banged up beyond belief.
    Guns are really good tools for killing. Other ways, not so simple.

  12. Read your own link on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    The source did not say what you just pretended it did.
    Inhaled nicotine is very well know to damage lung tissue so your distraction about skin patches has nothing at all to do with that.

  13. Re:Avoid Tape Backup on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see the validity of tape for anything cheaper than that though

    With respect it appears that you have not actually "looked" so that is why you "don't see".
    I've got a site with an LTO4 cycling through ten tapes to cover volumes adding up to a few TB - dirt cheap in comparison to what you have suggested and it gets the job done so long as someone changes the tape every weekday. Go up to LTO7 and that cheap single drive solution can fit up to 6TB per day.

    'virtual' tape library which is a hard drive array that pretends it's a tape.

    Yes, all the inconvenience of a tape system without the ability to be unplugged when the disaster happens. A couple of cheap and nasty home "NAS" systems that can take it in turns to be live and on the network is far more sane than a pretend tape that is always online.

  14. Re:Avoid Tape Backup on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    1.5 TB is a single home hard drive

    Which is why you consider buying more than one tape cartridge to go into that tape drive.

    For enterprise use, a tape better hold a lot more than that

    Ah - goalpost shift to a situation where "cheap" doesn't matter so much! In that case use slightly less cheap tapes that hold more than that.

    The days of having an operator babysitting the backup ready to "insert disc 27/42" are over

    There is software, some of it even free, that handles that (eg. staggered full backups over volumes and incrementals in between).

  15. Re:Hate filled libtard on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Mistake?
    More integrity and honour?
    WTF is it with the partisan shit here these days?

  16. Re:Hate filled libtard on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe even a patriot.
    Who knows.
    With all this Russian backchannel action going on there are a few people pissed off for a few reasons.

  17. Re:Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And regarding the 2nd Amendment

    Don't worry, you are not likely to be called up into a militia so it's utterly irrelevant to your life.
    Oh you mean the Oliver North NRA bullshit that you are all already in the military even without having the guts to sign up? Why should you believe a traitor?


    Can we please stop having these amendment rants? They have nothing at all to do with the topic since State gun laws define if you can have a gun or not (eg. felons can't legally have them, which would not be the case if it was a constitutional right). Just as well since if it was only the amendment granting the right to have a gun you'd have to give up on your guns in your 40s.

  18. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you're referring to

    I'm referring to a person who advocates sexual assault on children.

  19. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    talking about his childhood situation

    Keep looking, you'll find that it was a hell of a lot worse than that which lost him some speaking engagements.

  20. Re:Avoid Tape Backup on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Backing up to a dedicate disk store has worked very well for us

    There's a former web hosting business that used to located near me that it didn't work well with and they lost everything. Disk is fine - having it online when things go wrong is not because the "backup" gets stuffed up as well in many failure situations.
    I'm a big fan of having an online copy of data, but it's not a real backup and will not always help when you need it.

    We still have tapes, but those are solely for offsite archives

    Good idea especially offsite.

  21. Re:Avoid Tape Backup on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    That's called setting the bar high and is typically not used honestly when people are discussing a general case. Maybe you didn't even know you were doing it.

  22. Re: Drug delivery device on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    Nicotine doesn't cause cancer

    Who told you that utter garbage and why do you believe them?

  23. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I quite like the guy, simply because he's politically incorrect.

    Have some kids and then think about what that guy is suggesting is OK to be done to them and you'll get some understanding of how incorrect he is and why people don't like him.

  24. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    * yeah, I did that on purpose, whose has racist thinking now?

    I don't get it - aren't hillbillies white?

    Yes that was on purpose too. It's kind of cute seeing Americans going on about poor usage of the English language.

  25. Re:Avoid Tape Backup on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A backup is better than a badly working, slow or intervention-prone backup which is synonymous to cheap tape system offers ($100k)

    If $100k is a cheap tape system then I've got a cheap bridge to sell you.
    LTO5 drives come down in price a lot since the newer LTO types have come out, and you can hold a lot of stuff with staggered backups over a few of those 1.5Tb tapes at less than $30 each.
    It doesn't take a massive amount of data before the combined drive and tape cost beats external USB drives.
    The important thing is so long as you have something that is not actually connected when disaster strikes. A tape or USB drive that is not physically connected to the machine when things go wrong is the idea.