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  1. Re:Many possibilities on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 1

    Before the parking pawl it was the only way to park your vehicle

    Just put it in gear when you park. No brake needed.

  2. Re:Isn't this the third or fourth reason for colla on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, there was a correlation between those viruses and funguses and CCD, but no causal like.

    They researchers give the bees TINY amounts of this pesticide, and POOF, they can create CCD on demand.

    So we know this pesticide causes CCD, and the most likely vector is via HFCS. Bee keepers start feeding bees HFCS in 2005-2006, right when CCD started occurring.

  3. Re:Flawed on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 1

    It is more likely that bees would get the pesticide directly via the environment than via highly processed corn product.

    Then why didn't CCD start happening in the 90s, when this pesticide came into wide use on corn?

    CCD didn't start happening until bee keepers started feeding their bees HFCS in 2005-2006.

  4. Frost prist! on Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c · · Score: 0

    nt

  5. I do enough of this in my day job. on Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c · · Score: 2

    May appeal to some, but...

  6. Re:Good Timing! on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Actually, I bet he is! Smoke em if you've got em!

    Then again, my grandmother died of throat and oral cavity cancer (smoking) at the ripe old age of 52, so be careful what you wish for.

  7. Re:Compuserve on Online Services: The Internet Before the Internet · · Score: 1

    Rich Daddy. Got it!

  8. Trade Wars! on Online Services: The Internet Before the Internet · · Score: 1

    I played that all the damn time on some Mac-hosted Hermes BBS in, oh, 1991 or so.

    I wish I could remember ANY of the names of the BBSes I frequented back then...

  9. Re:Anti-Gay? on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 2

    Personally, I consider marriage a religious ceremony

    except that it's not, because you can get married by a justice of the peace/judge/whatever.

  10. Re:Male and female mating on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 0

    Bigot

  11. Re:Our Biggest Problem To Solve on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Burn it to turn a turbine to charge a battery?

  12. Re:Error My Ass on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 2, Informative

    Keep in mind this "child" was 6'3" and 17 years old.
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    Yes, and he weighs 140lbs. He is unhealthily underweight, aka a toothpick with arms

  13. Re:Error My Ass on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 2

    but when a 160+ pound man
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    He is 140lbs and 6'3". That puts him solidly in the "underweight" BMI category.

  14. Re:Contradiction on Canadians Protest Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    If the price of oil has made wind power a cost-effective alternative, then why do they need to be subsidized?

    It's not YET, but it's clear to 100% of everyone that the cost of fossil fuels will continue to increase over the long term, until it's done.

    We're just-starting the process with subsidies while it's less painful, instead of later.

  15. Re:No, it does not on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Living in Canada, I can tell you - our healthcare system SUCKS. Have a broken arm? Go to the emergency room and sit there for 4 to 6 hours for someone to attend to you...

    The exact same thing happens in the US (triage is triage, after all), and then you get a $3000 bill in the mail.

    Sounds great, right?

  16. Re:If you didn't want to be seen... on World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry · · Score: 2

    Those are possibly the worst metaphors I've ever heard.

  17. Re:The "Mid-West" accent? on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    Nah, Garrison Kiellor has a very unique voice and accent. I can't even really place it, the way he hangs on certain words is just weird. Poetic and pleasant, but I've never heard someone "naturally" sound like him.

    Here's a random video from a Chicago newscast:

    http://www.nbcchicago.com/video/#!/news/local/Chicago-Marine-Killed-in-Afghanistan/141258583

    The female narrator has a midwestern "standard" accent, which a lot of people associate with hollywood movies where the people are supposed to have a non-ethic, "neutral" accent. Not from New York, not a Sarah Palin-esque "north woods" accent, but is supposed to be just "normal people"-sounding. Most American TV shows feature this accent.

    The man speaking in the video (the Marine's father) has a somewhat Chicago-sounding accent, but not too strong.

    Both fairly good examples of a midwest accent.

  18. Re:Lotus birth on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 1

    Woah, woah, hold your horses there pal.

    What's "in it for me" is that my first child, born in 2007, had severe jaundice (luckily he was OK after a ton of light therapy) and I was told that it was due to the OB who delivered him (a) taking way too long to disconnect the umbilical cord, and (b) holding my son too low for too long, so that a ton of blood (or maybe just thicker blood/RBCs?) flowed into him "downhill".

    Neither I nor my wife were jaundiced at birth, so it's not like we have a family history of it. I took the explanation I was given by experts.

    On to your other points:

    a) Nothing wrong with breastfeeding for a long time. I frankly think Americans are stop breastfeeding way too early.

    b) Co-sleeping is dangerous, full stop, especially for neonates/infants. If you manage to avoid smothering your infant by accident, then that's awesome, because I'm sure it is better for bonding. But the risks are way too great. Maybe if the baby is 9 months+, but even then....no way. Maybe a bed extender or something so you can be close without risk of smothering, but the risk or suffocating the child is way too great if you can just roll over on them.

  19. Um, what? That's exactly what they're doing. on Google Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street Addresses · · Score: 1, Informative

    What they are NOT doing is using the results given by people to define what the image says.

    Um, no, that's exactly what ReCaptcha is for! The standard ReCaptcha images are all from old books that were scanned in (and presumably had trouble being OCRed with high confidence), and Google used ReCaptcha to "read" the words.

    For heaven's sake, ReCaptcha's MOTTO is: "reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books"

    I read how it works. Multiple users are shown the same image, and once a few people have identified a given image as the same word, it's treated as the "correct" answer, and then later users have to match that answer to get past the ReCaptcha. This is why they show you more than one word....one word has a "known" answer, the other word is one they're still trying to figure out the "right" answer to.

  20. Re:Sci-Fi is Reel again on After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself · · Score: 1

    But... but... they must have the blinkenlights!

    Like the Nostromo/Mother control center in Alien.

    So....many...LIGHTS!!

  21. Re:Why is there a compatibility problem? on Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Man, I am SO happy I got out of web programming. What a nightmare to have to deal with shit like this.

    You're right, by the way. :)

  22. Re:Drink it on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 1

    Hint: There were no multivitamins thousands of years ago, when this practice originated.

  23. Re:Donate it to your child! on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 2

    Google "Jaundice", which can be a result of dumping too much blood into the kid. Unless you think the baby will be anemic, I'd recommend against it.

  24. Re:We thought about it.... and elected to 'donate' on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 1

    Now I read all sorts of things about keeping the umbilical cord 'whole' for longer helps with anaemia... i.e. letting the cord 'drain' for longer is better for the baby

    Unless you suspect the baby will be anemic, I'd recommend against draining all that blood into baby. Increases the risk of jaundice! Jaundice, if not detected/treated, = brain damage.

  25. Jaundice risk on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 1

    you have to cut the cord before it stops pulsating (that is, before all the blood in the cord has reached the baby). There's a growing body of evidence that your baby benefits from this blood, and the cord should be left intact.

    Dumping all that blood into the kid also increases the risk of jaundice. Untreated jaundice = brain damage.