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  1. Re:Lots of applications on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    Maybe i'm missing something, but wouldn't the blood's hemoglobin absorb this infused O2 anyway?
    It's the surface area of the lungs that does the magic.

  2. Re:Choking Mice on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    ... and before some clueless person likens it to suffocation:

    it's the CO2 buildup that causes the pain/discomfort there. Nitrogen does not block CO2 exchange, so the animal just falls unconscious.

  3. stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 5, Informative

    Who the hell is their focus group? I've not met a single person who doesn't use the start button.

  4. Re:it's "Ordnance" on Army Creates a Directed Lightning Bolt Weapon · · Score: 1

    Military speak. As others have said, it's ordnance that failed to go boom. Destruction of said unexploded ordnance is one of the things anti-material rifles and EOD bots are used for. "Explosive ordnance" is actually a thing, too - ordance that is intended to explode on use (vs something like a bullet)

  5. Re:lightning to stop cars ? on Army Creates a Directed Lightning Bolt Weapon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not much on reading are you? That's exactly what this does.

    The lightning is guided in a laser-induced plasma channel, then it deviates from the channel when it gets close to the target and has a lower-resistance path to ground.

  6. Re:smoking pot is betterer on Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software · · Score: 1

    No, it was the posturing of the driver and complete obliviousness to the people honking and yelling around them that tells me they were impaired.

  7. Re:if you drink, don't drive on Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software · · Score: 1

    Sure, I'd love to take a cab and pay almost $50 for the privilege...

  8. Re:smoking pot is betterer on Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software · · Score: 1

    Yea sure. I've watched people who were obviously high do really stupid shit, like start crossing the intersection in the "going forward lane" then cutting over to turn left, nearly causing a 3-car accident because people in the turn lane were fucking turning.

    If you are inebriated - BY ANYTHING - then stay the FUCK off the road.

  9. Re:if you already owe 10mil on Pirate Bay Founder Fined For 'Continued Involvement' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea, at that point if i wasn't a "real" criminal, I'd soon become one.

  10. Re:There is not even a way to remove it! on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 1

    Neat! Have to remember that.

    Seems though it wouldn't stop them from showing up on my phone, which is where my chief complaint with the "feature" is.

  11. Re:There is not even a way to remove it! on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 2

    I'm fine with it telling me they liked something.

    I have a problem with a friend liking Wal-mart 6 months ago, and now suddenly I'm seeing new photos that Wal-mart has uploaded.

    So, yea, either get rid of that or get rid of companies. After all, nobody is friends with a company, so they have no justification for being included.

  12. Re:License and registration please? on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    He's got a visa. He's not a "foreigner" of the likes I was replying to. He's allowed to be here, he's not a drug mule or illegal immigrant.

  13. Re:Nothing makes americans paranoid like the word. on The Google Transparency Project Transparency Project · · Score: 1

    We're supposed to have both. The right to bear arms came around back in the days where there was no difference between the gear the armed forces had and that which was available to the citizens. The gap has been getting wider yes, but wouldn't it be better to try, than to just give up?

  14. Re:Why? on Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. I've used it, several other open solutions, and several commercial offerings.

  15. Re:Nothing makes americans paranoid like the word. on The Google Transparency Project Transparency Project · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know, random examples and you don't really mean aything by it, but I felt I had to expand / defend. I totally agree with you in that "US Law" is not the same thing as "international law" and I do find it disgusting that our government tries to enforce it outside our borders and such.

    1: Executing citizens: very controversial and is not legal in many states. Is hardly used at a whim, and when it is used there is strong deliberation in the court whether to use it or go with something like life imprisonment. Again, this is only used against people like murderers.
    2: Jaywalking: makes sense in a place like new york, where people randomly crossing the street is not only dangerious but fucks up traffic. Most places people look before they cross and are curtious enough to not interrupt traffic, but at such high populations we can't rely on people being nice. Enforcement of this outside of major population centers is practically non-existant.
    3: We've had a bloody birth. The lack of checks is because of paranoia that the government can use the collected data to take them away from us. These guns are one of the few things keeping our government from outright fucking us all. Sure, there are some vocal nuts who make it seem like we just like guns, but that's not how it really is.

  16. Re:Why? on Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because those programs you mention are tuned towards actual composition, not hip-hop "beats" creation.

    (translation: too complicated)

  17. Re:Please Define on Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software · · Score: 2

    The difference between good hip-hop or electronic music and the bad stuff, is how much care and skill went into it's creation.

    You can tell when something was made without any effort, or was automated. Unfortunately stupid teenagers seem to be deaf to the difference.

  18. Re:There is not even a way to remove it! on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 4, Informative

    My special hate:

    Now I see status updates of pages liked by my friends, and the only way to get rid of them is to unsubscribe from the friend. I've taken to reporting every damn one of these updates that appear on my feed as spam.

  19. Re:Uhh on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    You're missing my point. How are they to enforce what you do off hours and on your own equipment? Are you supposed to let them come by and inspect your stuff? Monitor you 24/7?

  20. Re:Look, we've been over this on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    That matters if you are just after drug mules. What about people who are trying to get out of Mexico to live or work here? Totally different reasons, and you can't (currently) magically change your skin color because you want to leave.

  21. Re:I Wonder If They'll Check White People on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    Are you intentionally being dense? The AZ driver license are the papers.

  22. Re:License and registration please? on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you have a US-issued ID, you're not a "foreigner." Likewise if you have a SSN.

  23. Re:Fun! on New iPhone Prototypes Have Integrated NFC chips and Antenna · · Score: 1

    Wait, application updates aren't digitally signed or at least delivered via SSL?

  24. Re:Dear Canada: on Canadian DOJ Warned About Unconstitutionality of Copyright Digital Lock Rules · · Score: 2

    Maybe I'm misreading here, but it seems that the Department of Justice (of Canada?) is taking the rational side here. Did I read this wrong?

  25. Re:How about Hitler? on Voice Algorithms Spot Parkinson's Disease · · Score: 1

    Those recordings lack the fidelity for such analysis.