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  1. Re:I can't see how this will work on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you get a job, you get that money on top of the basic income. A job or no job could be the difference between ramen every night and having real food and a car.

  2. Re:FCC's trying to break improving router firmware on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    DD-WRT includes radio firmware, but there's no reason it has to. DD-WRT specifically lets you alter output power and frequency beyond what is allowed by the FCC.

  3. Re:FCC's trying to break improving router firmware on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Speed limiters on cars are easy to defeat and can be a little difficult to implement; plus, there are legitimate (though limited) uses for such things (track use, places with no speed limits, etc). A consumer router with unlocked radio firmware that allows you to broadcast on unlicensed frequencies at high power? Not so much.

    Speeding is also much easier to police.

  4. Re:FCC's trying to break improving router firmware on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're trying to end 3rd party *radio* firmware, because so many of them allow you to boost power levels well beyond what is allowed by current regulations.

    They don't give a whit about router firmware. Of course, the end result will probably be manufacturers locking down router firmware entirely, but all they would need to do is lock down the radio itself.

  5. Re:SolidWorks and Word on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 2

    Yes, it's not even close when you get to anything other than very basic formatting. I tried to open a few lab reports in OpenOffice recently, and the formatting was completely incomprehensible. It's laughably bad.

  6. Re:Need to modify this for lionfish on Robot Submarine Poisons Sea Stars To Save Coral Reefs · · Score: 1

    Lionfish swim in the water column, and they can move quite quickly when they want to.

  7. Re: Neti Pots on Brain-Eating Amoeba Scoffs At Chlorine In Water Pipes · · Score: 1

    Distilled "and/or" RO.

    It's marketed as purified because it may not be distilled.

  8. Re:Neti Pots on Brain-Eating Amoeba Scoffs At Chlorine In Water Pipes · · Score: 1

    Purified and distilled are two separate things. Purified really just means filtered (paper filter, reverse osmosis, etc).

  9. Nope. Typo. on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 5, Informative

    "545 AD and 568"

    1) This was a typo. It was between 568 and 645 AD.
    Here's the original article:
    http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/ne...

    "Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% accuracy. The test was carried out in a laboratory at the University of Oxford. The result places the leaves close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad, who is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632."

    2) They dated the paper, not the ink. It was common to scrape and reuse paper. It also only dates the time the plant or animal died.

  10. Re:Summary on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 2

    Sorta, yeah, but the selling point is the smart home integration side of the equation.

  11. Re:Summary on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    No, it's a router. It has two ethernet ports.

    Even if it didn't, it would still be a router if it routed between two different networks. An access point does not do that. I'm not sure you understand what "router" means. You could very easily have a router with one, or with zero, physical ports.

  12. Re:Summary on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    It has one available wired port. The blurb is wrong. The OnHub has WAN and LAN ethernet ports, allowing you to plug in one wired device (which can easily be a switch).

  13. Re:wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    The entire point of a router is route between two or more networks. That's what this does. My EdgeRouter has three ports, allowing routing between 3 networks. I only use 2. The LAN port of the router then attaches to a gigabit switch about 30 feet away.

    There's no real reason to have a switch built into the router.

  14. Re: another vaccine on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    A couple of days of flu-like symptoms is somewhat unfortunate, but

    1) It's not transmissible
    2) There's a 0% chance of mortality.

  15. Re:another vaccine on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    There is literally zero chance of getting the flu from the flu shot. FYI.

    Be skeptical of your own knowledge.

  16. Re: Smartphones have problems too on Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car · · Score: 2

    This is not true. Assisted GPS doesn't rely on cell networks, it makes use of cell networks for faster fixes. They still work fine without service, but they do take much longer to get a fix. This is evidenced by the fact that you can put your phone in airplane mode and hold it near the window of an airliner and still get a 10-satellite fix.

    Now, that said, you may be able to have maps downloaded for offline use, but in Google Maps searching and route-finding still require a data connection, limiting its usefulness.

  17. Re:another vaccine on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 3

    It's usually spread through the air. And it's not a big deal for a young healthy person to get it... the problem is that this one young healthy person will spread it to many other people, some of whom will be elderly or otherwise sick or immunocompromised.

    The flu kills something like 30,000 people every year. The flu. Thirty thousand deaths. No one cares if *you* get the flu, but they might care about the person you give it to who ends up dying from it.

    The reason for everyone to get vaccinated is because high vaccination rates go a long way to preventing transmission, and thus preventing deaths.

    tl;dr Get your flu shot.

  18. Re:Nothing open to the sky on 2 Arrested In Plot To Fly Contraband Into Prison With Drone · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there are, but not what I meant!!

  19. Re:n=6? Seriously? on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 2

    30 mice and 6 ferrets. The results are pretty impressive.

    Another related study published today in Science also showed very positive results in monkeys.

    This is good, important news.

  20. Re:Nothing open to the sky on 2 Arrested In Plot To Fly Contraband Into Prison With Drone · · Score: 2

    County "prisons" are usually jails and reserved for terms of a year or less, though there are exceptions.

    In prisons, where people can spend decades, we owe it to ourselves as a society to have some degree of humanity. There are a lot of people fighting for the cruel and capricious use of solitary confinement.

  21. Re:Metabolic rate doesn't vary that much on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    Those doctors and scientists aren't disagreeing with what I'm saying. I will totally concede that serious medical conditions such as sleep apnea contribute greatly to metabolic rate differences.

    My post was about typical people without medical metabolic disturbances.

  22. Re:Metabolic rate doesn't vary that much on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    My reply to this would be that your eating habits changed without you realize it. This is very, very common, especially if you're spending several more hours a day asleep.

  23. Re:Metabolic rate doesn't vary that much on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry about your illness. That sucks. There are, of course, a number of diseases and disorders that greaty affect the calorie out side of the equation directly. These aren't really very common, however, and cannot even come close to explaining the "obesity epidemic."

  24. Re:Metabolic rate doesn't vary that much on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    I took for granted that people would understand I meant that BMR doesn't vary much between people who are otherwise physically similar. Anyway, from your links, it's only a quarter *of the individual variation.* Did you look up to see what the total between-subject variation was, and therefore how much a quarter of that variation is? Hint: it's not that much. It amounts to about half a candy bar.

    As for the second: "However, this study did not account for the sex, height, fasting-state, or body fat percentage of the subjects."

  25. Re:Metabolic rate doesn't vary that much on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    It doesn't vary much from what can be expected based on known variables: namely, age, gender, fat mass, fat free mass, age. That is, given two people who are otherwise equivalent in terms of age, gender, and body composition, BMR is not going to vary much between them.

    In other words, BMR is largely determined by body composition, age, and gender.