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  1. Re:When did the mother gopher die? on The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (minnpost.com) · · Score: 1

    2007? Downloaded the 2.7 GB "Full Gopher Archive from 2007" on April 30 2010. Pretty sure there was a story here at the time.

  2. Re:I can see the pattern now on New Study Shows Why Big Pharma Hates Medical Marijuana (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever the drug companies think is bad for their business, must be good for the consumers.

    Yes, and there is far more profit in anticancer drugs than pain pills. Which is why they hate vaping even more than medical marijuana and use bigger lies and the junker 'junk studies' to back the lies. Follow the money to find the lies. Fortunately for medical marijuana proponents big pharma has fewer allies as most politicians think that marijuana will increase tax revenue but they know that people switching from smoking tobacco to vaping will decrease it.

  3. CrossOver has done similar for many years on TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent · · Score: 1

    Their ULA has a clause you agree to wash the developers cars. Retracted at the end with a warning "You really should read these things!". Still never do more than skim them.

  4. Re:Sounds like anti-vaxxers on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Pro-vaccine but anti-GMO here, don't lump people into one group. Some of us are concerned about ecological implications of GMO as well as predatory and questionable business practices of companies like Monsanto. GMO isn't JUST about the food, there's a bigger picture to take into account.

    Um, you might want to research what they used to replace the mercury with when they went from 8 shots in the 80s to 49 today. I want to return vaccines to what I had in the 60s. Seemed to be quite adequate for millions of us. Nice comprise between none and way the heck too many in my book.

  5. Re:No problem on E-Cigs Are Exploding In Vapers' Faces At An Alarming Rate (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually there is only one known death so far and it was due to choking. Toddler and the autopsy report is sealed so it not known if it was choking due to vomiting up the E-liquid (which is typical with many child 'poisonings') or he choked on the cap which was never found.

    Also unknown if the cap was child proof to begin with. Many E-liquids have used these for years even though they will not be required by law until next month when the FDA deeming regulations start taking effect.

  6. Don't forget suicides due to Chantix. Oh, and many of the exploding batteries are loose in someones pockets, not 'In someones face'. So user error is too blame. These batteries are far more powerful than the AAs people are far more familiar with and less forging when you do something stupid.

  7. Re:Simple question on FDA To Regulate E-Cigarettes Like Tobacco (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Um there are many reasons all of which boil down to money. The deeming is designed so that no one except large tobacco companies can afford the estimated 1500 hours and one million dollars (per SKU) to get there products approved. The large open tank systems and multitude of flavors will all go away. Only the sealed 'cig alikes' will remain. Which are far less effective at helping people quit smoking combustible cigarettes than the larger second and third generation devices. Second is lost revenue from both direct taxes and the Master Settlement Agreement. Which is a hidden tax that a hand full of states including California spent before they even received it by selling bonds. So many people have quit smoking in recent years that several states are at risk of default on these bonds. Third is that the rabid anti smoking zealots would be out of a job if the truth was told about how harmless vaping is compared to smoking. The Royal College of Physicians released a report just a week ago which confirms what us mere mortals have been saying for years. At least 95% less harmful, not a gate way, etc.

  8. Michael Pollan, have it in my 'sig file'. Who is the second quote? Yes, I know LMFGTFY...

  9. You know, that whole "moderation" thing...

    Remember, moderation in all things, except, perhaps, dietary diversity!
    --James A. Duke

    Though I do agree with gosand's other views.

  10. Re:Reach of misinformation on Research Establishes 13-Hour Gap Between Viral Misinformation and Correction (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    A particular information is that the "correction" often fails to travel as far as the original misinformation.

    Almost always fails to travel as far. And a more recent and still ongoing example than Columbine are the junk studies bashing electronic cigarettes. Every one has been countered or exposed as the junk it is yet they keep coming and have for over five years.

  11. Re:An increase in phishing? on IRS Warns Of 400% Flood In Phishing and Malware This Tax Year Alone (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Got my first from the 'IRS' a week ago, so I have seen an increase. Email address was in the UK which in hindsight probably would be an improvement:) Filled it in with gibberish and profanities and when I submitted it they complained that I was not excepting cookies.

  12. Re:Aim to not be Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Overfl on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Problem with allowing editing of posts is getting metamoded. Happened to me with a signature which can be edited. Live goatse link which I moderated as troll, they then changed their sig and I got slapped. Meta moderators should be able to see both the post and signature as they were when the moderation was applied. If the original moderation no longer applies it should be removed with out penalizing whoever made it.

  13. Re:Still can't separate fact from fiction on The Next Gold Rush Will Be 5,000 Feet Under the Sea, With Robot Drones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought when I saw the headline. Remember reading the story about mining magnesium nodules when in grade school. Not the internal school newspaper but one distributed to multiple schools. Weekly Reader comes to mind but dang that was a long time ago.

  14. Think he means missing specks of dust. on Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    There are few if any missing moon rocks. Other than the small ones gifted to politicians... While there may be many missing samples these are extremely tiny and often intended to be consumed by whatever test they were being subjected to. http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com/2011/dec/0222.html Nothing to be concerned about here, lots of other things do deserve our attention.

  15. Just one word. on Plastic Waste Threatens Marine Diversity · · Score: 1

    Looks like Mr. McGuire was wrong.

  16. Re:WEB hosting isn't expensive on EFF Slams Google Fiber For Banning Servers On Its Network · · Score: 1

    Exactly! I wish my web hosting would compete with my ISP rather than the other way around. Lots of cheap hosting options for us wanna bees.

  17. Isaac Asimov predicted this on X Chromosome May Leave a Mark On Male Fertility · · Score: 1

    Actually not, but he did write this pun filled song - to the tune of "Home on the Range,"

    Oh, give me a clone
    Of my own flesh and bone
    With its Y-chromosome changed to X
    And when it is grown
    Then my own little clone
    Will be of the opposite sex.

    More if you search for it.

  18. Re:Learn the truth ... apk on Animation Sophistication: The Croods Required 80 Million Compute Hours · · Score: 0

    G. Rover Cripes! Slashdot needs a minus 10,000 mod so no one is ever subjected to this again.

  19. Re:Impact energy not the same for small objects on Mosquitos Have Little Trouble Flying in the Rain · · Score: 1

    One more possibility is a mother and her young. Many species of bats carry their young while feeding, and can fly with a surprisingly large one if they are relocating to a new roost.

  20. Claude Cooper on GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due · · Score: 1

    Claude Cooper perhaps? And are they clean?

  21. Re:i can see the headline now on AT&T Goes After Copper Wire Thieves · · Score: 1

    Only if the Kleptos name is Claude Cooper.

  22. Re:Chinese Chestnut? on The Genome of Your Thanksgiving Supper · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Who eats Chinese chestnuts?" Me for one, but yes true American chestnuts are noticeably sweeter. Though sadly much smaller... You neighbor should contact the American Chestnut Foundation and see if they might want to add his trees genome to their program. Which is to produce a blight resistant 15/16 American chestnut to restore back into the eastern forests. These folks have been quietly working on this for over 25 years and are very close to achieving their primary goal.

  23. Re:Google Groups on R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For instance, how to do you start a new Usenet group (on that has to be replicated) - it's kinda hard, IIRC.

    Pop in alt.config and ask. Things are so slow they sometimes forget to insult the proponents.

    If your wanting a Big-8 group you may be pleasantly surprised to find there is no longer a formal voting procedure. news.groups has moved next door to the moderated news.groups.proposals where a tiny bit of grovelling may get you a group in as little as a few weeks.

    Meanwhile the alt-configers who read (but seldom post to) n.g.p hang around in n.g mocking the few remaining news groupies. Seriously, if you have been away for a few years things are quite different!

  24. Re:New band names. on Bizarre Properties of Glass Allow Creation of "Metallic Glass" · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Air Liquide" Never heard of them. Let me guess - Too much LDS in the 60s?

  25. Re:14th Most Obese in Country on Georgia's New State Health Plan Is Google · · Score: 3, Informative

    MARTA's subway line only goes to about 3 useful places [itsmarta.com]: the airport, downtown, and perimeter mall, while a majority of people live in Cobb County, which rejected having anything to do with a Marta rail line (think: "It will bring in the colored people to steal our TV's!").


    Racism was only a tiny part of the issue. Money for example was much larger. The real reason Cobb rejected MARTA was lingring bitterness over Atlanta killing the trolley lines back in the 1950s. When MARTA was first proposed in the late 60s or early 70s (sorry I forget exactly when) Cobb was told it would be dead last in getting rail, and would have to pay the extra 1% sales tax for decades. Naturally the citizens of Cobb told them to stick it!

    Had they (I have since moved to the boonies) joined MARTA then, Cobb still would not have rail today. Good call in my book.