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  1. These are great design choices. Thanks!

  2. Wrong question on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 0

    A couple of things from an environmental noise consultant of some thirty-five years. Home treatment is expensive and can't be expected to make outdoors noise inaudible when short peaking sounds like dogs barking are involved. Once sensitized, noises are much more annoying, and can be annoying at lower levels than when first annoying. Second thing is, dog barking is a nuisance prohibited and regulated in virtually all jurisdictions in the US. The dog owner is responsible for curbing the noise and must be aware of that. Especially is in an HOA, there are often prohibitions against dog barking noise. While you're working out the situaiton with the neighbor, it may be possible to reduce impacts on sleep disturbance by relocating the bedroom to the other side of the house, and running a sleep machine with steady sound such as pink noise during sleeping hours. ... Sleep interference and allostatic load from chronic noise-produced startle or emotional stress are principal effects directly associated to noise worldwide. Regardless of what you can accomplish with the neighbor, make sure you get good sleep. Best of success.

  3. Olive Leaf Extract on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 0

    Used for centuries, the unassuming olive leaf when prepared as an extract and ingested is a powerful anti-viral and has tested effective against many different viruses. Even against ebola. Polio was the only virus Olive Leaf Extract couldn't knock out in clinical study. Don't count on the medical establishment to be aware of Olive Leaf Extract or include it in their response protocols. Just go down to the local health food store and pick some up. If you get a virus, stop eating, rest, drink plenty of water, and then take 500-1000 mg of Love Leaf Extract every couple of hours or so, and keep drinking water. It will do the job.

  4. Military+Industrial=FUBAR on Who Protects the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like STRATCOM is going to make the world safer by locking down the Internet, as if they could. As is "safety" is correlated to how tightly information flow is controlled. Let's see, do we have any other examples of societies that based "security" on information control? China, the former Soviet Union, ... oh yeah! Totalitarian regimes!! STRATCOM should go back into the hole from which it emerged. And tightly enforce information flow to and from its tiny, wretched, paranoid little domain.

  5. Bury Them WHERE? on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    So anyway- WHERE are you burying this thing? You wouldn't be residing in coastal California would you? Or somewhere near, say, New Madrid, Missouri?

  6. Just one more step... on Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database · · Score: 1

    But cards are so easy to forge or misplace. Now if they would just require a tattoo'ed number on the left arm of each Israeli citizen, that would make things much easier.

  7. Re:We have more oil? on Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x · · Score: 1

    Ok, a Billion barrels of oil. Wow. The US consumes about 20 Million barrels of oil *per day*. So, this deposit, IF it exists, and IF it could be fully developed, would provide, er, um, roughly... 50 days supply. About 7 weeks.

  8. Monkee See Monkee Do? on Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords? · · Score: 1

    At age seven, it's also possible that she's really worked up about passwords and security because... Dad is. She might want to please Dad and she might value what Dad values. So... "how will she identify herself?" What an excellent and profound question! She might be mirroring Dad and where exactly is she in that er, equation?

    At age seven, my daughter has her own system with no password. It's not right or wrong, just how we handled it. At age twenty, she's been using passwords now for about five years, mostly to keep her friends from junking her laptop up with viruses (one rebuild was enough).

    Pick your battles, big guy. There are far more important things to instill at age seven than er, paranoia, if you can take a friendly suggestion on that. And- good luck. Daughters are very precious and the time goes very fast.

  9. visualizing.. on Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation? · · Score: 1

    Surfer works very well for multi-dimensional data sets, and slurps in reams of text file data without complaint.

  10. It isn't always the wrist... on Input Solutions for Repetitive Stress Victims? · · Score: 1

    As someone who experienced RSS while performing mind-numbing work on a large mapping project, I can relate. What I determined is that the wrist pain was actually "referred" pain from nerve pinching in the cervical vertebrae. In other words, the job was a pain in the neck, and the pain showed up in the wrist. I did several things and eliminated the problem over about three weeks. - I got Network Chiropracty treatments once a week to release and realign the spine top to bottom. - I got therapeutic massage once a week to loosen the muscle and fascia in the neck and shoulders. - I practiced simple yoga in the morning to develop some attention to my body posture during the day. I did muscle training to balance the msucle strength in the arm. - I tried several different mice and settled on swapping back and forth between the Intellipoint and a roller ball (slower but different movements). - I slowed up my completion rates while repairing the tissue and nerves. I stopped pushing to match the ridiculous pace the company was looking for- because trying to match was damaging. I stopped worrying about things. That change of pace netted me a Deficient score in the most idiotic employee performance review I've ever been through. With all of that, I left the job recovered and well, and have not had an RSS recurrence since.