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  1. Re:Precautions against unknown disease on NHS To Give Volunteers "Synthetic Blood" Made In a Laboratory Within Two Years · · Score: 1

    In general:

    Wait at least 8 weeks between whole blood (standard) donations.
    Wait at least 7 days between platelet (pheresis) donations.
    Wait at least 16 weeks between double red cell (automated) donations.

    Tattoos:

    Wait 12 months after a tattoo if the tattoo was applied in a state that does not regulate tattoo facilities. Currently, the only states that DO NOT regulate tattoo facilities are: District of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah and Wyoming. This requirement is related to concerns about hepatitis. Learn more about hepatitis and blood donation.

    A tattoo is acceptable if the tattoo was applied by a state-regulated entity using sterile needles and ink that is not reused. Cosmetic tattoos applied in a licensed establishment in a regulated state using sterile needles and ink that is not reused is acceptable. You should discuss your particular situation with the health historian at the time of donation.

    Source:

    http://www.redcrossblood.org/d...

    Give blood - it is important. It will likely still be important for a long time. Jehovah's Witnesses can donate money and take plasma. This may have an interesting effect on them, something about an accounting for the blood which they take literally, so it will have to go in front of the elders if this becomes a thing. I once let a couple of elderly Witnesses into my home as they had gone through so much effort I felt that I should reward them. I invited them back a number of times and spent some time learning what they believed in and why they believed the way they do. They never tried to convert me other than through their witnessing, they accepted that I was willing to learn but not going to convert. I would rather not lie to them so I ended up making them feel bad because I never converted. I suspect they are dead now so, well, no worries.

  2. Re:Shades of Methuselah's Children on NHS To Give Volunteers "Synthetic Blood" Made In a Laboratory Within Two Years · · Score: 1

    They do not donate for money here either. They sell plasma which is not really blood. The Red Cross stuff is all free but they give you a cookie and some juice. In my younger days we would donate blood and then go drinking as we could get drunk for less. These were grand times and the city of Cambridge still echoes with our laughter. Somewhere, I assume it is in the basement, I still have a purloined Mass Ave street sign. I understand they have become so weary of replacing them that they now sell them in the campus store.

  3. Re:Pity we don't have a court judgement to point t on New Zealand ISPs Back Down On Anti-Geoblocking Support · · Score: 1

    The license it for your use. In the first case, bringing the DVD back, it might actually be in violation of the license you have with the media company. Will they prosecute it? Not for one disc. Try bringing back 10,000 and see what happens. I do not agree with this but, well, you know the routine...

  4. Re:Future parent company already calling the shots on New Zealand ISPs Back Down On Anti-Geoblocking Support · · Score: 1

    Do not mistake this for being a fan. I think you will find it *may* be a violation of copyright - copyright holders are free to decide the terms of their license. They could say, for example, you must stand on one foot to license a copy for streaming. They can also, more likely to pass the court's smell test, say that you must reside within a certain area to be eligible for x-license. They would easily be within their rights and the thing is, well, the laws of their country do not apply - the laws of the rights holder's country apply. I may be mistaken but I have dealt with copyright quite a bit as well as trademark but I am not a legal professional nor an expert. I welcome corrections if I am mistaken.

  5. Re:It has started. on New Zealand ISPs Back Down On Anti-Geoblocking Support · · Score: 1

    What if I run my own VPN?

  6. Re:AlClad on 3D Printed Supercar Chassis Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Much initial labor is involved. Seek out, woodworking shops, Butcher's Bowling Alley Wax. Do not attempt to buff by hand. You will blind the tailgaters.

  7. Re:sigh... on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but when you make a claim, it's on you to provide either a source for it or your evidence for making it. It's not some other person's responsibility to keep up on your Slashdot posts so that you can be lazy and then be a dick about it on top of that.

    Citation needed.

  8. Re:Everytime! on Why We Need Certain Consumer Drone Regulations · · Score: 1

    This growing movement might have something to do with the various "drone" operator's behavior. Just maybe... The adage about a bad apple spoiling the whole bunch applies here. "Drones" already conveys a scary message to some folks. This site is a good example of people who were outraged about various potential problems when drones starting hitting the media more often. This is just a suggestion, so take it for what you will, but I think it would be better to try to change the common vernacular to 'RC aircraft' or something similar. There are a lot of stupid people on both sides of the debate and clarification may help negate some of the preconceived negativity due to the name.

  9. Re:Give firefighters shotguns on Why We Need Certain Consumer Drone Regulations · · Score: 1

    I would think it would be difficult to not go over other people's property? I have a huge, embarrassingly so, amount of land so I could do it for a while I suppose but, still, I do not think this applies to people who live in more urban settings than I. Even if you have a few acres it seems likely that you would cross over someone else's property unless you have one of those neat "closed" courses with obstacles like trees and stuff. I guess you could restrict it to your backyard but that seems rather mundane.

  10. Re: Give firefighters shotguns on Why We Need Certain Consumer Drone Regulations · · Score: 1

    Those have already been discussed and determined to be something that we can not legislate away. Fining geese for flight path restriction violations has proven, time and time again, to be a waste of the court's time. Jailing them, the birds, for contempt is also ineffective. See the Wikipedia article about jailing geese if you want a citation. You realize that your clever thinking does not actually apply to this, in any way, don't you? We can not legislate risks away by making the legislation about how the birds must behave. We can, however, insist that you keep your toys out of areas where they hinder or endanger other people. This is not complex and I realize that you like your toys but this is an adult world and petulant antics do nothing but detract from the conversation.

  11. Re:This is why I gave up PC gaming on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Launched, Independent Benchmarks, HBM Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    To be fair it does mean something when the assertion includes the words "all" and "guaranteed." That is why I try to avoid stating such certainties as much as possible. Very few things are certain, guaranteed, or (in the case of discussions typically found here) are able to accurately include the word "all" as a quantifier.

  12. Re:This is why I gave up PC gaming on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Launched, Independent Benchmarks, HBM Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    Ah, crap. I should have scrolled down. ;-) I did not notice your reply and responded saying basically the same thing up to, and including, the whole point being that you had probably mistaken the usage of the word guarantee to mean that it has a guarantee that provided for a refund in the case of a defect and not guaranteed in the sense that it was certain to work. Also, a trivial point, I mentioned that it would be quite likely that one would get a refund for a non-working console game as well. If it did not work then it is highly unlikely that it would have been released.

  13. Re:This is why I gave up PC gaming on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Launched, Independent Benchmarks, HBM Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    The whole refund concept is not pertinent. The conversation's topic is about something else entirely - in this case being guaranteed to work. The use of the word guarantee may have been the cause for the confusion. In this case it means certain to work - not that you will be refunded. If a video game on a console fails to work then you will certainly get a refund for that as well. I suppose, there could be an outlier which would mean you would have to demonstrate why it did not work. The only reason that I can think of for it to not work would be due to console modifications, if that is the case then you most likely will have a difficult time getting a refund. Then again, I am no longer a gamer, so I may be missing something.

  14. Re:This is why I gave up PC gaming on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Launched, Independent Benchmarks, HBM Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    Pshaw! I had the Intellivision AND the Odyssey from Motorola. Somewhere, in my basement, I still have both. I also have a non-working Pac-Man and Super Street Fighter II standup that I want to turn into MAME boxes but I have yet to get around to doing either. I have kept or repurchased a lot of the stuff that I had when I was younger. I can not find my old PET box and have yet to find one for sale locally.

  15. Do Not Get! on Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free · · Score: 1

    See subject.

    (Pretty simple, really.)

  16. Re:104Mb on Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free · · Score: 1

    The drivers are terrible and the bug reporting system is ignored.

  17. Re:104Mb on Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free · · Score: 1

    This is not meant to be derogatory. Maybe OSS got its start with older, second-hand, computers? Personally, except for work, I made use of the various Linux distributions on older hardware, stuff that I had replaced with a new system, before I made the move to convert my regular computer. I also continued to use those systems, the older ones, longer than I would have had I not done so - which means I wrote code on them as well as used them for regular tasks. This may be an additional factor, though I doubt it is as prevalent now, nor is it likely the "deciding" factor.

  18. Re:Free? on Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free · · Score: 1

    No, they (MS) are not. And no, the poster (GP) implied no such thing. They are very quotable, if you would care to show us what you think implied any of that then please do demonstrate it to the class (with the applicable quotes). Also, show the stats that demonstrate which type of users are using the mobile version as I suspect you are making that up as well. In other words, I can find no evidence to support anything you said - not one thing. That is pretty bad, you should couch your FUD with some reality so that the rest can be seemingly true. I suppose now is the time to accuse you of being a paid shill. However, I do not believe they are as prevalent as some folks seem to think. Thus, I believe you are just delusional and/or willfully ignorant.

  19. Re:I remember on US Military To Develop Star Wars-Style Hoverbikes With British company · · Score: 1

    I followed Irate Engineer's link below and came across this: http://www.transportation.army...

    This is similar looking, but not exact, to what I had recalled in my earlier post. The one I am thinking of had the railing, I think it went most or all the way around, and was jet powered (not rocket powered).

  20. Re:I remember on US Military To Develop Star Wars-Style Hoverbikes With British company · · Score: 1

    I thought it was older than that? I recall seeing it, I think I was a kid though. It was around the time the government made an effective jet-pack. It was not as effective as they liked. Also, I recall this device you speak of being jet powered and not rocket powered. I am not sure what it was called or how to refer to it or I would look it up and get more information. I seem to recall that there is a documentary about this, though more centered on the jet pack, and it contains a lot of information about the kid who was testing the pack. It seems he was a drop-out and mowed the director's lawn when he was asked if he wanted a summer job and that job turned out to be testing the pack. He stayed with them for quite a while and, though he was old, was still doing public performances with his own jet-pack at his venerable age.

  21. Re:How about a working rifle for our troops perhap on US Military To Develop Star Wars-Style Hoverbikes With British company · · Score: 1

    SoylentNews...

    No, I actually like the site. I have not been there in a bit though.

  22. Re:Artificial scarcity on "Invite-Only" Ubuntu Mobile-Powered Meizu UX4 Goes On Sale · · Score: 1

    I am too lazy to check but isn't ADA the American Disabilities Act? This phone is not being sold in America. You can unruffle your panties now.

  23. Re:Smart people on Security Researcher Drops 15 Vulnerabilities for Windows and Adobe Reader · · Score: 1

    I guess they could *then* (after using pencil and paper) do OCR on it and submit it but that really defeats the point.

  24. Re:I wish I could quit you, Adobe Reader. on Security Researcher Drops 15 Vulnerabilities for Windows and Adobe Reader · · Score: 1

    You convinced me to dig out a second laptop. I uninstalled FoxIt and can find no browser hooks in FF, Opera (beta), Chrome, left over files, files in the profile, or even any registry entries. This is the latest version on Windows 7. Where should I be looking for remnants?

  25. Re:Memory Safe Languages As Countermeasure on Car Hacking is 'Distressingly Easy' · · Score: 1

    Anyone has numbers to compare the security breach in the automotive industry due to bad programming practices vs the rest of the world?

    100% for both.