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  1. Re:15km in 1 second at 1.5km/s? on Surprising Discovery Hints Sonic Waves Carry Mass (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Details.... First sentence starts with 'in water'. Presumably, the next sentence is not 'in water'.

  2. Re:He didn't say "investment" on Software Engineer Loses Life Savings in Quadriga Imbroglio (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I am a Canadian expat in the Middle East who went through the trouble of hiring an experienced international tax lawyer from a major law firm to make sure our last tax return, and separation from Canada, was bulletproof. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but being considered a 'Canadian tax resident' is not linked at all with physical residency. Being deemed a tax resident is linked with having enough ties back to Canada or demonstrating the intent of coming back. Spending more than half a year in Canada (this also dictates provincial taxes, which is all or nothing: a full year or none) certainly ticks both. However, even if you spend an entire fiscal year abroad, CRA can still deem you a tax resident owing the exact same amount of taxes to CRA as if you had worked in Canada (minus the difference paid in your country of residence, which in my case is el zippo). To add insult to injury, there is no actual expat tax code to follow, you can only go with prior court cases. But say you kept your Canadian professional membership, rented your house to your sister at below fair market value, kept all your bank and credit accounts, and contributed to your registered retirement plan: you will be deemed tax resident by CRA, no doubt about it.

  3. Re:No, it fucking sucks. on Ask Slashdot: Is Today's Technology As Cool As You'd Predicted When You Were Young? · · Score: 1

    Yup.

  4. Re:So we found Dark Matter ? on Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    How is that trolling ? Title implies Dark Matter as a fact. Show me the proof for Dark Matter.

  5. So we found Dark Matter ? on Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wouldn't finding evidence of Dark Matter be the real news in this article ? Save from all the conjectures of course...

  6. Ditto on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1, Informative

    3 iPads, one of the two iPad 2s bricked on u/g, had to recover it via iTunes. The iPad air (Wifi, 128 Gb) has turned indeed into a pig. Performance is so poor, I couldn't even Skype with my parents this morning, Has Apple turned into MSoft ?

  7. Re:As a layman... on Artificial Spleen Removes Ebola, HIV Viruses and Toxins From Blood Using Magnets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Magnetic beads have been used for decades to extract DNA from samples like Blood for instance. In that case we also use polarity: as DNA it negatively charged, it will bind to positively charged (/coated) bead allowing us to bind and wash the DNA then we can release the beads using low salts when the time for elution comes. An alternative to magnetic beads is membrane based purification but that involves a vacuum source and some form of contraption to force the 'liquid' though the membrane. In this case the beads are coated with a protein (MBL) that will bind (/capture) to the 'toxins'. The coating is what gives the specificity. Now the fact that the beads are magnetic is used to control the beads, capture them and release them at the appropriate stage at the process. In itself the magnetic property of the beads does nothing at the molecular biology level. Therefore the title "Artificial Spleen Removes .... Using Magnets" is completely misleading. But typical in my experience of how usually journalists understand nothing of the Science. I used to work for a company that made transgenic goats and boy oh boy we were always shocked at the news article after the visit, wondering where did the person picked up all this pile of nonsense that was printed. Makes me wonder what else I read is nonsense, for the very few times I was there and then read the article: you'd have to know the real story to find it in the article.

  8. Re:Already denied on Engine Data Reveals That Flight 370 Flew On For Hours After It "Disappeared" · · Score: 1

    Who needs a dirty bomb when you have a tripe 7 as a missile. They could have landed in a number of countries such as North Korea, Myanmar, hell they could have almost made it to Pakistan. My money is on this being a prelude to something bigger.

  9. There has to be a successor on Skunk Works Reveals Proposed SR-71 Successor: the Hypersonic SR-72 · · Score: 1

    This aircraft was introduced in 1966. In the context of the times, it makes no sense whatsoever that the team behind the plane just patted themselves on the back and moved on to other projects. A plane that as of today is still 'state of the art'. Simple logic dictates that there was a succesor and most likely by now, incremental iterations of said plane. The SR 71 was not retired because its mission was obsolete nor because of costs, but because the plane itself was obsolete.

  10. Herpetology Definition on Croak & Dagger: Following the Trail of a Herpetologist Spy · · Score: 1

    > herpetology (the study of amphibians) err... Batrachology is the study of amphibians alone, Herpetology is the study of both amphibians and reptiles.

  11. Re:Is PSN in any way linked to EC2 ? on Sony Blames 'External Intrusion' For Lengthy PSN Outage · · Score: 1

    sorry for the massive typos,

  12. Is PSN in any way linked to EC2 ? on Sony Blames 'External Intrusion' For Lengthy PSN Outage · · Score: 1

    Could it be that EC2's problems and PSN's are linked ? Have no clue myself, but seems to me PSN need large scalable bandwidth. Does anyone know where PSN is hosted ? How does it work says with COD ? Are COD servers on PSN or is PSN just a relay ?

  13. Re:There's a special place in hell for... on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    I was astonished to discover today that the original study had a sample size of 12 ? Really n= 12 ? Even if the so called 'study' had been held to the highest standards of clinical data collection, no matter how good the data in humans looks at n = 12, it is still at total toss up on much larger sample size. I can not believe how foolish and a total clusterfuck of idiots the whole anti vaccine movement is. For the nutcases out there read this You are endangering all of our kids.

  14. Re:er...define 'constant'... on Universe May Be Running Out of Time · · Score: 1

    In order to conceptualize this you need to accept the idea that time is *not* a constant.

    Therefore your point:

    > In what possible sense can time be "slowing down?" "Slowing down" is a statement that
    > something is changing less per unit time. If you like, that dx/dt is negative.

    is non valid because " dt " implies time ticking at a regular beat. You are trying to fit a theory into something that it can not by its very definition.

    If you do let go of the fact that time is a constant, TFA is acually very clever and quite intriguing.

  15. Re:People are uneducated on Verizon Can't Do Math · · Score: 1

    > To me, "fifty" is greater than one, and has no place in numbers less than one.
    As opposed to "five" ??? Your argument does not make sense.

    If you need convincing that 0.5 = 0.50 just use a different unit.
    Say 0.5 kilograms = 0.50 kilograms because both equal 500 grams.
    Quite simple to grasp.

  16. I agree 100% on Symantec Labels Vicars' Software as Spyware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used to use Norton a lot. Over the last 4 years or so, I have come to realize that Norton causes so many more problems that the very few it actually solves that I too remove Norton when setting up a new computer. Symantec products are now way too buggy to be trusted IMHO, the better proof: unistalling them is sometimes as painfull as removing malware.

  17. Re:Business needs this? on Microsoft Unveils 'Vista Premium' Requirements · · Score: 1

    We are running Win2K company wide. No plans to upgrade to WinXP any time soon and none whatsoever to go to Vista -ever if possible-. Win2k has been rock solid for us, 2 BSOD since inception (for real). We are behind a Cisco Pix, our mail server is behind a Barracuda appliance and we also use E-Trust Anti-Virus on the stations and the servers. No virus/malware crap has happened in years.
    We will keep Win2k on our stations and servers as long as we can.