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  1. Re:Tell that to strangers on Why You Shouldn't Stifle Your Sneeze (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I was in an airplane, had my hands full and stifled a sneeze. The semi-slipped disc that resulted meant a few days of quite intense pain. It got fixed by connective tissue treatments but I didn't enjoy the overnight stay in the hotel and my wife had to carry all the luggage.

  2. Re:Indentured Servitude on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it makes sense to bring this subsidiary to universities out in the open - the income of the graduate students is already put at the absolute minimum possible.

  3. I would consider it on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I would definitely consider it if there was something worthwhile for the money. I have trouble imagining such a thing - Vertu phones don't do it for me - but you never know.

  4. Re:Who acquired what now? on AngelList Acquires Product Hunt (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I had a look at Product Hunt and liked it - lots of good ideas. No, I have no association with either companies and have never heard of either before this slashdot post. I am quite happy to have a slashvertisement that is this interesting.

  5. Re:Ironic gamification is still gamification on In 5 Years, Games Experience Will Move From Discrete To Indiscrete, Says EA CEO (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Description of a nightmare future.

  6. Re:How do IoT manufacturers... on OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    A really dumb question - as all these devices can be configured to do DDOS attacks remotely, could they also be remotely reprogrammed to make the more secure?

  7. Re:Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice on Australian Census Website Shut Down On Census Night After 4 DDoS Attacks (smh.com.au) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, this link does not show any large DDoS attacks on Australia or in Australia. Interesting to look at what China is doing to Saudi Arabia at the moment.

  8. Re:Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! on EU Exploring Idea of Using Government ID Cards As Mandatory Online Logins (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, rampant online anonymous abuse is another reason.

  9. Re:It finally happened on Google Scholar Users Report Badly Malfunctioning Captcha (google.com) · · Score: 1

    I have done a lot of the 'rivers' captcha and ticked all the water. That is easy but about 2/3 of the time google says that is the wrong answer. That is simply what is happening.
    With the street numbers I did better not ticking ambiguous numbers than ticking all numbers.
    It is pretty frustrating, especially when you fail six times in a row.

  10. My guess is that Google scholar takes lots of resources or, possibly, they have been scraped too often or it is just a macho thing - you won't take advantage of me!

  11. EditorDavid did a good job here on Google Scholar Users Report Badly Malfunctioning Captcha (google.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He really improved my submission. He RTFA and made the submission more accessible. Thanks.

  12. Re: "I'm a doctoral student and a professor..." on Google Scholar Users Report Badly Malfunctioning Captcha (google.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    To answer your question why we rely on Google's toys? There are three main ways to find medical scientific content - Web of Science, PubMed and Google Scholar - there may be others, feel free to add them. PubMed has the advantage that searches are repeatable, unlike Google which is useful when you want an audit trail. Most of the time you want to find the most relevant publications and Google weighs them by citation count and other metrics.

    That is a very imperfect measure but it is a lot better than PubMed where you get the newest publications (many may never get cited) first.

    You save a ton of time with Google scholar and the search results have lots of useful links - you can specify a link to your university library, you can clean citations and you can directly load (very imperfect but a lot better than nothing) citations into your citation manager.

    Being locked out of all this is a pain.

  13. Re:Disposable? on Disposable Lasers Created Using Inkjet Printer (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    From the paper, the author's conclusions: In this paper, we show that inkjet printing can be successfully applied to external-cavity vertically emitting thin-film organic lasers and can be used to generate a diffraction-limited output beam with an output energy as high as 33.6J with a slope efficiency S of 34%. Laser emission shows to be continuously tunable from 570 to 670nm using an intracavity polymer-based Fabry-Perot etalon, and extension to the whole visible spectrum is straightforward with a proper choice of other dyes and UV or blue pumping. High-optical quality films with several microns' thicknesses are realized, thanks to inkjet printing. Indeed, EMD6415 commercial ink constitutes the optical host matrix and exhibits a refractive index of 1.5 and an absorption coefficient of 0.66cm1 at 550–680nm. Standard laser dyes like Pyrromethene 597 and Rhodamine 640, as used here, are incorporated in solution to the EMD6415 ink. Such large size “printed pixels” of 50mm2 present uniform and flat surfaces, with roughness measured as low as 1.5nm in different locations of a 50m × 50m AFM scan. The optimal inkjet printing conditions include (i) a 20m drop spacing, (ii) to heat the quartz substrates' “capsules” at 40C during printing to finally obtain “pixels” as thick as 20m after 2 printing passes. As the gain capsules fabricated by inkjet printing are simple and do not incorporate any tuning or cavity element, they are simple to make, have a negligible fabrication cost, and can be used as fully disposable items. This work opens the way towards the fabrication of really low-cost tunable visible lasers with an affordable technology that has the potential to be widely disseminated. Such systems could find useful applications in bio and chemical analysis.

  14. Re: The only thing it will do on Greece's Former Finance Minister Explains Why A Universal Basic Income Could Save Us (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We already have test cases for a universal basic income - some of the United Arab Emirates and to a lesser degree Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Citizens can have a public service job and choose to do very little work. It seems you need an army of serfs to then keep the state functioning, ridiculous ideas can proliferate or don't need to change (women driving in Saudi Arabia for example) as there is little pressure to change. Also about 60% of adult citizens in the UAE have diabetes as there are no challenges in life.

    A proposal that gives everyone to give up on life in comfort is about as damaging as it gets.

    The Greek had such a UBI from the EU and it allowed them to keep their semi-feudal structures much longer than it would have been otherwise possible.

    Not recommended.

  15. My experience too with law firms and accountants. I have a feeling they hate paying by the hour.

    I wonder why ...

  16. Sentiment Analysis not working very well on Microsoft Launches Cognitive Services Based On Project Oxford and Bing (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I tried their sentiment analysis with some pages with very negative content and the grading by Microsoft was very much hit and miss. Semantria is doing a much better job, regrettable as they are much more expensive.

  17. Re:Cause and Effect on Why You May Not Like Ted Cruz's Face, According To Science (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting points. If Cruz's face shows the effect of long-term lying it means he knows that he is lying and he has limited control over his body as it is showing the long-term effects of lying.

  18. Re:Additional information on Python 3 Is Coming To Scrapy (scrapinghub.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a good back about web scraping and it includes material about scrapy:

    http://www.amazon.com/Web-Scraping-Python-Collecting-Modern/dp/1491910291/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1454730640&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3ARyan+Mitchell

  19. Re:One obvious question. on FBI "Took Over World's Biggest Child Porn Website" (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The comments on this story sadden me.

    Lots of civil libertarians who don't care about children and lots of people who want to decriminalize the consumption of child pornography and their mod point upvoters.

    Child pornography is one of the most disgusting things done by human beings to each other, yet few on this site seem to care.

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  20. Re:The herd's moving on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Medical quarantine measures in the past have included shooting. There have been shots fired in Ebola riots and at least one person died in Liberia. Your discussion is less academic than you may presume.

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  21. Re:The herd's moving on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but in Australia, non Vaxers have just lost eligibility for certain forms of child support and child care benefit and child care places are not allowed to reduce their fees for these people. The policy is called 'No jab, no pay'. The official announcement from the Department of Human Services:

    No Jab No Pay Information update: this measure will start on 1 January 2016.

    Description of the measure

    From 1 January 2016, immunisation requirements for Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A end of year supplement, Child Care Benefit (CCB), and Child Care Rebate (CCR) will be extended to include children of all ages up to, and including, 19 years of age.

    The Australian Childhood Immunisation Register will be expanded to capture and report on children’s immunisation status for payments up to, and including, 19 years of age. Children not up-to-date with their childhood immunisations will need to follow a catch-up schedule.

    ‘Conscientious objections’ will be re-termed ‘vaccination objections’ and will no longer be a valid exemption category. Child care assistance and the FTB Part A supplement will not be paid to customers who fail to comply with immunisation requirements, or who do not have a valid exemption.

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  22. Re:The herd's moving on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    People who have lots of partners have an elevated risk of HPV related cancers. People who engage in oral sex have the same. Condoms tend to be used less for the latter.

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  23. Re:Karma! It IS a bitch! on "Most Hated Man In America" Martin Shkreli Arrested On Suspicion of Fraud (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

  24. Re:Optimizing for technical over people skills on Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries · · Score: 1

    You are writing about social skills yet to be social on slashdot is to have an account and not post as AC.

  25. Re:My next paper on Scientific Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations · · Score: 1

    Mine?: !