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Comment Re:Presence of antibodies (Score 1) 146

The article itself is more cautious about whether seropositive people are immune. The headline writer, very disappointing for an MIT publication, left off the scare-quotes the author used for immune.

And the story itself, for example, includes this quote:
"The test will enable us to determine which health-care workers might be at low risk for working with covid-19 patients,"

Then again, the article then uses pull quotes without full context that seem more conclusive, but without the full quote or ability to read German, I don't know if there were qualifications in the study itself:
  ' This group of people, they say, “can no longer be infected with SARS-CoV-2,” as the virus is known to scientists. '

I have sent a tweet to the author noting the problematic headline.

Comment Re:Sirius XM? Spam Fountain! (Score 1) 38

<quote>It looks like the No Account Setup option is gone.</quote>

It's still there. Just click where it says "Start Free Trial" and ignore the instructions to create an account.

It will will even work from Chrome on Android phones if you request the Desktop version of the page from Chrome settings. But the stream will stop on you phone if power-saving puts the Chrome app to sleep.

Submission + - Frog stems cells used to make living robots. (theguardian.com)

Cy Guy writes: Having not learned the lessons of Jurassic Park and the Terminator, scientists from the University of Vermont and Tufts have created "reconfigurable organisms" using stem cells from frogs. But don't worry, the research was funded the Department of Defense, so I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong this time.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 200

"anchoring cables like a ski lift"

Climate change is responsible for closing a lot of smaller ski areas, so this would be a way to both provide jobs in those communities while actually fighting climate change by making solar power more viable as a 24/7 power source.

Coal producing areas such as Appalachia also being impacted by transitioning away from a carbon economy could also benefit installing these systems.

Both of those areas are already impacted by humans and thus lesson concerns of "Destroy[ing] nature to preserve nature" as raised above [ https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15353458&cid=59494824 ] It's not like the systems would have to be installed in the Rockies or Himalayas to get 1 km of elevation change. (Though the proposals of remote Hawaiian islands and the Galapagos are going to raise responses like that, so they may want to work on their elevator pitch.)

Comment Lawsuit is frivolous, BK was clear about this (Score 5, Informative) 350

The Impossible Whopper launched nationally on Aug 8. On Aug 2, a week before that, this story ran nationally clearly saying that if you wanted a truly beef-free, vegan burger you had to specify you didn't want it broiled and that you didn't want mayo on it.

https://www.today.com/food/new...

TODAY: Why Burger King's new Impossible Whopper isn't totally vegetarian

"...unless you ask for the Impossible Whopper in a specific way, it might not meet your definition of true vegetarian fare. While the burger itself contains no meat, Burger King acknowledges that the Impossible patties are flame-grilled on the same broiler as its chicken and beef products."

Comment Best of both worlds? (Score 1) 188

Getting an SUV doesn't have to mean bad gas mileage, there are plenty of Hybrid SUV's on the market getting up to 50 MPG.
https://moneyinc.com/best-hybr...
In some ways it's an ideal match because there is lots of space to put the hybrid batteries.

If you are over 6 feet tall, a lot of smaller cars aren't an option.

Comment IceComm: serverless video conferencing, very easy. (Score 1) 115

Set up IceComm on a web site that only you and your kids can access, and give them the Chrome browser with a bookmark to go there at scheduled times .. https://icecomm.io/

Very easy to set up server less video conferencing. Add a bit of TogetherJS to the mix and you've got realtime chat as well - without needing to install anything on any local computers besides the Chrome browser.

I use IceComm on my main server as the 'front door' to my business - I have a browser sitting on my front door all day, and whenever clients visit I'm ready for them. Its just like having a virtual front door to the business .. very handy and very care-free for the customers.

Comment 6 billion or "hundreds of billions"? (Score 1) 143

Last time I took a maths class, 6 was not "hundreds". If 6 billion isn't a typo, then the article is way out of whack, and the economics are actually heavily stacked in the hyperloop's favour, as 2 airports with terminals and a dozen 747s to shuttle between them would end up costing more than 6 billion.

Comment Re:it's nonsense (Score 2) 84

If the FBI 'joins the dots' by connecting Pirate Bay uploader 'sharkmp4' and porn producer Ingenuity13 to Prenda (which seems pretty likely), then Prenda's whole business model looks very different.

They claim to be acting on behalf of Ingenuity13 to defend Ingenuity13 against copyright infringement started by sharkmp4... which would be legal, if they were not taking a blunderbuss approach to sending out accusations to people who are innocent but would rather pay up than go to court.

If however, Prenda, Ingenuity13 and sharkmp4 are one entity, they actually set just up a honeypot on their own behalf, and all the downloads were actually legal (because the copyright holder chose to share the files), all the accusations were false (and actionable), every penny of revenue they made was fraud, and they have been lying to more courts than most other corrupt or racketeering organisations even get to see the inside of. This is so illegal on so many levels that they'll pretty much end up not being sentenced by a court to life imprisonment, but simply dying of old age standing in the dock while the list of charges is still being read out.

Comment Re:Same tired propaganda (Score 1) 154

Sweden has never made such a promise,

Who in Sweden was supposed to do this? Who in Sweden actually has the legal power to make such a promise?

Generally legal systems with a sense of the rule of law don't like it when someone from the government tries to pre-empt a potential court ruling. In some it may even be illegal, never mind ineffective.

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