Exactly. The idea of gmail users ridiculing AOL email addresses is giving me a good laugh. "Sure! Please spy on all of my messages and advertise to me in exchange for free email. Sign me up!". Chumps.

This works so well on cruise ships as hardly anyone ever gets sick on those. A tiny hole in a filter membrane is huge to bactera and viruses.

Lots of people are worried about bacteria but 99% of the bacteria on the planet doesn't like humans and is safe to consume. The bacteria that lives with humans or comes out of humans is what will kill people.

Then there are prions which will pass through these filters which is why the systems that don't concentrate diseases always have a large natural buffer that is full of creatures that mess with whatever manages to get pass the sewage treatment systems. The places that are talking about bypassing a large natural reserve is asking for trouble. A large lake or a river have plenty of life that will kill off most of the nasty things but if that cycle is short circuted, there are plenty of things that survie in fairly pure water for days or weeks.

With the cost of deslinating water, it makes more sense to use ocean water than water with too high of human waste and the health risks are far lower as well.

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
Oct. 7, 2014

On Sept. 19, 2014, the five-day average of Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The red line shows the average maximum extent from 1979-2014.
Credits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Cindy Starr
Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/go...

There is a type of biochemical pathway in plants used when CO2 is very high. The alarmists have edited it to say it's for arid conditions I suppose to imply plants are adapting to a math error or something. Between lots of this and the medical business edits it loses objectivity and reliability weekly.

Point is there are species of algae that have this property.

Wikipedia has become a slow moving parody of itself to paraphrase Peter Honeyman.

Your sarcasm was fully warranted.
They "discovered" that the dissolution rate is essentially equal to surface area over volume.

For their next experiment they will 3D print it as a loose powder and see if that has any effect.

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And I remember when Al Shugart took that claim from Shugart Corporation with his newer company.

I've been thinking about getting a bunch of cheap usb sticks and building a zfs pool out of them with some redundancy and then using that for a zfs pool for a usenet spool just to see what can go wrong. If anything can abuse a disk its usenet.

My NTP clock.
My Garmin GPS45 that I hacked so it would work above 90 kts.
My Garmin GPS12 which didn't have that problem.
My timing generator for my canopy network.
A few GPS modules.
My Tom Tom car naviation device.
My misc smart phones and devices.

We can be tracked with decimeter precision. Yay. I'm sure it won't be used against us. Carry on.

Except for the whole "We want to use robot cars" thing. Uber wants to dump the Uber drivers, kids. They want self-driving cars, and all the profits for the executives. They aren't out to make you money. They want all the money. And yes, that means two million cab drivers, poor laborers in a crappy job, out of work forever.

Same thing in the trucking industry. They want the drivers gone. And not because of human error- the error is caused by pressure by the owners to increase profits, which dials down to making drivers work too many hours. The drivers are fine. They are being wrecked by greedy owners, who now jui-jitsu their nasty little secret into blaming drivers and virtously switching to robot trucks. Millions more out of work.