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Comment Re:It's going to get us! (Score 1) 188

by calmond on Saturday April 10, 2010 @09:08AM (#31799298) Attached to: Rogue Brown Dwarf Lurks In Our Cosmic Neighborhood

Actually, it could be a threat according to this theory: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/nemesis-comets-earth-am-100311.html It basically says that since extinction events on earth occur every 26 Million years, the orbit of an as-yet-unknown brown dwarf may be causing impacts on earth that lead to these extinction events.

Comment Re:Unethical (Score 1) 458

by calmond on Saturday May 02, 2009 @09:16AM (#27797955) Attached to: Lithium In Water "Curbs Suicide"

So can we ethically allow mind-altering substances that are naturally (emphasis mine) present to exist in the water supply?

If a substance is naturally occurring, that means we didn't put it there. How are we morally obligated to remove it if it is below any known threshold of danger? Would you propose that all water used by man be nothing but pure H20? I've got bad news for you, no municipal water supply is ever pure H20 - they add lots of chlorine and other stuff to make it more palatable.

Submission + - Rumors of an Oracle-RedHat merger (eweek.com)

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calmond

on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @08:53AM

calmond writes: "According to an E-week article, Oracle might be looking to acquire RedHat. This week, a report surfaced that claimed an Oracle-Red Hat merger might "[make] sense." Even as the note cautioned that the acquisition wouldn't happen "now," other reports have Oracle and Hewlett-Packard recently in unsuccessful talks to snatch up Sun Microsystems.

Oracle might be gearing up for another highly public acquisition, and this time the IT giant may have its eyes set on open-source innovator Red Hat. This week, an analyst suggested that an Oracle acquisition of Red Hat is "eventually highly likely."

Although Oracle and Red Hat are not speaking about these reports, it generated enough buzz to warrant stories and additional speculation."

Comment Re:which brings us to iranian proliferation (Score 1) 303

by calmond on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:45PM (#25464167) Attached to: Soaring, Cryptography, and Nuclear Weapons

It wasn't Eisenhower who wanted to bomb China with nukes, it was McArthur, and that (along with his perceived political desires for the presidency) is why he was removed. Sanity did win in that case.

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