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Comment But Watson *did* credit Rosie Franklin! (Score 1) 355

To many scientists his gravest offense was not crediting Rosalind Franklin with helping him deduce the structure of DNA.

That seems to be a silly accusation. In his 1968 book "The Double Helix", the following is said on page 4:

Chiefly it was a matter of five people: Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, Francis Crick, and me.

Heck, he writes about Rosie a bit. She was supposedly a hot chick, if she only knew how to dress. Yeah, that's a stereotypical male view of women, but hey, at least we learn that much about her.

Comment Re:Most people don't object to public breast feedi (Score 1) 350

I think that's just nitpicking. As far as everyday language use is concerned, men don't normally have breasts. It's as simple as that. Yeah, there's enough gland tissue there that can be made to grow etc., but it's mostly immaterial other than men getting breast cancer. Still, in normal, everyday use of the language, we all know that women have breasts, and men don't.

Comment Re:First step is to collect data. (Score 1) 405

Regarding the person from yahoo rejecting my email - I can confirm that's not the case. I set up a yahoo account for my self, brand new, and can't email it.

Yahoo isn't looking at whether one person is rejecting the mail, the yahoo blacklisting is an aggregate process. Most likely your IPs were used by a spammer or an open relay or an owned host before, and were source of spam reported by multiple Yahoo users. Now you've got the broken goods.

Comment Re:Astonishing grasp of the obvious (Score 1) 350

Having had welded my first wedding ring to a bunch of initially charged capacitors in a UPS unit that sat offline, disconnected from batteries, for a week, I concur. I've had a nice round burn mark on my ring finger for months afterwards. It took 2 years for it to completely fade. I still wear the band #2, but I have a special ritual before I ever work on things that have more than a few tenths of a Joule stored in them, or have short circuit current ratings over 5A, or voltages over 48V.

P.S. The cap discharge resistor circuit had a hairline crack on a trace - apparently wide enough that the cap voltage wouldn't break down the gap. The design had redundant traces leading to an unpopulated location for a redundant cap discharge resistor. I replaced the failed one, and added the redundant buddy as was the original intent (presumably before the beancounters took over the engineering dept.).

Comment Re:Most people don't object to public breast feedi (Score 1) 350

Breasts are fundamental to sexual reproduction.

Lolwut? They play no role whatsoever in reproduction. They are only useful, optionally, to nourish the newborn - long after the reproduction is a done. The optional part is kinda important: you can feed a newborn quite well using nothing but plant-derived stuff, for example. If I were ever to hear a medical doctor call breasts "reproductive organs", I'd be looking for a different one, you know. Where you got that crazy idea I can't fathom.

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