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Comment Re:Groan (Score 1) 273

Historically they get the intestine flora during the delivering of the baby when the mother often defecate due to the pain and intense labor.
Or maybe also by contact with her body just outside the vagina.
This is often problem today with procedures to sterilize the mothers body, especially the lower parts. They also gives the mother enemas to avoid defecation during birth.
This can result in causing the baby to have an abnormal bacterial flora with a predominance of streptococcus, a bacteria commonly found on the skin.

Comment Re:Entertaining (Score 0) 239

He answered in an intelligent and humorous way that, not surprisingly, was not understood by you.

Evidently, you are a konformist and he is a non-konformist. You are probably happy to know that you belongs to an overwhelming majority. The minority is equally, if not more, happy to not belong to it.

Submission + - Are Contests the Best Way to Find Programmers? (slashdot.org)

Nerval's Lobster writes: Tech firms are engaging in several non-traditional hiring methods, from programming contests to finding the right people via algorithm. One of the more popular methods: set up a coding challenge or programming contest to bring out interested parties, with the top prize being a trip to the sponsoring company’s headquarters to interview for a job. Look at what Facebook is doing in this area, sponsoring several Kaggle.com programming contests to find the best programmers; it also makes use of the site InterviewStreet to screen potential applicants. In theory, any company can build and run a contest online. But is it really the best way to go about hiring a programmer (or any other tech-minded employee, for that matter)?

Submission + - Porn-Trolling lawyers facing disbarment, fines, and criminal prosecution.

JayRott writes: Prenda Law (the porn copyright trolls previously mentioned here) have finally been handed Judge Otis D. Wright II's order. The order is every bit as entertaining as one would expect. It even has a liberal sprinkling of Star Trek references.
Brett Gibbs, John Steele and Paul Hansmeier are facing an $82,000 fine (noted by Judge Wright to be just below the cost of a proper appeal, a reference to Prenda's settlement offers which fell just below the cost of a proper defense.) Judge Wright will also "refer this matter to the United States Attorney for the Central District of California. The will also refer this matter to the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service and will notify all judges before whom these attorneys have pending cases."
Prenda law appears to be floating belly-up in the fishbowl.

Ars Technica coverage: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/prenda-hammered-judge-sends-porn-trolling-lawyers-to-criminal-investigators/

Pope Hat coverage: http://www.popehat.com/2013/05/06/does-prenda-believe-in-no-win-scenarios-because-judge-wright-just-gave-them-one/#more-18627

Link to full order: http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PendaSanctionsOrder.pdf

Comment Re:IBM should just drop the M (Score 1) 202

IBM sells on RAS, Reliability, Availability and Serviceability. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability,_availability_and_serviceability_(computer_hardware) ).
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With the z Architecture you can e g replace (hotswap) CPU's without affecting running applications. Think of banking systems that must have 24/7/365 service.
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With z/OS you also need *much* less sysprogs and operators compared with equivalent sized number of PC (or unix) servers.

Comment The main problem with US patent office... (Score 1) 96

..is that there is a fundamental interest for US companies in general and the US government to grant patents to those companies as much and as easy as possible.
Foreign companies have also found that the courts in US in patent cases doesn't seems to be impartial to the fact that one part is of US origin and the other not.

There is maybe no difference in this to many other country's patent offices but as US legal and economical muscles is so strong they have such an advantage that they have no reason to change it.

This is yet another story about the attraction of protectionism.

Comment Just wondering (Score 0, Troll) 422

How come that:

When the weather is hot, it's a prof of global warming.
When the weather is cold, it's a prof of global warming.
When the wind is strong, it's a prof of global warming.
When the wind is weak, it's a prof of global warming.
When it's dry, it's a prof of global warming.
When it's wet, it's a prof of global warming.

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