Perhaps you should more thoroughly research the difference between virus and bacteria before you submit yourself to the risks of both alcohol poisoning and the Mexican Flu simultaneously.

I don't think naming it the "Mexican Flu" is going to hurt the tourism to Mexico any more than the knowledge that the strain did, in fact, originate in Mexico and the massive number of reported cases in Mexico already have. And besides, as I mentioned, there is a precedent.

I admit I'm not the most knowledgeable about this topic, but I *do* know that H1N1 is not a very specific name for this influenza strain. In the past, we have named influenza outbreaks such as these after their country of origin (see Spanish Flu, Hong Kong Flu, Asian Flu), and in light of this I think a more appropriate name would be "Mexican Flu".

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In case you can't tell, this is supposed to be a puzzled-looking face with arms upraised in a questioning gesture.

Why doesn't slashdot support Unicode again?

I don't know. I use Opera exclusively and just a few days ago upgraded to Opera 10.00 Beta, and yet I can't seem to view the Youtube html5 demo. Note that I have been trying this only on my 64 bit Linux workstation.

Not so much. Almost all research institutes that would deal with stem cell research receive federal funds. Banning federal level funding for stem cell research has the effect that any equipment bought with federal funds are not to be used with stem cell research. Most labs are stocked with equipment that have, at least partially, been bought with federal funds. As such, federal funding acts as a blight that infects everything it touches with the inability to be used in embryonic stem cell research. If you want to do embryonic stem cell research, you have to buy an entire new lab full of equipment paid for by anyone but the government. As such the federal funding ban for embryonic stem cell research essentially stopped embryonic stem cell research in the United States.

Oh shit guys AC has the swine flu, we're all fucked!

Don't mind me, just posting for the achievement ;)

The biggest issue I see with the new Index2 beta (which is sadly the default for those not logged in, as I rarely actually bother to log in) is that in Opera, it is nearly impossible to click the story title to see the comments, except for a tiny sliver only a couple of pixels wide at the very tip of the words. In face, it seems that it is impossible to click on the title of the stories posted by samzenpus at all (which may be a blessing in disguise). This doesn't stop me from reading the comments, however, as I am fully able to click "Read More..." or the number of comments next to this. Regardless, it is still annoying.

Err, sorry, my grammar are not working today. What I meant to say was "Therefore, I'm pretty sure it's safe to assume that 'micrometer' sized particles are going to be between 1*10^-6 and 1*10^-3 meters in diameter."

Not really, micro is an SI prefix meaning 10^-6. One micrometer = 1*10^-6 meters. Once you get 1000 micrometers you start calling it 1 millimeter. Therefore, I'm pretty sure it's safe to assume that you can consider "micrometer" sized particles are going to be between 1*10^-6 and 1*10^-3 meters in diameter.

Yes, but how specific does the law have to be? You're going to have to be more specific.

Yes. When people refer to entire distributions as "linux" they are being technically incorrect, as the GNU folks are kind to point out at the drop of a hat. The entire operating system is GNU/Linux - Linux is just the kernel.