Anyone else think that the extremely low (read zero) bigfoot roadkill count might be indicative of similarly low (also read zero) bigfoot population? Just wondering.

And in addition, Apple was developing Google's maps for them, since it's iOS user data that is giving Google feedback on Google's maps. Now that data is being used to make Apple maps better. And Google is out a major map data source.

You don't need either optical interference nor a fiber optic link to do quite sensitive interferometry.

For an example of interferometry without optical interference, LISA would have used Time Delay Interferometry. Now cancelled, even though it rated highly in the decadal.

TPF-I was a white light interferometer with no physical connection between the separated spacecraft.

To name two.

I actually do have a suspicious looking mole on my left upper thigh, you insensitive clod!

Now I know both my citizen number and that the tinfoil hat isn't working...

Voters in Colorado approved marijuana for medical use in the previous election cycle. In the recent election Colorado voters approved marijuana for any use and specifically for recreational use by those over 21.

the important data on the laptop should be in sync with the servers. All of the other stuff is probably crud anyway.

I have many GB of data on my laptop (important to me, and no one else). The IT contractor charges a very expensive rate to store a GB of data, which comes out of project funds. So you can either do research, or pay IT real money to sync your data with the server (which is unreliable anyway. And we can't use cloud services due to ITAR issues). Which do you think the project implicitly encourages?

Everyone acts like FDE is some magic bullet. FDE only comes into action when you shut your laptop down, or log out. Which I have not done in months. What's the point of having a laptop if you can't open the lid and start working - if you have to reconstruct your work environment every time you put it sleep? At least that's how PGP FDE works, encrypt upon shutdown or logout. FDE would not have made this laptop loss less of an issue. FDE is a distraction from the the real problem here.

The real problem is that some HR idiot thought that it was ok to download a PII database onto their laptop and take it home. FDE won't fix idiocy.

Wow. Except for having a full head of hair and not having a job, I could be mistaken for this guy. :p

I'm sure you realize that the pathogenic bacteria in question is C.Diff and a different species (and genus) from the beneficial bacteria supplied by the probiotic supplement/diet and they will never interact genetically.

It is the imbalance not the presence of these organisms that causes problems. E. Colli is another common troublemaker that lives in all of our bowels but is more easily dealt with than C. Diff. While some resistance to antibiotics *might* manifest, that resistance will be lost as the individuals die off from other means. Some temporary antibiotic resistance among the general gut flora population would be beneficial to the patient in that it would help maintain a diversity. The goal here is to balance the population diversity of the gut flora including the C. Diff. The C. Diff won't go away...ever.

Generally, the root cause of a C. Diff infection is the course of antibiotics given to the the patient to treat another ailment. Once the course has concluded the normal diversity of gut flora is no longer present and the opportunity for C. Diff to overpopulate the gut arises. C. Diff is resistant to most antibiotics due to having a cyst phase in its life cycle that enables the bacteria to live on surfaces outside the bowel. Treatment with certain antibiotics including Flagyl or Vancomyacin may kill the C. Diff bacteria in the bowel but will also kill any other resident gut flora at the same time. If the patient comes in contact with C. Diff immediately following this second antibiotic course the infection will likely return. Often the physician will recommend live culture yogurt and other probiotics be ingested even during the C. Diff antibiotic treatment to promote a diversity of gut flora the moment the antibiotics are discontinued. This is not always successful and the treatment may have to repeated several times.

No. That is called Nihilism.

Yes.

LOL! No. How did you come to this conclusion. Few atheists would deny the existence radio waves, bacteria, electrons...sounds...

Nuggets the size of your fist! Don't tell anyone!

There. That always works to get the next territory settled.

I live next to a school (and have lived next to three schools in the last 20 years). I see hundreds of kids going to school every day. None of them are on bikes. So demographics or not, the number of kids on bikes has to do with culture, not statistics.

I'll check the next time I walk by, but I don't think the school even has a bike rack.

That's why we're also working on the escort model: Flying RoboShark with frickin laser beams on thier heads.