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Comment Re:Copper and alcohol (Score 1) 124

Doctors know how to prescribe Vancomycin and other broad spectrum antibiotics without killing their patients Einstein.

Untreated MRSA infections on the skin are common and easily treated; probably 10% of the people in this country have MRSA colonized in their sinuses. Bloodstream infections cause problems, septic shock does kill, Einstein.

See other comments pointing out how wrong you are about copper, Einstein.

Comment Investment Tax Credit (Score 4, Informative) 265

FTA:

The pace of PV installations in the U.S. is accelerating as the federal government's solar investment tax credit (ITC) is set to expire next year.

We've been through this before. All of the graphs on this page assume last year's growth will continue unabated. But what we're really seeing is a rush to grab as much of the subsidy as possible before the free money goes away.

Comment Wild assertion (Score 1) 397

if Americans are united in any conviction these days, it is that we urgently need to shift the country's education toward the teaching of specific, technical skills, expand STEM courses (science, technology, engineering and math) and deemphasize the humanities

I'm pretty sure that's far down on the list of convictions that people in the United States are united on. More like a fad that's popular in some circles.

Comment DB2 has it too (Score 1) 232

I tried very hard to convince my manager that we should do this on a project that used DB2. She was adamant that we would have to write the web services with the full Java stack. Hundreds of thousands of lines of java later (complete with maven, spring, hibernate, ad nauseum) she is no long with the company and the project is cancelled.

Comment Re:So What (Score 1) 324

It's a choice either way. The question is, who makes the choice?

Your suggestion seems to be that some all powerful authority mandates what choice everyone else must make.

GP's suggestion is that enough people can be talked into making the altruistic choice to make a difference.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Who's Going To Win the Malware Arms Race? (wikipedia.org)

An anonymous reader writes: We've been in a malware arms race since the 1990s. Malicious hackers keep building new viruses, worms, and trojan horses, while security vendors keep building better new detection and removal algorithms to stop them. Botnets are becoming more powerful, and phishing techniques are always improving — but so are the mitigation strategies. There's been some back and forth, but it seems like the arms race has been pretty balanced, so far. My question: will the balance continue, or is one side likely to take the upper hand over the next decade or two? Which side is going to win? Do you imagine an internet, 20 years from now, where we don't have to worry about what links we click or what attachments we open? Or is it the other way around, with threats so hard to block and DDoS attacks so rampant that the internet of the future is not as useful as it is now?

Submission + - Poverty may affect the growth of children's brains (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Stark and rising inequality plagues many countries, including the United States, and politicians, economists, and—fortunately—scientists, are debating its causes and solutions. But inequality’s effects may go beyond simple access to opportunity: a new study finds that family differences in income and education are directly correlated with brain size in developing children and adolescents. The findings could have important policy implications and provide new arguments for early antipoverty interventions, researchers say.

Comment Re:maybe because it's a quote (Score 1) 308

It's more precise to attribute the word to the officials by putting quotes around it, rather than have it look like an assumption made by the person reporting it. In other words, does NSA think there was an attempt to penetrate their campus? Or does the reporter think it was a deliberate attempt rather than a drink driver?

Comment Re:Better Idea (Score 1) 227

The problem with your argument is that the alternative to generating electricity with fossil fuel isn't growing trees. We still need to generate electricity.

What carbon credits do is tax the polluter and reward the non-polluter. The non-polluting alternative becomes a more cost effective way to generate the electricity we need.

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