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Comment Re:Presence of antibodies (Score 1) 146

The article itself is more cautious about whether seropositive people are immune. The headline writer, very disappointing for an MIT publication, left off the scare-quotes the author used for immune.

And the story itself, for example, includes this quote:
"The test will enable us to determine which health-care workers might be at low risk for working with covid-19 patients,"

Then again, the article then uses pull quotes without full context that seem more conclusive, but without the full quote or ability to read German, I don't know if there were qualifications in the study itself:
  ' This group of people, they say, “can no longer be infected with SARS-CoV-2,” as the virus is known to scientists. '

I have sent a tweet to the author noting the problematic headline.

Comment Re:Sirius XM? Spam Fountain! (Score 1) 38

<quote>It looks like the No Account Setup option is gone.</quote>

It's still there. Just click where it says "Start Free Trial" and ignore the instructions to create an account.

It will will even work from Chrome on Android phones if you request the Desktop version of the page from Chrome settings. But the stream will stop on you phone if power-saving puts the Chrome app to sleep.

Submission + - Frog stems cells used to make living robots. (theguardian.com)

Cy Guy writes: Having not learned the lessons of Jurassic Park and the Terminator, scientists from the University of Vermont and Tufts have created "reconfigurable organisms" using stem cells from frogs. But don't worry, the research was funded the Department of Defense, so I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong this time.

Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 200

"anchoring cables like a ski lift"

Climate change is responsible for closing a lot of smaller ski areas, so this would be a way to both provide jobs in those communities while actually fighting climate change by making solar power more viable as a 24/7 power source.

Coal producing areas such as Appalachia also being impacted by transitioning away from a carbon economy could also benefit installing these systems.

Both of those areas are already impacted by humans and thus lesson concerns of "Destroy[ing] nature to preserve nature" as raised above [ https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15353458&cid=59494824 ] It's not like the systems would have to be installed in the Rockies or Himalayas to get 1 km of elevation change. (Though the proposals of remote Hawaiian islands and the Galapagos are going to raise responses like that, so they may want to work on their elevator pitch.)

Comment Lawsuit is frivolous, BK was clear about this (Score 5, Informative) 350

The Impossible Whopper launched nationally on Aug 8. On Aug 2, a week before that, this story ran nationally clearly saying that if you wanted a truly beef-free, vegan burger you had to specify you didn't want it broiled and that you didn't want mayo on it.

https://www.today.com/food/new...

TODAY: Why Burger King's new Impossible Whopper isn't totally vegetarian

"...unless you ask for the Impossible Whopper in a specific way, it might not meet your definition of true vegetarian fare. While the burger itself contains no meat, Burger King acknowledges that the Impossible patties are flame-grilled on the same broiler as its chicken and beef products."

Comment Best of both worlds? (Score 1) 188

Getting an SUV doesn't have to mean bad gas mileage, there are plenty of Hybrid SUV's on the market getting up to 50 MPG.
https://moneyinc.com/best-hybr...
In some ways it's an ideal match because there is lots of space to put the hybrid batteries.

If you are over 6 feet tall, a lot of smaller cars aren't an option.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Pure Nerd 7

Pure Nerd

82 % Nerd, 47% Geek, 43% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

Books

Journal Journal: Once Upon A Time 1

My now 5.25 yr old daughter used to think that Fairy Tales began with the words "On A 'Possum Time" which was a source of never-ending heart-melting cuteness to my wife and I.

Today my now 2.6 yr old daughter picked up a book and told me it was a "What About A Dime" story.

Please send over a box of paper towels to wipe up my melted heart from the floor.

Wireless Networking

Journal Journal: Your Tax Dollars Being Thrown in the Garbage 4

This slipped under the radar of the media that at least I follow, tho aparently at least one diarist at DailyKos picked up on it. Gee, I don't know why it's not getting more coverage in the MSM.

Announcements

Journal Journal: Plastic.com is back up 2

Also, desperate for story submissions - so post some if you've got any ideas.

To my aparent heavily Libertarian-skewed readership here on SlashDot - now is your chance to build the "New" Plastic as a Libertarian haven. It already has a former Libertarian politician as a prominant contributor, so their is at least a core audince audience on which to build.

Portables

Journal Journal: Partial Info on DELL Battery Recall 1

Because the wire services aren't reporting any details on this - here is what is available from one subscription based news site accessible (at least currently) via bugmenot -

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