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Comment Re:It is all about the bandwidth (Score 1) 168

Those are other important reasons. Very true. I don't handle hosting for anything missing critical on my own so its easy enough to rsync and point at another server . For smaller projects I've kept an Amazon AMI ready to spool up, connect to the DB and be going again in >5 minutes...but again, nothing mission critical. If so I might pay the big bucks for more redundancy / next to no downtime. As is though, my server hasn't had downtime in a year and counting.

Comment Re:Glad to see more work in this realm (Score 2) 64

Hmm, I suppose that since primary objections relate to ingestion that at least non-oral treatments/medicines would already be fairly unobjectionable. Now if oral medicines are biologically derived and cannot be done so without the pig as an intermediary...then yes that would be an interesting predicament for some .. folks. Not me though, just hide the pill in a sausage and I'll be a test subject.

Comment Glad to see more work in this realm (Score 2) 64

Glad to see more work in this realm, as we already have seen a high organ compatibility with pigs it seems that we know a number of building blocks are already shared. With this kind of information we should be able to better isolate and (ethically) create both genetic changes and medicines to treat these diseases that would potentially hold a high efficacy in humans.

Comment Qualcomm powers no GS2 and few GS3 variants (Score 1) 331

Article is wildly inaccurate. Worldwide, all GS2 phones have exynos processors from Samsung. GS3 all have exynos except for LTE capable variants made for the U.S. and those have Krait series qualcomm processors, not snapdragon. The Note2 is launching with the new LTE capable exynos everywhere, further cutting qualcomm from the largest android manufacturer. If the author can't even get the details right, why would I trust their conclusion?

Comment Re:Latte sucking sushi snarfing (Score 1) 313

Almost every parasite listed on that page had essentially no reported North American cases.

Even the few that did were mostly supplemented by a note of recent immigrants being the only ones impacted.

Sushi is a risk...but a very minor one, especially considering the fact that I can often trust my sushi chef more than the minimum wage person cooking other quick eats to prepare my food under sanitary conditions (I've received under cooked meat many times at fast food establishments).

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