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Comment Re:MiR? ISS? (Score 1) 177

if you keep the environment completely pathogen free , the immunity of the people there will drop significantly , since it is not being stimulated.

[Citation needed]

They would not have antibodies against anything new, but they still have resistence to everything they were exposed to before they left.

IANAMD (I am not an MD), but I don't think the immune system works like muscle mass in that respect...

Comment Re:Really, you're OK with that? (Score 1) 185

As a long time user of Seamonkey 2 (alphas and betas) as my primary browser I suspect he threw it at a lot of "testing" sites to see what it could stand up to. Sure I do see crashes during regular use, but it's rare enough to surprise me (anything else and I would have stopped using it).

It would be nice if he mentioned whether he actually tried to make the browser crash or if it happened during normal usage...

Comment Re:Hope (Score 1) 222

It also helped that SimSup (can't remember his name) pulled this exact fault code on Krantz' team during a simulation training just a week prior to launch. Krantz incorrectly called for an abort then, so the whole problem was still fresh in his mind.

Comment Re:Caps Lock Idea... (Score 1) 586

it is more efficient for me to hold down the shift key (which is closer to my pinky than the caps lock key) while continuing to type at the same pace than it is to stop and press and release the caps lock key. i suspect this is likely the case with most people who are able to type at any reasonable pace.

I think you're mistaken. You clearly don't touch-type, which is impossible if you commit one finger just to holding down a shift key.

You should be able to get a lot higher typing rate with training, and then you'll start to appreciate the caps lock for stuff like SQL queries.

Transportation

Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? 337

Rock, Paper, Shotgun is running an opinion piece which asks why the majority of MMOs force users to spend a fair portion of their time traveling around a virtual world. At what point does moving from one location to another become a chore? From the article: "I love big, explorable worlds. They're by far one of my most favourite things about games. Running off in a direction without any idea what I might encounter is a rare pleasure, and one far more likely to result in an exciting discovery in a game's world than the real one. ... Not knowing what's coming up is huge and exciting, and I'd not want to take it away from gaming, not ever. But you know what? Once I've been there, that moment's gone. I've discovered it already. I did the exploring. I don't need to spend half an hour of my time that I've allocated for playing games trudging at whatever stupidly slow speed a game's decided to impose upon me. There is no good reason, whatsoever, to not just let me be there."

Comment Re:It wasn't that simple (Score 1) 295

The rounding up Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, etc, was done by volunteer groups -- the euphemistically called Einsatzgruppen or Sonderkommandos (special units) -- recruited from the SS, SD, Gestapo (all under Himmler, btw) and local volunteers, _not_ from the army.

I agree with your argument, but want to point out that the Sonderkommando was not working along with the Einsatzgroups. They were prisoners in the concentration camps forced to dispose of their killed inmates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando

Comment Re:Similar to Windows hate? (Score 1) 503

Notice that even the jargon file adds the disclaimer

or so, at least, hacker folklore has it,

which has stood for at least 20 years. Even the writers of the jargon file apparently felt that a citation was needed here.

Telegrams were typically transcribed in all-caps, so this practice dates back way longer than the teletype.

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