Comment Re: Good company (Score 1) 33
Technics SL-1200 turntable
Submission + - SPAM: The Challenge of Having Poisonous Arsenic Containing Books
fedor writes: Poisonous books in library collections with public access pose a specific challenge due to the fact that library staff and readers handle collection items intensely. (...)
Per participant three urine samples were taken to establish a base line and the potential exposure to arsenic whilst working with the collection. One sample was taken at the beginning and one at the end of the first workday, followed by the last sample at the end of the last workday. Urine samples were analysed for total arsenic.
(..)It is now assumed that arsenic could be present in a significant part of the collection dating up to the 1950s. Well over half a million of items would have to be checked to identify all items.
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Per participant three urine samples were taken to establish a base line and the potential exposure to arsenic whilst working with the collection. One sample was taken at the beginning and one at the end of the first workday, followed by the last sample at the end of the last workday. Urine samples were analysed for total arsenic.
(..)It is now assumed that arsenic could be present in a significant part of the collection dating up to the 1950s. Well over half a million of items would have to be checked to identify all items.
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Comment single sign-on (Score 1) 61
No need to reuse passwords. There is single sign-on.
Comment Re:They'll all keep doing this (Score 1) 23
Exactly! It 's also very disturbing that we need scientists to research and uncover this kind of unethical malware.
Comment Good news (Score 1) 111
Good news for shampoo manufacturers and barbers.
Comment 0.0146 seconds | ongoing performance (Score 1) 53
https://www.julia-janssen.nl/0...
‘0.0146 seconds’ is a collective read out loud performance in which everybody can participate – An act against the exploitation mechanics of the data economy. For the sake of control over personal information.
Comment Yes, we can (Score 2) 161
with LISP
Comment The importance of VHS-video (Score 1) 51
Documentary about VHS video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Humans + livestock account for 96% mammal biomass (Score 5, Informative) 303
Humans account for about 36 percent of the biomass of all mammals. Domesticated livestock, mostly cows and pigs, account for 60 percent, and wild mammals for only 4 percent.
https://www.ecowatch.com/bioma...
Comment Re:Hmmmm (Score -1, Troll) 928
Only a true moron refers to people negatively as "SJW". As if social justice was a bad thing, your idiot.
As for being a weak willed human being, you won't be offended if I call you a weak brained human being I guess. Because that vile post of yours confirmed that fact.
Comment Re:Damn, No Arabic (Score 1) 122
If it's not available you can always use simple English to send your love words to Bush, Cheney and all other American assholes who led to the illegal invasion of an Arab country, leading to 100'000s deaths and the total destruction of its social construct.
Comment Re:Who cares about succinctness .... (Score 1) 165
Given today's job market, I'll bet a lot of CS grads would be happy to maintain a business critical COBOL code base.
Comment A list done by a 15 years old (Score 2) 285
This truly is the crappiest list I've seen, and I have seen crappy lists. Creating a 'cool' site like Quora somehow gets you on that list, so does answering StackOverflow questions. I guess you either have to create websites or have Google on your resume to be on that list.
How about creating 2 of the most successful and important operating systems the world has ever seen ? Namely, VMS and Windows NT.
Oh yeah, David Cutler for example isn't on that list, I guess he should have stuck to creating websites in PHP...
Leslie Lamport anyone ? Oh no, he didn't work on some crappy website either, doesn't count !
Comment Re:According to the Disney archives (Score 1) 97
I'm surprised they didn't mention the bird in Mary Poppins - the one that sings sitting on Mary's fingers. I always thought that was the first use of Anamatronics. That and the Parrot Head on Mary's umbrella.
