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Comment Responsibility Deflection (Score 1) 93

Voltus will sign up homes and businesses and give them financial incentives to curb their usage when local power demand is high

For businesses, tweaking temperature and increasing HVAC recirculation (i.e cutting down on fresh air) reduces power consumption.

So when the AC air in these building is unusually cold, warm or stale:
- at the doctor's,
- at the mall,
- at the cinema,
- at (God forbid!) the hospital! ...should we think of Voltus and Google?

What is Ellen Zuckerman, head of energy market development for North and South America at Google, doing to mitigate the impact on vulnerable on humans? Does she have constraints applied in her spreadsheet model to avoid this? Or has the accountability headache of managing impact just been passed downward to "Where it belongs!"

Comment "Think of the users that will no longer be fooled (Score 3, Interesting) 73

Yes. Think. And the best course of action is to make the 'hacked' board advertise it's hacked state on bootup -- via VGA, blinking board LEDs, and even sound output. Something like, "Warning, my RAM has been hacked." But allow the user to proceed if they accept the risk.

Comment Re: You reap what you sow (Score -1, Troll) 169

Those cuts cut deeper on the Ukrainian side. Russia seems to be trying to bombing them into the bronze age, even going after steelworks.

Both sides and the rest of the world cannot afford continuation of this war. Both sides need to show flexibility in their bargaining positions and stop now.

Comment Re: Human Growth Hormone (Score 1) 70

I plugged that question into ChatGPT. Apparently, HGH is normally produced by the pituitary gland. But during pregnancy, a different version of HGH produced by the placenta takes over its role. It reorganises the mothers body until deli ery. Placental growth hormone disappears from maternal circulation very rapidly after childbirth, generally within about an hour. The mother's usual pituitary growth hormone system then resumes its role.

Comment Re: Kidneys (Score 2) 70

I heard about that. I wonder what the long term effects of that will be on those 70+ year olds. Just look at all the risks listed here:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org...

Interestingly, doctors tend to avoid blood transfusions even in the case of heavy bleeding. Instead, they immediately use intravenous fluids to rapidly "fill the pipes" and restore blood pressure and organ perfusion.

Comment Re: Kidneys (Score 1) 70

A novel idea, but Mr Stoker did have some folk legends to borrow from. Personally, I have no stake in that matter, no fascination with holy water or crucifixes and certainly don't believe in silver bullets. Sunshine, however, is a powerful disinfectant and garlic makes bread tasty! (So, are there no Italian vampires?). It's interesting the actual name of Jesus is never used by the characters in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- his name is the singular artifact of power in the new testament.

Comment Re: Kidneys (Score 3, Interesting) 70

Or take a closer look at blood transfusions.
A biblical verse states the life of an organism is in its blood. It is blood that carries the nutrients, signalling molecules and even free mitochondria that probably signal the transplanted organ to turn younger. The bioelectric environment also matters, but probably not to the same extent as blood does to the transplanted heart.

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