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Comment Re:Thankfully... (Score 3, Informative) 78

You have no idea what you are talking about. The Bay Delta region is predominantly freshwater and there are hundreds of dikes and dams through the area. The controlling factor for how much water goes to Southern California is called the State Water Project and that is dependent on snow melt from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the east. No snow, no flow. No rain, no snow. Because of a normal snow pack during last year, Southern California is expected to have most of it's allotment from the State Water Project. Most of the reservoirs are now full because people use much less water in the winter. The high winds makes the availability of water a moot point. You can't fly in those conditions and drop water. The wind also pushes embers over any fire breaks meaning people on the ground have real challenges containing the blazes. Maybe stick to stuff you know instead of regurgitating nonsense.

Comment Re:Strengthening their position for the next one. (Score 1) 213

You do not die of COVID. When they talk about death, it's the direct method that is quoted. You get shot, you do not die from the gun shot. You die from loss of blood, or trauma to an organ. From a respiratory disease, you die from respiratory problems. COVID tends to kill you from Pneumonia, which is suffocation do to your lungs filling up with fluids. The death stated as Pneumonia caused by COVID. It is pretty easy to tell the cause of all deaths, take what should have been the average for that year and investigate the excess. If 10 people out of 1000 die every year for the last fifty years and you get 20 for two years at the same time you have a pandemic ....

Comment Re:Cow milk is for cows... (Score 1) 253

"Osteoporosis is largely only seen in countries that consume dairy products." I call BS about the osteoporosis being seen largely in countries that consume dairy products. Asian countries and Asians abroad have extremely high rates of osteoporosis. Around 90% of Asians are lactose intolerant and it is difficult to find dairy products in most Asian countries. Calcium is not available for uptake in any form without D3 to facilitate.

Comment Re:Donut shaped? (Score 1) 154

We were freshman in IIT, having passed JEE, head high in the clouds, top 1000 All India Rank, all the orientation speakers calling us creme-de-la-creme of India. First Chemistry 101 class. Reading ahead for the class, our study group found there are some electron orbital stuff, n orbital, p orbital etc. One of them was described to be doughnut shaped. All of us were stumped. We did not know what a doughnut was or what it would look like.

Then one from our study group found an American chemistry text book with pictures. It spelled doughnut as donut, but had a picture. We exclaimed, "It is a damned torus! Why wouldn't they call it a torus? Why use this weird thing donut/doughnut". In the class Prof PJ Narayanan said, "... it says doughnut in the text book. Doughnut is like a vada but it is sweet not savoury, they make in the West..."

If slashdot is going to call itself "news for the nerds" the least it can do is to call that shape by its proper name, a torus.

It is the ghost-like that got me. What are the actual properties of a ghost? Sheet like with holes for eyes?

Comment Re:And in California ... (Score 1) 169

Their voting machines will only print a paper ballot if you ask for it, otherwise they'll just provide ballots "only in electronic form." /future-irony

I've been voting in California elections my whole life. Not once electronically. We use a stamp method in the area I vote in.

Submission + - SPAM: Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight

schwit1 writes: An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies.

In interviews and emails seen by Reuters, academic and industry experts from countries including Germany, Japan and Israel worried that the U.S. electronic spy agency was pushing the new techniques not because they were good encryption tools, but because it knew how to break them.

The NSA has now agreed to drop all but the most powerful versions of the techniques — those least likely to be vulnerable to hacks — to address the concerns.

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