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The mouse who spoke with a deep voice(scientificblogging.com)
8 points by bmunro 17y ago|1 comments
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by bmunro 17y ago
Not true. A quick hand wash gets rid of almost all the bacteria. Fungi take a bit more scrubbing to get rid of. I found this out in first year university biology. We swabbed and cultured our hands before and after washing with plain soap. A
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by bmunro 17y ago
Umm, I started to read this, but got distracted by the link to xkcd...
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by bmunro 17y ago
From the article: Psystar copies the hard drive of a Macintosh computer containing Mac OS X (as depicted above on the left side of the diagram) onto its "imaging station" computer (shown in the middle of the diagram). This is the first unl
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by bmunro 17y ago
and that that name was the name of the reverend conducting the funeral service, not the deceased
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by bmunro 17y ago
You may also know ALS as Motor Neurone Disease (MND), particularly for those of you outside of the USA. It runs in my family.
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by bmunro 17y ago
An interesting thing to me is that E. coli will be killed if the meat is cooked all the way through. Anyone that gets infected by this strain (or any other) hasn't been cooking their meat properly. Or the hamburger chain hasn't. Rare steak
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by bmunro 17y ago
It is true that pathogenic organisms will be killed by bringing water to boil. However, this is not gauranteed to destroy toxins produced by organisms. For example, Clostridium botulinum needs to be boiled for ten minutes to destroy the tox
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by bmunro 17y ago
I thought this was going to be an article about how people with autism browse the web.
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by bmunro 17y ago
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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by bmunro 17y ago
Nope, still equals zero.
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by bmunro 17y ago
It is great that the full transcript for the video is shown on the web page. I never bother to sit though a whole video. I can read much faster than anyone can speak.
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by bmunro 17y ago
One of the comments in the article notes that: The global version of Google Maps shows the border as a dashed line, according to actual territorial possession. The Chinese version, Google Ditu, shows the border as an unbroken line according
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by bmunro 17y ago
I said I'm in Sydney, Australia. But for the last eight months I have been living in Woy Woy on the central coast just north of Sydney. I have lived in Sydney for most of my life.
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by bmunro 17y ago
And me
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by bmunro 17y ago
There's isn't much info there, but from what I can see from the picture, I wouldn't want that spiky little thing crawling around inside my body.
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A Nuclear Fusion Startup(technologyreview.com)
11 points by bmunro 17y ago|0 comments
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by bmunro 17y ago
>Shortly after I declared Magic-1 "hardware complete", I casually mentioned to my wife that I was starting to think about Magic-2. Her response was swift, and final: > "No, there will be no Magic-2!" ...omitted... > She's th
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by bmunro 17y ago
I think the article meant that a deadly strain of E. coli first appeared in the early 1980s. E. coli in general does not cause death, It is present in the gut of most mammals, including humans.
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by bmunro 17y ago
It would be good to be able to try out your app before creating an account. I want to quickly get a feel for it without going to the hassle of creating an account. Yes, I know you have a screencast, but that's not what I want. I would like
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Co-operative multitasking in Windows 7 - User Mode Scheduling (Video interview with Dave Probost)(channel9.msdn.com)
1 points by bmunro 17y ago|0 comments
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by bmunro 17y ago
Some cheap Nokia, it doesn't even have a product number on it. Cost A$29, makes phone calls and sends sms.
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by bmunro 17y ago
Using Firefox, I moved the bookmarks toolbar to the menu bar. To do this, make sure you have the bookmarks toolbar visible. Right-click on the menu bar or around the location box, then select 'customise'. Drag 'Bookmark toolbar items' to th
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by bmunro 17y ago
Click on the language name and a drop down menu will appear.
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by bmunro 18y ago
"I've seen kids who vehemently deny that meat comes from animals." Going off topic... There is no chance of my kids not knowing where meat comes from. I often use the words beef/cow or pork/pig etc interchangeably. e.g. "What's for dinner t
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by bmunro 18y ago
There is an open source competitor - Moodle (moodle.org) My university currently uses Blackboard. Some of the computing subjects are trialling moodle to see whether the whole university could switch from Blackboard. Moodle is simpler to us
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by bmunro 18y ago
The article didn't say anything about 'relocation'. It only said that they Friendster's office is located in Sydney.
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by bmunro 18y ago
The article agrees with you: "People only work on what they want to work on, when they want to work on it. Most people don't see any need to make Linux more attractive to inexperienced end-users: It already does what they want it to do, why
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by bmunro 18y ago
I had a 20 minute break and a 40 minute break every day throughout my entire 13 years of school. This was in Australia. I can't believe that in other countries you don't get to run around regularly at school.
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by bmunro 18y ago
Because it is compulsory, it is also very easy to vote in Australia. Most people can walk to their local school, community hall etc. There are places to vote absolutely everywhere. There are no queues to vote. You just walk in and vote. Th

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