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You get to fight my bacteria, and every humans bacteria, every day of your life. Not to a significant extent. In cases where people are exposed to other people's bacteria in quanti…

No, it's standard UK practice, especially for the first 2 years after splenectomy. It does seem to vary around the world though.

For hopefully the last time, I'm not talking about the bacteria in the product . All human beings defecate. Many (most?) clean themselves afterwards with their hands. If you do not…

We provide them a home, and in return they protect and clean us. They don't want to destroy their home, they would die, too. Sorry but that is absolute, unmitigated rubbish. I spen…

Not talking about the bacteria in the product, I'm talking about the faecal bacteria (your own personal gut microbes) that are still stuck to the skin afterwards due to not using a…

Not talking about the bacteria in the product, I'm talking about the faecal bacteria (your own personal gut microbes) that are still stuck to the skin afterwards due to not using a…

Soap and water is very good at removing faecal contamination. In the absence of small children and pets, and the taking of a prophylactic dose of antibiotics daily, my main concern…

TFA doesn't contain enough detail about hand-washing as opposed to body & hair, in much the same way that most people don't like talking about wiping their backsides vs washing the…

Thank you (I'm not religious either). I'm sorry you feel uncomfortable, that's not my intent at all. In purely objective terms, there's obviously a benefit to culling the weak. I w…

I can't reply directly to "rosser" due to max comment depth, but fecal transplants don't generally involve introducing gut bacteria to anywhere other than the gut.

Your fecal coliforms will kill other people, simply because they're yours, not theirs. They'll kill you if they don't stay in the gut (mine tried, along with a carbapenem-resistant…

I'm still alive, that's as far as it goes. 30% + chance of recurrence and it's not like I can have those organs removed a second time. However, it's an improvement on the initial d…

So anybody who happens to have a compromised immune system gets to fight your personalised microbes, perhaps fatally? How very ... Darwinian ... of you. Soap and water have saved m…

Yep. I run Privoxy and a DNS resolver configured to be authoritative for the worst 5000 or so ad farms. Zips along nicely, and works for every machine on the LAN or via remote VPN.…

It's UTF-8 being interpreted as raw bytes: "a-hat" is the 0x80 marker byte. A common fail is forgetting that Microsoft Word auto-corrects straight quotes (which are in ASCII) to cu…

Anecdotally, tests for skin-contact carcinogens can be skewed because the lab mice are prone to develop skin cancers anyway.

I think OP meant, "Why does the experiment always succeed on mice", not "Why do we perform experiments on mice".

Presumably not ones assembled with lead-free solder? (not that the plastics are likely much safer by Californian standards, but still)

I find it quite ironic that the 'machine' has failed dismally to reproduce this text correctly, by making the usual pigs ear of character encodings and rendering Ælfrid as �lfrid i…

No, no they won't. Not my users, anyway, because I block your ads at the DNS resolver level by redirecting queries to my own Apache instance, which serves single pixel images or em…

...right up to about 20 kHz, whereafter YOU CAN'T HEAR THEM. Hence 44 kHz sampling. Seriously, A/B test this, you might be surprised. Also if you think that's anything like a squar…

First off, forget about MP3; I'm not arguing for a lossy standard. You can't get an 18 kHz square wave out of a system with 44 kHz sampling. You need at least 1 harmonic before it'…

That's actually good design - the intention being that any clipping can only be due to software (which you can fix), not underpowered amplification hardware (which you can't).

An 18 kHz square wave sampled at 44 kHz looks like an 18 kHz sine wave, everything after the fundamental frequency is well outside the Nyquist limit and will have been thrown away …

From previous discussion, quoting 'jbk' VLC allows amplification of the INPUT above the sound that was decoded. This is just like replay gain, broken codecs, badly recorded files o…