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iPad test notes: In the bathroom [Don't do this at home!]
Gizmodo via MSNBC ^
| 6 April 2010
| Jason Chen
Posted on 04/06/2010 11:02:48 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader
People get paid to write this drivel?
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posted on
04/06/2010 12:22:05 PM PDT
by
FLCowboy,
(And people thought Jimmy Carter was our worst president........)
To: Larry Lucido
LoL!~ Cell phones are another matter. The toilet is a cell phone magnet in my experience. If it falls off, I just wait for the inevitable ker-plunk sound.
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posted on
04/06/2010 12:50:27 PM PDT
by
HOP
To: Mark was here
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posted on
04/06/2010 12:56:07 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Entitlements will do to America what drugs eventually do to addicts)
To: Larry Lucido
Have you actually seen one? It is small do drop in a toilet and get very wet. It is too big to flush down, however.
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posted on
04/06/2010 1:07:43 PM PDT
by
NathanR
(,)
To: BikerJoe
That’s a bit of a misconception. The iPhone and iPad can both multitask, they just can’t, or more accurately, won’t allow third party apps to run in the background.
Now on the iPhone I understood the reasoning: to protect the core functions of the device, and to keep the battery from getting sucked out of juice in an hour or two.
As for the iPad, those issues aren’t as great. And according to news reports, Apple is going to unveil iPhone OS 4 tomorrow. Speculation is that this upgrade will allow third party apps to run in the background, at least on the iPad, but maybe also on the iPhone. We’ll see.
What I would like to see is wireless data syncs between iPhone and iPad.
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
04/06/2010 2:10:34 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Fractal Trader
I’d lay it on the toilet paper roll.
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posted on
04/06/2010 2:12:15 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Fractal Trader
Republicans read on the toilet too, never fear. They simply read more erudite fare.
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posted on
04/06/2010 2:13:29 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: CholeraJoe
We passed around candies in microbiology. Some had been inoculated with Serratia marcescens. After some passing and handshaking, a sterile swab wetted with sterile saline was used to swab the palms of the participants and swabbed onto agar plates. Serratia marcescens produces a red pigment, so it was easy to spot the colonies. The exercise was intended as a little practical exercise in epidemiology. It worked fine. I'm pretty certain nobody played with the candy for anywhere near 30 seconds. The bacteria was passed along fairly efficiently.
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posted on
04/06/2010 3:00:38 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
Serratia was used in the 50’s and 60’s as a surrogate for radioactive fallout. It was released over cities. Along about 1972 we started seeing opportunistic infections caused by it. It causes pink pus in wounds and pink sputum in pneumonia.
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posted on
04/06/2010 3:13:09 PM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(The Last of the Bohicans!)
To: CholeraJoe
Serratia also contaminates sauerkraut. There nothing quite so unpalatable (or unsaleable) as a few tons of pink sauerkraut.
My school lab had bottles full of mercuric chloride (2%) solution for disinfecting hands and work surfaces. That was my introductory class in the summer of '73. By the time I started grad school in the Fall of 1976, my profs were horrified when I mentioned that method of sanitizing surfaces.
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posted on
04/06/2010 4:57:53 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
I remember those flasks sitting on the counters from my first micro class.
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posted on
04/07/2010 4:31:16 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(The Last of the Bohicans!)
To: CholeraJoe
RE: the 30 second rule -there was nothing in the link you posted about transferring bacteria from someone’s hand that is contaminated with fecal matter.
Floors are probably cleaner and drier.Bacteria probably die ,or at least become dormant, on a hard ,dry surface.Maybe the grad students could test this premise;it is likely to be more useful than many college projects.
My rule is: Don’t hand me any of your ****!
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posted on
04/07/2010 6:44:25 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: CholeraJoe
My first microbiology teacher was Erik Wedberg at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, CA. It was my first college class following high school graduation. It was an outstanding summer class. My lab partner was entering the LVN program in the Fall. The skills taught in the lab served me well throughout college.
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posted on
04/07/2010 9:13:53 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: HiTech RedNeck
Republicans read on the toilet too, never fear. They simply read more erudite fare. Like FR! (No, this isn't being posted from the john...)
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posted on
04/07/2010 9:18:41 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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