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  1. Re:The variability is bad by ctmurray · · Score: 1 · on Nuclear Reactors As Art

    On the other hand you can get multiple copies of a poor design (Chernobyl), oh, wait, the Soviet Union does have multiple copies of a bad design...

    Details of poor design

    At least 12 operating in Russia and Lithuania at least they stopped using the design.

  2. Re:Poor designed study by Frangible · · Score: 1 · on Gaming Fanatics Show Hallmarks of Drug Addiction
    Dependancy has nothing to do with the nucelus accumbens whatsoever, and varies by drug, such as greater adenosine sensitivity in the case of caffeine, or less GABA receptor sensitivity in the case of Ambien dependancy. It is entirely a method of psychological addiction only. I cannot conclusively state that it is the only path to psychological addiction, but every drug that is known to be psychologically addictive raises DA there and gambling/gaming do not. Thus, stating an equivalence between gaming and drugs in terms of addiction has no supporting data.

    This overview may be useful to you: http://salmon.psy.plym.ac.uk/year3/DrugAbuse/theor ydrugaddiction.htm

  3. Re:Doubt this is a big problem... by brre · · Score: 1 · on Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain
    "If instead of gross morphological changes, thalidomide had caused a 5 point drop in IQ, would it be on the market today?"

    "Of course"

    That little dictum of behavioral teratology (originally a question posed by a reporter) illustrates why "been around long enough" doesn't establish safety when the damage is subtle and the connection to the cause is not obvious.

    Here's a fuller discussionfor those interested.

  4. Original BBC story, more links by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 5, Informative · on Six Monkeys And An Old Saw

    This was research carried out by the University of Plymouth (that's Plymouth in the UK, not in the US) at the nearby Paignton Zoo.

    And here's the original BBC News story.

    I'm not sure I see any real value in their research, but I am concerned about their methodology - that's an awfully small data set (only six monkeys, and only over one month) from which to draw any concrete conclusions...

  5. Somebody has to rain on the parade by eclectro · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Gaming Fuel: 4-way Shootout

    I enjoy a good drink like any late night nerd does. But it is too easy to "OD" on caffeine without knowing it. I have some links to provide food for thought;

    An interesting page about liquid candy

    Some deaths associated with red bull/energy drinks

    Another caffeine death

    I am not saying give up your drinks. But I am saying be smart about it. Don't drink/eat so much caffeine that you make yourself feel miserable with the symptoms of too much caffeine. while it is thought that 10 grams is a fatal overdose, I would be willing to bet that a fraction of that can make you feel pretty miserable and is very easily reached with some of the caffeinated drinks/candies/pills out there. A couple liters of mountain dew, four red bulls, and a handful of penguine mints or any combination thereof places you at about 1 gram.

    It goes without saying drinking alcohol at the same time exacerbates things.

    Also, caffeine is not a substitute for sleep. There are reasons that the body needs to sleep. So if you are depriving your body of sleep for whatever reason you need to start asking yourself what your priorities are. Sleep "binging" where you go without sleep all week and catch up on the weekends is also unhealthy, but this is another topic in itself.

    This post is not intended to be medical advice. See your doctor if you have any questions/symptoms. Yada yada yada.

  6. Linux Enterprise Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Linux Advocacy Hurts
    aka The Linux/Apache Meta HowTo

    It is currently in revision 0.01

    It is also mostly a skeleton, but off to a good (in my opinion) start. Hardware is halfway there - only 8 or so other sections to go..

    Send submissions, proof diff/patches, comments, etc to betty@area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk

    The page can be found at

    area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk/~betty/Linux Enterprise

    Mirror will soon be at http://stacy.flwireless.net when it goes back up again.

    Aaron (TheJackal/TeeJay)

  7. The cat has lost it's tail. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on ZD Critiques Mindcraft Benchmarks
    Nobody in their right mind would install as a
    server a Pentium II 266, 64 Meg RAM with a 4 gig IDE drive.


    Our corporate website for an over $1bn Multinational gets only 600,000 hits a month. A P2 266 with 128 MB RAM can handle that without breaking into a sweat - running Linux/*BSD that is. Being a Non-IT corporation NT is used but runs into problems handling CGI and with unstable backups.


    This is really unfair to NT, as 64 Megs is the bare minimum at which you can really run IIS. Try the test again with 128 megs, or 256 megs and see what happens. Then try it with SCSI instead of IDE, etc. Why not use a Proliant 800 instead of a desktop machine?



    We also have a 512mb RAM Dual Processor webserver that uses Oracle and Access - but it needs rebooting once a week and is stupidly sluggish.


    Aaron.



    (TeeJay/TheJackal)