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  1. Ibuprofen not Tylenol or acetaminophen on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tylenol is rougher on the liver than Ibuprofen. This is important because of all the alcohol users here.

  2. Chrome is the fastest on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 1

    It glides smoothly. That is what I care about. I use zero addins, etc. Incognito and tab dragging to new windows are nice in chrome, however.

  3. Re:Ministry of Censorship on Australia To Block BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Sounds so 1984ish! "Ministry of Censorship"

  4. Encryption? on Australia To Block BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    If switching to encrypted does not help, I would imagine it is just a matter of time before someone figures out ways around their filters. P2P is a force of nature. Eventually the Colorado river is going to defeat the Hoover Dam, it is just a matter of centuries of natural forces. In this case it will take weeks not centuries.

  5. You are Exactly Right on Getting Hired As an Entry-Level Programmer? · · Score: 1

    The jobs actually say "Entry Level. Must have 2 years experience in .Net, C, etc." I have been working in IT for 6 years with servers, and now as a DBA, but know my future is in programming. First does programming match your personality? I recommend working through K&R on your own: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Prentice-Hall-Software/dp/0131103628/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223994909&sr=8-1 and finding a job that uses programming. There will come a time when programmers are needed so badly that they will accept less experience.

  6. Myth Busters on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 1
  7. So True! on A Hippocratic Oath For Scientists · · Score: 1

    Give donations to private research not NIH. Science at the local public university is so political. The reality was sad. Nothing hardly gets accomplished. The emphasis is on getting your grant or getting it renewed, getting tenure. The work is secondary, get on the grant committee and you have it made! In reality scientist are smoozers and BSers, not Einsteins, and Rick Moranis. PHDs give A's to their grad students in the same class with undergrads that work just as hard and get C's.

  8. So in other words, it's not 3-d? on R2-D2 Monitors Your Web Servers · · Score: 1

    So in other words, it's not 3-d?

  9. Orexin or Modafinil on One in Ten Americans Are Chronically Sleep Deprived · · Score: 1

    When Orexin or Modafinil become cheap, then we will all work doubles and sleep 4hrs a night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orexin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil

  10. What they should do. . . on Senate Discusses Third Pipe Using 700MHz Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Is either make it all public domain like the 802.11B & G frequencies. Or at least encourage competition, by splitting it into 3-6 parts and requiring seperate companies to operate them. This is a very important piece of emf that has not be available in 50 years and will allow real wireless internet city by city through walls, I hope we don't allow Verizons to hog it and sell it back to us for unreasonable prices!

  11. Federal Charges? on Identity Thief Apprehended By Victim · · Score: 2, Insightful

    She stole mail. She stole keys from the federal government postal employee. Mail fraud? This worthless sack of shit should get 20 years of HARD time, split between state and federal pens!

  12. Re:getting off scott free... on Identity Thief Apprehended By Victim · · Score: 1

    That is SF and CA for you. I am surprised they didn't go after the victim for harassment

  13. Re:The laws have to change on Identity Thief Apprehended By Victim · · Score: 1

    "Wouldn't solve anything to give them jail time. She's obviously a junkie and a career criminal already. In ten years, she'll come out, and the methods needed to steal an identity will have not changed one bit." Yeah but it would be a lot harder to steal identities in prison.