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  1. Re:It's not really homeopathic on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 1

    It probably goes like this;
    Dr: I am giving you a placebo.
    Patient: What, a sugar pill? That won't do anything!
    Dr: No, it has been shown that the placebo effect works even when the patient knows.

    Hence, the patient believes something will happen, so it does. Placebo effect.

  2. Re:Food flavor etc. on FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, what an idiat.

  3. Re:If you have ever owned one on Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD · · Score: 1

    8gb of ram can be had for $80. I doubt someone who spends $500 on a SSD is going to cheap out on ram to save $40. Not to mention the difference between 4gb of ram and 8gb of ram is not nearly as night and day in normal pc usage compared to the difference between magnetic and SSD hdd's

  4. Oh the horror!! on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 2, Funny

    How did you play tetris during class?

  5. Re:Okay, enough already on EC To Pursue Antitrust Despite Microsoft's IE Move · · Score: 1

    How bout the top 3? IE6, IE7, and IE8. Oh the choices.

  6. Re:quote on 14-Year-Old Boy Smote By Meteorite · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!" -Zap Brannigan

  7. Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you are looking for a sexist way to refer to a female actor then i suppose you are correct.

  8. Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Actor is the correct word for both male and female.

  9. Re:Statement on Society on Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered By New York Teen · · Score: 1

    Its a lion. You better study before the new episodes come out.

  10. Re:Huh wha...? on Comedy Central Confirms 26 New Futurama Episodes · · Score: 3, Funny

    automatically pictures Groening's voice

    VOICES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!

  11. Re:I've seen this before on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Education's sake? on Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we wouldn't want kids to get used to the idea of getting paid by the entity that provides them challenges. How would they cope with the real world.

  13. From TFS on Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down · · Score: 1

    100+History=Lack of Proof-reading Skills

  14. Re:easy on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    STOP

  15. Re:Ethernet on New HDMI 1.4 Spec Set To Confuse · · Score: 1

    Plus, I don't know of any brand of monitor that comes with a HDMI input.

    Never heard of HP, Gateway, or LG?

  16. Re:Baah on French Fusion Experiment Delayed Until 2025 or Beyond · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then why, with most of my energy coming from a nuclear power plant, do I pay the lowest per KW/H rates in the country. 3.5c in winter and 5.5c in summer.

  17. From TFA - 17,200mph on Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science? · · Score: 1

    What does how fast the shuttle is orbiting the planet have to do with how hard it is to update the codec. Its not like there on the top of a semi flying down the freeway at 80mph trying to get the dvd-rom drive open. I think the bigger problem is that the ethernet cable so they could get to divx.com would be a little long at their current altitude.

  18. Re:24 hour charge?? on Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Whooooosh Stock car racing is a boring name, how about: National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing.

  19. Re:Yes, but it's in Chickens, not frogs on Microbes 100M Years Old Found In Termite Guts · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Jesus was a raptor?? That explains a lot.

  20. Re:I know you slashdotters hate to hear it on MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You don't get it, this is /., if there is an article about Microsoft being told to not bundle a browser with Windows and someone says they think Apple should have to ditch Safari the answer is "Apple is not a monopoly and is not subject to anti-trust laws". However, if you bring up Microsoft adding a clock to windows 1.0 before they were a monopoly the response is, "OMFG, ANTITRUST!!!111!!!"

    Try a little harder to follow the /. posting guidelines next time, ok?

  21. Re:I know you slashdotters hate to hear it on MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You say:

    The minute WINE works 100%

    Then you say:

    without any sort of shims or other garbage

    Wine is the definition of using hacks to get an app to run on an OS. If it is ok for Wine, why is it not ok for Win7?

  22. FYI on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    2.0 works by default on Win 7 x64 RC1. No need for the "--in-process-plugins"

  23. Re:Internal Memo on Microsoft Downplays IIS Bug Threat · · Score: 1

    Like the Simpsons?

  24. Re:Military required? on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    Until we get to the panama canal, which we built.

  25. Re:This just seals the deal. on Wolfram|Alpha's Surprising Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Connect to a proxy in Russia and tell me how that works out for you.