Of course I only read the summary, but why use the word violent? It sounds like this has nothing to do with violence but fast paced complex spatial reaction.
Because/. has an ax to grind with people who make dubious claims about the harm caused by violence in video games. What better way to combat them than to implicitly make dubious claims about the benefits of violence in video games? (Though, to be fair, TFA is actually titled "Playing violent computer games 'can improve vision'".)
Funny how some forms of discrimination are allowed, but not based on genetic tests.. OH WAIT, IT IS ALLOWED, they can examine your records, determine tests showed genetic predisposition, deny coverage.
No, that is not allowed, unless GINA completely fails to do what essentially every description of the law describes it as doing.
I did a quick read of the Nature Genetics letter and, as far as I can tell, it makes no claims as to the worldwide frequency of the allele (actually a micro-deletion). Accurately measuring allele frequencies for the world's population is not something that most studies are adequately designed for, so it's not surprising that they don't provide an estimate.
Here's what they have to say about the deletion's frequency outside of India.
The presence of this deletion in many Indian populations with varied geographical and ancestral backgrounds raises the question of how geographically widespread it is outside India. We therefore also analyzed 63 world population samples, comprising 2,085 indigenous individuals from 26 countries including all five continents. The 25-bp deletion was observed in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia, (all heterozygotes) but was absent from other samples. Thus, the deletion is a common variant in individuals from South Asia, present in Southeast Asia, but undetectable elsewhere (Fig. 3 and Supplementary Table 5 online).
The supplementary materials give the sample sizes for each of the ethnic groups that were sampled and the number of deletion carriers. Most of the individual samples are small, but in the aggregate they do strongly suggest that the deletion is practically non-existent outside of South Asia and a few neighboring areas.
This does raise the question of how the media got this 1% prevalence estimate, unless I completely missed it in the article. In general, media outlets don't report the contents of peer-reviewed articles, they report the contents of press releases that accompany (or precede) the articles.
Another simple change is to set dom.disable_window_open_feature.location to true. That should make it pretty obvious when a popup comes from source different than what it's claiming.
It has a range of 5km. But it's so small I can probably use it to drive from my car to grocery store on opposite side of parking lot.
This could be the answer to that ubiquitous American dilemma: How can I get from one end of Walmart's parking lot to the other without getting any actual excercise?
And it's damn odd that scientific results have to be 'discussed' with him before they're released.
They wanted to make sure that he'd support funding for the study of life on Mars. Unfortunately, he's decided to give all the research grants to Liberty University so that they can figure out the day of genesis on which god created Martian life.
Or maybe at least a few politicians realize that, if airlines can so openly collude on prices, they can probably collude on any other policies that generates the most revenue.
If that was the concern, then Congress could require airlines to allow passengers to use cell phones without being charged.
In fact, most airlines already have their own, extraordinarily expensive, in-flight phone services. You could make a much better argument that this existing state of affairs is the result of collusion, and that the best way to break it is to mandate free cell phone use on all flights.
Now we move to mars. Naturally, we won't actually use or drink the readily available Martian water, but buy bottled water from earth instead.
You've got it backwards. We bring the Mars water back here and sell it to gullible yuppies for 6 million dollars a bottle. Just tell them it's free of all of those earthly contaminants that cause cancer and wrinkles.
A good MP3 player and some audiobooks help a lot. Exercise that would otherwise be boring (walking, running, etc.) is much more enjoyable when you are simultaneously doing the equivalent of reading a book. You might be surprised by how much more you exercise when you always have a good audiobook available.
Unfortunately the commercial audiobook options aren't great: CDs are expensive; Audible is moderately expensive and DRM'd. Fortunately, some public libraries have a good selection of books on CD.
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
Everybody is so amused by the "series of tubes" line that they overlook this far more important statement that actually demonstrates his ignorance. He apparently believed that bandwith problems (clogged tubes) cause an email to be delayed for days, when that obviously can't be the case. This doesn't have the hilarious memorability of Stevens' other statements, but it does a much better job of showing his substantive misunderstanding of issues relating to net neutrality.
No way, he improperly uses upper-case letters for variables. I'll write the "algebra" entry using "x" and "y" and he can write an "Algebra" entry using "X" and "Y".
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There's just no way that all adults average out to 10 messages a day.
Even more surprising is that 10 is the median. The mean for adults is 39.1 (page 6 of the report), and no, that's not just including young adults.
Of course I only read the summary, but why use the word violent? It sounds like this has nothing to do with violence but fast paced complex spatial reaction.
Because /. has an ax to grind with people who make dubious claims about the harm caused by violence in video games. What better way to combat them than to implicitly make dubious claims about the benefits of violence in video games? (Though, to be fair, TFA is actually titled "Playing violent computer games 'can improve vision'".)
Funny how some forms of discrimination are allowed, but not based on genetic tests.. OH WAIT, IT IS ALLOWED, they can examine your records, determine tests showed genetic predisposition, deny coverage.
No, that is not allowed, unless GINA completely fails to do what essentially every description of the law describes it as doing.
As the genome gets further and further mapped, expect more and more people to be "uninsurable at any price".
Discrimination based on genetics is already outlawed by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
The presence of this deletion in many Indian populations with varied geographical and ancestral backgrounds raises the question of how geographically widespread it is outside India. We therefore also analyzed 63 world population samples, comprising 2,085 indigenous individuals from 26 countries including all five continents. The 25-bp deletion was observed in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia, (all heterozygotes) but was absent from other samples. Thus, the deletion is a common variant in individuals from South Asia, present in Southeast Asia, but undetectable elsewhere (Fig. 3 and Supplementary Table 5 online).
The supplementary materials give the sample sizes for each of the ethnic groups that were sampled and the number of deletion carriers. Most of the individual samples are small, but in the aggregate they do strongly suggest that the deletion is practically non-existent outside of South Asia and a few neighboring areas.
This does raise the question of how the media got this 1% prevalence estimate, unless I completely missed it in the article. In general, media outlets don't report the contents of peer-reviewed articles, they report the contents of press releases that accompany (or precede) the articles.
This is why anecdotes are useless.
They are not! I always take anecdotes seriously and I'm doing quite well, thank you very much.
Oh, and use NoScript!
Another simple change is to set dom.disable_window_open_feature.location to true. That should make it pretty obvious when a popup comes from source different than what it's claiming.
What, how does this go? Infidel! Terrorist! Am not. Are so!
Is that any worse than most of the other online discussion of Israeli/Palestinian conflicts?
are kramer, george and jerry gonna come and fix the pc issues that my close circle is gonna have afterwards ?
No, Kramer will be busy filming another commercial in which he gives his opinion of the black Macbook.
Or Fucking, Austria.
Imagine if Johann Fux had moved there and tried to get DSL service.
I actually want this to take off.
So do I, but unfortunately it doesn't have a jet pack, it's just low speed scooter.
It has a range of 5km. But it's so small I can probably use it to drive from my car to grocery store on opposite side of parking lot.
This could be the answer to that ubiquitous American dilemma: How can I get from one end of Walmart's parking lot to the other without getting any actual excercise?
Toyota's got a lot of catching up to do - the Segway has already taken the world by storm.
I can hardly remember life before the Segway.
Makes me wonder what the trendy tattoos of Asian writing actually translate to.
Probably "gullible gaijin".
+1 Funny to the first one who can use DNS cache poisoning to trick a Beijing restaurant into calling itself the "Free Tibet Cafe".
"Dude, you're getting some computing resources allocated for you in the cloud!"
It's like IBM stopping all work with Java or Starbucks announcing it will no longer sell baked goods at its stores
or, Slashdot will only post stories after they've been fact-checked.
And it's damn odd that scientific results have to be 'discussed' with him before they're released.
They wanted to make sure that he'd support funding for the study of life on Mars. Unfortunately, he's decided to give all the research grants to Liberty University so that they can figure out the day of genesis on which god created Martian life.
Or maybe at least a few politicians realize that, if airlines can so openly collude on prices, they can probably collude on any other policies that generates the most revenue.
If that was the concern, then Congress could require airlines to allow passengers to use cell phones without being charged.
In fact, most airlines already have their own, extraordinarily expensive, in-flight phone services. You could make a much better argument that this existing state of affairs is the result of collusion, and that the best way to break it is to mandate free cell phone use on all flights.
Now we move to mars. Naturally, we won't actually use or drink the readily available Martian water, but buy bottled water from earth instead.
You've got it backwards. We bring the Mars water back here and sell it to gullible yuppies for 6 million dollars a bottle. Just tell them it's free of all of those earthly contaminants that cause cancer and wrinkles.
Unfortunately the commercial audiobook options aren't great: CDs are expensive; Audible is moderately expensive and DRM'd. Fortunately, some public libraries have a good selection of books on CD.
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
Everybody is so amused by the "series of tubes" line that they overlook this far more important statement that actually demonstrates his ignorance. He apparently believed that bandwith problems (clogged tubes) cause an email to be delayed for days, when that obviously can't be the case. This doesn't have the hilarious memorability of Stevens' other statements, but it does a much better job of showing his substantive misunderstanding of issues relating to net neutrality.
My Beowulf cluster is my friend.
That's interesting. Is there a HOWTO for turning 10 idiotic friends into one really smart friend?
There's got to be a joke in here somewhere....
Mars hasn't had contact with any life forms in hundreds of millions of years, at least. Of course it needed an unusually long time with the vibrator.
You should write the algebra entry.
No way, he improperly uses upper-case letters for variables. I'll write the "algebra" entry using "x" and "y" and he can write an "Algebra" entry using "X" and "Y".