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  1. Re:I call bullshit on Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is actually not uncommon, especially with younger infants. If they have issue breastfeeding and you have to use formula; the first few weeks you typically have to feed them every 3-4 hours since they taking in smaller amounts more frequently. As they begin to put on a small amount of weight their appetite increases so they can eat more in one feeding but need fewer feedings. But yes that first 1-2 months can be like this. It was for both of my boys.

  2. Re:Rubbish from alarmists!!! on Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean · · Score: 3

    The freezing point of seawater is about 28.4F (-2C), instead of the 32F (0C) freezing point of ordinary water.
    http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/water/temp3.htm

  3. Day After Tomorrow on Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean · · Score: 0

    Maybe the sudden surge of fresh water will cause the North Atlantic current to shut down. Thus causing massive storms to cover the earth and plunge us into the next ice age. Hey it worked for Hollywood.

  4. Minority Report on DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project · · Score: 0

    So how soon till we have a fully functional pre-crime police department where they arrest and try people before crimes are even commited?

  5. Re:Its true... on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Not to the media, they are one in the same even though we may know better.

  6. Re:Thanks Sony on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1

    And if you consider inflation that $49.99 15 years ago is more that the cost of the $59.99 games today.

    What cost $49.99 in 1996 would cost $68.75 in 2010.
    source - http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

    so actually games have been getting cheaper as they have not been adjusting for inflation.

  7. Re:And how bad it becomes when a vuln is found on Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS · · Score: 1

    Yes and it now gives those "security vendors" even more ammunition to sale snake oil products to protect your bios.

    I can see the sales line now...

    Buy the all new BIOS ULTRA DEFFENDER DELUXE 2XXX SUITE ENTERPRISE. Only $99.99 per server this week only. Don't let those pesky hackers take over your servers.

  8. Re:AT&T's Response on Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Translation: AT&T apparently did spend enough on bribes erm lobbying to swade the Justice Department.

    How can anyone think that higher prices and less competition is in the best interest of consumers and the country. Oh yea I forgot this is AT&T they live in their own little dillusional world.

  9. Sudden Outbreak of Common Sense? on Justice Dept. Files Antitrust Complaint Against AT&T and T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 2

    I thought I would never live to see the day that a governmental department would block yet alone sue to block the merger of two mega corps.

  10. but... on Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges · · Score: 0, Troll

    aren't Macs suppose to be secure. at least thats what the I'm a mac commercials always told us.

  11. that was fast on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    it usually takes weeks for news to get here, erm Slashdot may be turning a point multiple stories withing minutes of happening the last few days

  12. Big Pharma on Google Reaches $500 Million Settlement With Feds · · Score: 2

    This more has to do with the re-importation of the very same drugs that the Big Pharma companies want to sell to us at extremely high markups. This is not about safety it is about protecting profits for those companies. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.

  13. Re:Lol on More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    that is actually after a district merge. Here in SD school districts have been merging like hotcakes over the past few years for that very reason. Main reasons being due to shrinking community sizes and those same communities getting older as all the younglings move to the bigger cities.

    Many of these schools have less than 20 students per graduating class and are spread out over 100's of square miles. Especially as you get out west of the Missouri River. Not to mention South Dakota is ranked near the bottom in teachers salaries nationaly. The school I graduated from here had a class of 50 students. with the largest every being just shy of 100 and that was back in the 60's. Recently they merged with 2 other school districts. Yes they save money on admin costs but now spend nearly as much in gas for the buses that go out some 30 miles from the school.

    Food for though $50,000 in saving for this school district would be the equivilant of several million with some larger districts that have several thousand students per graduate class. Just because you live in an area with big schools and large budgets doesn't mean we all do.

  14. Re:too good to be allowed? on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 0

    This is what I would be afraid of in the event it did pan out. After all we can't create anything that would affect Random Large Megacorp's large and insane profit margins.

    There was an article I read a few days back where alot of the blame on the patent reform bill losing its bite was due to large tech companies and pharmacutical companies fighting over damage claims for patent infringment. Big Pharma only has to patent 1 thing, the chemical for the drug. Where as the average smart phone could have as many as 250,000 patents applied to the one device.

    The big tech companies want smaller fines due to the large number of patents and the contant legal battles from patent trolls etc. The pharmacutical companies however want to protect its hefty profits from their own patent litigation.

    But I could easily see congress or someone declare it "unsafe" or hold it up in FDA proceeding indefinately for the simple reason of protecting the public interest aka their re-election campaign contributions from big pharma.

  15. I am Legend? on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 0

    I am waiting for the news about the drug all of the sudden having the nasty side effect of turning all the people it helped into zombies.

    We are all doomed

  16. Re:No kidding on House Panel Approves Bill Forcing ISPs To Log Users · · Score: 1

    So what? Honest, intelligent politicians never accomplish anything.

    Let me know if you even find one of those to begin with. I haven't had any luck in that yet. Granted there are more than enough corrupted and idiotic ones out there.

  17. Re:Democrats are idiots but the Republican Party.. on House Panel Approves Bill Forcing ISPs To Log Users · · Score: 1

    A full list of the criminals erm congress critters that voted in favor of the bill. I would even wager this may get snuck into the debt increase bills floating around if they really wanted to be sneaky as one of them has to pass eventually -

    Lamar Smith, Howard Coble, Elton Gallegly, Bob Goodlatte, Dan Lungren, Steve Chabot, Randy Forbes, Steve King, Trent Franks, Tim Griffin, Thomas Marino, Trey Gowdy, Dennis Ross, Sandy Adams, Howard Berman, Sheila Jackson Lee, Pedro Pierluisi, Mike Quigley, Ted Deutch

    we have 14 replicans and 5 democrats in that list.

  18. Re:okay but... on New Approach For Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    I concur, we need some sort of shark head mount to be designed as well. Anything short would be a waste of resources.

  19. Re:9-0? on SCOTUS Rules Incumbent Telcos Must Share Network Access At Cost · · Score: 1

    sudden outbreak of common sense?

    and yes I agree with applying this ruling to the cable companies as well.

  20. Steve Jobs = Dogbert? on Want iCloud With Windows? Ditch the XP · · Score: 2

    Some reason this story also makes me think of this:

    http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-05-04/

  21. Re:I have Windows 7 on Want iCloud With Windows? Ditch the XP · · Score: 1

    There is also currently this loophole - http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/07/apple-offers-music-pirates-permanent-amnesty-for-24-99/

    now granted no one really knows how well this will work yet. But I am sure some people will be more than willing to take advantage of this. Not to mention a free upgrade for all those old drm laden itunes downloads of years pass, since the match comes in the form of the drm free versions.

  22. Re:9viewsonly.com on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    just put a counter on there and you are set

    for(i10, i=0, i++)
    {
    play video link
    }
    delete video link

    pardon my psuedo code for being sloppy, I haven't coded in nearly a dozen years

  23. Re:five years for 10 viewings? on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    what's important is that the punishment is applied consistently to all who are found guilty of the same offense.

    Well you can then toss out a large portion of the laws right then and there. It is connom knowledge that if you are in a position of power and influence or a corporation you can get away with just about anything. Where as if your everyday working middle class citizen where to commit the same crime, they would be in jail faster than you know it.

  24. Re:Skynet on Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior · · Score: 1

    Was thinking the same thing. Let me know when they are about to start so I can make sure I am out of possible nuke targets.

  25. Re:Cisco or China? on Falun Gong Sues Cisco · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This isn't much different than families of murder victims suing gun manufactors. People want to place the blame somewhere and in this case they think they stand a better chance suing Cisco instead of their own government. It would be safe to assume that if they sued the Chinese government instead, there would be no trial just jail and death sentences for those doing the suing.