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  1. Re:indolent on Re-evaluating the Benefits of Cancer Screening · · Score: 1

    ... until we devise better tests to differentiate x and z from y. By all means, we should use cold hard statistics to weigh the pros and cons of screening. If the probability of harm is greater than the probability of benefit, regardless of the dangers of untreated cancer, we must advocate less screening.

    Two problems with that.
    1, "until" will become "instead of".
    2, Early screening is not the problem, the treatment is the problem. Surely the solution to giving people the wrong treatment is to give them the right treatment, not give them nothing.

  2. Re:High-end models? on Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    OLEDs have terrible color, its over-saturated and makes people think the image looks better in a subjective way. ((S)AM)OLED is to cellphones as glossy screens are to laptops. Do a Pepsi challenge with a iPhone or even an original Droid, versus a Galaxy Nexus in a dark room, versus watching the image on a proper screen.

    Pentile doesn't help either with the blacks or contrasty images.

    Offtopic: I considered glossy screens to be superior due to the light passing through undisturbed, rather than them being oversaturated.

  3. Re:High-end models? on Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market · · Score: 2

    oddly I want an iphone none the less. strange is it not that specs are not everything.

    Not strange at all. It would be hard to justify the amount spent on marketing otherwise.

  4. Re:High-end models? on Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... and still has a crappy 3.5" screen.

    iPhone: 640 x 960 Galazy: 480 x 800

  5. Re:Why is it bad ? on The Real Job Threat · · Score: 1

    It does. Middle class people now have a better life than a king a few centuries ago. Of course, it's easy to take all the modern things for granted, and find something to complain about.

    I dunno about that. One big piece of living like a king is having power.

    That, and being able to hunt deer in your backyard.

  6. Re:Get rid of the celebrities... on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    It doesn't sound better to the person who gets the adverse reaction.

  7. Re:Wow. on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1
  8. Lack of monitors on NVIDIA Launches 3D Vision 2 · · Score: 1

    So where are the 120hz, 27" or greater, glossy monitors?

  9. Re:!HTML5 Powered on Gate One 0.9 Released, Brings SSH To the Web · · Score: 1

    I could be feeding a troll here but...

    People do not yet understand the power of websockets yet. Keep up the fantastic work.

  10. Re:Yawnsies, more ecomental white self hatred? on Columbus Blamed For Mini Ice Age · · Score: 1

    You see how none of this matches the popular narrative?

    No. Who the hell have you been listening too?

  11. Re:Bound to happen to this guy sooner or later. on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 1

    How do you propose one should stop an in progress felony battery instead?

  12. Re:HBO "Superheroes" documentary on these guys on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 1

    From Merriam: Definition of AND 1 —used as a function word to indicate connection or addition especially of items within the same class or type ; used to join sentence elements of the same grammatical rank or function

  13. Re:Passcode on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    A river rock would be more useful, you can put them in a fire a get them to explode.

  14. Re:Why are countries like this... on Italian Wikipedia May Shut Down Due To New Legislation · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we could chose the language(s) on their respective merits. http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html

  15. Re:Why has it taken 50 years? on The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia · · Score: 1

    There are good reasons for believing in a "super natural jewish zombie"? Can you enumerate a few of them for us?

  16. Re:Don't get a false sense of privacy here... on Facebook Cookies Track Users Even After Logging Out · · Score: 1

    Wiping your cookies, adblock, flashblock, etc - it's all worthless.

    Even if you remove all cookies, the iframe that is the 'like' button will set a new cookie. Facebook tracks these new 'anonymous' cookies centrally, and then when you DO login to your actual account, they can read this cookie and marry up your previous behavioral habits and sites you visited. The advice here leads people to believe you can fight this simply by erasing cookies. The only way to really make that effective is:

    1) Log out of Facebook 2) Remove all Facebook cookies 3) Browse around to other sites 4) Clear all Facebook cookies AGAIN 5) Log in to Facebook

    Without step #4 the rest of it is not doing you any good.

    The same is true of new signups, where your browsing history (before you even had an account!) is correlated to the new account to help build a profile of your activity.

    Missing Steps:

    1.5 Change IP Adress
    2.5 Change IP Adress
    3.5 Change IP Adress
    4.5 Change IP Adress
    5.5 Change IP Adress

  17. Re:Amazing on Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games · · Score: 1

    Is this something you heard happened to people?

    Personal experience. I have never heard anyone have this problem before otherwise I wouldn't have bought the game through steam.

  18. Re:Amazing on Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games · · Score: 1

    Um if you buy from Steam it doesn't happen.

    Yes it does.

    At least any of the 50+ I've gotten through Steam over the years.

    I have less than 50 and have been hit by steam DRM more than once.

  19. Re:Amazing on Game Devs Predict Death of Flash, Installed Games · · Score: 1

    Thats all well and good until the game you try and play through steam asks you to insert the DVD! DRM will always find a way to bite you in the ass.

  20. Re:Will Google please buy Java? on Oracle Removes Java Signatures, Breaking Webstart · · Score: 1

    They hate it for its Freedom.

  21. Re:Google delta CCR5. This is old. on Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, if you want to blame high drug prices in the US on anything, this is the problem right here - the gross majority of employees in any big pharma company are responsible for some FDA requirement. On the upside, they do create a ton of jobs.

    Glass making is a far better job than filling out paper work. Also is far more exciting smashing the windows in the first place.

  22. Re:Market fragmentation on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 1

    By secure do you mean they wont lose the messages and are therefore able to hand it over to whoever asks for it nicely?

  23. Re:Obligatory BitCoin pimpage on The Saga of the Virtual Wallet · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin has transaction fees.

  24. Re:Home of the Underdogs is your friend. on Syndicate Reboot Coming Next Year · · Score: 1

    Strange I prefer strategy than FPS for the same reason. I prefer not to be stuck on a rail and actually have to make some decisions of conquence.

  25. Re:Keynesian? on Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard · · Score: 1

    And yet some people do (your parents and inlaws)...