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  1. Re:Better HIV drugs on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    Exactly the point of my second paragraph. Severe mental impairment or paraplegia would make me reconsider treatment.

    Quality over quantity, always.

  2. Re:ads don't make you buy stuff... on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 1

    This isn't getting anywhere. You say I'm susceptible, I say I'm not. The lack of impulse purchases and branded goods which I've bought (without investigating beforehand) speaks in my favour.

    Please stop repeating yourself.

  3. Re:ads don't make you buy stuff... on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 1

    They're welcome to try. They will more than likely fail.

    I'm not discounting that they won't, in the future, either retry subliminal advertising or outright extortion.

  4. Re:Tamper evident or mail-order products on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 1

    God Save The Queen?

  5. Re:Better HIV drugs on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    Fuck, "other anti-retrovirals"

  6. Re:Better HIV drugs on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1
    From page two:

    ... possible side effects ... include liver damage and, if taken by pregnant women, birth defects. Valproic acid also has dangerous interactions with AIDS drugs. In fact, one of the four patients in the study developed serious anemia because of an interaction with one of the drugs in his HAART regimen.

    Those don't seem so serious to me. If the drug, in combination with other retrovirals, is found to be 100% effective* then the person would probably become viable for liver transplant. Kids who are HIV positive would probably not be eligible for the treatment, but I'd go so far as to suggest that someone who is HIV positive does not intend to get pregnant, and if they are responsible enough would abstain from sexual contact (or take precautions which would prevent pregnancy). All in all, I'd take any of those over certain death.

    * = 75% reduction in latent HIV pool, according to the research at the time. Tested 4 people.

  7. Re:The bias of bias on Blekko Launches a Search Engine With Bias · · Score: 1

    Hopefully articles on subjects pertaining to one automatically would qualify for the other, in your example.

    Guy Fawkes was a terrorist. Guy Fawkes was a revolutionary.

  8. Re:Tamper evident or mail-order products on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 1

    I buy food that I have tried elsewhere (parents cooking, restaurants) or which come recommended by others who enjoy the same food as me. I watch movies based upon genre, previous experiences with other movies by a particular director, reviews, friends opinions. I make good use of the Distance Selling Regulations and send it back if I don't like it, as I did just last month with the Samsung Galaxy I9000.

    This doesn't mean I don't try new things. This means that when I do, I'm seldomly disappointed.

  9. Re:daylight savings time on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 1

    Think of the Children angle: Daylight Saving Time here makes kids walk home in twilight, where headlights are typically turned on, but totally ineffective for actually improving your view. Couple that with a cloudless day and you get low, bright sun + ineffective lighting + typically dark coloured school uniforms.

  10. Re:Another day on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 1

    Until you forget to wind it.

    We all know that forgetting things leads to Post-It Note Nightmare No, this is not a solution.

  11. Re:Which attacks on freedom of speech? on UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online · · Score: 1

    I especially liked the part where the guy now has a legitimate reason to say to the cops "Yeah, there is a reason why I know what weed smells like."

  12. Re:Better HIV drugs on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    So, side effects which are enough to put someone off taking the meds for a disease which will kill them, if untreated?

    Like I said, they must be pretty significant side effects. I'd probably stop short of losing the use of my lower limbs, or severe mental impairment.

  13. Re:Better HIV drugs on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    He also said the trial was discontinued. I wanted to know if that was at the patient's behest ("This explosive diarrhoea is unbearable, please send me to Dignitas so it can be over") or at the Doctors ("These bouts of explosive diarrhoea are costing far too much in laundry bills. Let's knock this one on the head, guys")

  14. Re:Don't ask the monkey, ask the organ grinder on Has Christopher Nolan Turned the 3D Argument? · · Score: 1

    I watched Alice in 3D with the g/f.

    I won't be needing the glasses again.

  15. Re:ads don't make you buy stuff... on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 1

    You sound like one of the folks who should be very afraid of this mandatory advertising. You sound susceptible.

    Personally I find out about a product, or try it myself. If I can't try it, I don't buy it. I also don't return to that particular store.

    Voting with your feet / wallet is actually quite easy.

  16. Re:A sure-fire way to make me HATE your product on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 1

    I do the same with VLC on my PC.

    When watching a rented movie with the g/f on the TV downstairs, I start it playing and come back in 10 minutes. Usually all the trailers are done by then.

  17. Re:Better HIV drugs on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    What side effects were they?

    Unless you're talking about actually shortening remaining life span, or causing a permanent and severe chronic pain for the rest of their life, I'm not sure how many side effects there are which are worse than lying in a bed for the remaining few weeks of your life covered in lesions, being overtaken by various cancers, and finally dying typically from pneumonia (which is in itself enough to get most people to make serious lifestyle changes, e.g. stopping smoking).

  18. Re:Truth is stranger than fiction on UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't forget the immediate scrapping of our carrier fleet and the VTOL fighters / strike craft we currently use, to be replaced in 4 hears time (on budget and time, of course) with spankingly new carriers which will have bright, spankingly pretty STOL Joint Strike Fighter craft.

    In 2020. Again, to budget and on time.

    It's almost like they want us to be invaded. Seriously, well done Cameron, you moron.

  19. Re:Which attacks on freedom of speech? on UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why?
    Take a private citizen

    Kidnapping. Good start.

  20. Re:Not a trend you want to extend too far on Texas Supreme Court Cites Mr. Spock · · Score: 1

    For the very same reason that they'd be absolutely unbeatable at poker.

    Lady GaGa wrote a song about it.

  21. Re:Too early to know . . . on On Several Fronts, US Gov't Prepares To Regulate Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    You know the quote: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

    Expect any privacy protection legislation to be poisoned to the point of uselessness (think "... to protect the rights of terrorists and paedophiles." on the end of every sentence).

  22. Re:Even better: on AP Proposes ASCAP-Like Fees For the News · · Score: 1

    It's supposedly based upon the approximate age where an adolescent can fully comprehend such ideas as consequence and responsibility. However looking at the financial markets and the state of credit records across the Western world, there's quite a proportion of full adults who are incapable of planning further than the end of the day, never mind for the future of a child.

    In short, it's totally arbitrary. However, there needs to be a cutoff somewhere to prevent those who would seek to influence the impressionable mind of an emotionally immature and insecure adolescent from being prayed upon by someone who has only their own short-term satisfaction on their mind. It's an imperfect system, but it's the best society has come up with so far.

  23. Re:Whats wrong with the USA and UK? on UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    Clegg isn't the leader; The Tories were the dominant party, making David Cameron the PM. Clegg is the silver medalist Deputy PM.

    The tories are looking out for the Old Boys, and the Lib Dems are saying "Yes, sir" as this is the closest they've been to being in control of the country since 1918.

  24. Re:WARNING! WARNING! DAILY TELEGRAPH! on UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    The Register is the tech equivalent of the Daily Fail. Orlowski and Page just love shoving their opinions down your neck.

    I only go there on a Friday now, to pick up the latest BOfH.

  25. Re:Encrypte Everything on UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    "Reasonably."

    That word has no place when discussing Section 49.