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  1. Re:Just tax it. on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 1

    The difference is that if you have a peanut allergy your doctor will readily diagnose it. People who have caffeine problems mostly end up finding out that they do by accident after years (or decades in my case) of misdiagnosis by doctors.

  2. Re:Just tax it. on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not for everyone. For some people (like myself) the problems caffeine cause are subtle and work in combination with other things. With caffeine in my system I'm allergic to perfume, cigar and pipe smoke and sunburn in 15 to 20 minutes. Caffeine alone does nothing obvious but add any of the other things and my health goes to hell with the appearance that it is the 2nd thing causing it alone. Only by accident did I learn of the caffeine connection and solve my lifelong health problems.

  3. Re:Xbox is finally making money on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 1

    Lets talk Darl McBride into buying it then he can sue Microsoft. ;)

  4. Re:Solution on Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge · · Score: 1

    Search google for linux on ipad and you get 177 million hits. So I'd say people are doing so as the first links are to youtube videos of booting Linux on the Ipad

  5. Re:Solution on Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge · · Score: 1

    As I recall it you were close. Basic was in the ROM but BASICA (Advanced Basic) added to it and ran under DOS.

  6. Re:caused $800,000... on No Charges In UK For Gary McKinnon · · Score: 1

    Key words: accused of.

    Actually he admits his guilt. He wanted to be tried and punished in the UK in proportion to his crimes. The prosecution wants to punish him in proportion to the amount spent doing a security audit and putting in place security that should have been there in the first place. They also want his time (the rest of his life) in maximum security with physically dangerous people in a U.S. prison.

  7. Re:Comcast advertises it's own pay-per-view on FTC To Recommend Antitrust Case Against Google · · Score: 1

    Do they have a monopoly? No? Then they don't face a monopolies restrictions.

  8. Re:What? on FTC To Recommend Antitrust Case Against Google · · Score: 2

    Not quite. Microsoft used its existing Windows monopoly to create a browser monopoly and in that they convicted themselves. How is Google using its search monopoly to create a mobile monopoly? How does Google Search push Android and exclude competitors? Showing competitors lower down the page isn't the same as not showing competitors.

  9. Re:Message to the intolerant on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 1

    I guess you didn't realize this amazingly advanced logic but as a christian, compared to muslims, one of us is correct and one is not.

    You missed something. You might BOTH be wrong.

    The only person who can truly promote "tolerance" is one who thinks we're both wrong and that's atheists,

    Agnostics are better suited to that role as they already realize that they don't know which of the many options is true. Atheists are sure that they know. If they weren't sure they would be Agnostic.

    Strangely enough Christians were once considered to be Atheists as they worshiped no visible god.

  10. Re:I'm Canadian on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 1

    I believe his joke whoooshed over your head. By computer voting I believe he meant the COMPUTER was the voter not just a mechanism for a human to vote with.

  11. Re:Moral? on If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We? · · Score: 1

    ...

    But more seriously, instead of editing the genes so that Californian Grizzly doesn't eat people, they could do some editing so that they can be employed to pick oranges, that would be the day.

    Whoa, slow down. if we get the bears to pick oranges, what are the illegals going to do?

    Grizzly food.

  12. Re:Huh? on If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We? · · Score: 1

    I want my miniature brontosaurus pet. The big ones can be for bronto burgers. (Yes I know the name is now obsolete).

  13. Chapter 11 declared BEFORE trial began on CowboyNeal Looks Back at the SCO-Linux Trials · · Score: 1

    [p]As recall The SCO Group didn't file for Chapter 11 after Novell won the trial but the Friday before the actual trial began. Thus delaying the case(s) for some time.[/p]

  14. Re:It's like Palo Alto all over again... on Apple Loses Bid To Exclude Evidence In Samsung Patent Trial · · Score: 2

    The early part of SCO vs Novell and SCO vs IBM was all in SCO favour too as they were allowed to get away with a great deal. As the cases progressed the Judge(s) reined them in harder and harder. The case vs Novell (Novell won), a retrial was ordered and they won again. The IBM case may never get to trial as TSG (formerly SCO) is trying to get into Chapter 7 Bankruptcy (liquidation) while still being allowed too continue the trial, which was gutted of most of their claims by the loss to Novell.

    My point if you haven't understood it is that you can "win" early in the case but decisively lose later when it matters.

  15. Re:Well... on Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs · · Score: 5, Funny

    When did Apple ever sue Google?

    Apple is currently fighting against (and started the fight) Motorola Mobility. THIS suit is Motorola Mobility fighting back. That ignores all the OTHER anti Android suits by Apple against Google customers. So you can take it as a retaliation for the suit against Motorola Mobility or in defense of their customers either way it is defensive not aggressive.

    When you start a fight it is your fault if the other side tries to rip your nuts off and shove them down your throat.

  16. Re:Well... on Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Retaliating is defensive.

  17. Re:Trivial changes to pollen and nectar eaters on "Severe Abnormalities" Found In Fukushima Butterflies · · Score: 1

    Evolution: One species evolves into another

    Natural selection: members of a species with a successful trait thrive over others, becoming dominant within the species. Species itself does not change.

    1/ the mechanism of evolution IS natural selection.

    2/ A successful trait spreading through a population is in fact a change to the species and is evolution.

    3/ Species change incrementally from original to successor. Having acquired a single new trait may not do it. Many new traits acquired over time does do it. Like compound interest.

  18. Re:Trivial changes to pollen and nectar eaters on "Severe Abnormalities" Found In Fukushima Butterflies · · Score: 1

    That's not evolution, thats natural selection. Huge difference.

    Please explain the alleged difference.

  19. Re:Real reason on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    No way. I don't want to be attacked by half a tiger..

  20. Re:Hello! on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    Don't let them have it. They'll just put it in the ware house with the Ark of the Covenant and the Stargate.

  21. Toll Gate on Microsoft Taking Heat For Five-Figure Xbox 360 'Patch Fee' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a problem with any locked in system where 1 source controlls the Toll Gate to the only entrance.

  22. Re:Groklaw provides FACTS. on Microsoft Wins WordPerfect Antitrust Battle With Novell · · Score: 1

    This is a Federal court. States do not have jurisdiction over Federal anti trust laws.'.

  23. Re:valve sells oppressive closed source bullshit on Valve Continues Recruiting Top Linux Talent · · Score: 0

    if you're just going to run closed source apps you might as well stop being cheap and buy a mac. macs deliver the unix desktop dream that linux has failed to produce. the only reason to run linux on the desktop is that you believe in the open source ideal, if you're just going to buy closed source games from valve might as well just get a mac and get them through the app store.

    DRM. Customer lockin.

  24. Re:Interesting times ahead potentially.. on Valve Continues Recruiting Top Linux Talent · · Score: 1

    Much in the same way that people criticize Android for being "not real Linux" they will attack Valve's console Linux as "not real Linux" and demand that they can run the game on their distro of choice.

    The people I run into saying "Android isn't real Linux" are anti Linux people trying to continue their claims that Linux is a total failure. We must not meet the same people as the pro Linux people I know acknowledge that Android is on a Linux core without rancor.

  25. Re:Wow, atheist materialism? on South Korea Will Revisit Plan To Nix Evolution References in Textbooks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One problem with atheists is that they don't go to church. So they judge Christians by the kooks they see on TV,

    You don't think that they perhaps judge Christians by those they know personally?

    By your standards perhaps Christians should attend Synagogues to understand Jews and Mosques to understand Moslems, auditing sessions to understand Scientogolists? How many of these have YOU done? What have you done to understand atheists and agnostics?