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  1. Re:Erm... on German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View · · Score: 2, Informative

    We're talking about German privacy laws here.
    I don't know if they're different in regard to public privacy, it's just that American law does not serve as a precedent at all.

  2. Re:I'm righter than you on Anatomy of an Attempted Malware Scam · · Score: 1

    Obvious impersonating. Way too few funky characters.

  3. Re:Apple replies on Windows Vulnerable To 'Token Kidnapping' Attacks · · Score: 1

    I pull my hat in respect. Too many people here don't have the maturity to admit they were wrong.

  4. Re:Flow of Information on Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google · · Score: 1

    Very well put, thank you.

  5. Re:Gave up caffeine on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    Same thing here.
    Coffee and milk both affect your Acid-base homeostasis negatively.
    Negatively in that case means they tip the scale towards acids, and modern nutrition is already pretty heavy on things which, after digestion, produce surplus acids.
    After a diagnosis with Chromic Fatigue Syndrome and a plethora of doctors that don't know what to do and resort to anti-depressiva, a smart health professional pointed this out to me and we analyzed my nutrition habits.
    Turns out, basically it's all acids, no bases. Lots of tea, lots of coffee, lots of meat, lots of grain, lots of sugar, very little fresh fruits and vegetables. Just the regular canteen food software developer diet.
    Already after three days of changed diet, my skin felt less dry, the chronic pain was almost gone completely, and I felt 10 years younger.

  6. Re:Hmmmm on Researchers Restore Youthful Memory In Aging Mice · · Score: 1

    From my experience, BJJ sessions tend to spend too much time doing anaerobic work, which means stress for your body. In small measures this is not a problem, but it's definitely not in the same league as more-or-less casual jogging and cycling.

  7. Re:Privacy laws on Germany Demands Google Forfeit Citizens' Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    If you are too tolerant of intolerance, you'll not have the freedom to be tolerant at all.
    "You can vote for whoever you want, as long as it isn't someone who wants to abolish democracy in general, and human rights for some humans in specific" doesn't sound undemocratic to me.
    Seriously, which democratic state allows political parties that commit violent crimes?

  8. Re:Privacy laws on Germany Demands Google Forfeit Citizens' Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    Because actions speak louder than... wait, what?

  9. Re:i LOL on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 4, Informative

    BP. British Petroleum.

  10. Re:Oh god. on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    From the Dim Mak!

  11. Re:I see. on German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Except that not all countries use case law. Germany doesn't, for instance.

  12. Re:Spartan is best to focus the mind on Best Seating Arrangement For a Team of Developers? · · Score: 1

    He's just mad he forgot the wenches and you didn't. Don't worry.

  13. Re:SIGH on Volcanic Ash Heading Towards North America · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do Europeans really think that we are that petty?

    Everyone over here in Germany was, or knows someone who was, at an US high-school for a semester or year. There's ample of anecdotes err evidence of petty US Americans. Yes, I'm talking to you, Mike. We're not even yet.

  14. Re:How old are you? on Barnes & Noble's Nook, Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I think he's talking about it not being secure for the book, but secure for the one taking the bath.

  15. Re:Well on Palm Sued Over Palm Pre GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    thank you. spot on target.

  16. SOA on Service Oriented Architecture With Java · · Score: 0

    SOA stands for same old architecture. Don't believe the hype.

  17. Re:Its time to think about the future, not the pas on Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off · · Score: 1

    Hm couscous...tasty!

  18. Re:America? on Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers · · Score: 1

    I think he was going for ignoramuses. Ignorami? Err...

  19. Re:Still behind id on Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine · · Score: 1

    epic doom? Is that better or worse than epic fail?

  20. Re:Not diminishing. on Placebo Effect Caught In the Act In Spinal Nerves · · Score: 1
    No, it's not getting more effective. People doing these studies have a lot less bias towards 'please make this test show that what we do makes sense'.
    To quote:

    "Exaggerated claims for the efficacy of a medicament are very seldom the consequence of any intention to deceive; they are usually the outcome of a kindly conspiracy in which everybody has the very best intentions. The patient wants to get well, his physician wants to have made him better, and the pharmaceutical company would have liked to have put it into the physician's power to have made him so. The controlled clinical trial is an attempt to avoid being taken in by this conspiracy of good will."

    (From Advice to a Young Scientist, published in 1979.)
    See this great site.

  21. Re:This is good news... on ZFS Gets Built-In Deduplication · · Score: 1

    Intelligent non-native speakers. On a website, where natives regularly use 'there' instead of 'their', don't be too hard on us bloody foreigners.

  22. Re:The writer is clueless about end users on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 1

    except that it's not a phone.

  23. Re:Turn the tables on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    Marriage is between a man and woman.... anything else can NEVER be called marriage... Period...

    Oh, now that you explain it so eloquently, I finally see your point. Seriously, why can't it be called marriage? Just because?

  24. Re:Epic Fail on No Dedicated Servers For CoD: Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    No,no. Infinity Ward Fail. Not Epic. That's UT you're thinking of.

  25. Re:This is the Sound of on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're called limiters and they exist.
    But when the amplifier clips hard, it's usually not the amplitude of the signal that kills the speaker, but the unusual frequencies that get added. No limiter will help in that case.