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  1. Summary left out important information on Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Those who started after the age of 18 did not have the same IQ decline.

    "It's such a special study that I'm fairly confident that cannabis is safe for over-18 brains, but risky for under-18 brains."
    -King's College professor Terrie Moffitt.

  2. Re:There's a shock... on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    How do you distinguish between people who crash because they drive drunk and people who crash because they sneezed while driving sober?

    one willfully disregards the safety of others, demonstrates that they don't give a shit about the safety of other and the other just got unlucky.

    There's a difference between trying your best to avoid maiming other people and saying "fuck you all" and intentionally setting out on the course of action which puts others at risk.

  3. Re:There's a shock... on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    How do you distinguish between people who crash because they drive drunk and people who crash because they sneezed while driving sober?

    one willfully disregards the safety of others, demonstrates that they don't give a shit about the safety of other and the other just got unlucky.

  4. Re:There's a shock... on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    toughen up pussy.

  5. Re:There's a shock... on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Also I don't get why unvaccinated students are putting other students at risk. Wouldn't vaccinated students be risk-free? This article reads to me like "Teenagers foregoing condom use putting teenagers who don't have sex at risk" ... "

    sigh.

    not this idiotic crap again.

    There's always some moron who's too lazy to actually do some reading first to at least know what they're challenging.

    in a certain percentage of people who get vaccinated the vaccine doesn't "take".
    it varies by vaccine. in some the uptake is 95%+ in others 80% or lower. in some it's only a hair above the percentage of the population who need to be immune to maintain herd immunity.

    so if you get the shot there's only a 95% chance that your body will react to it and make you immune.

    there's also the immune compromised, the very young and the very old.

    so johnny idiot decides vaccines are evil and doesn't get his kid vaccinated. nod only does johonny idiots kid get sick or die but also a certain percentage of the children of non-negligent parents who just got unlucky or were sick. they suffer because negligent parents drag everyone bellow the herd immunity threshold.

  6. Re:Vaccines should be mandatory. on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    problem is the viruses mutate faster than we do so everyone else gets screwed.

  7. Re:WWAD on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Like it or not there were senior people in the government of the most powerful nation in the world publicly calling for him to be hunted down.

    Yes we're used to automatically assuming that anyone who says the CIA is after them is crazy. 99.99% of the time this is the correct response.

    when the homeless man on the street corner says the CIA have him bugged he's almost certainly wrong. When someone who's deeply pissed off the CIA and the american government like Assange did says the same they're probably correct.

    Sure he might actually be guilty of rape. it might all be true. that's a possibility.

    But do you really think the CIA or similar isn't out to get him?

    It ceases to be a conspiracy theory when it's just plain sensible and likely.

  8. Re:Ancient societies had diff values. News at 11! on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ya, that freedom of speech bit is sooo out of date. we definitly shouldn't include that in the next version.

    oh and the thing about police not being able to go into your house whenever they want: gotta get rid of that. to stop terrorists.

    Oh and the whole right to a jury trial? Pfff. just expensive. Lets do away with that and trust the upstanding police to simply not arrest anyone who they're not certain is guilty.

    after all. only the sections I agree with should still count.

  9. Re:Best money laundering vehicle on Australian Watchdog Frets Over BitCoin, MMOs' Money Laundering Potential · · Score: 1

    Any alternative "interpretation" would be pretty stupid unless the person who held it also believed that the federal government was also disallowed from entering into Treaties and Alliances

    any snark is fully justified.

  10. Re:Who would have thought... on Widely Used Antibacterial Chemical May Impair Muscle Function · · Score: 1

    Fun side effect: if you breath a air mix with both additional O2 and CO2 you won't actually suffocate but you'll feel like you're dying because there's lots of oxygen but the extra CO2 trips your feeling of being suffocated.

  11. Re:Funny how it's not a scam when the lawyers do i on Inside a Ransomware Money Machine · · Score: 1

    very nice workaround :-D

  12. Re:Funny how it's not a scam when the lawyers do i on Inside a Ransomware Money Machine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    " If I demand money or I will shoot him, that's blackmail."

    No, that's extortion.

    Blackmail would be threatening to tell your wife about your mistress. Blackmail can include things you would otherwise be perfectly legally allowed to do.

    You may have every legal right to expose the trips made to a bathhouse by a homophobic republican senator but if you demand money from him in exchange for *not* revealing that secret, that's illegal.

  13. Re:Who would have thought... on Widely Used Antibacterial Chemical May Impair Muscle Function · · Score: 5, Funny

    Atomic oxygen is: fortunatly we have the enzyme Catalase in our cells to turn hydrogen peroxide into O2 and water rather than Atomic oxygen and water.

    Tell you what: I'll sit in a chamber filled with 100% pure oxygen for an hour and you do the same in a chamber filled with 100% pure nitrogen then we compare notes.

  14. Re:Who would have thought... on Widely Used Antibacterial Chemical May Impair Muscle Function · · Score: 5, Informative

    there's lots of things which harm only some kinds of life.

    Your eyes are protected by Lysozyme: enzymes which attack bacteria but it doesn't harm your eyes.

    Lots of things are harmful to one organism and not another: Theobromine is deadly to dogs but fairly harmless to us except in extreme quantities because we have enzymes which can handle it.

    Oxygen will kill many types of bacteria but we need it to live.

    Many anti-bacterials are simply far far far less toxic to us than to bacteria so it's not that surprising but it makes an awful rule of thumb.

  15. Re:Like anyone is going to follow this on Watchdog "Not Ready" To Probe Cookie Complaints · · Score: 1

    an extremely dedicated sock puppet.

    Yes! It's all a conspiracy. a conspiracy against you mvdwege. we've been watching, waiting, for years!

    finally. finally all the sock puppets we've been working so hard to make look like seperate people can swoop in and make you look mentally unbalanced.

    Finally! the conspiracy pays off!

    How did you see through our dasterdly plans?!?!

  16. Re:Like anyone is going to follow this on Watchdog "Not Ready" To Probe Cookie Complaints · · Score: 1

    'analytics' also covers collecting data which allows you to see what your users are actually using on your page and even what form elements are the wrong shape or size (are users are missing them when going to click on them)

    Unless you think a map like bellow isn't useful to web developers:

    http://csscreme.com/images/heatmaps/detail/ishrs.jpg

  17. Re:Like anyone is going to follow this on Watchdog "Not Ready" To Probe Cookie Complaints · · Score: 1

    You seem to have some unresolved issues.
    Please seek counseling or other professional help or take the pills they gave you if you've already consulted medical professionals.

    And just to be clear before you decide to murder me in my sleep: I don't run any web services of any kind.

  18. Re:No electricity... on Indian Government Mulls Giving Away Mobile Phones To the Poor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Something I found interesting: in rural areas in africa and india there is now such a thing as traveling charger and internet access men.

    someone comes round the village once a week with a small generator or similar and often a few other things like a satalite dish and tools for some some repairs to electronics.

    He comes round, people pay a few pence to charge their phones or some other small electronics or to send a few emails. (a very important service since it means families can keep in contact when a few of the kids have gone off to work in the cities)

    It's hard to organise food, clean water, sanitation and housing without people being able to talk to each other.

  19. Re:Or WikiLeaks Pulled Its Own Plug... on Wikileaks DDoSed Again · · Score: 1

    thank you for this. My opinion of wikileaks just dropped through the floor.

  20. Re:How hard can it be? on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 5, Informative

    Still no good.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRY

    You can have a Y chromosome which lacks a gene or 2 and be physically totally female.

    or you can have 2 X chromosomes and be physically totally male but with a part of a Y chromosome copied on to one or both of the X's

    or you can have a mix within your body with half your cells one way and half the other.

    consider the posibility that *you* simply lack understanding before declaring that someone else is overcomplicating things. some things really are more complex than the "childrens first science book" version.

  21. Re:Look on "Bomb Threat" Tweet Conviction Overturned By UK Appeals Court · · Score: 1

    Even if a company is already employing someone, say an electrician, anyway it still costs money to send them out to your house and have them do work. you can't insist that their time costs nothing and expect to get the service for free. similarly when you waste police time.

  22. I'd complain but... on Valve Removes Right For Class Action Claims From EULA · · Score: 1

    I'd complain but I have quite a few games on steam and they'd probably find some excuse to ban me if I made too much noise. what would I do then? sue them?

  23. Re:Look on "Bomb Threat" Tweet Conviction Overturned By UK Appeals Court · · Score: 1

    "without charge"

    perhaps better with just a fine to cover the cost of investigating his idiotic ass.

  24. Re:laws on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    "they were not treated as second class citizens, in fact, quite the opposite."

    Is there some comment I can't see that puts this in some other context? because if you're talking about how women have been treated historically you're fucking retarded and ignorant of history.

     

  25. Re:First my beloved Viper fighter, now this on Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets · · Score: 1

    "You weren't careful enough!"

    yes. 100% yes. a thousand times yes. because it's true. their negligence killed their child.