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  1. Re:What if on Startup Tests Drugs Aimed at Autism · · Score: 1

    Because there might be a milder form of the disability which is useful to have in society. And you risk losing it as well. The full blown version might even be useful for society as a whole (possibly not for the individuals though) in small doses.

    The obvious example if sickle cell anemia. Being heterozygous for HgbS in areas where malaria is prevalent is beneficial, homozygous for HgbS completely sucks.

    http://www.blip.tv/files/2204956 is long, but just the first 10 minutes has a bunch of examples (including the sickle cell anemia one of course).

    His lecture goes on to claim that things like obsessive compulsive disorder and schizophrenia were beneficial for early societies as long as only a small number of people had them.

  2. Re:What if on Startup Tests Drugs Aimed at Autism · · Score: 1

    Free riding is the rational choice, so while they are selfish they are obviously better at economics than us suckers who do get vaccinations for the kids...

  3. Re:Where does Death Begin? on Prions Evolve Despite Having No DNA · · Score: 1

    Furious about the almost organ harvesting?

    Or furious about having to pay for 5 more days in hospital?

  4. Re:"Non-startup"? on Control Your Apps Without Your Finger · · Score: 1

    Obviously it means they aren't a "startup company", so they have existed for a long enough to not be considered a startup anymore.

    Since the company isn't the one using the term "non-startup" it seems just a tad excessive to look down on them because some random internet poster used a couple of words when talking about them.

  5. Re:Medical uses? on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    2. You're X-raying someone every single time they fly. It doesn't take a radiologist to tell you that lots of x-rays are bad.

    Sure if you got 5000 back-scatter x-ray scans in a year you'd hit the per year maximum safe limit for a single source (according to US authorities anyway).

    And sitting in a plane at altitude for 1 hour will give you the equivalent of ~70 scans - since you are going through the thing to get on a plane anyway the scan seems negligible. Now for the security people standing at those machines for 8 hours a day there might be something to think about...

     

  6. World endsz in 2012 anyway on IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010 · · Score: 1

    So it's all good.

    Seriously random calendar rolling over, IPv4 addresses running out. At the same time! Proof that Jesus is coming back in 2012!?!

  7. Re:Bah on Razer, Valve, and Sixense Working On Motion Control For PC Games · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That "spastic flailing" can be the fun on its own.

    When drunk for example swinging the controller like a golf club is more fun than clicking a button at the right time. And for the other drunk people in the room it is *much* more fun to watch.

  8. Re:28 days diiference? Not quite. on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 1

    Unsurprisingly you are likely the only person in the World with the exact restrictions of having stores at exactly those distances, not driving to them, not paying for faster shipping, not having friends to pick things up for you, and not going out anyway to buy food occasionally.

    Hence that's completely irrelevant to everyone else.

  9. Re:Ob. Matrix quote on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How is that hypocrisy?

    Raising the dead, walking on water, healing the sick, etc, etc. All can be done* by God as a miracle or by demons as witchcraft. It's not hypocrisy, it's caring about the source more than the action.

    Having another religion is usually punishable, again not hypocrisy just standard religion.

    * According to believers, a set I'm not a member of so I really should stop talking about their business...

  10. Re:A quarter? on Microsoft Announces "Game Room," Confirms Natal For Late 2010 · · Score: 1

    They said "old arcade" which in AU would be 20c. If my wasted youth recollections of 20c -> 40c -> 60c/2 for $1 -> $1 -> $2 are vaguely accurate.

  11. Both on Which Math For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    You want a stats course in there too.

    Then again I had enough credits for my mathematics major before I started 3rd year CS.

    And I also found my mathematics courses harder than all my others (CS is a walk in the park in comparison)...

  12. Re:This is why... on EA Shutting Down Video Game Servers Prematurely · · Score: 1

    You don't get to tell them what the price points are, other than by not buying/renting it if they want too much.

    It says on the box they can do this, if that makes it not worth $50 then don't buy it for $50.

  13. Re:There's a fundamental problem with this... on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    Yes but if the whole planet was destroyed so was the estate hence it can't be paid either...

    But I didn't come up with the reasoning and don't really care if it is correct or not.

  14. Re:There's a fundamental problem with this... on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 2, Informative

    You misunderstand the meaning of the statement, it has the opposite implication.

    Death is not redressable, which means if you do in fact destroy the entire planet the cost of doing so is 0. So you might as well go ahead and take the risk no matter how large.

  15. Re:Suuuuure they did on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    Except that they didn't find them at all, until the Slovakian Police told them about it. So if it was a dry run you just wouldn't tell the police in Ireland at all...

  16. Re:Why? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    It's so obvious it doesn't need an explanation. Heck, you worked it out!

  17. Re:Send the police to jail on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Trigger happy SWAT at the other end combined with a confused and scared luggage owner.

  18. Re:Yawn on Bringing Free Television To Phones In America · · Score: 1

    And you are the only person in the universe. If you wouldn't want something then why would anyone!

  19. Re:Overreaction on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    So have them stare for 2 hours, and then have one of the guards elsewhere swap come and take over.

    I suggest large spikes that bend one way along the walls so that anyone moving in the wrong direction is skewered.

  20. Re:Overreaction on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    That is what they do, and why you don't hear about this happening every day.

    In this case, no-one noticed him.

  21. Re:Overreaction on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    1. No you haven't. You alarm the emergency doors so that person breaching security doesn't just stroll past the idiot guards. Now you don't have to evacuate the entire secure area, just the exit section of it. Plus it handles the "person goes the wrong way because the can't read/are stupid/etc" with no ill-intent case better than an open passage with sleeping guards.

    2. Because hindrance matters, it's not like we make people take their shoes and coats off, take their laptops out of the bags, throw away their water, put their toiletries in transparent plastic bags, and wait for their luggage to go through an x-ray machine.

    But yes motion sensor type things are likely better, though they'll just go off every ten minutes and be ignored...

  22. Re:Overreaction on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    They do hire a guy, they just manage to hire morons.

  23. I hope they're replacing the free coffee on IT Workers To Get Fewer Perks, No Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    with free Adderall.

    Otherwise productivity is going to plummet...

  24. Re:Thousands? Far from accurate... on EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) · · Score: 1

    Because eve has only one subscriber.

  25. Re:conundrum on Man Tracked Down and Arrested Via WoW · · Score: 1

    I didn't say Blizzard was stupid. I said individuals cooperating with the police are stupid.

    Blizzard was just enabling corrupt conduct, which I guess makes them evil. If they get a subpoena, warrant, etc then yes they should give up the information. If they don't they shouldn't.

    Note, I'm not saying they've done anything illegal or unexpected.