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  1. Re:I don't see it. on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 2

    Footballers do it for hours at a time, a few days a week, twenty or so weeks a year. Fighters only actually fight for five to fifty minutes on fight nights, which occur once a month on a busy schedule. When training they usually don't take very many hits to the head to ensure they don't get an accidental injury.

  2. Re:... and college football now makes even less se on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Killing college football would almost entirely kill high school football. A lot of the impetus between high school football is college scholarships.

  3. Re:Correlation is not causation on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since I apparently wasn't being clear enough originally -- yes, the rules have changed such that that is now the case. Originally, however, the game included much more kicking of the ball, either as a means of scoring, as a means of advancing the ball up the field or as a means of passing between players on the same team. American football, rugby and association football, aka soccer, all trace back to a small pool of similar games called "football". Each of those games, however, diverged in their rules sets. What the majority of the world calls "football" is most similar to the original games. Rugby changed its name as well as its rules. American football changed its rules but not its name. It's a simple concept, really, and I don't get why people refuse to understand.

  4. Re:Correlation is not causation on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 2

    Which is exactly what he's saying.

  5. Re:An easy fix. on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the fact that time between plays is so long the game gets to be far more strategic than other forms of football. This is the more interesting part of football to me, at least -- the strategy behind play selection.

  6. Re:An easy fix. on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This makes more sense than you'd think. Boxing injuries and deaths /increase/ when you add gloves, the reason being that hands, unprotected, can't take much more punishment than a face before the brain stops letting you use them. Protected, however, all that energy gets transmitted to the brain and the hands don't take any damage.

  7. Re:All good on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Hey, correlation is not causation.

  8. Re:Correlation is not causation on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 2

    <advocate employer="devil">Or they start putting more effort into the game than into school.</advocate>

  9. Re:Correlation is not causation on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why would a game in which the primary method of scoring is to kick a ball with your foot not be called football?

    Oh, you're ignoring that the rules changed over the last three centuries or so while the name did not.

  10. Re:Bitter on JavaFX Runs On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    Did you register interest at either RS/Allied or Element 14/Farnell? If yes then congratulations, you've indicated that you want Raspberry Pi production to increase. If no then why not? That's how RS and Farnell know that they should be baking more Raspberry Pis!

    The Raspberry Pi Foundation is no longer manufacturing the boards -- at the moment production is totally in the hands of RS and Farnell!

  11. Re:Why invent a new standard? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    If you search you can find a real image so you don't have to make a mental one. It's quite fascinating, actually.

  12. Re:Java to C# is easy on Android Ported To C# · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, but I don't see why'd you use Mono on Linux when you have to run Windows underneath Linux anyway. I mean, you could just use MS's .NET instead. But you know these FOSS types love re-building the wheel.

  13. Re:A Band on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, those were just guys he picked up at Home Depot to redo his deck.

  14. Re:I'm not at all surprised. on Global Broadband Speeds Dropped At the End of 2011 · · Score: 1

    I would guess this is the case more and more. Also, new adoption is probably among the poor. The poor can probably only afford cheap setups anyway, hence lower averages.

    I think this indicates that broadband is reaching a wider population and we could even be looking at the start of a shift to a cheaper broadband infrastructure if price demands go lower.

  15. Re:Windows Phone 7 on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or you should visit the Firehose more often.

  16. Re:Windows Phone 7 on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 0

    If Virgin Mobile picks up a decent WP7 phone I may be interested, actually.

  17. Re:Way too confusing on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    I appreciate!

  18. Re:Good luck with that. on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Who is this Providence Equity and where do I subscribe to their newsletter?

  19. Re:The DMCA fines are thus: (Dr. Evil finger here) on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    No, your math's wrong. You forgot that each DVD was seen by, on average, 32 soldiers.

  20. Re:The MPAA Lawyers have never played this nice.. on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    No. They can just retroactively give him license for these reproductions. In fact, it's possible they'd find a way to write that off as a donation to the armed forces.

  21. Re:Abstract from one of the reports on Silicene Discovered: Single-layer Silicon That Could Beat Graphene To Market · · Score: 1

    But will it blend?

    FTFY

  22. Re:Empire State is still taller... on 1 World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In NYC · · Score: 1

    And, the Empire State Building has stood for more than 70 years. Top that, newbies.

    And it /survived/ a plane crash.

  23. Re:Way too confusing on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 5, Funny

    If we're comparing Apples to Apples shouldn't we be looking at iOS vs. OSX?

  24. Re:Samzenpus, Official /. Troll on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 2

    It's flamebaiting more than trolling.

  25. Re:need remote/cloud applications on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But something is. For me, it's games and, to a lesser extent, Netflix. For a lot of office workers, it's Office (no, OpenOffice/LibreOffice is not equivalent when the whole infrastructure and training has been MS Office). For some people it'll be Netflix instead. Windows has a lot of killer apps and, unfortunately, the consumers have no say on whether they get ported to Linux.