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  1. Re:Optimized ... on Sony To Sell 3D Head-Mounted Display · · Score: 1

    Rookie error when holding up the t-shirt. Hold it in your teeth! (and the t-shirt)

  2. Re:Optimized ... on Sony To Sell 3D Head-Mounted Display · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leave the door wide open. If they don't want to see then they shouldn't look. If you can't wring one out at home something is wrong with the world. If the Mrs complains tell her you're only helping out with some of the house work. Its got to be done.

  3. TV glasses on Sony To Sell 3D Head-Mounted Display · · Score: 1

    Things like this have been around for ages. For example you could have bought some MSP-209 video glasses ages ago. I tried a few brands when I live in Japan and they all had the same problem. You were able to see the grid or mesh the pixels sat in. I hope these solve that and compact the screen down.For a decent price and when not made by Sony I may even get a set.

  4. Re:But how does this help me? on Localizing Language In the Brain · · Score: 1

    Yes. My Mrs is Japanese and just slates the translations as being awful. Not point asking her to help me learn Japanese either. It has always ended up in argument and pointing out errors in books and saying no one talks like that. Best she says out of it really. :)
    Will to learn lost - Can't I have a chip I plug into my head? I've learnt a lot from porn, but it isn't helpful with the in-laws.

  5. But how does this help me? on Localizing Language In the Brain · · Score: 1

    I tried to learn Japanese for years nothing stuck. Academic study of this subject now bores me and as soon as I open the book I could sleep for a week. I need some Paul McKenna NLP training to make me an obsessive compulsive I think.

    Lazy, too right I am.

  6. Re:Risk on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 2

    Please read "They put out a story..." as, I personally no longer trust the main UK news outlets such as the BBC, to "report" News with any sort of integrity accuracy or objectivity. The anecdote minus the huge cynicism (I wasn't objective) will have to stay an anecdote as I don't' think I'll be able to find the clip of the Doctor. But here was the story - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/313848.stm
    This quote "It undermined general confidence in the pill. We still see women requesting abortion who wrongly believe the pill is dangerous." jogs the old memory, so I'm sure it is this one amongst all the other scares "The Media" pump out.

  7. Risk on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 2

    This isn't helped by the media playing people fear of risk. You all remember the type of stats they gave out during the Fukushima nuclear power plant break down. Radiation levels are 500% above normal. People watch that sensationalism and panic. At no point did they demand to know a comparative. "Oh, the same as smoking 50 packs of high tar over a year" or something similar. You get the point.

    In the UK a few years back. They put out a story telling women that a type of birth control pill increased their risk of getting cancer. Many women came off the pill immediately and fell pregnant as a result. A few months later they had a follow up story with a Doctor. They asked him about the risk of the drug and what was being done. They then asked his reaction to the pregnancies (which i don't think he was aware of) by the presenter. His reaction was classic a mix of amused bewilderment and a condescending - You do realise that pregnancy is incredibly more dangerous than any risk of cancer this drug ever posed. . ..
    I think what he wanted to say was "Are you all fucking idiots?"

  8. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    I don't think the vaccine had much to do with it; but the end result is still the same.

  9. Re:Sigh on Juno Looks Back, Photographs Earth-Moon System · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We would be 1000 behind. Most of the tech is made to kill other people. Non violent tech was used for political posturing and gain power over some one else or to get in to some one pants.
    OR
    Guy with big stick beats other guy. Smart guy controls guy with big stick to beat other guy. Other guy invents big stick protection. Smart guy invents stick protection legislation. Guy with big stick enforces legislation with HUGH stick. Smart guy smiles
    Please find a point in there about something. It makes me sad to read it back. proofing abandedned,

  10. Re:Huh? on Juno Looks Back, Photographs Earth-Moon System · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Rule 34.

  11. Re:It's gay on Microsoft Wants Your Feedback On Its New Python IDE · · Score: 0

    Only when you code it . badum tish :)

  12. Re:Here's an idea. on Social Media a Threat To Undercover Cops · · Score: 1

    They'll change the law.

  13. Re:Worst "article" ever on Android On HP TouchPad · · Score: 1

    Oh. oV' Course.

  14. Re:Worst "article" ever on Android On HP TouchPad · · Score: 1

    Yet, when I did a search for "apple" it doesn't come up once in the article. I even read it and it's not about apple in anyway. Are you mental?

  15. Re:best advertising post ever on Android On HP TouchPad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Really? My friend told me MyCleanPC is malware. I am now worried MyCleanPC could be bad and make all my gigabits run slower if I use it. My computing has many gigabits plus lots of rams too. It is hard to trust MyCleanPC and other products when I see adverts in message boards.

  16. Re:Is this fair? on Google's Amazon River Street View Project · · Score: 1

    Ah, what you've done there is missed the bit about the 'Uncontacted' tribe being able to speak English and moan about privacy and being able to see into a Hut.

  17. She was only 58 on World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach · · Score: 0

    That's what years in the Sun does to your skin!

  18. Is this fair? on Google's Amazon River Street View Project · · Score: 1

    How can an 'Uncontacted' Amazon tribe post their take down notice?
    "You can see right into my hut from the river" said one.
    "This is an invasion of our privacy and youve also taken my soul with youre evil box of tricks. You said do no evil! but you have." said another.
    These peoples remain 'uncontacted' due to their poor punctuation and grammar.

  19. Re:Anybody else? on Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    Ok. but you can turn that around. A child who used to post lots on FB starts to post out of character things. A teacher with experience and training may see this as signs of abuse.
    A story then - This teacher for the purposes of the post, was always too busy in class to pick up on "the" signs as the ADHD child on the other side of the room need looking after constantly. Perchance in the wee hours of the night, whilst marking papers, the teacher saw an old post from the student timed at 2am. That's too late the teacher thought and decided to take a look back thought the history of posts going back weeks and months. This child is near suicide! they exclaim. The matter raised, the child saved, an arrest made. If it wasn't for FB this child would have ....
    It happens every day. /proof reading of the above to be done never..

  20. Re:Anybody else? on Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    I don't have to deal with this just yet; but in 5-6 years time this will have moved on to another issue. With all the stories of cyber bulling you see in the press and certainly all the porn you can get. I don't see the internet as a "social" place. It's a pub and in a pub you watch what your child is doing and who they are talking to. You watch watch you say as you never know who is listening.
    No previous generation has had to deal with this. My parents didn't know about the 16 colour strip poker Amiga filth I had, and the few porn mags, well at least they had some censorship. Growing up thinking extreme gape porn is common rather than hilarious, can't be good either. But the porn isn't the problem. Children need to be brought up to mistrust how / who / why / when / where their information could / can / is being used. Personal data is extremely valuable. Now that loads of them have been locked up for posting incriminating evidence against themselves on Facebook after going rioting in the UK. They may start to get it.

  21. Re:Anybody else? on Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    A decent teacher should be able to draw on some aspect of a child's life and be able to crow bar in popular culture references to update a lesson plan or two. If they are going to be teaching for a few decades then they only need to do it once, as the pop world is a cannibalistic recycle bin.
    I just googled "lady gaga to shakespeare" and felt sad.

  22. Re:When they get those rights on Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    You don't have to take it out and start filming, taking pics or call the girl friend, wife or both.

  23. When they get those rights on Teachers, Students Fight To Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Expect to see child kicked out of class due to Facebook posts.

    And in the "grown up" world, a person who brings a camera to any event now ruins the night as far as I'm concerned. Social web and beer doesn't mix.

  24. Re:Skynet... on IBM Shows Off Brain-Inspired Microchips · · Score: 1

    You've been marked "Redundant". I think that's the more worrying issue with these things.

  25. Re:Google+ dead on Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users · · Score: 1

    I wanted to use that; but couldn't find a reason. But it looked good.