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  1. The other way around? on New Study Links Video Games and Mental Problems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could it be the other way around? Maybe people with this kind of mental health problems are likely to become addicted to video games.

  2. Re:Yes on Disempowering the Singular Sysadmin? · · Score: 1

    If you don't trust your sysadmin, they shouldn't be your sysadmin. Just like the accounting department probably has the ability to steal a certain sum of money before anyone will notice, your sysadmin is given responsibilities that could potentially cause grief if they are on the wrong team.

    If someone from the accounting department steals money, it will be noticed eventually, and it can be tracked back to him. If the IT guy creates havoc its very hard, if not impossible, to figure out what happened. Even the most reliable Admin may run mad at some point, be it a crazy management decision or some personal disaster.

  3. Something like this must happen from time to time on Journal Article On Precognition Sparks Outrage · · Score: 2

    Across all 100 sessions, participants correctly identified the future position of the erotic pictures significantly more frequently than the 50% hit rate expected by chance: 53.1%

    It's pretty easy to come up with significant results in this field: Just do a sufficiently large number of experiments, and you will inevitably come across some significant results. This works for any definition of significance, though of course it's easier for low standards.

  4. Re:Great Work! on Database of Private SSL Keys Published · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. Private information should of course remain private, nobody argues against that. But here we talk about public Information, "public" in the sense that it is freely available anyway, just slightly harder to come by. This database isn't an original publication, it merely collects the published keys in order to make them easily accessible.

  5. Re:Would you prefer a completely clueless jury the on Judge Declares Mistrial Because of Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Unlike Wikipedia, a party on a trial usually doesn't have any interest in presenting a balanced picture. Few people would trust a statement from a lawyer more than Wikipedia.