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  1. Re:Unbiased data hard to find on Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As someone who struggled with nicotine addiction for decades, I can testify to its addictive nature. There is also pretty compelling evidence that nicotine is bad for your heart, just like cocaine which has a similar addictive mechanism.

  2. "Suffering" from internet addiction? on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 1

    Suffering, really? I'm reminded of that scene from Office Space:

    Bob: "Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately."
    Peter: "I wouldn't say I've been *missing* it, Bob."

  3. Re:Sounds like an ISP problem. on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 1

    They behave differently. A client normally connects to it's local mail server or its ISP's mail server on port 25. Clients normally don't generally connect to port 25 on mail servers outside the ISP's network unless they're spamming, which is why ISPs have been limiting that kind of connection from home networks.

  4. Re:Unsurprising use of the phrase "Die Fighting" on J.J. Abrams Promises 'Fringe' Will Die Fighting · · Score: 1

    Actually there's this magical place called 'outside' where you can get away from bad TV completely.

  5. Unsurprising use of the phrase "Die Fighting" on J.J. Abrams Promises 'Fringe' Will Die Fighting · · Score: 1

    Cheesy drama is pretty much what we've come to expect from you, JJ.

  6. Honeycomb's big on Google Unveils Android 'Honeycomb' Tablet · · Score: 0

    Yeah, yeah yeah. It's not small. No, no, no

    /get off my lawn

  7. That's great on W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser · · Score: 1

    Now if only they could get it to do HTML4 correctly.

  8. $80 billion for US Intelligence? on Annual US Intelligence Bill Tops $80 Billion · · Score: 1

    We're not getting our money's worth.

    I'll be here all night, try the ribeye, it's excellent

  9. NO TOWERS!!! on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    Like, I can totally accept the possibility of time travel, but a mobile communication device with no cell towers? Unpossible.

  10. Reminds me of an old magazine ad on New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code · · Score: 1

    The ad pictured a brick wall, covered floor to ceiling with fire alarm bells. The caption was, "More security doesn't make you more secure."

  11. Re:Yes office, on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 1

    As it happens, I'm not actually a zoophiliac. Merely a vegan who finds it a bit twisted that we seem to consider it worse to let an animal have sex with you than it would be to kill it.

    I used to mourn when I ate animals, so I switched to vegetables. Then I started mourning when I killed any form of life. It's all so beautiful, isn't it? I think you have insufficient compassion for vegetables. Simply because they are a more alien form of life than people or animals, you think it's moral to eat vegetables, but not to eat animals. Can you really justify that? I found I couldn't.

    Then starvation kicked in, and I realized that the universe is more morally complicated than I had previously imagined. I love all life, and now I kill and eat many forms of it, appreciating its beauty while acknowledging there is also beauty in the predator. Plus bacon tastes really good.

  12. Re:PLEASE take linkedin.com SPF out of softfail mo on Attack Targets LinkedIn Users With Fake Contact Requests · · Score: 1

    For big domains with multiple machines and customers who access the net in many different ways. Having an SPF record with "-all" is a guaranteed way to have your legitimate customer emails blocked at some point.

    I don't see why, if it's correctly configured. The domain I run has hundreds of machines. There are bigger domains out there, but I don't see how they would be significantly different. "Having an SPF record with -all" simply means you're confident that you know what IP addresses your domain's outgoing mail mail will be sent from. Do you not think most organizations will know the IP addresses of their own outgoing MTAs? Is it so difficult to set up all of an organizations' mail clients so they ALWAYS relay mail through one of those servers?

  13. PLEASE take linkedin.com SPF out of softfail mode on Attack Targets LinkedIn Users With Fake Contact Requests · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Changing one tilde to a dash would solve this problem for 90% or more of the phishing targets.

    $ dig txt linkedin.com

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    linkedin.com.        21600    IN    TXT    "v=spf1 ip4:70.42.142.0/24 ip4:208.111.172.0/24 ip4:64.74.220.0/24 ip4:64.74.221.0/26 ip4:64.71.153.211 ip4:64.74.221.30 ip4:69.28.149.0/24 ip4:208.111.169.128/26 ip4:64.74.98.128/26 ip4:64.74.98.16/29 mx ~all"

  14. Re:brilliant on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 1

    You've just not read enough. Like the 1970s manslaughter committed by Ford (using Pinto cars), or the blatant poisoning of water by various chemical corporations over the years. While they are not as dangerous as government (which sucks money direct from your wallet) (or drafts you to die in Nam), megacorps are still a danger to individual consumers and workers, and must be watched just like any other predator that is more powerful than you are.

    Oh, for heaven's sake. OK, I'll bite, but I probably shouldn't. Your use of hyperbole and radical left catchphrases (megacorps? Really?) makes it difficult to take you seriously, but I'm gonna take a leap of faith and assume you're not just trolling.

    The specific example you described as "manslaughter" by the Ford Motor company was a myth -- the Pintos were no more dangerous than any other average car on the road at the time. http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf

    Both government and large private organizations, in the long run, are generally beneficial to individual "consumers and workers," to borrow your terminology. Yes, they bear watching, but don't let a few bad apples spoil your whole worldview.

  15. I mostly ignore it, but... on Did Google Go Instant Just To Show More Ads? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I found it useful last week. I was doing a search on the model number of the water heater in my house, looking for a replacement part. There were no search results for the full model number, but when I hit the backspace button a couple times in the Google Instant search, I was able to find some search results for a model that was pretty close to the same one in my house. As it turned out, they were close enough and I was able to find the replacement parts I needed.

  16. HRP-4? on New HRP-4 Humanoid Robots From Japan To Go On Sale · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna hold out until they release its canine robotic companion, the DRP-4.

  17. But how does it compare with the alternatives? on Security Concerns Paramount After Early Reviews of Diaspora Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    The release of pre-alpha source code for their Diaspora social Website was only a few hours old on Wednesday when hackers began identifying flaws they said could seriously compromise the security of those who used it. Among other things, the mistakes make it possible to hijack accounts, friend users without their permission, and delete their photos.

    "The bottom line is currently there is nothing that you cannot do to someone's Diaspora account, absolutely nothing," said Patrick McKenzie, owner of Bingo Card Creator, a software company in Ogaki, Japan.

    So in other words, yes, it's a little bit worse than Facebook at this point.

  18. Re:Doesn't really matter... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen Idiocracy?

    All except the last fifteen or twenty minutes, at which time the storyline predictability and the two dimensional characters actually put me to sleep. There were a few great lines, but that was about it. It is actually possible to make dumb characters who are also interesting, you know. The movie assumed everyone was stupid in the same way, which is stupid.

  19. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Having said that, it appears that Buddhism requires a belief in supernatural (thoughnot immortal or omnipotent) Devas

    As with Christianity, there are hundreds of different traditions within Buddhism. Many have different beliefs. Some believe in Devas, some don't, but all are properly considered Buddhists. Some Christians believe the communion wine and wafer literally becomes the blood and body of Christ, some don't. Both are properly considered Christians.

  20. I'm sequestering carbon on The Fuel Cost of Obesity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you have any idea how much carbon I've sequestered in fat? Get off my roly poly back.

  21. For Business/Marketing people? C# on How Should a Non-Techie Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    "Nontechnical people -- for example marketers or small business owners -- increasingly get the feeling they should know more about technology. And they're right. If you can throw up a small website or do some real number-crunching, chances are those skills will help you feed your family. But how should they get started?"

    Every application will have tools that are more or less appropriate for the task at hand. Even just the two you listed -- throwing up a small web site and doing serious number crunching, are very different tasks, and there is no one tool that would be ideal for both (for some definitions of 'serious' number crunching).

    It sounds like you're focusing on people who have no desire to become techies down the road -- people who don't want to invest a lot of time in learning the nuances of different programming tools. The most widely applicable tool available right now is probably Java, but I wouldn't recommend it to people who aren't interested in software development for its own sake.

    Marketers and small business owners would be best served by farming out things like web site development -- good web development requires a very broad skill set that is rarely found in any one person anyway. If you want to learn some basic programming to automate repetitive administrative tasks like manipulating Excel spreadsheets on Windows systems, learn C# (...I feel so dirty). Visual Basic would be a good choice too.

    Personally, I'm a Perl guy. I LOVE Perl. I deal with lots of text files, often on non-Windows machines. Perl is easy to learn, it can run on lots of different operating systems, and it has an AMAZING collection of modules that let it do just about anything. But... I can't really recommend it to someone who's probably never going to need to interface with anything but Microsoft applications on Microsoft operating systems.

  22. Re:Charges to 90% in 5 minutes? Umm... on Long In Development, Toshiba 'SCiB' Battery Debuts · · Score: 1

    Huh, I just found more detailed specs for the 2.4v single cell and the 24v pack, and both of those list max charge rates at 50A. So the 8.4A max charge rate for the 12v pack must have something to do with the pack itself, rather than the cells. Cheap-o BMS, maybe?

  23. Charges to 90% in 5 minutes? Umm... on Long In Development, Toshiba 'SCiB' Battery Debuts · · Score: 1
    Am I the only one who noticed that at the max charge rate listed in the specs (8.4A), it's probably gonna take more like 20 minutes to charge a 48Wh battery to 90%?
    • Nominal Voltage 12V
    • Nominal Capacity 4.0Ah
    • Max. Charging Current 8.4A
    • Max. Discharging Current 8.0A (continuous) 25A (within0.3s)
    • Size Approx. 145 x 109 x 48mm
    • Weight Approx. 1.0kg
  24. Only .55%? on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 5, Funny

    He went on to say that only 0.55% of all iPhone 4 users have called in to complain about reception problems

    Yet there's a suspiciously high number of calls on that line where the caller mumbles something incomprehensible and then hangs up.

  25. Who knows where this could lead? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe even to the dark side of the moon.