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  1. Re:Finally, a reason. on Nicotine Improves Brain Function In Schizophrenics · · Score: 1

    FYI: In C and most C-like languages, '+' has higher precedence than '&'. You managed to give programmers an average IQ of at most 63.5 (which would explain your pretty awful pseudocode, I suppose)

  2. Re:Typical on Nicotine Improves Brain Function In Schizophrenics · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's less then 20% of smokers who get cancer from their smoking. Still a high number but we take higher odds and risk our life every day.

    You take a 1-in-5 risk of death every day? I think I saw a movie about you, God bless you and the amazing work you guys do over there.

  3. Re:Typical on Nicotine Improves Brain Function In Schizophrenics · · Score: 1

    It's no secret to smokers that smoking helps one to relax and improves concentration.

    Errrr, sort of. Smoking relieves the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal, thus (temporarily) restoring your ability to relax and concentrate. It's a bug, not a feature.

    Besides, why live so long if one can't enjoy themselves?

    Presumably you've never watched a loved-one very slowly die of cancer, yes?

    I'm all for your right to do whatever the hell you want with your body, but advocating smoking is fairly retarded.

  4. Re:on the road charging? on Nissan Unveils All-Electric LEAF · · Score: 1

    If you want a series hybrid, you might be better off buying one instead of making one.

  5. Re:Isn't it time to drop the bill gates borg icon? on Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's see: Originally they were the implacable, unstoppable all-assimilating hyper-baddies, yet every time they threatened disaster the goodies found a way to defeat them. After a while this got routine and they lost their menace; now, despite their still awesome power, they're somehow boring and irrelevant.

    Eh, still seems like a good fit to me.

  6. No on The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone · · Score: 2, Informative

    On a related note, it's also absolutely fine for someone else with an iPhone developer license to download the source code and put it on the app store for free.

    Apple does not allow "duplication of functionality" and they would surely reject such resubmissions.

    So the first person to submit a binary to Apple gets control of that software on the appstore, can charge for it, and can prevent anyone else from doing the same including the software's copyright-holder. Legality aside, this is bad, bad chemistry between the GPL and the appstore.

  7. Re:Yeah, may not be so great. on Ridley Scott Directing Alien Prequel · · Score: 2, Funny

    That'd be more of a sequel to "Aliens versus Bacteria" though (aka "The War of the Worlds")

  8. Re:Who cares about the humans on Ridley Scott Directing Alien Prequel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    - A Company ship runs into xenomorphs in similar circumstances to Alien or Aliens
      - 90 minutes of panicky firefights in badly-lit environments
      - The survivors take off and nuke the planet from orbit (this being the only way to be sure)
      - The Company covers it all up
      - Ominous ending ties events to the derelict ship on LV-426
      - Roll credits

  9. Re:meh on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 0

    I was pretending to believe that cigarettes actually cost 23 quadrillion USD per packet, based on the story at the top of this page. I combined this premise with the opinion of the parent post regarding future fluctuations in the price of gold in order to derive a prima facie absurd conclusion. I then stated this conclusion in a sincere manner, without making any reference to the incongruity of my position. The intent was that the this would inspire mild amusement in the reader.

  10. Re:meh on Software Glitch Leads To $23,148,855,308,184,500 Visa Charges · · Score: 1

    Even if it hit $10,000/oz, you'd still need several megatons of it to buy a pack of smokes.

  11. Re:Market share on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    What *did* we do before tabbed browsing?

    Alt-tabbed browsing.

  12. Re:If you get rid of IE6, you will rid also Win2K on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You refuse to use XP, Vista, Linux, Opera and Firefox, but IE6 is peachy-keen?
    Lol.

  13. Re:Corporate Intranets on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    Eh, it may live on but it'll be a miserable zombie-like existence. The article suggests that businesses will be forced to adopt a second browser for real web-surfing, relegating IE6 to running their crappy internal apps and nothing else. And since you can't have multiple IE versions on one machine, the 'real' browser will necessarily be non-IE.

    Good enough for me.

  14. Re:Last I checked, I couldn't upgrade on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    Then YouTube is doing you a favour. Expect an upgrade around the time that YouTube stops working and your entire company simultaneously calls tech support.

  15. Re:Praise Jeebus! on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    You don't welcome the pressure to upgrade?

  16. Re:Metabolism? on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    Make sure you eat breakfast, then throughout the day eat enough to keep your energy levels up. If you are skipping meals, your metabolism will drop to compensate.

    This.

    Always have something handy to munch on *before* you get hungry - a piece of fruit, salad, that sort of thing. If you get something reasonably healthy down your pie-hole every 4 hours or so, you'll find you can keep the portions small and the total calorie count down, without feeling like you're starving yourself.

  17. Re:Sugars on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    Still a pretty huge daily deficit though...surprising that his body didn't go to red-alert and slow his metabolism to a crawl.

  18. Re:Its not rocket surgery... on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Disagree. His job (the hours in particular) sounds stressful, and if stress by itself is ungood then it's doubleplusungood if you're not getting any exercise. Recipe for an early grave, basically.

  19. Re:Its not rocket surgery... on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    A very inefficient digestive system would also do that.

  20. Re:Eagles? on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would those be African or European eagles?

  21. Re:Hey MPAA! on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 1

    "Tonight at 9 on Channel2, don't miss the network premiere of The.Lord.of.the.Rings.Trilogy[Xvid-AC3-5.1-SweSub]-aXXo.torrent"

  22. Re:Veterinary Clinic App on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    Sounds a bit like VerifySec - a fake money-transfer site used to bait 419 scammers. Once the scammers fill in a brief security-questionnaire, they get a verification-code they can use to collect their hard-earned cash. Problem is, the verification-code is only onscreen for a couple of seconds. Oh dear; looks like the scammer will have to fill out another, slightly longer questionnaire to get their code. Repeat a few dozen times, with the aim of maximising the time the scammer spends answering nonsensical questions.

    I believe that the current record holder managed to get their scammer answering questions solidly for 56 hours, and was only halted by a power-cut. The site's trophy room is possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen.

  23. Re:Watchable show on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    the time travel stuff allowed them to ignore the awful third movie

    But will it allow the awful fourth movie to ignore both the awful third movie, *and* the awful TV show?

  24. Re:The babe from Firefly? on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    They have ships that can move from planet to planet with relative ease (and seemingly great speed) and yet they still used 6-shooters and shotguns as their weapon of choice. WTF Mate?

    They use six-shooters and shotguns and horses because it's the wild-west but with spaceships.Think of it as a distant cousin of steampunk if that helps you.

  25. Re:Very simple reason it failed! on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    Sticking a show on a Friday evening is like sticking nails in a coffin.

    If someone's in a coffin, it's because they're already dead. The nails in the lid are sort of peripheral to the main issue, see?

    In this instance, the core problem is that the show was crap. The ratings went south long before it was moved to Friday.