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  1. Re:Z wave on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    Just rubbing in the fact I don't have a garage door eh?

  2. Re:Z wave on New Home Automation? · · Score: 2

    Have you not realized that kids are just little scout robots you can send out to do jobs like check if the garage door is closed? They also fetch drinks quite well.

  3. Re:Good on them! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    3-6 months is about the period of infertility in africa. If they were having kids 3 years apart we wouldn't have been looking for a means to extend the period of infertility. It probably has something to do with diet and the bodies survival response but you know us westerners, we seem to think a pill is the solution for everything.

  4. Re:Z wave on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1
    The alternative is a modicum of awareness which prevents you from forgetting. I live in an apartment, so weather isn't an option, and date-stamping mental images isn't quite there yet. So sometimes, i just change the angle I'm looking at the door while i'm locking it.

    The way I see it, you have some success now, adding a crutch will turn another aspect of your life into riding along with the automaton. When you spend increasing amounts of time in autopilot(not engaged in the physical world) perhaps when you're older you spend all your time there. Ever been to a geriatric home? Train your defects while you can.

  5. Re:Z wave on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1
    You know what else you can do?

    Pay attention when you're closing the garage door. Build up a modicum of awareness as you're doing it, take a mental snapshot of the door as it's closed, take a mental snapshot of you testing that it's locked. Awareness is all you need, it's just sad how little awareness people have or are capable of focusing.

    Or you know, buy yourself an expensive crutch that will only work for that particular application and will have no side benefits on any other part of your life and which keeps you from growth and mastery. After all, it's what keeps modern society running, the helplessness of the individual.

  6. Re:it'll be back on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1
    Then you don't know much about history.

    There are periods of times where we had good sanitation and no pollution and a god given right to sunshine. It is nearly impossible now to feed yourself and not poison yourself at the same time.

    I won't bother to respond to the other regurgitated propaganda.

  7. Re:Good on them! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    ...and these are women from the african continent? No, no, they aren't.

  8. Re:it'll be back on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1
    It's hard to weigh percent death versus percent suffering.

    However, I'd have to say we're probably better off with the vaccines. It just makes sense that if I'm sensitive enough to have an adverse affect from the vaccine I would probably have been dead without it.

  9. Re:it'll be back on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    Do you seriously not understand the word 'mainly'?

  10. Re:Same old... on Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory · · Score: 1
    Vividly remembering a tragic incident isn't always a good thing.

    Good and bad has everything to do with what pathways are being activated, for how long, and what the side effects are. Good and bad should not be judged simply on the final result.

  11. Re:Tiny little airbags like the polystyrene foam? on Building a Better Bike Helmet Out of Paper · · Score: 1

    No, the US players are the source of the NFL concussion problem.

  12. Re:Meanwhile, in Syria... on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 2

    unfortunately they think that way because of all the imperialistic behaviour of the US as it's spreads the work of Satan.

  13. Re:Good on them! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1
    What rock do you live under? (oh, right, the concrete slab of your parent's house)

    Part of my thesis was searching for a mechanism to prevent women in africa from getting pregnant while they're breastfeeding. The entire goal being able to control their population WITHOUT their knowledge or acceptance.

  14. Re:it'll be back on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1

    Have you met people with side effects from the polio vaccine? Random paralysis, extreme weakness, nerves that burn out after a while, internal organ problems as muscles weaken or freeze. Sometimes I wonder if it would be almost kinder to just let the disease kill the weak and not have them suffer the rest of their lives. Othertimes, I'm happy I'm alive and I've managed to restore most proper motion to my body, but I've still always got that nagging fear that something is just going to collapse on me again and it'll be another slow long climb back.

  15. Re:it'll be back on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 1
    Just slap a thick layer of honey on it. Problem solved.

    One day we'll figure out that all the cool things modern medicine can 'fix' is mainly stuff that modern life created. Everything else is pretty much soap and not shitting in your water.

  16. Re:Also, on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1
    So he's torn himself to shreds thousands of times before and after his death?

    Isn't he the one who made modern US warfare possible?

  17. Re:$50...if your time is worth nothing on How One Photographer Is Hacking the Concept of Time · · Score: 1
    So... you can't tell the difference between a long exposure and a short exposure.

    oh, you mean they're similar because they both deal with exposure? Idiot.

  18. Re: So, can it play Crysis at full framerates, or. on Intel Puts a PC Into an SD Card-Sized Casing · · Score: 1

    Sure, but how much of that isn't porn related?

  19. Re:$50...if your time is worth nothing on How One Photographer Is Hacking the Concept of Time · · Score: 1

    you got modded interesting for not knowing the difference between a short and long exposure? Sigh, what a waste of time slashdot has become.

  20. Re:Link to Asimov's actual article on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction For 2014 Is Viral and Wrong · · Score: 1

    So his fault was in assuming that we're more cooperative and intelligent than the greedy short-sighted dimwits we actually are.

  21. Re:victory against science on Anti-GMO Activists Win Victory On Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    No, you're thinking of USians or Japanese.

  22. Re:Similar story on US Coast Guard Ship To Attempt Rescue of 2 Icebreakers In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Are you implying they don't know how to use their ships?

  23. Re:feel our pain on Ask Slashdot: Will You Start Your Kids On Classic Games Or Newer Games? · · Score: 1

    or have nightmares and break out into cold sweats upon hearing that freakin eagles cry in Karateka!

  24. Re:I am an author of one of these games on Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs · · Score: 1
    Your inaccurate self-importance is the only reason you think you've lost money due to pirates.

    At the the very least, it's all marketing.

  25. Re:42.8GB ZIP on Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs · · Score: 1

    because making a torrent of a zip file saves more time than making a torrent of a directory??