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  1. Re:Special case on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    What people don't seem to understand is that this medication is basically just a strong cup of coffee with a time release coating. How many of you have philosophical objections to that? There must be a lot of Mormons on this board.

  2. Re:ADHD is real on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention missing the opportunity to do things which require concentration, like math.

  3. ADHD is real on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its really easy to figure out if your kid was misdiagnosed. People without ADHD who take the medication (e.g. Concerta) have a very different reaction than, say, my kid who barely notices it but is able to concentrate in class.

  4. Re:It's government corruption. on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 1

    Government is not a pass/fail quiz, the question "is it OK?" has no meaning. It is always as good or as bad as we make it.

  5. Re:Even the editors don't RTFA on Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail · · Score: 1

    As long as the casino prominently posts a sign saying that it reserves the right to confiscate any winnings that it believes are excessive, it should be able to bring charges.

  6. Re:Even the editors don't RTFA on Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail · · Score: 1

    I suppose you could bring charges against someone who could prove conclusively that the machine was defective. As long as there is a possibility, however remote, that the machine is functioning correctly I don't see how the casino can complain. After all, isn't the possibility of a lucky streak is what brings people there?

  7. Re:hmmmm on Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger · · Score: 4, Funny

    You might as well ask if you can trust someone who doesn't cut his hair and clean his eyeglasses to free memory on the heap.

  8. Re:Old news made new on The Future of Cinema - 'Real' 3D · · Score: 1

    You don't have to go to disneyland to see it, you don't have to watch it on that ridiculous dome shaped imax screen, it is a full length and pretty good (in the case of Monster House) movie. Now I'm wondering how they are ever going to make a live action 3-D movies. That would be a trip...

  9. Re:Who is the sucker? on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I misread the post. Pretend my reply was to one of the people who are outraged that their gadgets don't outlast them.

  10. Who is the sucker? on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 1

    I honestly don't understand your attitude. Are you willing to pay twice as much for a TV that doesn't die for ten years? You are losing money (interest income) on the deal, and you spend five extra years watching a crappy old TV!

  11. Most people want a new one in two years on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 1

    More to the point, you maximize efficiency if the product lifetime is nearly equal to the length of time before the average person wants a new one. Its like serving size at a restaurant, too large and you waste food/money, too small and you lose more customers than you make up in cost savings.

    Sure, some folks like to keep their old cellphones for year after year, and others want a new one every six months. You can bet that the manufacturers are going to aim somewhere in the middle.

  12. Where's Esther Dyson? on Top Ten Geek Girls · · Score: 1

    This list is an insult.

  13. Re:GNUpod, gtkpod etc. on ESR Advocates Proprietary Software · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok, now try and actually use it with your ipod. If by some chance that works, try taking it back to a windows machine or a mac and see if it still works there.

    There is nothing 'of course' about all this. If a typical, intelligent user even hears about problems involving Linux and ipod, they're going to steer clear. Who needs that kind of trouble?

  14. Re:This won't happen on The De-Evolution of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    I can imagine other things that might wipe us out. At one point a life form appeared which dumped lots of oxygen into the atmosphere. (Plants, they're called, I guess.) Many life forms who were used to the old atmosphere died. If something similar happened and changed the composition of the atmosphere, or changed the average temperature on the plane to something much warmer or colder, or replaced our food supply with organisms which were toxic to us, we might die out fairly quickly.

  15. Re:paper tiger laws on Could That Be The Wireless Police Knocking? · · Score: 1

    Gosh, you wouldn't happen to be an expert by any chance? What a coincidence!

  16. Call me when... on Robots Coming to Intro Computer Science Classes · · Score: 1

    Call me when they open enrollment to robots.

  17. Re:Remarkable Market Share? on Apple to Unveil New Leopard OS in August · · Score: 1

    See, you remarked on it just now!

  18. Re:Congress shall make no law... on Gonzales Says Publishing Leaks Is A Crime · · Score: 1

    Terrorism is an inconsequential threat to this country. Statistically, it is inconsequential to the individual, quite similar to the threat of dying in a "conventional" airplane crash. Obviously it is consequential to its victims, the same as any other threat, so your point has no real point.

  19. Re:"Closed" Open Source on OpenBRR Launches Closed Open-Source Group · · Score: 1

    Debian doesn't have a purely merit based admission process: Check out http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-step5:

    Step 5: Recommendation

    When the Applicant has completed the tasks and skills tests, expressed an understanding of the Social Contract, the Debian Free Software Guidelines and Debian Policies and Procedures and been properly identified, it is time for the Application Manager to make a final report to the Front Desk and the Debian Account Manager.

    This report includes statements from the Advocate and other people who have worked with the Applicant, the completed identification information, all discussions between the Application Manager and the Applicant and details about the Skill checks, as well a comment from the Application Manager.

    The Application Manager will include a recommentation to either accept or reject the Applicant.

  20. Allen Ginsberg on Code Monkey Like Fritos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since Allen Ginsberg wrote "Birdbrain"

  21. It is not constant - it doubled in five years on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 2, Informative

    To use similar, but more reasonable logic to the previous poster, if it continues to double every five years, that means the entire 6096 mm will be gone in x years where

        2 ^ (x / 5)= 6096
        (x / 5) log 2 = log 6096
        x = 5 log 6096 / log 2

    or 63 years.

  22. Bank of America ATMs do this on Scanjet Music · · Score: 1

    The ATM near my house does that "charge" bugle call while it prints a receipt.

  23. Re:Malarky eh? on Anti-Gravity Device Patented · · Score: 1

    What could be stronger than malarky?

  24. This begs the question... on Supernova 1987A Decoded · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What *do* we see when a star undergoes gravitational collapse and subsequent explosion after having spent all of its nuclear fuel?

  25. Re:Perfect on Got Spyware? Throw out the Computer! · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that inexpensive PCs are more prone to spyware? Most amusing!