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  1. Re:Marihuana as teatment for ADHD on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    Actually, it treats not just ADHD but depression as well as a host of other issues.

  2. Re:LSD to cure Alcoholism? Yeeees... on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    Wow, I'm used to microgram dosage... I can't even fathom what a 1/4th gram of acid would do.

  3. Re:placebo for LSD? on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 2

    It depends -- there's possibility of "microdose" therapy. Not that I know what that feels like, because I've never taken acid and not tripped.

  4. Re:Go figure on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I think if anyone would be a candidate for "acid flashbacks" it would be someone who knows he has mood disorders and yet has done it dozens of times anyway. But I've never had an "acid flashback." I will absolutely testify to its ability to help the user completely change the direction in their life -- but this is using it with intent. A lot of people treat psychedelics as nothing but party drugs.

  5. Re:An easy solution on Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You · · Score: 1

    Whooooooooooooa, you think social networks have no incentive to act in the interests of their users? What the hell do you think they're for? Have you ever BEEN on a social network?

  6. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "We" being pedants who have no interest in being clearly understood?

  7. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    United States of America
    Estados Unidos de Mexico
    United Arab Emirates
    European Union .....

  8. Re:5 minutes? on Chrome Hacked In 5 Minutes At Pwn2Own · · Score: 1

    You don't understand software. Fixing things quietly is just as good as announcing them for a project that develops in the open.

  9. Call the police if you need to but also protect your rights by filming all your interactions with them.

    Too bad police will try to fight that by mis-applying "wiretapping" laws. Or simply destroying your device and never invoking the law one way or the other.

  10. Re:I've said it before... on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 1

    ...and this idiot thought people synthesize drugs, a very risky crime, in such minuscule amounts?

  11. Re:I thought this was known by now on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 1

    Okay, now consider downloading music "illegally" from a site where the purveyors do not actually benefit from licensing fees when you download it.

  12. Re:The police are smarter than you think on Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge · · Score: 1

    The entire world is not as spineless as you would have us believe.

  13. Re:Traitors on Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge · · Score: 1

    Really? I wouldn't have done the same thing in his position -- but that's because I have a little something notably almost absent from the modern world: ethics.

  14. Re:Bullsh*t on Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge · · Score: 1

    Murdering civilians, attacking political/financial targets... yeah, those are the same, right?

  15. Re:Programming itself has become boring... on Ask Slashdot: Do Kids Still Take Interest In Programming For Its Own Sake? · · Score: 1

    I think it is clear you don't even know how to conceptualize just how many programming/software engineering domains you have yet to encounter. There is far more variety than you think because of your experience, and that is likely true for most people, myself included.

  16. Re:Not an issue on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    It's fine, you can still use it. That's just upgrading because you can.

  17. Re:Not an issue on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    No, disingenuous and irrelevant are a lay-person's views on software memory usage. You obviously know nothing about how memory is allocated and reclaimed and believe you have hit a memory "leak" rather than a high water mark -- bullshit, fix your knowledge. Look at the resident memory, not total memory space allocated. if your system is thrashing with a browser using 1GB, you have other problems to fix.

  18. Re:As users, we're getting fucked over. That's why on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it does mean your criticism and threats are stupid and only harmful, because they hold no water with anyone but yourself.

  19. Re:As users, we're getting fucked over. That's why on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    Are you freaking kidding, saying it takes more than a day to do a Windows upgrade?

  20. Re:Why the anxiety? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    *disclaimer: they don't render using the same software and the output quality is not the same

  21. Re:Why the anxiety? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    The latter sounds like an absolutely trivial bug to fix. Maybe you could report it and someone could take the ten minutes to fix it for the world?

  22. Re:Why the anxiety? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    Smells like month-old fish, your story of Firefox ill-performance that most likely is referring to a Firefox 5 or similar version, from long ago, that was the last upgraded version you ever tried.

  23. Re:Why the anxiety? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    It sure as hell doesn't concern us, but it should concern you, considering there's no way that POS is ever gonna be "secure" with no more patching ever to be done to it and exploits still yet to discover.

  24. Re:WITTY SUBJECT LINE on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 1

    Inheritance is perfectly-compatible with encapsulation as long as you hide the variables that could be modified in a wrong way behind methods that do the right thing. I save plenty of code when I do C++ or Java by using classes. So what do you mean?

  25. Re:Since when is JavaScript an unorthodox choice? on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 1

    You're a troll. The "this" pointer doesn't change randomly -- the rules are very well-defined, but weird, and for this reason (hah) use of "this" should be avoided wherever possible. ECMAScript Harmony is attempting to fix these kinds of mistakes in the language definition, so in the future, JS will be cleaner. However, in the now, you simply don't know what the hell you're doing if you're trying to do "OO" in JS instead of functional programming. Go learn Ruby or Python or Lisp or Haskell and then come back and maybe you will start to structure your JS properly.