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  1. compound that with exercise and gym getting in cut on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    because school districts don't have the money

    personally, the idea of school ending at 2 pm is anachronism from the 1950s. today in contemporary usa, both parents work, and the 2 pm school closing time means one parent has to dent their career because of archaic schedule

    solution? 2 pm-5 pm, when the parents pick the kids up: recess time, sports time, outside time

    1. the kids get more exercise, so they don't have to have a lifetime of being fatties, and, as you noted, they aren't ADHD because their energy levels are expressed appropriately

    2. the parents can have careers, without being hamstrung by an antiquated school scheduling system that does no one any good

  2. no on Rocket Thrusters Used To Treat Sewage · · Score: 0

    it's just a load of crap

  3. in a few years on Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons · · Score: 5, Funny

    confused hippies will assume the burning man festival has been moved to iceland and multiplied by 1,000. they will proceed to inadvertently bring down the entire country's electrical infrastructure during the namesake ritual of the closing of their festivities. iceland will discover they can successfully drive the hippies back into the sea with the playing of bjork music over loudspeakers. but the smoke from the burning human pylons will result in europe closing down their entire airpace for a week

  4. indeed on Five Billionth Device About To Plug Into Internet · · Score: 1

    i'm waiting until they roll out ip 7, ip vista has proven to be a turkey and no one's upgrading to it

    the question is do i get ip 7 enterprise or ip 7 home basic?

  5. you've been quiet for awhile on Facebook Takes On FourSquare · · Score: 1

    avoiding me?

    but thank you for posting

    now i have a fix on your ip from the backdoor i installed on slashdot just on the offchance you might post here again. it was a perilous operation getting that backdoor installed but it just makes the payoff today that much sweeter. note to slashdot: you didn't really need an exterminator, i planted that ant colony

    now its just a quick geolocation, then i'll pack my plastic ties and knives, and i'll be on my way

    i'm coming for you baby, it won't be long now, soon we will be together forever in the sweet hereafter, the way it should have been all those years ago. why oh why did you try to run?

  6. no he just quickly resigned on HP CEO's Browsing History Used Against Him · · Score: 0

    under a shroud of secrecy, and never even tried to defend himself. he just completely and immediately crumbled and folded under the accusations, without the slightest hesitation. the actions of an innocent man? i don't think so

  7. the guy resigned, we're beyond initial bias on HP CEO's Browsing History Used Against Him · · Score: 1

    you would be correct to criticize bias either for or against hurd or fisher, if the case just broke

    but we're into culpability territory now: would the guy fold so quickly and thoroughly if he were innocent?

    so to see bias and sympathy for hurd, when his actions speak to guilt, and the case is winding down, is egregious on the part of slashdot's story summary. slashdot's story summary is less about hurd and fisher, and more about the completely unshocking and totally mundane use of browsing history against someone under serious suspicion. any slashdot geek worth his salt is well aware of the concept of browsing history as a liability. its a nonissue, for slashdot geeks, and so the spin in favor of hurd is just wrong

    to see bias towards someone whose actions since the case broke seem beyond suspicious is bogus and i will criticize bias in favor of hurd, and i will openly suggest our sympathies should be for fisher, at this point in the case

  8. fm radio is cheap circuitry on NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    even if you never listened to fm radio, the extra amount spent to include the circuitry (pennies?) would enable you with a pretty large jump in functionality, even if just for emergencies, never mind listening to pop music stations or talk radio

    legislating the inclusion of fm radio is, indeed, ridiculous

    but simple common business sense dictates that the minimal cost involved, even if it sways only 5% of potential buyers to purchase your product, makes the investment worthwhile

    simple common sense argues for the inclusion of fm radio: its so cheap, and it enables a lot of functionality

  9. the story summary is rather sympathetic to hurd on HP CEO's Browsing History Used Against Him · · Score: 0

    sexual harassment is pretty serious. one would think we should be more sympathetic to jodie fisher, not hurd

    oh right, his browsing history was used against him. therefore, we should be sympathetic to him (rolls eyes)

    if you are under investigation for something serious, investigators will investigate you, as they should. what is so dramatic or controversial about that?

    why is the browser history angle supposed to be particularly inflammatory or peculiar? its just another avenue of investigation, as valid as any other. nothing big brother here, nothing amazing or new or even remarkable about this avenue of investigation

    if this concept of using your browsing history against you bothers you, then delete your browsing history. end of drama

    oh, and don't engage in sexual harassment. pffffft

  10. this is on browsers, oses, and hardware makers on Legislation To Make Web Devices Accessible To Disabled Users · · Score: 1

    not content creators and website owners

    if i open an icelandic or bahasa indonesia website from new york city in google chrome, it will automatically try to translate the page for me. this is my "handicap" that the browser is working around for me: i don't speak icelandic or bahasa indonesia

    so if my handicap is deafness or blindness, there is no need for websites to provide special content for that, merely to be able to "translate" on the fly into that different "language"

  11. your examples suck on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    a better example might have been john brown's raid on harper's ferry leading to the civil war. or the killing of archduke franz ferdinand leading to wwi. or 9/11 leading us to our current world bullshit

    of course small groups of people can make history. none of which has anything to do with the slippery slope! not my 3 examples, not stalin, nor hitler, nor martin luther

    completely unrelated subject matter. to explain why its unrelated subject matter would be beneath intellectual charity. you don't win an argument by completely changing the subject

    give me an example of tiny law being passed, and then suddenly there is this cascade of increasingly irrational laws into complete insanity completely beyond anyone's ability to control, completely against the wishes of the population. doesn't happen

  12. so give me an example on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    of a small tiny irrational change rolling unstoppably into complete immorality or complete anarchy or suffocating fascism or extreme religious fundamentalism or whatever fringe you want

    you can't

    because it doesn't exist. because it assumes that human beings aren't capable of thinking rationally. but they are. so you can't give a society a tiny push, and it slides inexorably into the far reaches of dystopia or medievalism or whatever

    meanwhile, i can give you plenty examples of demagogues whipping the impressionable into hysteria and frenzy because a small prudent rational change (gay marriage, legalized marijuana) will "inevitably" lead to gross immorality and irresponsibility. that's the slippery slope, and it doesn't exist. its simply propaganda and emotional rhetoric

    but you're right, i didn't qualify my statement correctly: i said a small rational change will not lead to unstoppable irrational change

    so i will properly rule out your assertion by making my qualification more limiting: no small change, rational or irrational, will uncontrollably slide into the far reaches of radical social change. it simply doesn't happen

    the slipperly slope argument is not reality, it is a fearmongering tool and no more, and you need to stop positing as if it is somehow real. the slippery slope is bullshit

  13. recreate the stanley milgram experiment on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

    except for you, the shocks will be real, and you will be both tester and test subject

    every time your code throws an exception, make it so you receive a small, incrementally growing shock

    after about 10 or 20 bugs, and the growing voltage of the shocks, you should be breathing heavily and sweating and be focused like a laser on ensuring the integrity of your code

  14. dude on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    as soon as you prove to me that making a rational argument (gay marriage will not hurt society) will somehow magically make people vulnerable to irrational arguments (necrophilia is the same thing as gay marriage), then you have proven that the slippery slope is real

    but making a rational decision does not make you somehow vulnerable to irrational decisions. if you make a decision that changes the status quo (allowing gay marriage), you are not introducing some sort of strange runaway unstoppable acceleration of social change that will just speed up and go off a cliff into harems, legal pedophilia, and men marrying their horses. no, this is complete fearmongering bullshit

    repeat: rational change does not mean you accelerate into irrational change. it simply doesn't work that way

    the idea that change will accelerate off a slippery slope into fantastical realms of complete amorality or severe fascism or radical religious fundamentalism or whatever bogeyman scares you at night is just the strange attraction fear holds over your otherwise rational mind

    and don't get me wrong: appeals to emotion are just as powerful as appeals to reason, in history, in reality. but i'm not saying appeals to emotion don't exist, i'm not arguing against their existence. i'm saying what doesn't exist is this idea that a sober, reasonable, small, incremental, rational change... will somehow lead to a runaway chain reaction into irrational change. it's this linking of rational change with irrational change that i am saying is complete fearmongering bullshit, and why the slippery slope does not exist

  15. hey, enjoy your "couple beers" on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    and make sure you tell that to the officer on scene when you blow that stop sign and take out that SUV

    oh right, that will never happen to you: you hold your alcohol well

    you know i'm certain there are people who can drive 90 mph all day every day and never get in an accident (yet). but we don't craft the driving limits to supermen, we craft the law to the average joe. so if you have an extra copy of alcohol dehydrogenase in your liver and can burn that alcohol up quickly, you're just going to have bear this awful, awful burden of being a supermen amongst mediocrity. you poor, poor man. truly i am filled with such feeling for your plight

    you will not get special treatment, instead you will simply not drive if you happened to have drank recently. you are not special. the law is the law. i don't care how well you handle your beer. this inconveniences you? well, dead people in car wrecks inconveniences society, so you're just going to have to accept this awful, awful cramp in your dining lifestyle. i'm filled with such sympathy and empathy for your terrible plight and how this ruins your social calendar, really i am, cross my heart

    if you drink, you don't drive. that's it. it's really simple. deal with it

    continue thinking what you wrote above, and therefore be an asshole. your choice

    but to me, all i see in your words is someone missing the word "responsibility" in their vocabulary

  16. wait for them to say that on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and then react to their bullshit, AFTER they propose that

    but when you posit your worst fear before it happens, and then react to it like it already happened, you are losing your grip on rational thought. you are instead engaged in hysterical thinking, which is what religious demagogues depend on as a motivating psychological factor in those who follow their words

    so congratulations: you think like the people you dislike

  17. no, the slippery slope is bullshit on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 2, Informative

    example: if we let gay people wed, next people will be wedding animals and cadavers

    example: if we make marijuana legal, next we will make heroin and methamphetamine legal

    the point is, the slippery slope is a rhetorical piece of propaganda used by demagogues to scare people away from logic and reason. the slippery slope only works in a world where no one has any cognitivie faculties and can't tell the difference between gay marriage and bestiality, or marijuana and methamphetamine

    people CAN tell the difference, and DO tell the difference, and thus the slippery slope is fearmongering bullshit

  18. i don't have any sympathy on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    my sympathy is with those who get killed by drunk drivers

    your first offense is all you need to kill someone. so you draw the line there: you drink once, you get punished. getting drunk and putting your keys in an ignition is already way way over a line of responsible behavior

    i'm sure your ex is a nice person, but she committed a crime, and deserves to be punished in this way. consider her lucky that the experience was so wrenching, before she actually killed anyone, including herself

    in situations like this leniency doesn't pay. people who abuse drugs to the point where they are putting their lives and the lives of others in danger are behaving in such a way that any leniency is simply seen as license to continue abusive behavior. kindness is mistaken for weakness by a drug abuser: they aren't in control anymore, the drugs are

    you can't lightly like a butterfly bring yourself out of drug abuse. it is a wrenching experience no matter what. there's no sugar coating the sobering (no pun) realization of where you have wound up and life and the difficult painful path back to where you need to be before you. the sooner the better you get a harsh wakeup call, the better. any leniency simply means a deeper hole she needs to dig herself out of. consider it tough love

  19. there are plenty of crimes the usa has committed on San Francisco Just As Guilty In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 1

    but when you busy yourself holding the usa responsible for crimes which are essentially human failures, not uniquely american failures, as if americans somehow had a monopoly on hubris or ego or arrogance in this world, then you reveal yourself to have some sort of chip on your shoulder and complex about americans and americanness

    but don't worry about it. in your life time, china will be the new bully on the block. and then you can busy yourself blaming every neurosis you can identify about the human condition as something that is uniquely a chinese crime. what blazing insight (rolls eyes)

  20. in which you confuse on First 3-D IMAX Porn Movie Made In Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    what turns you on with the idea that you and you alone are the arbiter of what constitutes a turn on

    the movies i like are the only valid movies in the whole world, and no other opinions matter

    the food i like is the only good food in the world, and all other opinions are null and void

    and other assorted completely blind selfish idiocies

  21. firefox has that hash function on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but there's no reason why you can't have your own hash function in your head

    take a root password, say "penguin"

    say you are creating a password for slashdot

    so your password for slashdot is "penguinslashdot"

    but for gmail its "penguingmail"

    this is an extremely simplistic algorithm. i'm just using it as an example to show you: remember a PASSWORD GENERATING ALGORITHM, not a password. then you have a unique password for every site, but you don't have to remember 500 different passwords

    a REAL algorithm could be something like "the first letter of my root password plus the third letter of the website name's ascii character value plus 3 divided by my home phone number as a kid plus the second letter of my root password plus... etc"

    or whatever

    the actual password used for each site can be quite variable and the algorithm can still be hard to guess even with a hacker who knows three or four such passwords

    the point is: you don't need to remember a password, you need to remember a password creating ALGORITHM, in your head, that only you know, which is infinitely more secure, but no harder to remember

  22. the patent has no value on Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe · · Score: 0

    save one:

    publicity

    example 1: making slashdot front page

    it's empty grandstanding, it's thumping your chest. it's like carnival barkers talking about having the one and only tallest woman on the planet behind the screen or the littlest man, patented in switzerland by the IMF or whatever random grand poobah of authenticity and legitimacy people have an irrational bias of trust for: its unverifiable bs, but it creates interest. if someone said they had the tallest woman in the three county area, as far as they can tell, and its probably true, they guess... they make less interest, and they make less money. if they say they tried to get the patent on having the littlest man in the world, but couldn't find out how to get such a ridiculous patent, and there may be a guy in china who's littler, but this guy is close enough: again, less interest, and less money

    stretching the truth pays dividends in this world. empty unverifiable bold claims pay cold hard cash. proof being, there's a bunch of eyeballs on this website now aware of little austrian town they were never aware of before

    this is a pr stunt, and people fall for it, because people fall for empty bravado, always did, and always will

    everyone needs to study a little pt barnum in their lives, at the very least, to know something about the weaknesses of their fellow human beings, and if you are intellectually honest, to know something about your own weakness: we react to colorful audacity more than humdrum facts. welcome to psychology 101

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum

  23. fight club? on The Fuel Cost of Obesity · · Score: 1

    didn't they raid the back of a liposuction clinic and turn some fatties' liposuctioned adipose tissue that was left out back into soap?

    so fatties are smart: they haul around their own biodiesel

    all they need is a way to stick the gas intake mechanism in their abdomen, and they have a spare tire, i mean, spare gallon or two waiting to put to use

  24. and when you say piss in the ocean on The Fuel Cost of Obesity · · Score: 1

    you mean piss, as in crude, in the ocean, as in the gulf of mexico

  25. Re:Well duh on Video Quality Matters Less If You Enjoy the Show · · Score: 1

    you're watching the wrong, uh, parts