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  1. Re:Old news on Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep · · Score: 1

    That's weird, I have -0- effects from caffeine so far as I can tell. It doesn't keep me awake, it doesn't make me alert, and it doesn't give me the shakes. I drank four pots of coffee one time and 30m later promptly fell asleep for 3 hours... in this case the coffee served as an alarm clock as my bladder was nearly rupturing when I woke up. In high school i took almost 1/3rds a bottle of no doz (~20 200mg pills), i felt sick to my stomach, and a bit dizzy, but other than that I didn't get twitches or anything. I went to sleep 4-5 hours later and slept 10 hours... felt fine when I woke up.

  2. Re:Next time saving pill coming on the market on Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep · · Score: 1

    add modanafil to the drip and imagine the things you could accomplish.

  3. Re:No thanks on Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep · · Score: 1

    He got A's, he's on the [insert sport here] team.

  4. Re:This is disingenuous Media spin on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    Funny, everyone of those jobs I've applied at say, "We're not interested you're overqualified and won't stay in our company long enough to justify hiring you."

  5. Reality... on Gamers Divorced From Reality? · · Score: 1

    Reality... is the agreed upon consensus of the majority that defines what is "normal". If he's right and the average age of death is 75... his reality is on its last leg. I don't need to know what temp it is outside (although, I do because its on the thermostat i have on the counter-- high tech one too, syncs with time and temp etc.) Honestly, I know 2 of my neighbors and I don't WANT to know the rest, because so far as I can see... they're fooktards.

    "Reality" and "Normal" are terms that change in meaning as times advance, I'm sure there were extreme right wingers in the middle ages who said people were disconnected from reality.

  6. Re:Nothing inconvenient about the results on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're right, there is no hard proof we can fix the environment any longer.

    However, there is also no proof that when I walk out of my house today that I won't get ran over by a bus... but I'm still going to walk out of my house.

    So we're not sure if we can fix it? Does that mean we shouldn't try?

  7. Personally... on Choosing Your Next Programming Job — Perl Or .NET? · · Score: 1

    ... I'd take the small company job, because waking up and WANTING to goto work is worth more to me than a few extra dollars.

    Hating your job sucks, and its all too common in big companies (well and in little companies too, but doesn't sound like that is one of those.)

  8. Re:Hello on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections.

    Isn't he too busy giving oral ... service to Bush?

  9. Re:Yay Canada on US Slips Again In Freedom of the Press Ranking · · Score: 1

    Sure, they could nuke their self off the planet, or bomb their self off the planet. I don't debate that. However, bearing arms DOES protect us. How confident do you feel politicians would feel if they authorized that air strike... knowing that every place in the country they go there are people with guns who could potentially have had family, friends, etc living there?

  10. Re:tell your girl... on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 1

    No, legal age where i live is 16-17 depending on age of the other person. I don't find 16-23/24 year olds the least bit attractive mentally or physically. I think i missed a word there somewhere, but shrug, thats what you get when you don't sleep.

  11. Re:One significant change of hardware on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Directx on windows makes it easier to port to the xbox/xbox360... from what I understand. It's also pretty easy to implement in general. OpenGL is no harder once you're used to it but its different and people frequently use what they learn on what work requires.

  12. Re:Totally pointless on Trial For The Male Pill Shows No Side-effects · · Score: 1

    .... I just re-read this post, not having sex is defined as "not having sex with more than two partners AND not having sex in previous two years" dude, I know one person who would qualify as "not having sex" by that definition. I had two sexual partners before I was 14. Most all of the men I know are in the ~5-~40 range somewhere... and not on the lower end of the range. I don't think I can name ANY women who fall into that definition. [I'm presently 29 years old.]

  13. Re:Totally pointless on Trial For The Male Pill Shows No Side-effects · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...and damn not being able to edit your posts.

    I think the only geeks who really have much trouble getting laid are either those who are so absorbed in particular technologies they don't look or alternately those who don't bathe regularly. Geeks tend to make pretty good money, geeks tend to drive pretty nice cars, geeks tend to work smarter not harder and thus clean as they go (except the desk where they work which frequently resembles a trash heap.) Geeks are a hell of good catch for most women (this being subject to cleanliness & the geek paying enough attention to notice interested women in the FIRST place.)

  14. Re:Totally pointless on Trial For The Male Pill Shows No Side-effects · · Score: 1

    Bah. A lot of geeks like myself have very good sex lives, it's just mastering the art of finding the geek/gamer girl to hang out with, they appreciate your idiosyncrasies.

    That being said, I'd much rather have a pill to take that a gel patch. Just my .02 though.

  15. Re:One significant change of hardware on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The problem is... even if we get games to run they're still using windows libraries, windows directx, windows... etc... we need the developers to switch to some platform independent api instead of the microsoft tied directx... and with the xbox 360/xbox and co... its unlikely. I'd love to play games on either a mac or linux machine, but maybe thats just me... I like having control over my machine.

  16. Bullshit... on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 1

    ... I've had this same copy of window xp pro since the day I got a computer after windows xp came out. It's been on a hell of a lot more than one computer.

  17. Re:tell your girl... on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I dunno, I like a shaved one every now and again... and I don't even find the girls of legal age attractive anymore... generally gotta be 25-28 before I find them attractive. Shrug.

    Shaved absolutely beats jungle-jane any day however.

  18. Re:Damned liars ! on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 1

    Actually one of the best shaving cremes I've tried is... conditioner! It's amazing, if you get a light tea tree oil conditioner a pea sized dot on your hand a bit of water hit your face, the razor glides many times more smoothly than with nothing and you don't get the nicks, razor burn, and razor clogging that you get with shaving creme.

  19. Previous Jobs on Sys-Admins Reading the Bosses Mail? · · Score: 1

    Of the last 5 jobs I've had I still have access to 3 of the 5. One of the jobs wasn't a little company but the admin staff is severely over worked, they just don't have the time to pull me from all the systems. Shrug. You couldn't keep most admins out of systems they previously worked on if you wanted to... to intimately familiar with the security vulnerabilities and too many friends in the admin staff.

  20. Re:39 % faster ? on Apple Unveils MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo · · Score: 1

    Nod, it's tremendously helpful to have bench marks processor and video card manufacturers tweak their drivers and chips to maximize. Bench marks are only valid as long the playing field is level. 3DMark has been junk for years for the most part.

  21. Re:Bob? on Metaverse the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    ... which is to say productive and not a complete and total waste of time?

  22. Re:It could be worse on Email Servers Will Choke, Says Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    For my personal domains mostly exim4 because well... they're small and don't do alot of mail and exim is simple and easy to manage and integrates well with several technologies like greylisting and content based filtering while the mail is being received (eg: it doesn't have to queue the message to reject it.) For the business side mostly postfix and sendmail. As far as what is being done via various methods those would include, blacklists, av scans, probe blocking, limit max concurrent from single ips, limit max from given hosts, greylist host who send multiple spam, standard greylisting, spamassassin, uri blacklists, sender blacklists, spam traps for common names that aren't used... (eg: company uses first init, lastname@domain, then make some accounts like bob, mike, fred, john, etc...), bogofilter... there's more that i'm sure aren't coming to mind after being up for 36 hours ;P

  23. Re:Yay Canada on US Slips Again In Freedom of the Press Ranking · · Score: 1

    The guns aren't a risk, the guns are a right. Mostly to protect us from our own government.

  24. Re:10 reasons why the US is hated all over the wor on US Slips Again In Freedom of the Press Ranking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can see 11, 12, 14, and kinda 15... but 13 cracks me up... because, everyone knows TV programs are an accurate portrait of reality. *yawn* If you're short on reasons to hate America, think for a few minutes instead of pulling random crap outta thin air.

    > 13. American's espousal of greed and selfishness exudes from many TV programs whilst their gov't takes the moral high ground

  25. Better late than never? on MPAA Ignores Usenet, Goes After Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Usenet and IRC have long been major distribution routes for "illegal content" on the internet, more technically savvy people probably get content off of the newsgroups and irc each day than have ever gotten it off of bittorrent... faster generally too... bittorrents big bonus is... it's stupid easy, click the link wait a few hours.