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  1. I hate to say this... on More Evidence of Increase in Profound Autism · · Score: 1

    But your compelling evidence may be really nothing scrutinized under scientific method. And that is why it may be dismissed. Parents tends to see a lot of progress ion a situation where there is none. Who don't remmeber the sempiternel "it looks like you grew a bit more!" when you stay the same size :).

    And finally, you say Quote : "For some unknown reason the medical/scientific community has been very resistant to studying this phenomenon" Unquote well EITHER the sunderland university isn't belonging to the scientific comunity and that article is a bunch of rambling from wacko OR the cientific community is studying it and your supposition is false. Choose your poison.

  2. Dictature tend to see foe everywhere on Tracking People Via Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    And as such it has to spy on its own populace to detect foe from friends. Thus in a sense everybody was as much important as each other, because anybody might be a foe of the nation.

    OTOH under democracy this is the different. And as such, every individual is unimportant, only big groups matters (where is the threshold is another question).

    And as such, in the current crop of governement we have in the west, individual privacy is unimportant. The day it changes is the day we loose democracy to have only a simulacre of it.

    Until then you can safely walk in the street with your mobile phone on. Threat to your privacy won't come from governement but from PRIVATE company which are always extremly interrested in every single secret and socio culturel habits we have to sell us more as individual.

  3. But there is another point on Google sued as PetsWarehouse Lawsuit Continues. · · Score: 1

    In europe most monetary damage are VERY LOW. Seconmd there is an error in your count. So in your case this would be more I can sue for 2.5$ and have 5$ of cost, and maybe pay 10$ for the cost of both party , to only win 2.5$ (the other party REIMBURSE your 5$ of cost, so this is not something you win. You gave it and have facture to justify it. I have the feeling that in your count you counted twice the 5$ reimbursement, one as a win, one as a reimbursement thus you 15$ at the end... it should be only 10$ not 15$.).

    So net result of the suit : You either win 2.5$ if you are right, loose 10$ if this is frivolious.

    The first poster is correct, This is probably why there isn't much friolious suit, and when they are people get burned.

  4. Saw the T-ONLINE (german ISP) advertising ? on Help wanted: CTO at Warner Music. · · Score: 1

    In their advertising they saw "[...] Give you the pwoer and speed to download music and film off the internet [...]"

    From what legal source ??? The *BIGGEST* ISP from germany , from the Phone company, is adbvertising downlaoding copyrighted music/film indirectly !

    When you reach that point where carrier advertising more or less pirating then the war is truly lost.

  5. Actually this is MORE insightful than funny on Violent Games Good for Kids · · Score: 1

    I felt more anger and violence rising in me playing chess against an oponent than playing a shooter. I actually feel really tired after playing a shooter, not what you would call violent :).

  6. I am not a PC specialist... on The Little DVD Driver That Could Change Movies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... but even with palladium, what stop you from using a palladium processor on a CORRECT dvd, and then having a driver non signed in background which takes the bits direct from the screen memory or what is sent to output ? What indeed ? As long as palladium authorise non signed application to run on the same PC as signed application, then there will always be a way. (yeah I know, in the future they will surely try to forbid any non signed app).

  7. The proof that physic isn't full of fraud... on Ununoctium Wrapup · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is that sooner or later as prooved there somebody will want to check your result. And if they fail they will try to find explanation. And when they fail to find explanation, they will call for verification and review and finally when all else fail, cast doubt on the theory/experiement. Ask for a redo.

    So fraud are rarer and rarer. Comapre the number of fraud in science, with (haha) economical fraud, political fraud (corruption), religious fraud (sect, breaking your own vow like abusing children and so forth).

    CAll this a flamebait, but in comparison to many of the other mentionend system, science has a remarkable low rate of fraud.

  8. Better be an US study, he ? on Europe Net Users Now Outnumber US/Canada · · Score: 1

    Can you tell me , as an european then why I should trust US study as being more "trustworthy" when they say that Europe lag behind ?

    And who cares anyway if the number is untrustworthy. Does it change anything as long as Europe don't product any content and we have to get everything from the US... ?

  9. You can save it on Video Tape. on Audiogalaxy Returns as Pay Service · · Score: 1

    And as such, again you have a tangible product. Can you save the stream as a wav or mp3 ?

  10. The higher they fly... on 75th Anniversary of Television · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The lower they fall down. Quote : "I think you foreign types often fail to grasp just how big and how affluent this country is. Our culture dominates the world not because it's better or worse, but because there's just so much of it."

    I think you US type often fail to grasp the long and old culture most country in the world has, and how BIG the world is outside the US. Your *Media* dominate the world not because it is better, worse or there is more, that is because it is CHEAPER. But your culture don't dominate the world, that is unless you count media/Mac-donald restaurants as a culture. Most people don't take consumer-society as being a culture. Only the US do that.

  11. The link says 404... So maybe it is down. nt on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Trailer · · Score: 1

    no text.

  12. don't we all :) ? on Are Video Phones Back From The Dead? · · Score: 1

    "Otherwise when you are talking to a girl, it will look to her like you are looking at her breasts.". Won't chang a bit from what i do normaly. So what ?

  13. Sure Galilleo will sure agree. on Australia Oppresses Jedi · · Score: 1

    They were maybe the first to build some nice stuff (observatories, equivalent of hospital) but thery were also the first to ACTIVELY repress knowledge. Galilleo comes to mind. Epure si mueve.

    But the worst isn't even that they made him recant, the worst is that we had to wait 1980 so that the church admit that "maybe they did something wrong in pushing Galilleo to recant". Maybe *snicker*. Most of the stuff the church did, was to actively research the deep meaning of God and the teaching of christianism It wasn't a search for knowledge itself. Only a sort of furthering the propaganda arm of the church.

  14. Too close to nepotism. on How Should You Interview a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    First you have to have trust in the people which will recommend you the candidat. Willt ehre be nepotism ? Further, the system advanatge people with "link", "insider". meaning if you are a God in programming, but you don't know anybody, well abd luck. Somebody mediocre but friend with somebody will get the job.

    Referal System is IMO one systemw hich call for more abuse than pure random system 8as it is mroe or elss know with programmer hiring in some firm : "did he/she had good cloth ? What is her/his astrologycal sign ?").

  15. Question on... copyright on Sen To, X-Men 2 · · Score: 1

    Why it is written prohemiently under the title "Copyright © 2002 Walt Disney Pictures". I mean they did only the dub, apparently ?

  16. I did made Diamond in laboratory so here is a hint on Cremation? Burial? How about Diamonds? · · Score: 1

    The method we used was relatively simple : for some $ we bought diamond powder. Then we seeded it ona silicon waffer. Afterward we put it in a labo-micrwave oven (a half bell in glass , surrounded with a farraday cage, and an emitor at the bottom).

    The waffer was put on the centrum and then with H2 and CH4 gases. Then we simply pumped power and created a nice plasma over the waffer, and tadam after a while we had a lens sized diamond , the quality depending on how the gas partial atmsophere were. The size was about 5 centimeter in diameter (2 inch?) and 3 millimeter in width (1.5 tenth of inches?).

    My best guess is that they plan to do something alike, first transform the corpse in CO2, CH4 gases, then use the same microwave method or another plasma-like method to deposit it on an already made cheap diamond seeding.

  17. Why "funny" mod and not "informative" ?? on Algebra As A Gateway Subject · · Score: 1

    This isn't funny but informative as a two seconsd google research gives off a lot of link !
    Url :
    http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/aljabr.html

    Quote :
    Al-Khwarizmi's most important work, however, was probably the treatise called al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala or The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion [or Restoring] and Balancing. This book is an explanation of the solution to quadratic and linear equations of six varieties. Al-jabr refers to the process of moving a subtracted quantity to the other side of an equation;

  18. Isn't advocating this illegal ? on The Continuing Rise of E-Mail Marketing · · Score: 1

    By making their cost rise (or advocating to) without wanting information from them, but only doing this to hinder them in their function or as ideological planning, you are openning yourself to liability, aren't you ?

    INAL but I don't think abusing a paying informationnal service for the sake of sinking a firm may be seen as not quite legal, isn't it ?

    It may even be seen as a sort of "DoS" attack in the sense that by rising their cost purposefully you hinder them doing legal buisness. You effectively deny service to normal paying client in the end.

  19. Nahhh. on Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    Poor people do more kids than rich one to be sure that at least one rich adulthood alive. So there is a selection process with poor people, which is not there with rich people (kids being coveted and protected against the rest of the world).

    So in short the materialistic woman is bound to have less offspring adapted to the world, and they will need more "help" [$dough$] than the poor's offspring which will work hard and will have success on their own.

    The above is said in only half sarcastic way, because I observed it time and time again with rich brat unable to survive with papa & mama.

  20. It isn't a small size. on Study: Jet Exhaust Affects Weather · · Score: 1

    If you are wanting to forsee temperature change on geological age, I would agree with you. But the fact is that we are trying to analyze and forsee temperature and climate change on Historical size (for the enxt 50 years). So I don't think the utility of analyzing temperature change for 200 millions of years. They may be temperature change as big on geological size, but not with the speed we are trying to recognize now. Granted I am no climatologist, so maybe I am totally wrong on the case, but that is how it was presented to me.

  21. Ever heard of Population sample ? on Study: Jet Exhaust Affects Weather · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ho my... We made how many measure on Electrons-positron anihilation ? How many measure on some weird galaxy outside ? How many skeleton do we have on prehistoric being ?

    The amount of measure don't say anything about a model being wrong or correct. The problem is first to determine if the measure we did amount to correctly represent the whole "populaztion" we are measuring or not, second whether those are following the known modell or not.

    Measure on 4 days are enough to establish a modell of temperature on variation of monthes or year. WE DO NOT care on temperature variation on geological scale for that study ("does jet have influence on local temperature or not")

    Same pr9oblem with your reasonement on global warning. it doesn't matetr if we have a popualtion measurement on 0.000001% of the history of earth. We are effectively measuring something on the historicalö size (last 200 years) and that is what matters for our modell and sampling. We are trying to see if we influence temperature enough so that it becoems dangerous for US ("now"). Not that wetheter such warming occurs at slow geological scale. Who cares if temperature change by 10 grad celsius in 10 power 7 years, we are seing if we are generating the same change in 100 years...

    Everything is a matter of sampling and scales. The aforementionned Competent statistician would mention it to you. Take a representative number of the population and you will have a good enough snapshot of the population (within error).

    Now i am waiting for somebody with the infamous proverb "there are 3 types of lie : Big lie, DAmned lie and statistics".

  22. Depends on the country where the server is based on 80% Of Incoming E-mail At Hotmail Is Spam · · Score: 1

    For example I am using a free-email server based in germany, which has tough law on sharing private data. This means that if they sold my adress or personal data they would be open to jail/fine (that is unless they made a sneaky EULA asking me to agree them sell my data to use the service, but mouth-to-hear gossip would quickly put them out of client).

    Bottom line : I don't thrust *any* firms, server, or people based on countries where law on data sharing aren't clear or inexistent. This is why I like French and german law on private data sharing. Now this may change in the future under pressure from corporation...

  23. Long temr effect on Starving Nation Turns Down Bioengineered Corn · · Score: 1

    The "ban" on GE corn in Eruopa has some ground you know. Firast most consummer don't ant GE food, with good reason or not. Second the long term effect on gene spreading in the "bad grass" of the environnement thru cross polinisation or even some weird gene exchange process I did not udnerstand (I am not a genetician) has apparently NOT been fully studied. The US GE crops producer did some half assed study apparently (to Europa standard) and got quickly a green light from US governement. Finally there is the commercial and patent issue but they are only a political concern. Not a consumer concern, and the consummer concern & scientific concern in Europe are right now the big stumble to GE food. Now if Zimbabwe contamine its plant with GE... Byebye sellling to Europe.

    Now the funny things is why in the first place is a starving country selling food to Europe ???

  24. This si alredy happening. on India's ISPs Want Payola from Big Portals · · Score: 1

    As all non-US ISP are already to show $greener$ to access US content or distribute their own to the US. Many people alredy pointed it out.

  25. People aren't incompetent. on Boeing Joins In Anti-Gravity Search · · Score: 1

    Mass change of 2% aren't that hard to measure. You can measure even mass change of 0.1% (see the experience we are discussing tehre !).

    Furthermore it wasn't *one* university which tried to reproduce , but many team over the world. All making errors ? And even in that improbable case, why is the Russsian professor *NOT WANTING* to help them correct their error ?

    The biggest problem here, isn't the extraodinary claim, but the fact that the russian professor do not support fully its claim with independant reproducibility.