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  1. Peer Review? on Electrical Noise Causing Physiological Stress? · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that Kevin Byrne has no peers?

  2. Re:Ignorance and/or fraud on Electrical Noise Causing Physiological Stress? · · Score: 1

    The article writers seem to be idiots, not knowing the diffrenence between dirty EMF emissions and clean ones. The token person didn't get rid of EMF, he cleaned up the emissions coming into his home so that they didn't fluctuate.

  3. Re:another reason to call in sick on Electrical Noise Causing Physiological Stress? · · Score: 1

    If it were 220V at 50 HZ, and 110V at 60 HZ it wouldn't be that bad, according to that thinking, but the power isn't that pure so it's more like 210 -230 V at 45-55HZ, and 100-110V at 55-65HZ. Also, these numbers are apparently the cause for NTSC and PAL framerates.

    What they're neglecting though, is the totality of the dirty EM transmissions we are making.

  4. Re:"News" for Nerds, Stuff that matters. on US Plans Lunar Motel · · Score: 1

    The "News for Nerds" that I see here is the continued horribleness of science and technology reporting by the mainstream press.

  5. Re:Sounds like... on Unusual Open Source · · Score: 1

    What the other guy said... or you can just click on "My contributions". Also use the Talk page to defend your change.

  6. Catch-22 on Unusual Open Source · · Score: 1

    I believe that if people were to conduct studies of spiritual phenomenon, we could produce facts and figures to support it. No matter what the subject, until that happens, any given subject matter can only be explained in terms of human experience. The thing is people want it to remain that way, so it becomes not a statement of the current state of affairs, but a prophecy.

  7. Strange on Unusual Open Source · · Score: 1

    You believe Adolf Hitler? That's a strange person to believe. Still, I know you meant you believe he first made the statement, but still...

    And if he did say something like it, it was in German!

  8. Not why they get riled up on Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain · · Score: 1

    And it's not just the ruling elite. It's anyone who thinks that all pleasure/pain should be specially sanctioned from above as a reward/punishment for being good/bad. Do the "good" thing by getting married, receive the reward of pleasure from sex.

  9. Hangup with sex... on Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain · · Score: 1

    On the radio the other day, someone said female underwear ads were "secondhand sex", and complained about them being on page 2 of a newspaper. When you're constantly understimulated, you're easily overstimulated. Much of America works hard to avoid stimulation. Oh and they proceded to insinuate that anyonw whould walk arund in public in their underwear was insane and needed to be collected by the police.

  10. Re:But... on Canadian Record Industry Disputes Own P2P Claims · · Score: 1

    That's like saying Satanists are all Christians because Satan is a demon in Christian lore. Or the Klu Klux Klan are Christians or at least Christianity is to blame for the Klu Klux Klan. Or that all Muslims are at fault for the combatant's actions.

  11. Re:But... on Canadian Record Industry Disputes Own P2P Claims · · Score: 1

    That doesn't create capital, just concentrates existing capital in their pudgy little hands.

  12. Stop blaming capitalism. on Canadian Record Industry Disputes Own P2P Claims · · Score: 1

    The MPAA and RIAA viciously prevent new capital from being created by dampening ability and desire to experiment with existing music to create new mixes.

  13. A good double standard on Google Avoids Surrendering Search Info · · Score: 1

    When my accountant wants my financial info that's fine, but when my garbageman wants them, it's wrong. Remember, the accountant is commercial, and the garbageman is (often) government (albeit city). so the analogy isn't too far off base. We're employing people with two different educational backgrounds to do two different jobs.

    Better, this time both people work for the federal government: When my Post Office has my mail held for me, that's fine, but when the FBI, CIA, NSA, police, et. al. want them it's wrong! Also if the Post Office or ISP were to read them, people wouldn't like it.

  14. Choose? on Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Fine, I'll take yours!

  15. So, I could use some typing lessons... on Reflections on the Holy Trinity · · Score: 0

    So what... and if you'd read my follow-up post you would have seen I ment the slashdot article and not the 1up article. Btw I view nested at threshold 0, oldest first.

  16. Re:What holy trinity are we talking on Reflections on the Holy Trinity · · Score: 1

    The 1up article mentions all three, but the Slashdot article focuses on the PS3 and mumbles something about Microsoft.

  17. What holy trinity are we talking on Reflections on the Holy Trinity · · Score: 0, Troll

    A father, a son, nor a holy ghost are mentioned anywhere here. One might suggest that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are the holy trinity of gaming, but how do they map to the previous set? Not to metnion that Nintendo isn't mentioned in the article. Wait~! This is the third playstation iteration and there is the concept of three in trinity... That couldn't be it could it... (Rather lame if you ask me)

  18. Re:Isn't it true, though? on A Bit of Bittorrent Bother · · Score: 1

    But then format-shifting an LP record to audio tape has always been legal, and has been happening, so how is this historic use?

  19. Not completely true. on A Bit of Bittorrent Bother · · Score: 1

    Downloading copyrighted material via Bittorrent without permission of the copyright holder is illegal. Linux distributions are copyrighted material, but permission is granted via the distribution license.

  20. Re:Scroogle on Justice Dept. Rejects Google's Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    It's a site created to provide resources for other people to use to access Google anonymously so that they can scrape elements like ads from Google searches without getting banned.

  21. Re:Translation on Microsoft Confirms 6 Versions of Vista · · Score: 1

    XP Home was fine for home users
    Except for the crippled security, that is. To be able to fix security snafu's required a choice of two redirections: 1. Use CACLS command line utility, or Reboot into Safe mode and log in as administrator to see the security tab that should have been available to Administrative accounts in normal mode.

  22. Freebasic. on Microsoft Confirms 6 Versions of Vista · · Score: 1

    Windows XP has gotten incompatible with QuickBASIC Check out FreeBASIC instead which strives to be compatible with QB: http://freebasic.net/

  23. Useless security features on Microsoft Confirms 6 Versions of Vista · · Score: 1

    My problem is that Microsoft generally hides hou to turn these sort of features on/off, and there's nothing like a timer to turn the feature off for a time period after the first administrative activity or while an administrative area. If I've just been web browsing, then I might not be intending to make an Administrative change, but if I've just spent the last few minutes tweaking display settings, it's more likely Does the administrative query come up when one clicks on control panel or for Adminstrative Tools or just for passwords, of for varying degrees of each?

  24. Replace it from the start on Indestructible Super Mug To Save Humanity · · Score: 1

    A substance doesn't need to break to absorb energy. Generally, objects are good at either holding their shape, absorbing energy, or transferring energy, though I may not have the right bases.

  25. OOP and copyright expiration on Ruling May Impact Google Book Search Case · · Score: 1

    Of course by the time the copyright expires, the books taht are in the wild have succumbed to the ravages of time because they were all low quality prints.