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  1. Re:At the risk of fanning a fire... on Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain · · Score: 1

    According to TFA, Wallis was frequently classified as being in a permanent vegetative state. I don't know in particular about the Schiavo case, but it seems that there might be cases where patients who were classified as being in a permanent vegetative state are allowed to die, when in fact they could have had a chance to recover, given enough time.

  2. Re:Viruses on cellphones? WTF? on Anti-virus Vendors Eye Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    But my phone doesn't have a red button. It's a Sony Ericsson K700i, and I have had occasions where a J2ME app hangs, and the only way to kill it was to shutdown the phone.

  3. Re:Don't believe those estimates... on Sore Thumbs and Texting · · Score: 1

    UK: 93 million per day
    US: 700 million per year = 1.92 million per day

  4. Re:My recommendation: Take out ActiveX! on Interview with Microsoft Exec on IE7 and RSS · · Score: 1

    First off, the Flash plug-in is an ActiveX control in and of itself, as are the plugins for Quicktime, Real Player (may it die a quick death), Acrobat, and a whole host of other multimedia plugins, and all are things that cannot be replaced by AJAX, PHP, etc.

    Those things can be implemented as plugins, just as they are with Firefox and other browsers.
  5. Re:Nasties on the net on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 1

    I think there is a prevalent belief that it is impossible not to be negatively affected by looking at pornography, just as it is impossible not to be burned if you put your hand inside a blazing fireplace.

  6. Re:Relavent link on Blizzard Sued for Death of Gamer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Problem: Dumb ass parents.

    Solution: MOD PARENTS DOWN!

  7. Re:America has a choice.. on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Arabs didn't invent Algebra. Notwithstanding the argument that the development of algebra was a continuous process troughout history, with contributions from many different civilisations, you're probably thinking of al-Kwarizmi, who wrote the treatise Kitab al-mukhtasar fi Hisab Al-Jabr wa-al-Moghabalah, from which the name algebra was derived.
    The thing is, he was not an Arab. He was in fact Persian. He was a Muslim, and lived near Baghdad, so he had an Arab name.

  8. Which phones for bluetooth messaging? on Bluetooth Ads Beamed from Billboards · · Score: 1

    So which phones can do bluetooth messaging? My SonyEricsson phone cannot do messaging via bluetooth. Is there a new BT messaging standard or do certain brands have their own BT messaging implementation?

  9. Re:Who and How? on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1
    If they did use a Denial of Service attack, I imagine they first bought all the computers they'd need, set them up, finished the DoS, then shut down and destroyed the computers.

    You mean ... shut down and sell the computers via auction.

  10. Re:This could be a Hallmark event on One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, I've always felt the other way around. I find it ironic that we celebrate Labour Day by having a holiday. I mean, fathers don't celebrate Fathers Day by stopping being fathers, mothers don't celebrate Mothers Day by stopping being mothers, nurses don't celebrate Nurses Day by stopping being nurses, etc., so why are labourers celebrating Labour Day by not doing any labour? In fact, we should celebrate Labour Day by doing more labour, to really celebrate the concept of labouring.

  11. Re:Why? on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 0

    You know, I don't have the statistics, so i don't know whether you're right, or you're just trolling. But I agree with your point. The greatest calamity befalling the Muslim right now is Muslims attacking other Muslims. I mean, I don't really blame the U.S. when they attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. They're the enemy. We'd expect them to do something like that, sooner or later, right? But Muslims killing other Muslims, that's just inexcusable. If only us Muslims could just reconcile and have peace amongst ourselves, the world would be a much better place.

  12. Re:Why? on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 0

    I didn't cheer when I heard about the bombings. And I never said the Brits deserved it. I just said I had no sympathy. I do believe the bombers were wrong, and if they're ever found, they deserve the death penalty, whoever they are - though the UK don't have the death penalty. Even if they're from al-Qaeda, whoever they are. But that's still to be proven. And I want to emphasize my point - just because an unknown group who claimed they were part of al-Qaeda claimed they were responsible for the bombing, doesn't mean they're telling the truth. Britain has other enemies. And this time people jumping and immediately pointing the finger at al-Qaeda just proves the point of there being a lot of prejudice against Muslims.

  13. Re:Why? on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know, that was actually my first thought, as well. Really, not joking. Of course, they'll blame Al-Qaeda, they always do. Even if some obscure group claim they're part of Al-Qaeda and they were responsible for the bombs, they could be lying. Who really knows?

    Anyway, terrible as this might seem, from my point of view, it's not really that bad. As reported by the media, the number of deaths were minimal, considering the amount of firepower involved. The bombers were really very considerate, if you think about it. And when I consider the number of my brothers and sisters that have died because of British and U.S. actions, it really is impossible for me to sympathise.

  14. Re:Read around TFA on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand · · Score: 1

    Ahh I left out a word up there. It should have said I don't know whether it mentioned that the fisheries official ...

  15. Re:Read around TFA on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand · · Score: 1

    I can't read TFA, because it's /.ed, so I don't know whether it that the fisheries official, plus some environmentalists, begged the fishermen to release the fish, but the fishermen didn't want to. So the fish died because it was left too long out of water. In other words, it really was the fishermen's fault that the fish died.
    This is according to the paper I read today - hard copy, not online.

  16. Re:Natural gas is the alternative source for Hydro on Hydrogen Buses In Iceland · · Score: 1

    You get natural gas from gas fields, as opposed to oil fields. You also get some gas associated with oil fields, but generally, we don't need oil to get gas.

  17. Re:Err.. on DS Pre-Orders Stopped as Sales Soar · · Score: 1

    In my case, following the links gives Error 403 Forbidden. Gaming sites are blocked by my company firewall.

  18. Physical violence? on 2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent · · Score: 2, Informative

    First I asked myself, "How could a web site be filled with physical violence?". Then I RTFA and became more confused, as there was no mention of any physical violence.

    Then I realised it was just an attempt by the poster to get more hype for the post by inserting illogical statements in the desciption.

  19. Re:Everyone will just carry on using Google though on MSN Rolling Out New Search Engine In July · · Score: 1

    I've never used Hoover, and I don't like Coke.

  20. Is it really impossible... on Electronics & Planes Don't Mix? · · Score: 1

    to make the airplane instruments interference-proof? I mean, really, is it a matter of cost, or is there a technical reason? Can't they make the important instruments lined with lead or something?

  21. Re:One more Reason on Top 10 Reasons for a Space Program · · Score: 1

    Space is a vacuum.
    Actually, there's no such thing as a perfect vacuum. That would violate Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. At the minimum, any point in space would always have some electromagnetic radiation passing through it from stars etc.. I'm not sure, but I think there's also some residual radiation floating around from the Big Bang, and the study of such radiation is supposed to give some insight to scientists on how the universe began. Or something.

  22. You must not be human on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 5, Funny

    since the Architect explicitly told Neo, that because he was human, there were some things that the Architect said that Neo wouldn't understand. Therefore, anybody who claims to understand 100% of what the Architect said, cannot possibly be a human.