"I used to be in the camp that believed ADD and ADHD was completely made up... Then I took a trip to Patterson NJ to visit a friend and her son. After 7 days with them, I am an absolute believer that ADHD is a real disorder."
Now, the question is, whether it is overdiagnosed or not, is the method of 'label-as-ADD-then-drug-with-amphetamines' the best/only way to proceed? Is there a blood test, verbal test, or anything more than accompanying symptoms? What about environment, food sensitivities, or other causes? I'm not arguing with you, I agree that it is definitely way overdiagnosed, and that it does exist (or *something* requiring care) in some people. The question I am asking of the community at large is whether they think immediate prescription of Ritalin, Adderal, or Dexedrine is the correct way to proceed. (Sure, it is a bit of a rhetorical question, but the discussion may provide some insights that can be applied elsewhere.)
I am curious, have you any news of your friend and her son, has he grown out of it, and/or been diagnosed with anything?
Re:Interesting, but some methodological holes
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"If somone could prove that ADD is an abnormallity I would believe this, until then I will be a dissenter of the pill pushing community."
Probably wise, and certainly cheaper. Then again, watch out for the government / legal system forcing you to be drugged, or forcing your kid to be drugged or they will take them away from you.
One article: http://www.chiro.org/pediatrics/ABSTRACT S/add.shtm l
More on both sides of the issue: http://www.savvypatients.com/add.htm
So now we'll be perscribed amphetamines to 'treat' this invented disease? I'm still not convinced that giving kids or adults ritalin or other stimulants does anything positive, other than putting them into a non-argumentative speed psychosis.
There are lots of people who think ADD was invented solely to gain credit for the people who conducted the initial study, and later by the drug companies to treat the invented condition. Just wait for another newspaper to pick this story up...
ADD, PMDD, and now Info-Addiction Disorder? Better watch out, they'll try and drug you up. Even better, they'll rename an existing drug and use that to 'treat' you. Serafem is actually Prozac. Claritin is also Alavert (amazing what an advertising budget will do).
OK, I think I've spread enough conspiracy for one day.:-)
I bet someone has mentioned it, but I can't seem to find it...
Take the unit out of your car! Leave it at home. On the roadside. Someplace else. Don't drive around with it!
Problem solved?
Then again, this idea is probably so stupid that i should have posted as AC. It still has to be keyed to your car / person, so they know where to send the tax bill to, though...
I'm glad to see someone is working on perfecting the HERF gun. After all, they have to keep up with the progress made since Slashdot perfected the website-killing HREF gun a few years ago. Just point and click, webserver goes down.:-)
I was listening to Off The Hook ( http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2003/0403.html try April 23) on WBAI last week and there was mention of Radio Tikrit (broadcast from Kuwait, possibly with CIA assistance), and BBC Monitoring had picked up a song with a similar hook to Coolio's Gansta's Paradise, only with a Saddam impersonator saying how evil he (well, Saddam) was. I couldn't find it for myself, but it is contained in the WBAI broadcast. More info can be found on clandestineradio.com or just searching for 'radio tikrit' online.
I'm aware that the Coolio song gets its distinctive baseline from Stevie Wonder's Past Time Paradise, but how does one go about clearing that sample, or does one even have to? What happens to the copyright if the CIA, being a part of the copyright-issuer, is sampling it and making a parody/psyops work from it?
"Seriously though, shouldn't they change the name? GRUB is already a bootloader. They should change the name... and I have a suggestion. Has anyone written a program called E-Coli yet?"
I think, if anything, they should call it Grubi or Grubbi. On one hand, it could be cute, and could probably have a good mascot and backronym for it, and on the other, it indexes anything it can get its grubby little hands/ fingers/ tentacles/ protrubances on. Sounds like a good name to me.:-)
I'm sure some bio person will tell you all about e-coli and how usually it isn't harmful. Or something. I'll let them tell about it, even if it is unrelated to a name.
>If you RTFA (as opposed to just looking at the >pretty pictures), they say, right under that image: >"The production date in the next line of the >marking indicates the beginning of this year.":-) I did RTFA, but I didn't read that closely. What I still find amazing is that they've managed to get similar performance to their XP chips in this new architechture at drastically reduced clockrates.
That's very interesting, though. i'll have to look for other groups of 4 numbers on different things. I suppose anything that would be subject to revision and/or quality control processes would have a date code on it, or other tracking numbers.
While this is 110% pure speculation, there are other numbers on the CPU. The one that I'm looking at is 0301 (2nd line of numbers/letters) which I will guess to be 1st week 2003. However, since this is pure speculation, and they got their hands on it *somehow* it could just as easily be 3rd week 2001.
Wow! is right. I don't believe I finished reading that thing... When they pulled out the Tandy(tm) video camera (with zoom lens!) I think it really went over the edge (as opposed to being just weird and corny). Snooping around late at night, on a rooftop... How did they get on a rooftop?!
I'm a little curious about whether they could even do that now. Then again, maybe they'd use the cameras on their Tand... Radio Shack cellphones.
weird. weird weird weird. But just waiting to be parodied!
Page 14 of "A Deadly Choice" has a nice little tie-in to the Archie franchise. This comes only 3 pages after the token non-white student (and on the same page as the token non-white thug).
I'd make other comments, but I can't stop giggling about the other parts of the comic...
Sega did a survey about a year ago (possibly longer) to find out what girls thought. While the demographics on their survey are a little skewed towards the younger set, they are still interesting. Then again, people 'my age' have to go do joblike things and don't have as much time for games.
http://www.sega.com/community/gamerspot/post_gam er spot.jhtml?article=spotlight_girlpoll_results
"Thus proving that, yes indeed, every discussion leads back to the Nazis."
While my first response is to ask "Which Nazis?" I can't find the full text of either of these speeches to get an understanding of their content.
I did, however, come across a number of quotes on a gun rights site from Hitler advocating that any citizen who wants to carry a gun should join the SS, and that all citizens who were not should turn their guns in. A disarmed populace is easier to control. A little further down this thread is someone who no longer laughs at the 'rednecks who fear the government will take away their guns'.
About the samples: http://www.sloth.org/samples-bin/samples /group?exa ct=KMFDM http://www.sloth.org/samples-bin/samples /source?ex act=Kennedy%2C+John+F%2E+%28President%29
Interestingly enough, in KMFDM's song "Dogma" one of the lyrics is "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country has done to you."
>IANAL, but shouldn't anybody ticketed by a hidden >radar speed trap be able to use this law to their >advantage? After all, if the police are disguising >"the existence or place of origin or destination of >any telecommunications service," they're in >violation of the law. Right?
I hate to say this, but... "in violation of the law" ? They *are* the law! (yes, yes, oversight and fair trials, Constitutional rights, and why not, the Magna Carta...)
I was just discussing this with someone else a few days ago, how sodomy laws still exist in a number of US states (most places say anything other than missionary style is technically illegal) and not only do the laws require an unreasonable invasion of privacy to enforce, but they are being enforced unevenly, being used to harass certain target people. These laws are just one more tool for the law enforcement establishment (the local police up to the FBI, and the judiciaries that paralell them) to make life difficult for 'undesirable' elements in society.
Instead of mentioning how KMFDM's "What do you know, Deutschland?" is playing behind me, and the sample 'dogmatic police state' is in it, I'll just make reference to a quote that I can't remember, about how a state passes laws to make everyone a criminal, um, and how that is bad.
I'm going to take offence at the "here's hoping some improvements come of this" comment. What sort of improvements would you want as a result of one of the main developers leaving? Improvements? Where was mplayer one year ago? Where was dvd/ divx/ windowsmedia/ quicktime/ vivo/ other-formats-obscure-and-not playback under linux a year ago? I feel it is almost like saying 'oh, are biggest contributor has left the organization, lets hope some improvements come of this' as if they were not helping at all or were detrimental. The whole of mplayer would be quite different without A'rpi.
While the effects of linking are multiplicative in their effect of raising a page's ranking, the problem is that it requires someone to actually put those terms into the search engine to get to them. If someone is going to find a definition of a word, they'll probably go to a dictionary. While I do see an increase in the practice of entering a phrase into the search engine to learn more about it (I've done it) I would consider this more mis-/dis-information or tangential discussion than actually changing the meaning of the words.
Then again, it is kind of an interesting phenomemon, sort of similar to that blog-scraping-trend-watching program that appeared a few weeks ago on here. The difference is that people don't really see trends unless they look for them, or look at many different examples of something. The meaning of the word isn't going to change because a few people over a short period of time are talking about it differently. It won't change the meaning for people who already know the word and aren't exposed to any of the discussion, which will probably be far more than those taking part in the discussion of the alternative meaning of the word or phrase.
I have the feeling that I've spoken much but said little...
There is a unit that I've been looking at made by FIC, which they have named CR51 "Falcon" which uses the 17cm x 17cm mini-itx board from Via and comes with a 933mhz processor. Newegg has it, for $150, which includes case, power supply, motherboard, cpu, and heatsink/fan. What interested me about this is that apparently by adding only RAM and an optical drive, there is a firmware included ("RaptureWare") that boots in 4-5 seconds to play mp3s, DVDs, VCDs and audio CDs. Add hard drive and you have a full computer.
I didn't buy it, mostly because I would be buying it for someone else, but also I looked at the floating point performance and decided that it wasn't that great for a general-purpose desktop for them.
http://www.ownt.com/technews/2003/fic_falcon/fic _f orm_factor.shtm has a review, but the site goes up and down. Use the google cache instead.
[a good half hour of google searching later...]
It's really hard to find reviews of this thing. Dammit.
When their site comes back up, I'll post a thread from my LUG about the boards. The best idea that I have is to buy the FIC CR51 Falcon and put a wireless card in it and put MeshAP on it, or take a few of the mini-itx boards, hook them up to be powered from car batteries, add wireless and have a mobile wireless network. Would be kinda cool, no?
http://www.eddiem.com/photo/printer/chipreset/re se tchip.html http://www.eddiem.com/photo/CIS/inkchi p/chip.html also http://www.ampoule.ru/epson/en/index.html and http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml
Here's something in German that you might want to run through: http://www.heise.de/ct/03/07/026/
Yes, go translate it, unless you can read and understand German, or just don't care to read it.:-)
4th paragraph under what babelfish translates as "Imbedding"
"Nevertheless one will not only be able to select to the planned Launch between different 64-Bit-Linuxen. Microsoft announced in the meantime, one day before the planned launching of a vessel, thus on 21 April to bring the Windows-XP-Server-2003-Version out for AMDs 64-Bit-Prozessor officially."
I just hope there are no mysterious goings-on while the play is being downloaded/performed. Is it even safe to use the name, however l33t0rized, as the actual title?
Maybe they should call it "The ASCII Play"
(I haven't read the article, I suppose the FB and VLC and others can be used as video players, and maybe everyone doesn't think that watching The Matrix using a high-res aalib window is really cool.)
When Rick (*cough*-ing) Berman talks about creatively working the Borg into a pre-Picard timeline, I get worried. I'm not even going to think about the weirdness of getting Kirk back in it. Then again, the DS9 episode that I watched half of, where they have the tribbles and everything, wasn't that bad. Then again, I didn't see the whole episode, so I don't know *quite* how plausible the whole thing was.
This post made me read the article. This post also made me want there to be a "deeply frightening/disturbing" moderation. I won't comment on the line about how they have been discussing other cross-overs...
Why doesn't someone stick a small bluetooth device in the beer mugs themselves, so you can tell when they are empty? Then they could be refilled, or someone who has had too much too quickly can be engaged in conversation, instead of giving them more beer. I heard some company did this, probably I saw it on TechTV, but I don't know if they used bluetooth. Probably they just used their own thing, and the mugs talked to the table (well, not the table itself, and not the mugs, really... but y'know, the electronics stuff does the talking.)
Slashdot Mirror
what, the dust?
"I used to be in the camp that believed ADD and ADHD was completely made up... Then I took a trip to Patterson NJ to visit a friend and her son. After 7 days with them, I am an absolute believer that ADHD is a real disorder."
Now, the question is, whether it is overdiagnosed or not, is the method of 'label-as-ADD-then-drug-with-amphetamines' the best/only way to proceed? Is there a blood test, verbal test, or anything more than accompanying symptoms? What about environment, food sensitivities, or other causes? I'm not arguing with you, I agree that it is definitely way overdiagnosed, and that it does exist (or *something* requiring care) in some people. The question I am asking of the community at large is whether they think immediate prescription of Ritalin, Adderal, or Dexedrine is the correct way to proceed. (Sure, it is a bit of a rhetorical question, but the discussion may provide some insights that can be applied elsewhere.)
I am curious, have you any news of your friend and her son, has he grown out of it, and/or been diagnosed with anything?
"If somone could prove that ADD is an abnormallity I would believe this, until then I will be a dissenter of the pill pushing community."
T S/add.shtm l
Probably wise, and certainly cheaper. Then again, watch out for the government / legal system forcing you to be drugged, or forcing your kid to be drugged or they will take them away from you.
One article:
http://www.chiro.org/pediatrics/ABSTRAC
More on both sides of the issue: http://www.savvypatients.com/add.htm
So now we'll be perscribed amphetamines to 'treat' this invented disease? I'm still not convinced that giving kids or adults ritalin or other stimulants does anything positive, other than putting them into a non-argumentative speed psychosis.
:-)
There are lots of people who think ADD was invented solely to gain credit for the people who conducted the initial study, and later by the drug companies to treat the invented condition. Just wait for another newspaper to pick this story up...
ADD, PMDD, and now Info-Addiction Disorder? Better watch out, they'll try and drug you up. Even better, they'll rename an existing drug and use that to 'treat' you. Serafem is actually Prozac. Claritin is also Alavert (amazing what an advertising budget will do).
OK, I think I've spread enough conspiracy for one day.
I bet someone has mentioned it, but I can't seem to find it...
Take the unit out of your car! Leave it at home. On the roadside. Someplace else. Don't drive around with it!
Problem solved?
Then again, this idea is probably so stupid that i should have posted as AC. It still has to be keyed to your car / person, so they know where to send the tax bill to, though...
I'm glad to see someone is working on perfecting the HERF gun. After all, they have to keep up with the progress made since Slashdot perfected the website-killing HREF gun a few years ago. Just point and click, webserver goes down. :-)
I was listening to Off The Hook ( http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2003/0403.html try April 23) on WBAI last week and there was mention of Radio Tikrit (broadcast from Kuwait, possibly with CIA assistance), and BBC Monitoring had picked up a song with a similar hook to Coolio's Gansta's Paradise, only with a Saddam impersonator saying how evil he (well, Saddam) was. I couldn't find it for myself, but it is contained in the WBAI broadcast. More info can be found on clandestineradio.com or just searching for 'radio tikrit' online.
/ iraq-tik rit.htmli c.php?t=81 17 918 65.stm
Some links:
http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html
http://www.dxing.info/community/viewtop
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2
I'm aware that the Coolio song gets its distinctive baseline from Stevie Wonder's Past Time Paradise, but how does one go about clearing that sample, or does one even have to? What happens to the copyright if the CIA, being a part of the copyright-issuer, is sampling it and making a parody/psyops work from it?
Ah, the future is coming closer and closer, although I think someone misunderstood. Just as long as the sender pays the postage, it'll be OK.
Spammmm innnnn Spaaaaaaaace!
I think someone should be kind and mail them a Victoria's Secret catalog, or similar amusement. I know I would appreciate it, were I in orbit.
Somehow, I think this post is reason enough not to read slashdot at 4:30am...
"Seriously though, shouldn't they change the name? GRUB is already a bootloader. They should change the name ... and I have a suggestion. Has anyone written a program called E-Coli yet?"
:-)
I think, if anything, they should call it Grubi or Grubbi. On one hand, it could be cute, and could probably have a good mascot and backronym for it, and on the other, it indexes anything it can get its grubby little hands/ fingers/ tentacles/ protrubances on. Sounds like a good name to me.
I'm sure some bio person will tell you all about e-coli and how usually it isn't harmful. Or something. I'll let them tell about it, even if it is unrelated to a name.
>If you RTFA (as opposed to just looking at the :-) I did RTFA, but I didn't read that closely. What I still find amazing is that they've managed to get similar performance to their XP chips in this new architechture at drastically reduced clockrates.
>pretty pictures), they say, right under that image:
>"The production date in the next line of the
>marking indicates the beginning of this year."
That's very interesting, though. i'll have to look for other groups of 4 numbers on different things. I suppose anything that would be subject to revision and/or quality control processes would have a date code on it, or other tracking numbers.
While this is 110% pure speculation, there are other numbers on the CPU. The one that I'm looking at is 0301 (2nd line of numbers/letters) which I will guess to be 1st week 2003. However, since this is pure speculation, and they got their hands on it *somehow* it could just as easily be 3rd week 2001.
:-)
OK, so that doesn't clear up anything.
Wow! is right. I don't believe I finished reading that thing... When they pulled out the Tandy(tm) video camera (with zoom lens!) I think it really went over the edge (as opposed to being just weird and corny). Snooping around late at night, on a rooftop... How did they get on a rooftop?!
I'm a little curious about whether they could even do that now. Then again, maybe they'd use the cameras on their Tand... Radio Shack cellphones.
weird. weird weird weird. But just waiting to be parodied!
Page 14 of "A Deadly Choice" has a nice little tie-in to the Archie franchise. This comes only 3 pages after the token non-white student (and on the same page as the token non-white thug).
:-)
I'd make other comments, but I can't stop giggling about the other parts of the comic...
Maybe this is what the AC checkbox is for...
While searching around, I found this link, too.
c ts /women/wcgames.html
http://www.sacbee.com/static/archive/news/proje
While this page is on girls and video games, there are other sections that are also interesting. Read the previous article on programming classes.
No, not me, silly!
m er spot.jhtml?article=spotlight_girlpoll_results
Sega did a survey about a year ago (possibly longer) to find out what girls thought. While the demographics on their survey are a little skewed towards the younger set, they are still interesting. Then again, people 'my age' have to go do joblike things and don't have as much time for games.
http://www.sega.com/community/gamerspot/post_ga
"Thus proving that, yes indeed, every discussion leads back to the Nazis."
s /group?exa ct=KMFDMs /source?ex act=Kennedy%2C+John+F%2E+%28President%29
While my first response is to ask "Which Nazis?" I can't find the full text of either of these speeches to get an understanding of their content.
I did, however, come across a number of quotes on a gun rights site from Hitler advocating that any citizen who wants to carry a gun should join the SS, and that all citizens who were not should turn their guns in. A disarmed populace is easier to control. A little further down this thread is someone who no longer laughs at the 'rednecks who fear the government will take away their guns'.
About the samples:
http://www.sloth.org/samples-bin/sample
http://www.sloth.org/samples-bin/sample
Interestingly enough, in KMFDM's song "Dogma" one of the lyrics is "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country has done to you."
>IANAL, but shouldn't anybody ticketed by a hidden
>radar speed trap be able to use this law to their
>advantage? After all, if the police are disguising
>"the existence or place of origin or destination of
>any telecommunications service," they're in
>violation of the law. Right?
I hate to say this, but... "in violation of the law" ? They *are* the law!
(yes, yes, oversight and fair trials, Constitutional rights, and why not, the Magna Carta...)
I was just discussing this with someone else a few days ago, how sodomy laws still exist in a number of US states (most places say anything other than missionary style is technically illegal) and not only do the laws require an unreasonable invasion of privacy to enforce, but they are being enforced unevenly, being used to harass certain target people. These laws are just one more tool for the law enforcement establishment (the local police up to the FBI, and the judiciaries that paralell them) to make life difficult for 'undesirable' elements in society.
Instead of mentioning how KMFDM's "What do you know, Deutschland?" is playing behind me, and the sample 'dogmatic police state' is in it, I'll just make reference to a quote that I can't remember, about how a state passes laws to make everyone a criminal, um, and how that is bad.
I'm going to take offence at the "here's hoping some improvements come of this" comment. What sort of improvements would you want as a result of one of the main developers leaving? Improvements? Where was mplayer one year ago? Where was dvd/ divx/ windowsmedia/ quicktime/ vivo/ other-formats-obscure-and-not playback under linux a year ago? I feel it is almost like saying 'oh, are biggest contributor has left the organization, lets hope some improvements come of this' as if they were not helping at all or were detrimental. The whole of mplayer would be quite different without A'rpi.
While the effects of linking are multiplicative in their effect of raising a page's ranking, the problem is that it requires someone to actually put those terms into the search engine to get to them. If someone is going to find a definition of a word, they'll probably go to a dictionary. While I do see an increase in the practice of entering a phrase into the search engine to learn more about it (I've done it) I would consider this more mis-/dis-information or tangential discussion than actually changing the meaning of the words.
Then again, it is kind of an interesting phenomemon, sort of similar to that blog-scraping-trend-watching program that appeared a few weeks ago on here. The difference is that people don't really see trends unless they look for them, or look at many different examples of something. The meaning of the word isn't going to change because a few people over a short period of time are talking about it differently. It won't change the meaning for people who already know the word and aren't exposed to any of the discussion, which will probably be far more than those taking part in the discussion of the alternative meaning of the word or phrase.
I have the feeling that I've spoken much but said little...
There is a unit that I've been looking at made by FIC, which they have named CR51 "Falcon" which uses the 17cm x 17cm mini-itx board from Via and comes with a 933mhz processor. Newegg has it, for $150, which includes case, power supply, motherboard, cpu, and heatsink/fan. What interested me about this is that apparently by adding only RAM and an optical drive, there is a firmware included ("RaptureWare") that boots in 4-5 seconds to play mp3s, DVDs, VCDs and audio CDs. Add hard drive and you have a full computer.
c _f orm_factor.shtm has a review, but the site goes up and down. Use the google cache instead.
I didn't buy it, mostly because I would be buying it for someone else, but also I looked at the floating point performance and decided that it wasn't that great for a general-purpose desktop for them.
http://www.ownt.com/technews/2003/fic_falcon/fi
[a good half hour of google searching later...]
It's really hard to find reviews of this thing. Dammit.
When their site comes back up, I'll post a thread from my LUG about the boards. The best idea that I have is to buy the FIC CR51 Falcon and put a wireless card in it and put MeshAP on it, or take a few of the mini-itx boards, hook them up to be powered from car batteries, add wireless and have a mobile wireless network. Would be kinda cool, no?
Well, what would you like?
e se tchip.htmli p/chip.html
Here is for my epson printer...
http://www.eddiem.com/photo/printer/chipreset/r
http://www.eddiem.com/photo/CIS/inkch
also http://www.ampoule.ru/epson/en/index.html
and http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml
Have fun!
Here's something in German that you might want to run through: http://www.heise.de/ct/03/07/026/
:-)
Yes, go translate it, unless you can read and understand German, or just don't care to read it.
4th paragraph under what babelfish translates as "Imbedding"
"Nevertheless one will not only be able to select to the planned Launch between different 64-Bit-Linuxen. Microsoft announced in the meantime, one day before the planned launching of a vessel, thus on 21 April to bring the Windows-XP-Server-2003-Version out for AMDs 64-Bit-Prozessor officially."
Looks like the story is still up in the air...
I just hope there are no mysterious goings-on while the play is being downloaded/performed. Is it even safe to use the name, however l33t0rized, as the actual title?
Maybe they should call it "The ASCII Play"
(I haven't read the article, I suppose the FB and VLC and others can be used as video players, and maybe everyone doesn't think that watching The Matrix using a high-res aalib window is really cool.)
When Rick (*cough*-ing) Berman talks about creatively working the Borg into a pre-Picard timeline, I get worried. I'm not even going to think about the weirdness of getting Kirk back in it. Then again, the DS9 episode that I watched half of, where they have the tribbles and everything, wasn't that bad. Then again, I didn't see the whole episode, so I don't know *quite* how plausible the whole thing was.
This post made me read the article. This post also made me want there to be a "deeply frightening/disturbing" moderation. I won't comment on the line about how they have been discussing other cross-overs...
Why doesn't someone stick a small bluetooth device in the beer mugs themselves, so you can tell when they are empty? Then they could be refilled, or someone who has had too much too quickly can be engaged in conversation, instead of giving them more beer. I heard some company did this, probably I saw it on TechTV, but I don't know if they used bluetooth. Probably they just used their own thing, and the mugs talked to the table (well, not the table itself, and not the mugs, really... but y'know, the electronics stuff does the talking.)