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  1. Re:Even better... on Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can · · Score: 0
    Please excuse the digression but I have just had a Yoda moment:

    Boost Your WiFi Signal Using Only a Beer Can... *nods sagely*

  2. Re:Even better... on Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can · · Score: 5, Funny

    that you need to keep

    Someone elbowed that sat dish again, didn't they? ;)

  3. Re:Even better... on Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can · · Score: 2

    ...as long as they are in the line of sight of the satellite dish. I haven't worked with many of them but I kind of remember they are very directional, being parabolic and all that.

  4. Re:It's a shame... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1
    Ok, let's kill the fun in this thread completely. We didn't evolve to create vaccines: that's lamarckism. We created vaccines because we were able to due to how we evolved.

    And, like it or not, if our selective pressures pushed us to be more intelligent as you say, it stands to reason that less intelligent people were more prone to die... because they acted less intelligently. In current society there are enough safeguards to bring the dangers of not acting intelligently way down. So yes, even if it is an exaggeration, science (or culture) has almost stopped human evolution ;)

  5. Re:What an Unreadable and Horrible Summary on A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework · · Score: 1

    Coño (that's an ñ for people lacking Spanish text support), though there are lots of synonyms, just like in English ;)

  6. Re:Software patents in the EU?? on Dutch Court Says Android 2.3 Violates Apple Patents · · Score: 1

    I think I will try and patent turning a screw exactly four turns around. No, I'm not going to: it's as stupid as patenting specific hand gestures over a screen.

  7. Re:How many ways are there to use a touchscreen ? on Dutch Court Says Android 2.3 Violates Apple Patents · · Score: 2

    There is less too ;) If gestures have been used once and again on touchscreens since decades ago I fail to understand how a patent about using a specific gesture for a specific task can even be considered.

  8. Re:Do they allow everyone? on Internet Restored In Tripoli As Rebels Take Control · · Score: 1

    I would hope so... but it seems that democracy still is the least bad of all political systems.

  9. Re:"Caught with hand in the cookie jar" joke here on Zombie Cookies Just Won't Die · · Score: 1

    If aberrant is abnormal, why should they use abhorrent instead? It actually can be both at the same time, IMO.

  10. Re:Do they allow everyone? on Internet Restored In Tripoli As Rebels Take Control · · Score: 1

    The majority of the country can get behind removing Gadhaffi, but when it comes to how to replace him you can certainly expect arguments and deals and infighting. Even in a democracy this is the case.

    Then your case about their (possibly) not being ready for a democracy loses a lot of its strength, doesn't it? I mean, if arguments, deals and infighting happen in democracies, how can you argue they are not ready for democracy just because they will have arguments, deals and infighting after getting rid of Gadhaffi?

    And I can't find where Rei has stated that harmony will continue. I only read his stating that the reaction has been tribe-agnostic, and ridiculing some concept of tribe as incompatible with democracy.

  11. Re:repost? on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    For a 5 year old story, it is interesting to notice the treatment and at least some of the techniques developed date to 2009. But that requires RTFS which the TFA provided.

  12. Re:I already figured this out. on CERN Physicist Says Dark Matter May Be an Illusion · · Score: 1

    Erm... gravity, as well as electromagnetism, decreases with the square of the distance. I would consider this a strong pointer to both being limited to three dimensions, as it is consistent with distributing the field over the surface of an sphere (for example).

  13. Re:And picking up golf balls on The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing · · Score: 1

    Travelling Salesman Problem, sorry. The most efficient path is learning to chip better ;) Oh, and start gathering the ones which are far away first, so you don't have to carry a full bucket around to get them.

  14. Re:How so? on Apple Adopts Bluetooth 4.0. Could It Reject NFC? · · Score: 1

    There doesn't seem to be. But Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy and NFC seem to overlap in functionality.

  15. Re:Slashdot Bias shows through on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    I forgot to answer the other part of your post, sorry. You say there are other factors, but you only mention two, and one of them just in passing (Huperzine A). Are you sure you don't consider that tea critical to your memory recovery? Because it really looks like it. Or perhaps it is just me being naive for thinking the subject that covers over 80% of a post is the point of it :)

  16. Re:Slashdot Bias shows through on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    Nice post... and even more interesting answers. Pity they mostly contradict that post.

  17. Re:Slashdot Bias shows through on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1
    Quoting the second link's conclusions:

    Drug-placebo differences in antidepressant efficacy increase as a function of baseline severity, but are relatively small even for severely depressed patients. The relationship between initial severity and antidepressant efficacy is attributable to decreased responsiveness to placebo among very severely depressed patients, rather than to increased responsiveness to medication.

    So perhaps the antidepressant doesn't work as well as it was thought... or the placebo works much better when the brain is more able to believe in it.

  18. Re:Slashdot Bias shows through on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1
    Oh, an ad-hominem (with a sprinkle of insufficient adulation to give it taste). I think I can do that too

    Ok... keep jumping to conclusions (I never talked about it being a "Big Pharma" product or not, did I?), it will help you turn an unscientific anecdote (you took it -law of small numbers- and felt better -completely non-blind experiment-) into a recommendation. Who needs research? Not you, it seems, nor, sometimes, Big Pharma.

  19. Re:Skype doesn't care on Researcher Finds Dangerous Vulnerability In Skype · · Score: 1
    STOP

    Sorry, couldn't help the pun ;)

  20. Re:So I study biotechs... on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1
    You can explain multiplication from geometry without needing to know addition. It is better to know addition, but remember that there are many ways to define addition.

    Knowing that it was Louis Pasteur who disproved spontaneous generation isn't critical. Knowing current life isn't spontaneously generated is important, but it is even more important to be able to use your intelligence to find a way to prove it one way or the other.

  21. Re:Supplements to improve memory on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You missed an ingredient: placebo ;)

  22. Re:Self pat-down on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    The AC you answer works at the TSA ;)

  23. Self pat-down on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are trusted travelers to pat themselves down or supposed to do a striptease? :)

  24. Re:Commercial databases on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    ...how the heck do you write performant code that works against both databases?

    Erm... writing _two_ code baselines that provide the same high level interface, perhaps. It's not as if that same problem hasn't been dealt with several times before (compiling to different architectures, for example).

  25. Re:Honestly... on Geocaching Shuts Down British Town · · Score: 1

    Yes, they have already seen American werewolves. Warevolves are something new :P