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  1. Re:Less talk, more action on Author Peter Wayner Talks About Autonomous Cars (Video) · · Score: 1

    I can't seem to afford to take one of those everywhere I go. I meant in my car, with all humans able to drink or read or play on their phones.

  2. Less talk, more action on Author Peter Wayner Talks About Autonomous Cars (Video) · · Score: 1

    We keep hearing about these things, but so far there is not even a Tesla of Automated cars available on the market or nearing it.

    How far off are we from drinking in the car again?

  3. Re:Old business ideas on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 1

    That is not the same as it reducing costs to the end user.

    Look at Texas for a great example of how it does not work. Your doctor can now do any stupid thing and all you get is $500k, $250k for damages and $250k pain and suffering. You will not get that without a fight. The insurance company will settle with you for far less. This means though you may never be able to work again, you will at most get $500k. Which may not cover your ongoing medical costs much less the lost income for the rest of your life. As a bonus it has not reduced medical costs one single cent in Texas.

  4. Re:First Task on Dell Special Committee Backs Michael Dell Buyout Bid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Funny story time.
    I once called about a server issue with gold support, I could not understand the person speaking so I asked to be transferred to someone who spoke better english. This person flipped out about how he was in Georgia and from there, or so I guess since I still could barely understand his mutterings. I would rather speak to an Indian than someone from the deep south if I need to be able to understand what they say. For those who don't know what I mean, they screw up whole words; Specific becomes Pacific, Well becomes Whale and many other that I have not yet figured out.

  5. Re:What? Where? on 900 Ton Containment Vessel Bottom Head Installed At Vogtle 3 · · Score: 1

    Unit means reactor. Vogtle is a nuclear power site in the state of GA.

    How a post that "Help, I am ignorant and unwilling to google" got modded up I will never know.

  6. Re:True True on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 1

    I get terrible hallucinations, and lots of dissociative effects. Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with recreational drugs being available, but when I am sick or need to work that is not the time.

    If my doctor did not assume I was some pill head this would never be a problem. I broke my tailbone and that was hell on earth getting a painkiller that worked. The nurse tried to suggest the pain was in the lower back rather than tailbone as a method tricking me into exposing some suspected pill seeking ruse. It was simply insulting. I get it some folks are pill heads, I should not be treated like a criminal just because others are.

  7. Re:The inability to research? on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 1

    Because they were replacements for other things.

    Please do name this alternative to LSD I can legally get. My need is recreational use. As it is less dangerous than alcohol, I see no reason why it should be illegal.

  8. Re:If you can view it you can download it. on Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts · · Score: 1

    And they enforce that how exactly?
    That says users, not your own. So my assumption would be you are fine as long as you only run it against your own account.

  9. Re:How about just giving them the laptops? on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 3, Interesting

    $12 an hour would have been a fortune to me. I was working for $5 and spending 100+ hours a week in the labs. Working off campus was not much of an option since I could never really get the flexibility I needed out of other employers. The lab was only open a set of hours, and I was not going to hurt my grades for their meager wages.

  10. Re:Bah, US only... on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 2

    So I will go buy a machine from a linux only seller.

    I highly doubt dell would comply, as redhat would push back on the server and workstation side.

  11. If you can view it you can download it. on Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts · · Score: 1

    If you can still view the posts you can download them yourself. Look at this as a chance to learn about some scripting language a little more. You might even be able to publish this work for fame or money.

  12. Re:How about just giving them the laptops? on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 1

    I would imagine most college students have jobs.
    I had one and it barely paid my rent and food. I had to use money from my loans to buy a laptop at one point.

    Work study of 40 hours per pay period, times 26 pay periods means at minimum wage means a yearly wage of around $7000. If you can work 40 hours a week while in university either you program is not challenging enough or you simply do not sleep.

    The idea that most college students to do not work is just silly.

  13. Re:How about just giving them the laptops? on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 1

    How about they go to the library or computer lab?

  14. Re:Spam on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That those same loans would cover in fact. I know, I bought a laptop that way once. I had no working computer and needed it to do my university homework.

  15. Re:Bah, US only... on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So don't buy the machine.

    Hopefully more linux users will start buying linux machines or bare OS machines and we can get some actual reasonable statistics.

  16. Re:The root of this problem could also be pointed on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 1

    Why bring religion into it?
    I would guess those who already believe in magic are more likely to to believe in a magic pill than those who don't believe in any magic.

  17. Re:Dr Gregory House had a point on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 1

    This makes me wish I believed in hell so this Ed Vogler could burn in it for eternity.

  18. Re:Old business ideas on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 1

    Anyone who thought tort reform would curb excessive costs was an idiot. They likely should not be considered competent and should probably be assigned a guardian.

  19. Re:True True on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 2

    I do not smoke. Why would you assume I do?
    Do only smokers get upper respiratory infections?

  20. Re:The inability to research? on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 1

    They were banned simply because they had recreational use. It really is that simple.

    Ecstasy has actually been tested for safety before, it is used experimentally in some psychiatric treatment.

    What exactly are treatments that are not drugs? How is a LSD anymore or less of a drug than Tylenol?

  21. Re:The inability to research? on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 2

    Neither of those drugs work by killing brain cells. Nor should either of them cause those. You are likely correlating events that are not causally linked.

  22. Re:True True on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Often it seems safety is traded for effectiveness. The best cough suppresent ever is herion, that was its original purposes. Since that was dangerous we moved to codeine, which was not as good but safer. Then we moved to Dextromethorphan, which is safer but works no where near as well and many folks cannot tolerate. Hallucinating while not getting good cough suppression sucks.

    So now my options are to be accused of being a drug seeker by my doctor, take more powerful opiates I have left over from other procedures or going to canada and smuggling back Tylenol 3.

    Sometimes the old stuff really was better.

  23. Re:Meh... on Dreambox: the World's First 3D Printing Vending Machine · · Score: 1

    You can find a local photographer/camera store with an even better setup who will print for those kinds of prices.

    Unless you are a pro photographer you simply are not going to get those economies of scale.

  24. Re:Meh... on Dreambox: the World's First 3D Printing Vending Machine · · Score: 1

    My mom has a tablet so I send her an email. We all have GPS or smartphones so directions are something I never consider.

    A laser is really the only way to go.

  25. Re:Seems hollow. on White House Announces Reforms Targeting Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone think that?
    That would be total insanity. I would go patent eating right now.