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  1. Re:Gaba stuff on Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have found massive doses of grain alcohol in almost any form to very effectivly moderate my GABA system, and high enough a dose will indeed induce a vegitative state known as "being so freaking drunk I can't think, stand, or walk."

  2. Re:You forgot ME on Vista Beta 2 has Major Problems · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ME is physical and phsychological pain given form in an operating system. My disgust with it grows even still, so many years after I've had to fix a system with ME installed. I mean, who really came up with the idea "Hey, lets take the MSDOS based version of windows, and see how it runs with workarounds that keep it from ever using DOS?"

  3. Re:You are obviously not a scientist on Is Evolution Predictable? · · Score: 1

    This is especially prone to occuring at high temperatures, where the membranes are more permiable to plasmid(DNA ring) absorbtion. I once performed an experiment where E.coli bacteria were made resistant to the antibiotic ampicillin, and inserting the harvested plasmid into the bacteria was done through a high temperature soak of the bacteria.

  4. Borg implants? on Giant Paramount Auction of Star Trek Items · · Score: 1

    They went through PLUNTY of them on the recent shows, maybe they would be enough that they'd go cheap...

  5. What about mudders? on Eight Hour Coding Session Causes DVT · · Score: 1

    Back when I used to play Batmud, 8-16 hour sessions with almost no movement from the keyboard were not unheard of...

  6. Re:Diet cherry coke, diet coke with lemon on The Soda Situation - Succulent Drinks w/o the Sweets? · · Score: 1

    It really does taste like you accidentally put lemon pledge in your drink while cleaning the coffie table. Thank you for the help realizing what that taste was. I also find the lemon included colas utterly unpalatable, but like adding lemon of my own. Honestly, I've gotten a bit into lemon water occasionally - just squeeze the desired ammount of lemon into my ice water, and then toss the lemon halves in, to get out all the lemon oil I bruised out of the skin by squishing them. Much more refreshing than soda, and tasty.

  7. Re:Exactly - why implant an RFID device? on Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants? · · Score: 1

    I kinda doubt that, seeing as my gf had an MRI with her nipple rings in once, and it didn't tear them out, though she said it sure felt like it was going to. On the other hand, I wonder if that much magnetic energy would damage the chip otherwise...

  8. Actually, no, it's not a valid point on FBI Releases Secret Subpoena Information · · Score: 1

    as per my AIM profile: "Your right to walk the streets unmolested by the police outweighs my right not to get blown up." and I stick by it. There will never be another hijacking like 9/11 anyway. The only reason it was pulled off is because somethign like that had never been done with a hijacked plane before. You shout that you're hijacking a plane in a crowded aircraft right now, and even if you have an uzi I bet all that's left of you in 10 seconds is chunky salsa.

  9. Re:Computer Classes on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    TI BASIC rules! I had too much fun in AP physics writing turn-based RPG combat systems rather than taking notes.

  10. Re:Wait... on Most Web Users Unable to Spot Spyware · · Score: 1

    My machine has never had any spyware, I don't know how everybody keeps getting this crap. The only times I've had it on here, I let myself get it on purpose to figure out how to remove it for one friend or another.

  11. Re:ECT 2.0 on Deep Brain Stimulation as Depression Treatment · · Score: 1

    Simulating nerve impulses the brain isn't producing on it's own is not in any way like using massive currents of electricity to induce convulsions and grand mal seizure. My girlfriend has a DBS, see my above post on how they aren't really simular at all, except perhaps in that they both depend on that electricity can effect the brain.

  12. Re:Nothing new here on Deep Brain Stimulation as Depression Treatment · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend has a DBS (For dystonia, not depression) It does not provide complete immediate relief for her condition the way it does for most parkinson's patients, so effectiveness may be variable for depressed patients as well. I don't really think of it as being simular to electronconvulsive, since there are no convusions or seizures involved, and those are pretty much what defines that treatment - It's much, much closer to being a sci-fi neural interface, only it's one directional - it mimics nerve activity, that it does so using electricty doesn't make it very much like electroconvulsive. It's not actually continuous, it attempts to mimic nerve impulses, and the frequency and many other aspects of the impulses it sends can be tuned with a remote control outside the patient's body.

  13. Re:Livelihood on Google Staff MD on Carpal Tunnel & RSI · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, get a trackball.

  14. Re:Sorry... on 'Leak-Proof' Anti-Spam Solution? · · Score: 1

    Can't a spambot just as easily send 500 separate messages in a row to 500 recipients as send one email with 500 people in BCC?

  15. The A Team on Why Game Movies Stink · · Score: 1

    If you want a series of explosions linked by car chases, maybe you can hire... THE A TEAM!

  16. Re:No mention of MUDS?!? on Interactive Fiction Then and Now · · Score: 1

    I played a hell of a lot of batmud from 97 to 2001...

  17. Choose Your Own Adventure Books! on Interactive Fiction Then and Now · · Score: 3, Informative

    Were my first interractive fiction, I used to love those. Especially the ones where you could die really easily.

  18. Re:Too True on Tilting At Windmills · · Score: 1

    Environmentalists that like wind farms are not well informed about them. They mass-slaughter birds, require expensive maintenence, and are far to inconsistent in power production to actually eliminate coal burning power plants - those still have to be around and running at nearly full blast in case any power dips occur. They're actually a terrible enviromental option. Nuclear power, on the other hand, is a much cleaner and safer alternative. Before anyone asks if I'd rather have a nuke plant than a wind farm in my backyard, I already have a nuke plant, and I'm fine with it.

  19. Re: Biblical serpent on Most Primitive Snake Fossil Discovered · · Score: 1

    There are many questionable translations... even among the ten commandments, the edict against killing, for instance. The word used in the origional text much better translates as "murder" - there were separate words for killing as a general action, and even for killing in battle, which obviously old testimate God did not mind.

  20. Re:The problem of nerve impulse conduction on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    Some people have deeper color vision, effectively an extra type of cone - they have are women with a mutant cone that is slightly differently sensitive on one of the paired chromisomes, and a normal cone on the other in the pair. Men can't have it, since this isn't carried on Y at all, so they can't have both the mutant and normal cone gene. They can see several more colors in a standard spectrum than genetically normal people do.

  21. Re:The problem of nerve impulse conduction on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    Mix ecstasy with an MAOI and you'll get that reaction every time - the serotonin floods the synapses, and it just can't be cleaned up my monamine oxidase anymore. Very bad things happen.

  22. Re:TFA: loada crap on Pack-Hunting Dinosaurs Found As Large As T-Rex · · Score: 1

    My theory is that they were kill stealers largely, and secondarily hunters and scavengers. They just look built to out-do other preditors, as much as get kill prey, to me.

  23. Re:From TFA on Pack-Hunting Dinosaurs Found As Large As T-Rex · · Score: 1

    The heard theory is based on fact that a single flood/river swell event buried many different specimins at once. This wouldn't happen with solitary preditors.

  24. Re:Fix the real problem on Legal Restrictions on Cellphone Use Gain Traction · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen people with their license taken away keep driving anyway, and unless they do something immensely stupid aren't caught for years unless they speed...

  25. Re:Wow on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    Trying and failing, that is. Of course, I'm glad to hear this, because having had the brookhaven labs reactor in my backyard all my life, I'm not in the least bit worried about reactors. They are safe to operate, and the wastes the produce, while terrible, are containable.