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  1. Re:Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 1

    I know of course. You've put your finger on it there though - the intellectual arrogance here is overwhelming sometimes.

  2. Re:Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 1

    To be honest that would be ok. I wouldn't die. A doctor once did this on Spanish TV 5 years ago and he's perfectly alright. I know that will sound crazy to you.

    Try reading this:

    http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/

  3. Re:Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 1

    agreed - big pharma took over this science and have earnt billions from an erroneous hypothesis.

  4. Re:Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mmm, 'nother rude one.

    HIV does NOT satisfy Koch's postulates without a circular argument that is subtle but very evident in the reasoning. I doubt you've had the correct training to actually realise this though. I have an extensive training in public health experiments - things are much more subtle than you realise - and an IQ of 154.

    http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/

  5. Re:Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 0, Troll

    Absolutely not. I'm an committed atheist and not an idiot.

    http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/

  6. Re:Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 1

    Your link contains the statement " AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)." as part of the background. That is not rigorous science at work.

    The HIV hypothesis fails Koch's postulates because the victim is not overrun by HIV at time of death as would normally be the case with a fatal virus infection. A circular argument is used to imply that this is the case when it is not.

    ahref=http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/rel=url2html-1 7909http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/>

  7. Re:Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 0

    Your argument is circular and unscientific.

    http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/

  8. Re:Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 1

    AIDS seems likely to be caused by many 'lifestyle' choices. Particularly exsessive drug taking (such as methyl and ethyl nitrates).

    You could read this for more information.

    http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/

    And, thanks, I am pretty smart.

  9. Re:Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: 1

    Debilo - thanks for your open minded response. If you give the following link a good read and think I think you will see why there are problems with the hypothesis. Dr Robert Gallo essentially hijacked the research with a non-peer reviewed hypothesis which became mainstream overnight by the NYT.

    http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/

  10. Duck and Cover on First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'd be more interested in genuine scientific proof of the link between HIV and AIDS. There isn't one you know.

    (Don't forget to mod me down - I said something bad)

  11. Re:Explained in FAQ on Writely.com Beta - Google's Answer to Word · · Score: 1

    I think you can tab to items in Safari. Look at prefs/advanced and see the tabing options.

  12. Re:Explained in FAQ on Writely.com Beta - Google's Answer to Word · · Score: 1

    I'm getting a bit worried about Safari, my browser of choice, as it seems increasing numbers of sites are giving it problems. I have to admin my firms email server using a thing called Plext and it's very broken in Safari. I find myself having to go into Firefox about once a day now to do a Safari workround and I'm getting annoyed with that.

    I don't want to wait for 9 months to get things working on Safari - is that the situation basically?

  13. Re:Countdown to IE7 breakage on Writely.com Beta - Google's Answer to Word · · Score: 1

    It isn't paranoia, it's knowing what MS (note the lack of dollar sign) has done before and applying that to predict the future. That's not paranoia it's more like 'once bitten twice shy'. It's well understood that MS ***despise*** Google and writely is one of the reasons why MS feels ever more threatened. I think it would gall MS to spend time and money implementing features just so they could lose customers to Google from the (deeply bloated and expensive) Word/Office package. They don't want that - Steve throws chairs for a reason you know.

  14. Re:One Fine Day In The Not So Distant Future on Macrovision Wants Old DRM to Work Forever · · Score: 1
    It's sad how much faith they have in people who are genuinely trying to screw them.


    Sadly, this is the general condition of humanity and applies to many more things than just evil DRM.
  15. 64bit on Polymer 'Muscle' Changes How we Look at Color · · Score: 1

    People often ask what's the point of 64-bit processing - who benefits? Well, the one thing that would probably be worth having is system wide 64-bit color - as long as the display technology could handle it. Maybe this is one way of achieving that.

    Any technology dependent on gold is always going to be expensive even if a finished screen only requires small quantities. A gram of gold is around $20 today - at least it's cheaper than coke but it's still expensive.

  16. Re:Safety First on The FBI Software Upgrade That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Yes, but only through using the (digital) printing press. Come 2011 hyperinflation looks like a certainty but I can't find the link right now.

  17. football reference on The FBI Software Upgrade That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Ooo, me, me, me Sir! Is the contractor Siemens?

    Strangely enough I've just finished building a demo flash site for a major Japanese company. It's totally flawed but I love to take the money! I don't think it will go live but, damn!, they love to waste money. I mean would you pay $2000 for someone to crop a QT movie? They did, heh heh.

  18. W Band on Super-fast Transistors On the Way · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_band

    Apparently this freq is known as W-band microwave radiation. Useful for millimetre wave radar apparently - you know the machine that can see through clothes at the airport? Wonder if this is why they are researching it? Anyone know better than me? Will my kids have real X-ray specs?

  19. Re:No. Not 'enough said. on Fake News Stories Probed · · Score: 1

    I would say that he did know that. Seems pretty obvious from the content of his message. Why didn't you pick up on that?

  20. news on Fake News Stories Probed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fake news == Faux news == Fox news

    Nuff said.

  21. Re:Sounds familiar on Microsoft Insists IE7 is Standards Compliant · · Score: 1

    It's brilliant that on /. that's informative not funny. Yep, kids, write those lines down - who knows one day you may even use them yourselves. Maybe.

  22. And now . . . on New Version of Mac OS X Leopard Leaked · · Score: 4, Funny

    [drum roll]

    There were rumours that Bit Torrent would be integrated into Leopard. In reality it looks like Leopard's been integrated into Bit Torrent.

    Thanks, I'll be here all week

    [bread roll]

  23. Re:Serious question. on New Version of Mac OS X Leopard Leaked · · Score: 1

    I hnestly think they don't care very much about OSX retail consumer sales. I think they'd almost prefer for the Macs of the world to be running the newest OS available as it makes them look better. They think of the hardware as the dongle for the OS. I've seen loads of 9.2 era iMacs running Tiger very well and really extending the life of the hardware. Users love that! (Especially when they don't pay for it). Apple may lose slightly in the short term but make a bigger sale later.

    Same things applies to Photoshop. Adobe doesn't care that everyone has a pirate copy - it increases mindshare and trains the next generation to know the PS way. Later they go on to jobs using it where they DO buy a copy for bigmoney. If Adobe really cared they would have shipped it with a dongle by now. They don't do that because it may mean a crashing market share.

  24. Re:I was tempted to download the torrent... on New Version of Mac OS X Leopard Leaked · · Score: 1

    that's how I felt about Tiger - couldn't be bothered to install it and break a few apps for such (in my mind) minor improvements. However jumping from 10.3.9 (that I've used for years now) to Leopard is something I'm really looking foward to. The positives definitely outweigh the negatives which I couldn't say about Tiger.

  25. Re:Please guys, I am begging you.. on Old Methods Used to Detect Liquid Explosives · · Score: 1

    Yep, well said. As far as I'm concerned nothing has happened - I have little faith in government to tell the truth anymore and the timing of this event (or non-event) is, as per usual, politically useful to them. Maybe it's even a way of cutting fuel consumption. I don't know but it continually disturbs me how the intelligent people of slashdot just seem to show total trust in the gov and warnings from the CIA and don't question a lack of evidence.

    Of course I'll get labelled a tinfoil loon now and possibly be shouted at by someone I've offended somehow. Sorry about that, I'm only thinking.