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  1. Re:get rid of shitty teachers on Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ADD isn't necessarily about school; it's about having the ability to pay attention and structure thoughts into actions. I was diagnosed with ADD at a young age and thought it was bullshit until I got to college because I was smart enough that I didn't need to pay attention to get good grades. When the ideas I needed to pick up were complex enough that I couldn't infer them on my own (data structures, anyone?), I noticed that I would listen intently to my professor in a class I enjoyed and come out with no idea what we just talked about.

    Now in the "adult" world (it disappoints me that many adult are overgrown children), I know ADD is real because I'm certainly smart enough to write code that implements business rules, but I often lose track of important conversations. I constantly end up asking not for clarification of a topic, but just to hear things restated verbatim because the words went in one ear and out the other.

    Your psychiatrist may be an irresponsible dirtbag that just throws stimulants at everything that comes through his door; incompetence is rampant in every profession. This does not mean that the body of established evidence for the existence and treatment of ADD is wrong.

  2. Just give me an electric car on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People in California were driving electric cars every day ten years ago. They were fast, quiet, clean, and reliable. They were also accessible to the everyman, unlike the Tesla roadster.

    I don't give a fuck about corn or other combustibles. We could all be driving electric cars today if not for big oil colluding with government regulators.

    Give me my electric car!

  3. Re:Did they publish the source? on Phoenix BIOSOS? · · Score: 1

    Either way, they'd need to publish the source code since they'd be providing a binary.

  4. Car analogy on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the ongoing spirit of computer/car comparisons, I suggest we install an airbag on computers to deploy when inept users approach in the hope of repelling them.

    Actually, maybe I'll just put one of these on the entrance to my cubicle to keep the salesmen away.

  5. Re:Namespaces on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    Use {$Foo} instead. It's the proper way to put variables in a string.

  6. Re:Time to pay the piper... on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think PHP developers with legacy code are going to be paying the price for several versions to come.

    I prefer to call it "job security".

  7. Re:So... on An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gotta break some eggs to make an omelet.

    Hopefully this will include cleaning up the argument lists of the string and array functions so that they hall take f($needle, $haystack) in a consistent order. Fixing the argument lists isn't in TFA, but it's a really obvious place to start.

    At work, it may give me an excuse to rewrite a horrible old app that's been holding us back since the days of PHP4. I suspect I am not alone in wanting to see some old (buggy, slow, insecure, poorly designed) PHP apps get ruined so that they can be redeveloped now that PHP5 is actually a decent language.

  8. Re:Any lawyers here on Hospital Equipment Infected With Conficker · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of embedded Windows? I've had a cheap GPS navigation system run Windows before.

  9. Global news outlets on WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fox News counts as global?

    I thought only the redneck subset of America watched it.

  10. Re:Almost, but not quite on Microsoft To Disable Autorun · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about someone who intentionally creates a malicious autorun and distributes a CD-R? How about a virus that adds its own autorun to every disc burned by its host system?

    It's still a huge problem and the fact that they removed it from other media demonstrates that they don't understand all of the attack vectors.

    One more thing: virus scanners are a joke.

  11. Classroom interaction is valuable on BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be "Irrelevant" By 2020 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know what kind of classes he's teaching, but when I was in school asking questions and having some sort of discussion as part of the lecture was just as important as the textbook.

    Hearing perspectives and having those perspectives challenged and evaluated by your professors and fellow students is an integral component of the college experience. I doubt listening to iPod lectures would be nearly as useful.

    Giving out information for free is a great idea, but the electronic media can't replace human interaction.

  12. Let's have some fun with this on Ubuntu 9.04 RC Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm in the mood to get reckless and use experimental software to handle my upgrade. I know I'm not the only one using apt-p2p tonight!

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6058308

  13. Great idea on Using Net Proxies Will Lead To Harsher Sentences · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just what the country with the world's highest incarceration rates needs, longer sentences!

    Let's get tough on crime!

  14. Re:Sorry- but on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 1

    If a server has software running with a web interface, the administrator shouldn't need to use a browser on the server itself to access it.

  15. Re:Sorry- but on Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And if you have a server, you might not want to upgrade.

    If you have a server, don't use it to surf the web!

  16. Re:Superficial? on Star Trek Premiere Gets Standing Ovation, Surprise Showing In Austin · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, it's primarily ad supported. Also, I doubt another Trek film would exist if a marketing department hadn't decided there would be people out there who would pay to see it.

  17. Re:Superficial? on Star Trek Premiere Gets Standing Ovation, Surprise Showing In Austin · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the marketing department has figured out that the easiest way to make the most money is to appeal to the dumbest(broadest) audience possible while narrowly missing the point of insulting the customer.

    This is really how decisions are made in marketing.

  18. Re:Superficial? on Star Trek Premiere Gets Standing Ovation, Surprise Showing In Austin · · Score: 1

    Because trekkies will see it no matter what. It's the swing voters they're after.

  19. Re:Superficial? on Star Trek Premiere Gets Standing Ovation, Surprise Showing In Austin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is how they get non-trekkies into a Trek film.

  20. Re:Here's my thoughts on Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was making fun of a typo that happened when the article was originally posted. At the bottom of the post, it read:

    "According to Ars Technica,"

    This was corrected shortly after I posted my joke.

  21. Here's my thoughts on Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to 77Punker,

  22. Use the firehose on Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does anyone think this is funny? We get this shit every year on April 1. Let's use the firehose and vote these articles off the front page.

  23. Re:Fanboy reacts to negative Apple publicity... on Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apple is essentially the antithesis of open source.

    CUPS makes printing on Unix-style systems far easier. CUPS came from Apple and is open source.

    Also, don't forget about Darwin(GNU Mach) and Webkit(KHTML). They actually do give back to these things once in a while.

  24. Re:Stickers... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Should probably be hellbent for leather. Put a tight-fitting leather case around the computer.

    Also, carry a riding crop. Show her you mean business!

  25. Re:Stickers... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heavy metal stickers. Lots of them!

    Some Judas Priest stickers will show them you're not gay!