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  1. Re:Cause and effect may be backwards on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    There is no corresponding increase in psychosis.

    And you know this exactly how?

  2. Re:You Must Be Crazy ... on Mobile Banking Apps For iOS Woefully Insecure · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for some mod points!

  3. Re:Offline side-by-side Python on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    Although Java was expressly designed to permit multiple versions to co-exist and even execute at the same time in the same system, I'm less certain that you can do that with Python. At least without at least doing a chroot or a VM.

    Maybe Windows Python is that incompetent, but Un*x Python has had seamless multiversioning for 10+ years. (Well, that's how long Debian and it's derivatives have been doing it...)

  4. Re:What surprises me is that... on The Other Exam Room: When Doctors 'Google' Their Patients · · Score: 1

    I thought of that too. The summary implies, though, that the doctor dismissed that possibility (patient too old).

  5. What surprises me is that... on The Other Exam Room: When Doctors 'Google' Their Patients · · Score: 2

    tests can detect cocaine many, many years later. How is this so?

  6. Re:The ancients on World's Oldest Decimal Multiplication Table Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And there's a damn good reason why "Doctors" were using leeches for damn near everything during the Age of the "Enlightenment"

    Sure: because Galen said so.

    It's because the barbarian followers of Jesus were morons without a fucking clue and we lost that knowledge and much more.

    Or... it was because Augustine of Hippo crawled so far up Aristotle's ass (men have more teeth than women and so men obviously are superior) that the Church only considered a need to think about maybe crawling out 1900 years later.

    Thank goodness for those Evil Crusaders, though, looting Arab libraries and bringing Greek, Roman & Islamic ideas back to Europe.

  7. Am I the only who saw... on NASA Could Explore Titan With Squishable 'Super Ball Bot' · · Score: 1

    "NASA Could Explode Titan With ..."

  8. Re:I don't trust anyone on RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money · · Score: 2

    That is why I say it is a very sad day when my country has turned into something worse than a banana republic.

    Dude, power always accretes more power. You should be old enough to know that.

  9. But, but, but... on Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts · · Score: 1

    Canadians are so pure and innocent, and their government is even purer, right? After all, that's why Barbara Streisand moved after W was reelected...

  10. Re:so letting the nsa hire someone on Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security · · Score: 1

    The Air Force won't let the Marines fly the thing, because planes are for the Air Force (unless they land on a ship).

    I've often wondered why the USMC never let out an RFP to make a carrier-worthy A-10.

  11. Re:Hide the IE and MSO icons. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? · · Score: 1

    Clearly you have a different relationship with your parents than most people.

    What? That I treat him as an adult instead of as my daddy?

    Clearly you have a different relationship with your parents than most people.
    If my father says he wants x then x is what he gets

    I am a competent adult who has paid his own way in life for much longer than the time that my father paid my way, and have expertise in certain areas.

    If he asks for my advice and does not follow it, then I am under no obligation to constantly trail behind him and clean up his messes for him, when there are three other people who rely on me to take care of them.

    That being said Libre office will do for people why are just typing up the odd email, or summing a list of items etc.

    That's all I've ever used -- and seen my peers use -- MSO for at work. I'd bet more than a dollar that's what "Ask Slashdot's" mother is going to use it for, too.

  12. Hide the IE and MSO icons. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Install Firefox, LibreOffice & Thunderbird. Insist that she use them. If she ignores your advice, tell her you can't/won't help her.

    (Living on your own, doing your own laundry and being over age 25 adds necessary gravitas.)

  13. Re:Great and wonderful... on Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production · · Score: 1

    Many thanks. That's exactly what I needed to know.

  14. Re:Great and wonderful... on Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production · · Score: 1

    the modem will support the UMTS frequencies used by both AT&T and T-Mobile in the US.

    That's not actually what I asked.

  15. Great and wonderful... on Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production · · Score: 1

    but will it work with my family's ATT wireless plan?

  16. Two highly relevant Churchill quotes on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."

    But "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

  17. Since the Earth's surface on Chelyabinsk-Sized Asteroid Impacts May Be More Common Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    is 71% water, such impacts should be around 2.45x as frequent as observed. Then add in the ones that impact in the Sahara and Australian Outback...

  18. New interface? on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 1

    The release notes do not mention Australis or any major UI changes. Are they keeping mum, or was the Chrome-alike change pushed back?

  19. Re:what? on Network Scientists Discover the 'Dark Corners' of the Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are they implying that there are entire pygmy tribes somewhere that spend their entire day on IRC?

    Kinda.

    if this is the case, who cares, and why?

    Didn't even read the whole summary?

  20. Re:information security, dear on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    To where, though? Russia?

  21. Re:Where is the public outrage? on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    Do you really need to ask that?

  22. People yammering about the NSA need to understand on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 2

    what the REAL threat to American freedom is: government bureaucrats desperately wanting to stay in power hooking up with jackbooted thugs cloaked in the mantle of the state, stomping all over Liberty.

  23. Re:Blah, blah, blah. on Support For NASA Spending Depends On Perception of Size of Space Agency Budget · · Score: 1

    it will add up to well over 100%

    of current spending.

    of revenue?

    The Kobayashi Maru ploy only works when the other guy doesn't notice what you're doing.

  24. Re:Defund NASA. on Support For NASA Spending Depends On Perception of Size of Space Agency Budget · · Score: 1

    A society that watches waaaay too much reality TV, Cops and America's Funniest Home Videos, and thinks that Jackass is great shouldn't be too upset by the occasional boom.

  25. Re:Defund NASA. on Support For NASA Spending Depends On Perception of Size of Space Agency Budget · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to bet $5 that Elon Musk lands humans on Mars well before NASA do, and for 1% of the cost of a NASA mission.

    And do what when they get there? Mars is the Atacama Desert without the thick atmosphere, high moisture content, normal gravity and nearness to civilization.