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  1. Re:AdSense on Google To Buy Radio Advertising Firm · · Score: 1

    But Google knows what people are interested in based upon searches. Google could approach companies with data saying: in this small geographic area, X-thousand searches were performed on this topic related to your business. You can use this information to really target your radio advertising. Radio is another medium. Google also knows what topic is hot instantaneously. Businesses could use this to alter radio advertising. Google knows more about me than my family (kind of worrisome.) Information is power.

  2. Re:It's due in part to user stupidity on Apple Sends Hidden Message to Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Computer: Apple. I bought the blueberry iBook. I love blueberries. And I've always had a thing for women with food names. Well, that explains a lot.

  3. Re:Invasion of privacy rights? on Google to Transform Television Advertising? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, you could manipulate your searches and email to manipulate your commercials to manipulate your new girlfriend? The only flaw in this is having to know what women want. Maybe Google knows. I'll ask.

  4. Happy New Year! on New IM Worm Exploiting WMF Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well that didn't take long.

  5. Where are the computer pranks? on Great Hacks and Pranks Of Our Time · · Score: 1

    I once impersonated President Bill Clinton on a military hospital computer system. This text based system (CHCS) has an email system and I responded to one message, typed several blank lines, and then typed in a fake message from the President congratulating us on our good work. Quite a few people totally bought it. I was identified as the prankster the next day.

  6. It's not Steve Jobs on Steve Jobs thinks Objective C is Perfect? · · Score: 1

    He doesn't have time to read email. They just ask one of the interns, " Hey, you wanna be Steve Jobs today?"

  7. Chem warfare on U.S. Army Testing Personal Cooling Suits · · Score: 1

    How about cooling vests while wearing personal protective equipmentt for chem warfare? I've thought about fashioning medical cooling packs into a vest to wear underneath my chem warfare suit. You wouldn't believe how hot those suits get when trying to do any kind of work, like lifting patients on a litter. And don't get me started on the 'breathing through a straw' while wearing the gas mask!

  8. The ladies should know on Google Users more Wealthy, Net Savvy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm single, and a Google user.

  9. Re:Engineers on Why Students Are Leaving Engineering · · Score: 1

    You mean doctors only kill one patient at a time. Fortunately, humans are resilent and relatively difficult to kill when you make a mistake, unless you are a surgeon. Most medical malpractice is for errors of omission, and not for wrongful death.

  10. Deep brain stimulation on 'Brain Pacemakers' Being Tested · · Score: 1

    Deep brain stimulation is a treatment used for various movement disorders. At a cost of about $50,000, it is not the first treatment used. It is used in patients who have failed all other treatments available, medications usually, or cannot use these treatments. It is also used in those whose disease significantly impairs their ability to function due to their abnormal movements. See www.wemove.org for more information about movement disorders and their treatment.

    In epilepsy, vagus nerve (one of the cranial nerves from the head, not the brain itself) stimulation can significantly decrease seizure frequency in those patients not controlled by medictions. About 25% of all epileptics are not controlled by medications. See http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/vns.html for more information.

    These treatments are carefully studied by the medical community and regulated by the Federal Drug Administration. If studies showed a treatment made people run amok or had unacceptable side effects, it would not be approved, or vould be removed from use once this was documented.

    It is not realistic to worry you or society may be harmed by a neighbor with a deep brain stimulator or a vagus nerve stimulator.

    Now automobiles and motorcycles-that's real danger.

    ASO, MD
    Neurology

  11. Re:XFree69 on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 1

    Searching for "X free 86" works fine. It's all a conspiracy to makes us waste time and energy to figure why this is blocked. Bet the M$ folks are laughing their @5535 off.