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  1. Re:Birth Control on Gates Foundation Plans To Invest $10B Into Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Some people have a strong compulsion to have babies (especially women). It's not all about sex.

  2. Re:How far should social responsibility reach? on Twitter Developing Technology To Thwart Censorship · · Score: 1

    Man, have you watched Whale Wars at all? All they do is throw stink bombs, and occasionally throw a rope into the water to foul up a propeller.

    If they were real bombs, maybe, you could call them terrorists. But IMHO, vigilantism is different from terrorism.

  3. Re:Wrong question on Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn · · Score: 1

    The victims in this case are the mobs of people who don't like to be around deviants. We need to protect their right to not be creeped out by weird people.

  4. Re:Cartoon porn is still porn on Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn · · Score: 1

    No, it has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with punishing deviants.

  5. Re:Cartoon porn is still porn on Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn · · Score: 1

    So, he has a problem. He recognizes that he has a problem. And he tries to deflect the problem.by using cartoon porn. And he gets thrown in the shitter.

    I dunno, if a murderer gets out of prison and gets caught killing people in GTA, do we lock him up for murder due to his history?

  6. Re:grad vs masters vs phd the myth. on Is Programming a Lucrative Profession? · · Score: 1

    There's a reason why Drs. command respect.
    There's a world of difference between graduate school and undergraduate. In undergraduate, you just go to classes, do homework, take tests, and move through the system. The classes might be hard, but it requires very little initiative, and you just do what you are told, and at the end of the day, you've contributed nothing.
    In grad school, you have to figure out what the hell you are doing, since it won't be given to you. And you'll be producing new ideas and writing papers and writing grant proposals. The experience is completely different.
    The reason you pay a graduate degree more is not because s/he knows a lot more (and s/he does), but because s/he has what it takes to contribute to further understanding in the company's field, and will have no trouble with meetings or proposals or what have you.
    And, I don't know where you got the idea that you lose breadth in your topic by studying it in depth.

  7. Re:$32,000 will support a family of four? on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 1

    You just said you do it. So, what makes you so special, that it's a pipe dream to most people?

  8. Re:Video Games? Really? on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 1

    I thought most building windows block a substantial amount of UVB, so staying indoors isn't a good option.

  9. Re:Web calculator on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 1

    btw, if you are in the Southern Hemisphere, use a negative number for latitude. And same with Western Hemisphere and longitude (all of America).
    Asians are around type III or IV, depending on darkness.

  10. Web calculator on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's a very nice calculator for how much sunlight you need. You might find that 30 minutes sorely underestimates your needs.

    Look for fastrt, by Ola Engelsen. There seems to be multiple versions, and I'm not sure which is the latest. Some leave out Skin Type, which an important factor, but here's one with it in.
    http://nadir.nilu.no/~olaeng/fastrt/VitD-ez_quartMED.html

    here's a more detailed version
    http://nadir.nilu.no/~olaeng/fastrt/VitD_quartMEDandMED.html

    There is also an associated paper, but I'm not sure if this is the latest version
    http://www.nilu.no/index.cfm?ac=publications&folder_id=4309&publication_id=16084&view=rep&lan_id=3
    or maybe this
    http://www.nilu.no/index.cfm?ac=publications&folder_id=4309&publication_id=9024&view=rep

  11. Re:Milk? on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. Milk is typically fortified with D3 and A.
    Most D supplements contain D3, cholecalciferol, which is usually extracted from sheep lanolin. If it says vitamin D, it's usually D3. D2 is fairly hard to find. Generally D2, ergocalciferol, is only used in vegan supplements and to fortify vegan foods like soy milk. I know this because I'm vegan and D3 is unacceptable to me because it comes from animals.

    Since I'm vegan, I have to rely on the sun to photosynthesize D3. It's impossible to get enough vitamin D during the winter in northern latitudes, but your body can save up some D during the summer.

  12. Re:Some relation? on Judge Lowers Jammie Thomas' Damages to $54,000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you missed the "distributing" part.

  13. Re:Dogs hate cats. Dolphins hate sharks. on Why the Uncanny Valley Doesn't Really Matter · · Score: 1

    wow, you've never seen a pet dog, have you?

  14. Re:yeah, but why humanoid robots in the first plac on Why the Uncanny Valley Doesn't Really Matter · · Score: 1

    Surely you aren't so naive as to think such robots don't already exist.

  15. Re:Kids... on New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of the Day · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the kids don't know better when they spell lose loose.

  16. Re:Stop calling it "passWORD" on Analysis of 32 Million Breached Passwords · · Score: 1

    passstring?

  17. Re:Rigid Carbon Nanotube!!! on FTL Currents May Power Pulsar Beams · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't work like that. Pulling it will send a disruption that moves down the tube at the speed of sound for the tube. It takes time for the atoms in the tube to propagate the disruption down the line.

  18. so, can I go to jail for mugging someone's avatar on Virtual Currency Becomes Real In South Korea · · Score: 1

    and taking their gold?

  19. Re:Rigid Carbon Nanotube!!! on FTL Currents May Power Pulsar Beams · · Score: 1

    Anything solid thing 1LY long is very easy to break. If you try to rotate it, you will break it.

  20. Re:why terminal? on TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification · · Score: 1

    Eww, just eww.

  21. Re:eating on One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman · · Score: 1

    We just need some way to induce Sun to go into red giant stage.

  22. Re:insensitive clods! on What Will Apple Do With Swedish Eye-Tracking Technology? · · Score: 1

    well, I'm sure the person with a lame hand will find it a boon.

  23. Re:Krave on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that the tobacco industry lobbyists haven't legislated this product out of existence, or relegated it to "medical device" status. Maybe when it becomes more of a threat.

  24. vibrating earbuds? on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'd be more disappointed in earbuds that didn't vibrate.

  25. everything is breakable on CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as unbreakable.