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  1. Re:A Aspirin a day? WTF? on How To Stretch Your Security Dollar · · Score: 1

    An asprin a day has nothing to do with headaches and such. Asprin (typically an 81mg daily dose) is a cheap and effective mild blood thinner with relatively minimal side effects and has been studied extensively for decades.

  2. Re:'cause what the developing world desperately ne on Developing Nations Crippled By Broadband Costs · · Score: 1

    Depends on your precise definition of "developing" is. Once you've got the basic stuff covered, the massive upfront cost of telecom infrastructure can create a serious economic stall when you reach the point where you need it.

  3. Re:Not a universal libertarian belief on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    I don't see why libertarians object to this?

    Because approximately 90%+ of the people who describe themselves as "libertarians" aren't.

  4. Re:Yeehaw on The Science of Irrational Decisions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Science basically involved checking whether what "everyone knows" is actually correct, and then trying to find out why.

  5. Re:What's next? on Singer In Grocery Store Ordered To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    1300 plus ludicrous "damages".

  6. Re:125 MORE years until the US gets time... on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    I only ever hear/read that format in formal stuff, mainly legal documents like contracts ("On this 28th day of January of the year 2009"), and I am in Canada.

  7. Re:125 MORE years until the US gets time... on 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich · · Score: 1

    The MM/DD/YYYY format follows the way it is said (January 28th, 2009, for example)

  8. Re:you're wrong. on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    Because with the vote-on-everyone idea, it makes the ballot problematic.

    On US election day, a person could be voting on :

    • President and VP
    • Senator
    • Congressman
    • Governor
    • State senator
    • State representative
    • State AG
    • Judges
    • Prosecutors
    • State ballot initiatives (There were 12 of these in California last election)
    • Mayor
    • City counselor
    • City ballot initiatives
    • Probably more I'm missing. I do not live in the US.

    To do all those with a Canada-style ballot, you'd either need a massively large sheet or a small book of ballots, both of which would be logistical problems.

    I like the ballot-printer idea. It offers the simplicity of electronic and the security and verifiability of paper.

  9. Re:False Statements on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Actually, the flu kills about 36000 people per year in the US, according to the CDC.

    http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm

    Also, H1N1 deaths are surprisingly high, given that they're occurring outside the flu season. If it scales similarly to the seasonal flu in terms of the ratio between the off season and on season, this could turn out to be rather nasty.

  10. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    There was a similar virus in 1976 which was the target of a massive vaccination campaign, so anyone 40+ is probably immune to this. Anyone who wasn't around then or didn't get vaccinated or exposed then has got nothing.

  11. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    There was a substantially similar virus in 1976, so anyone 40+ probably has immunity. Anyone who wasn't around then doesn't have anything.

  12. Re:No one should have expected on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    ummmm, legally that IS marriage

    For state purposes only. It does not cross state lines and is also irrelevant for federal purposes.

    Same-sex civil unions are not equivalent to opposite-sex civil marriages due to how the full faith and credit clause has been interpreted.

  13. Re:Political correctness assaulting opposers on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    Romans 1:26-27 would be what is referred to. It is not a direct prohibition, but rather a "don't do this or god will turn his back on you and thus condemn you to hell".

    But you can (and some churches (UCC, for example) do) drive trucks through the loophole in that with the wordings "unnatural" and "against nature" (depending on which translation you're using).

  14. Re:Turn the tables on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 1

    Because government was in it before modern religion was. Marriage as a legal concept predates even Judaism by over 1000 years.

  15. Re:All I have is an anecdote on On the Efficacy of Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    You can call this the death of common sense due to overspecialization, or whatever you like, but it isn't difficult to apply a little logic to foresee the result. Given that information, it should be obvious that the vaccine will not stop the flu and will not protect you from getting the flu. It will only determine which strain you get.

    The latter applies if and only if you are actually exposed to one of the strains that the vaccine does not cover, which has fairly low probability, as the strains that the vaccine covers are the ones that are determined to be the most common that year. Then as "those strains decline and other strains become dominant", the vaccine shifts to cover the new most common ones the next year.

  16. Re:For what valid reason... on UK Copyright Group Tells Cinemas to Ban Laptops · · Score: 1

    Those who go to a movie after work, who do not use a car, and don't wish to stop at home before going to the movie.

  17. Re:Sousa had a point on 100 Years of Copyright Hysteria · · Score: 1

    Actually, things have advanced enough that they can run autotune in realtime for live performances.

  18. Re:Copyrights are going to be forgotten on 100 Years of Copyright Hysteria · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would also be interested. So many awesome bands seem to perpetually languish in obscurity.

  19. Re:And the big deal is??? on For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss · · Score: 4, Informative

    If the vaccination works, you won't get sick, no matter what the rest of the world does.

    Incorrect. With a sufficient number of vaccinated individuals in a population, an effect call heard immunity comes into play. This protects people who cannot get the vaccine (people allergic to it, etc.) or who the vaccine does not work on.

    There has been a 4 year study done in Ontario on this with respect to seasonal flu vaccines and found favorable results.

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/science/july-dec08/fluvaccine_10-31.html

  20. Re:Bad idea?? on NVIDIA To Exit Chipset Business · · Score: 1

    Larrabee might change that. Or it could be another i740.

  21. Re:Typical Bullshit on Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    It's called Ksplice.

  22. Re:Get spectrum used by obsolete technolgies on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you took the entirety of the AM and FM radio space, you'd have about as much frequency space as a single wifi channel, which would be spread over a fairly large area due to the signal propagation properties. Shortwave would be even worse in that respect.

    In short, it would not be very useful.

  23. Re:bullshit on Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Ad revenue, copyrights, and other legal stuff.

  24. Re:STOP THE PRESSES! on Canadian Minister Lies On Net Surveillance Claims · · Score: 2, Informative

    Distinctly unlikely. The guy got 3 times as many votes as the closest competition in the last election.

  25. Re:Good on "Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit · · Score: 1

    that data is often the same as before. (strings, pixels, floats... all still the same size).

    Actually, a long on Linux changes size. on 64-bit, a long is 8 bytes, but on 32-bit, it's 4 bytes. Windows keeps it 4 bytes on both.

    This is part of the reason why CoLinux currently doesn't work on 64-bit Windows.